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With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year

Season’s greetings and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Councillor Nick Forbes, Leader of Newcastle upon Tyne City Council

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our Newcastles of the World “champions” in sunny Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Season’s greetings from Mayor Foster of Clarington, Ontario, Canada which includes the Village of Newcastle

The Newcastles of the World digital art exhibition in Nové Zámky, our Newcastle in Slovakia, features 18 different artists from 13 “Newcastles” The exhibition of film, video and photography will open online on December 17th via Facebook page Vzdušné ZÁMKY 2020 (https://www.facebook.com/vzdusnezamky2020/) at 17.00 CET (UTC+1) and runs until 31 January. We thank curator Magdalena Klobučníková for her work in creating this exhibition, in difficult circumstances caused by Covid-19. The Facebook page also contains information about other events that form part of Nové Zámky’s year as Slovakia’s City of Culture. Also http://www.vzdusnezamky.sk/

Seasonal greetings and best wishes for the coming year from Mayor Hozumi of Shinshiro, Japan

It has been necessary to make some changes to the brief for the exhibition of work by artists from our partner “Newcastles” in the Newcastles of the World alliance.

This will now be an exclusively digital art exhibition – that is only art that uses digital technology for the creative or presentation process, also variously known as computer art, new media or multimedia art. So, for example they could be in digital photography, digital film/video, animation, digital graphics and poster art, pixel art, electronic/computer music, digital installation and conceptual art, digital/computer-generated painting, even digital poetry. Film/video and other time-related submissions should run for no longer than 15 minutes please. Sorry but it’s not possible to include original paintings, drawings, prints, or reproductions of them, in the exhibition.

Entries by 30 September, please – send a link to your submission to newcastlesoftheworld@gmail.com

Please click here for the full brief –

In just two minutes you can travel the world to see the location of many of our “Newcastles” – many thanks to Out of the Square Media – https://outofthesquare.com/ – in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia for this great film. There are a few Newcastles still to add!

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