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Newcastle Mela to host music, dance and food over August Bank Holiday weekend

Following a free Mela in the City event on August 26, the big party will be at Exhibition Park on August 27-28 with a vibrant celebration of South Asian culture

Chronicle Live · Jun 6, 2023

Celebrate International Women’s Day at This Girl Can in Newcastle’s Exhibition Park

The annual celebration in Town Moor is once again set to blanket the city with a storm of colourful runners

Chronicle Live · Mar 3, 2023

Newcastle Mela returns this Bank Holiday weekend with a free showcase of music, art and dance

Exhibition Park in Newcastle will host the Newcastle Mela family festival over two days from August 27-28

Chronicle Live · Aug 25, 2022

Newcastle music festivals still possible despite row over turning parks into 'outdoor nightclubs'

Urban Green Newcastle has backtracked on suggestions that new council restrictions make it impossible to hold festivals following the cancellation of This is Tomorrow

Chronicle Live · Apr 27, 2022

Council insists it has 'every confidence' in Newcastle parks charity despite row over festivals

It has been warned that new restrictions on events in Exhibition Park could cut off a key source of income needed for upkeep of the city's green spaces

Chronicle Live · Apr 11, 2022

'Embarrassing for Newcastle' - Readers react to This is Tomorrow festival being cancelled

Organisers have postponed the This is Tomorrow event due to take place in June in Exhibition Park because of rising costs and an 'oversaturated market'

Chronicle Live · Apr 8, 2022

This is Tomorrow 2022 festival cancelled as organisers blame rising costs and 'oversaturated market'

The festival was due to return from June 3 to 5, but no acts had been announced for it

Chronicle Live · Apr 7, 2022

Film star unveils Born Free lions in Exhibition Park to highlight animals' plight

Virginia McKenna starred in Born Free in 1966 and has loved lions ever since - she was in Newcastle on Monday morning to open Born Free Forever

Chronicle Live · Apr 4, 2022

Pride of bronze 'Born Free' lions to take up residence in Newcastle's Exhibition Park

The 25 lions are part of an installation which aims to raise awareness of the plight facing the world's lion population

Chronicle Live · Apr 3, 2022

Noise crackdown on Exhibition Park music festivals – plunging events like This Is Tomorrow into doubt

Councillors have agreed to impose tough new limits on large-scale events being held in the park, which it has been warned could mean no concerts being held there at all

Chronicle Live · Apr 2, 2022