Animating Hexham News Today

Animating Hexham is set to make its grand return this month, offering attendees a host of animated artworks created by local artists and children.

Queens Hall in Hexham is set to celebrate an impressive 40 years of existence on October 31.

THE legend of The Hexham Dragon will come to life, in the Animating Hexham festival in autumn.

THREE Northumberland organisations will receive funding from Arts Council England.

A new animation project will see a number of designs projected onto landmarks and shopfronts in a town in the Tyne Valley.

A Tyne Valley town has been boosted with a grant for its local cultural programme. Hexham’s High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) has announced it will receive £80,000 from Historic England – one of 60 high streets in the country to do so. The funding will be used on a pilot project named Animating Hexham, working with several artists and the local community. Katy Taylor, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Queen’s Hall Arts and Chair of the Hexham Culture Network said: ...

Hexhams shopping scene will be inspired by a series of animations. HEXHAM’S rich history is to be celebrated in a series of animations which will be projected in the town centre later this year. An exciting new pilot project has been announced by Hexham Culture Network, which will work with local artists and residents to create the animations, which will be projected across the town’s main shopping streets in the autumn. It is hoped they will help to define why Hexhams heritage is im...