If you have an event for the list email – thelist@sparksunderland.com or call us on 0191 5153743 .
Monday 30th August
North East Bus Museum Historical Vehicle Rally, Seaburn Recreation Park, Sunderland. 10am – 5pm, £3. Vintage and Veteran Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Buses & Coaches and Fire Engines. Alongside the vehicles will be Club Stalls, Toys & Models, Photogrpahs, Memorabilia, Spares, Refreshments, Children’s Rides and Inflatables.
Live Jazz Night, Bar 1, Sunderland. Free, 7pm. Weekly jazz night hosted by local musicians with live performances from the house Jazz band and all musicians welcome. www.bar1sunderland.com
Museum Treasure Hunt, South Shields Museum & Art Gallery. 10am – 5pm, Free. Also runs 2nd September. Explore South Shields Museum & Art Gallery and Arbeia Roman Fort to be in with a chance of winning a prize! Entries can be posted at either museum. www.twmuseums.org.uk/southshields
Tuesday 31st August
Zumba-thon Charity Event, The Sunderland Marriott Hotel. 7pm – 11pm, £10 for Adults & £5 for Children. Zumba Fitness North East and Sunderland Dance Community Interest Company are proud to have teamed up with Breast Cancer Care to organise one of the biggest Charity Zumba Events in the North East. . The event includes master classes, entertainment and disco. Tel: 0191 5657270. www.ZumbaFitnessNorthEast.com
Fresh Focus, City Hall, Newcastle. 6.30pm, Free. Also running Wednesday and Thrusday.
Do you need a new focus in life? Look no further. Fresh Focus Newcastle is presenting a three day Revival Programme and a Day Time School of Ministry for the 1st & 2nd September 2010 . The event hopes to provide a programme that will leave a lasting experience for everyone who will attend. www.newcastlecityhall.org
Wednesday 1st September
Sunderland Community Lectures, Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre, University of Sunderland. 2.30pm, FREE. The Sunderland Community Lectures continue, with this week’s lecture being Madness: History & Future presented by Dave Sanders. Tel: 0191 515 2395
Chess, Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 7.30pm, £12 – £37.50. Runs until 11th September.
The west end and broadway musical comes to the North East. Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood directs an amazing company of actors and musicians in a new staging of the classic musical Chess. Two of the world’s greatest chess masters battle it out at the world chess championships but their greatest contest is for the love of one woman. www.theatreroyal.co.uk
To the World Brand New, Arts Centre, Washington. 9am – 5pm, Free. Runs unil 16th October. ‘To the world Brand New’ is an inspiring exhibition of new and previously unseen works by two of the regions most accomplished contemporary glass artists, Sarah Blood and Phil Vickery. Although Blood and Vickery both work in the same medium the results are very different both technically and in the concepts behind the designs. Vickery uses the traditional skill of hot blowing glass to create intricate and graceful forms, which reflect the inner working of the conscious, subconscious, and the flowing energy that can be considered thought. Sarah’s sculptures use neon to striking effect. Her sculptures are bold, abstract works often inspired by external influences and philosophies that invite association to minimalist sculpture.
www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
Thursday 2nd September
Holistic Healing Workshop, 2 Pickersgill Court, Quaywest, Riverside Business Village, Sunderland. £17, 5pm. Runs every Thursday in September, Pre booking is essential. The Holistic Healing Workshop is a collaboration between 2 business’ from Sunderland- Kirsten Lapping Designs and Susan Irving Consultancy. The Workshop includes: learning the basics of Indian Head Massage, an introduction to balancing your Chakras, Including making your own piece of Chakra Jewellery, Learning and Experiencing guided meditation and Stress relieving techniques. www.kirstenlappingdesigns.com
Me + Mr C, Washington Arts Centre. £5 – £7.50, 7.30pm. Also runs 23rd September and 7th October. Me & Mr C is one man on stage making people laugh but it isn’t stand up comedy. It’s a story about “Me” and his silent, fibreglass companion. It’s the sorrowful tale of a man with nothing left to lose, told by an arch improviser however this particular tale can’t be finished without the help of the audience. www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
Friday 3rd september
Big Owl Comedy Club, Infinity Entertainment Suite, Sunderland. 7.30pm, £8. Renowed local comedian Steffen Peddie will be bringing his own special brand of comedy as well as introducing top comedians from the North East and around the country. Tel: 0191 567 0611 www.theatrerestaurant.co.uk
UK School Games, Sunderland Silksworth Community Pool and Sunderland Aquatic Centre. Runs until 5th September. The UK School Games is a multi-sport event (10 Olympic & Paralympic sports) for the most talented young people of school age in the country. This year’s event is being hosted by Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle and consists of ten sports and 1600 athletes from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. www.ukschoolgames.com
Saturday 4th September
Promenade Games, Roker Promenade. 1pm. Street Games organised by qualifed sports coaches on the promenade. All ages welcome. Tel: 0191 553 2000
The Glass Delusion, National Glass Centre, Sunderland. 10am – 5pm, Free.
Runs until 3rd October. The Glass Delusion is inspired by the ability to combine opposites, and this exhibition of contemporary art, artefacts and scientific objects tell the story of human attempts to reconcile the physical and mental worlds. www.nationalglasscentre.com
Sunday 5th September
Pier to Pier, Roker to South Shields. 9.45am, Free. Join the Sunderland Countryside Rangers for this favourite 11 mile linear walk from Roker Pier to South Shields South Pier along the magnificent Sunderland and South Shields coastline, most of it on the cliff top and some on the shortline. www.sunderlandcountrysiderangers.co.uk
Pttington Brass Band, Herrington Country Park, Sunderland. 2pm – 4pm, Free. Traditional brass Band music played by Pittington Brass, a village band first formed in 1992. Tel: 0191 534 8526
Simon Gledhill, Ryhope Community Centre, Sunderland. 2pm, £4.50.Sunderland Theatre Organ Preservation Society presents Simon Gledhill playing the Mighty Compton Theatre Organ. www.organfax.co.uk/clubs/stops
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