The Best of Both Worlds ; Just Back From South Africa, David Whetstone Reports On Cultural Links with the North East. Pictures by Jenny Dewar
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BACK from South Africa and what do I find? That the North East has been basking in a mini summer heatwave and smug people are observing: "You're not very tanned." In South Africa, where I have been with the Swallows Partnership, autumn is knocking. The sun drops around 5pm and it's dark by six.
The Swallows Partnership is an elaborate cultural exchange programme founded by Peter Stark, director of Northern Arts in the 1980s and then one of the drivers of the Gateshead Quays development.See the full content of this document
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The Best of Both Worlds ; Just Back From South Africa, David Whetstone Reports On Cultural Links with the North East. Pictures by Jenny Dewar
Visiting the Eastern Cape province of the new South Africa, he had a hunch that there were things it could learn from the North East and vice versa.
With a late career bursary from the Arts Council, he was able to explore the potential for "an extraordinary and complex cultural chemistry across the gl...See the full content of this document
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