Alphabetti Theatre
Signee: Ali Pritchard, Artistic/Executive Director
Contact: Ali Pritchard, ali@alphabettitheatre.co.uk
Ampersand Inventions
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA / Peter Marchal, Directors
Contact: contact@ampersandinventions.com
Anna Robinson
Sceneographer
Contact: anna.fkrobinson@gmail.com
ARC Stockton
Signee: Annabel Turpin
Contact: Annabel.Turpin@arconline.co.uk
Arts&Heritage
Stephanie Allen, Executive Director
Contact: info@artsandheritage.org.uk
Assembly Rooms Theatre Durham
Signee: Kate Barton
Contact: theatre.manager@durham.ac.uk
balletLORENT
Signee: Liv Lorent
Contact: liv@balletlorent.com
Blowin’ A Hooley Theatre
Contact: hooleytheatre@gmail.com
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Signee: Sarah Munro, Director
Contact: Caroline Murphy, carolinem@balticmill.com
Ben Dickenson
Contact: benji.dickenson@gmail.com
Executive Producer, City of Dreams / Associate Literary Producer Alphabetti
Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Signee: Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Contact: beverleyprevattgoldstein@gmail.com
Brash
Signee: Bethan Kitchen, Artistic Director
Contact: bethan@brash-events.co.uk
Bridge+Tunnel Productions
Signee: Tina Gharavi, Creative Director
Contact: admin@bridgeandtunnelproductions.com
Butcher’s Dog Poetry Magazine
Dr. Jo Clement, Managing Editor
Camisado Club
Signee: Caroline Liversidge, Camisado Club
Contact: info@camisadoclub.co.uk
Centre for Life, Newcastle
Signee: Linda Conlon
Contact: Louise Richardson, louise.richardson@life.org.uk
Cobalt Studios
Contact: hello@cobaltstudios.co.uk
Company of Others
Signee: Nadia Iftkhar, Artistic Director & CEO
Contact: Nadia Iftkhar, nadia@companyofothers.org.uk
Coracle Productions
Signee: Matt Jamie, Artistic Director Contact: Coracletheatre@gmail.com
Curious Arts
Signee: Phil Douglas, Director
Contact: Ellie Puckering, ellie@curiousarts.org.uk
Curious Monkey
Signee: Amy Golding
Contact: amy@curiousmonkeytheatre.com
Creative Seed
Contact: Sandy and Garner Harris, Founding Directors
D6 Culture in Transit
Clymene Christoforou, Director
Dance City
Signee: Phil Douglas
Contact: Phil Douglas, phil.douglas@dancecity.co.uk
Degna Stone
Poet and editor
Disconsortia
Signee: Lisette Auton, Co-founding Member
Contact: disconsortia@gmail.com
Eliot Smith Dance (ESD)
Signee: Eliot Smith, Artistic Director
Contact: eliot@eliotsmithdance.com
Elizabeth Kane
Artist
Contact: Ekvisualartist@outlook.com
Ednie Wilson
Gateshead
Gateway Studio CIO
Signee: Martin Hylton, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: Martin Hylton, martin.hylton@gatewaystudioproject.co.uk
GemArts
Signee: Vikas Kumar MBE, Director
Contact: Vikas Kumar, vikas@gemarts.org
Gobscure
Signee: Sean Burn
Contact: gobscure@posteo.net
Gosforth Civic Theatre
Contact: info@gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk
Harambee Pasadia CIC
Signee: Hannabiell Sanders
Contact: Hannabiell Sanders, harambeepasadia@gmail.com
Kitchen Zoo
Signee: Bob Nicholson
Contact: info.kitchenzoo@gmail.com
Ladies of Midnight Blue
Signee: Yilis Suriel
Contact: Yilis Suriel, yilissuriel@gmail.com
The Letter Room
Signees: Meghan Doyle and Stan Hodgson, Co-Artistic Directors
Contact: info@theletterroomtheatre.co.uk
Little Cog
Signee: Vici Wreford-Sinnott, Artistic Director
Contact: littlecog@rocketmail.com
Live Theatre
Signee: Jim Beirne, Chief Executive
Contact: joe@live.org.uk
Luxi
Signee: Caroline Pearce
Contact: cp@luxicreative.co.uk
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
Signee: Laura Sillars, MIMA Director and Dean of MIMA School of Art & Design
Contact: S.Pearson@tees.ac.uk
Melody Sproates
Artist/Performer
Mortal Fools
Signee: Kiz Crosbie, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: kiz@mortalfools.org.uk
Mslexia
Debbie Taylor, Editorial Director
Contact: debbie@mslexia.co.uk
The NewBridge Project
Signee: Rebecca Huggan, Director
Contact: r.huggan@thenewbridgeproject.com
New Writing North
Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive
Contact: Claire Malcolm, office@newwritingnorth.com
Newcastles of the World
Signee: David Faulkner
Contact: newcastlesoftheworld@gmail.com
Newcastle City Council Arts Team
Signee: Cllr Ged Bell (Cabinet Member for Culture)
Contact: Jim Mawdsley, Arts and Culture Senior Advisor, Jim.Mawdsley@newcastle.gov.uk
Northern Print
Signee: Anna Wilkinson, Director
Contact: anna@northernprint.org.uk
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Signee: Philip Bernays, Chief Executive
Newcastle University
Signee: Professor Julie Sanders, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Contact: Julie.sanders@ncl.ac.uk
North East Culture Partnership
Signee: Matthew Jaratt
Contact: matthew.jarratt@neculturepartnership.co.uk
Northern Roots
Signee: Adam Collerton, Director
Contact: adam@northern-roots.org.uk
Northern Stage
Signee: Kate Denby, Executive Director
Contact: Mark Calvert, MCalvert@northernstage.co.uk
OGRE
Contact: Steven Walker, Creative Director
Open Clasp
Signees: Joint Chief Executives Catrina McHugh MBE / Ellie Turner
Contacts: catrina@openclasp.org.uk, ellie@openclasp.org.uk
Orbis
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA, Paul Stone, Chris Yeats
Origin Moko Jumbies
Signee: Alan Vaughan
Contact: alanpvaughan@gmail.com
Prometheus Foundation CIC
Contact: Dot Owston
Sage Gateshead
Signee: Abigail Pogson, Director
Contact: Wendy Smith, wendy.smith@sagegateshead.com
Sangini
Signee: Padma Rao
Seven Stories
Signee: John Coburn
Contact: Amanda Beckham, amanda.beckham@sevenstories.org.uk
Side By Side Arts CIC
Signee: Stuart Angus, Director
Contact: stuart@sidebysidearts.org
Skimstone Arts
Signee: Claire Webster-Saaramets, Director
Contact: Claire Webster-Saaramets, claire@skimstone.org.uk
Slugtown
Signees: Max Lee and Matt Antoniak, Co-directors
Summer Streets Festival
Signee: Ross Millard
Contact: hello@summerstreetsfestival.com
Streetwise Young People’s Project
Signee: Mandy Coppin (Taylor)
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Graeme Thompson
Contact: graeme.thompson@sunderland.ac.uk
Sunderland Music Hub
Signee: Lizzie Nixon
Contact: sunderland.music@togetherforchildren.org.uk
Susan Ashley
AHRC Researcher
Contact: susan.ashley@northumbria.ac.uk
Tees Valley Arts
Signee: James Beighton, Executive Director
Contact: james@teesvalleyarts.org.uk
Hullabaloo Theatre
Signees: Miranda Thain, Chief Executive & Artistic Producer
Contact : mirandathain@theatrehullabaloo.org.uk
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Signee: Iain Watson, Director
Contact: Bill Griffiths, bill.griffiths@twmuseums.org.uk
Tyne and Wear Cultural Freelancers
Signee: Leila d’Aronville
Contact: Leila d’Aronville, Leila.daronville@gmail.com
Twisterella Festival
Signees: Andy Carr and Henry Carden
Contact: info@twisterella.co.uk
Unfolding Theatre
Signees: Michael Barrass, Alex Elliott, Garry Lydon, Annie Rigby and Luca Rutherford
Contact: annie@unfoldingtheatre.co.uk
VAMOS!
Signee: Nikolas Barrera
Contact: nikolasbarrera@gmail.com
Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir
Signees: Mathapelo Imarhiagbe, Chinyere Igun, Glen Smiley
Waka Waka Africa North East
Signee: David Faulkner
Contact: wakawakaafricanortheast@sky.com
We Make Culture CIC
Signee: Laura Brewis, Project Director
Contact: laura@wemakeculture.co.uk
Workplace and Workplace Foundation
Signee: Miles Thurlow
Contact: miles@workplacefoundation.art
Yvette Ja Hawkins
Visual Artist
Contact: yvettehawkins@gmail.com
Added 16th June 2020:
The Common Room
Signee: Liz Mayes
Contact: Philippa.King-Williams@thecommonroom.org.uk
Cumberland Arms
Signee: Jo Hodson
Contact: Jo Hodson, info@thecumberlandarsm.co.uk
DrumDin
Signee: Carol Alevroyianni
Contact: calevroyianni@aol.com
Jack Drum Arts CIC
Signee: Helen Ward, Managing Director
Contact: helen@jackdrum.co.uk
Middlesbrough Council Cultural buildings
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough Museums
Signee: Mieka Smiles, Executive Member for Culture, Middlesbrough Council.
Contact: Mieka_Smiles@middlesbrough.gov.uk
NewcastleGateshead Initiative
Signee: Shelley Johnson
Contact: shelley.johnson@ngi.org.uk
Northern Alchemy Brewery
Signee: Andrew AItchison
Contact: andy@wearenorthernalchemy.com
The Old Coal Yard
Signee: Carl Kennedy
Contact: theoldcoalyardncl@gmail.com
On Board Arts street theatre company
Signee: Nik Alevroyiannis, Artistic Director
Contact: info@onboardarts.com
Paco Rivera, Musician
Contact: pacorivera54@hotmail.com
SALTo Arts Productions
Signee: Richard Broderick
Contact: brodsalto@gmail.com
Added 23rd June 2020
Artist Union England
Signee: Theresa Easton
Contact: theresa@artistsunionengland.org.uk
North East of England African Society
Abdul-Aziz Kouame
Bensham Grove
Signee: Shirley Brown, Chair
Contact: Vikas Kumar, Vice Chair, vikas@gemarts.org
Caroline Afolabi-Deleu
Success4All
Circus Central
Sarah Carrie, Operations Director
Contact: sarah@circuscentral.co.uk
Citizen Songwriters CIC
Signee: Sam Slatcher and Alex Summerson, Directors
Contact: info@citizensongwriters.org
Converge at Northumbria
Signee: Ally Hunter Byron – Coordinator
Contact: Ally2.hunter@northumbria.ac.uk
The Culture Durham Partnership
Signed by Tony Harrington, chair
Contact – tony@intheforge.com
The Cultural Spring
Signee: Emma Horsman
emma.horsman@theculturalspring.org.uk
Dingy Butterflies CIC
Signee: Ben Jones, Founder & Director
Contact: dingybutterflies@gmail.com
East Durham Creates
Signees: Jess Hunt & Malcolm Fallow
Contact: jess.hunt@eastdurhamtrust.org.uk
Explore Lifelong Learning
Signee: Dorothy Stainsby, Co-chair, Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre CIO
Contact: weareexplore@gmail.com
Frank Wilson
Event International
Gateshead Council
Signee: Councillor Angela Douglas, Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure
Contact: EdnieWilson@Gateshead.Gov.Uk
The Invisible Labs
Signee: Bhavani Esapathi, Founding Director
Contact: bhaesa@gmail.com
Jill Cole
Northern Heartlands CIO
Keep Our NHS Public North East (KONPNE)
Signee: Jude Letham
konpnortheast@gmail.com
Katie Mitchell
Arts and Health Network, North East
Laura Fish
Writer and lecturer at Northumbria University
laura.fish@northumbria.ac.uk
Louise Evan Wong
Individual
louise@evanwong.co.uk
Luca Rutherford
writer + performer
luca.a.rutherford@gmail.com
Megan Brown
Dance Artist
meganjane1401@gmail.com
Music Partnership North Newcastle
Signee: Georgina Biddle, Senior Specialist Music Service
Contact: georgina.bddle@newcastle.gov.uk
Network Artists North East
Signee: Jo Liddle
Contact: admin@networkartists.org.uk
Nick Malayan
Empty Shop CIC
Sue Ward
Researcher
Contact: sue.ward@phonecoop.coop
Pippa Kyle
phillippakyle@live.co.uk
North East Labour History Society
Signee: David Connolly
Contact: davidconnolly124@hotmail.co.uk
Pauline Sonnet
Kusoma African Book Group
Phil Hayden
LGBT and fed North East
Contact: phil.hayden100@btinternet.com
Sanjee Ratnatunga
Ideas for Change Consulting
Contact: sanjrat@yahoo.co.uk
Sensory Spaces, Newcastle
sensoryspaces@hotmail.co.uk
Seventeen Nineteen
Signee: Lily Daniels, Participation and Engagement Officer
Contact: ldaniels@thecct.org.uk
Show Racism the Red Card
Contact name: Justine King, Educational Coordinator
Email: justine@theredcard.org
The Poetry Book Society
Signee: Sophie O’Neill
Contact: Sophie@inpressbooks.co.uk
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Helen Connify
Helen.Connify@sunderland.ac.uk
Tin Arts
Signee: Martin Wilson, Executive Director
Contact: martin@tinarts.co.uk
VARC
Signee: Helen Pailing
Contact: helen@varc.org.uk
Well Newcastle Gateshead
Signee: Mark Mulqueen, Programme Director
Contact: mark@bluestoneconsortium.org.uk
Youth Music
Louise Henry , Grants and Learning Officer
Contact: louise.henry@youthmusic.org.uk
Jazz North East
Signee: Wesley Stephenson
Contact: info@jazznortheast.com
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
Signee: Wesley Stephenson
Jazz Alert
Signee: Paul Bream
Contact: paulbream773@btinternet.com
