About us
Welcome to North East Culture & Conversation! 👋
This is a new social group for meeting and mingling with potential new friends in lovely locations, and bonding over shared interests. It’s aimed at the 20s, 30s and 40s age range.
Here you’ll find coffee gatherings, board game meets, dinners, a cake club offering convivial chatter for those with a sweet tooth, and some fun days out too. From time to time, we may offer some cocktail events and parties to bring everyone together, as well 🍸🍷🥳.
Our Adventures in Art 🖼️ events centre around not just visiting museums and galleries, but also trying out new creative skills such as life drawing and pottery painting. There are other cultural activities to try out too, such as theatre trips and live music events. For those who enjoy cross-stitch, crochet or knitting with a side of chitchat, come and join our Stitch and B*tch🪡🧵😉 …
We host two book clubs - one for fiction and one for non-fiction - take your pick or try both! We also offer film club events from time to time, which skew towards foreign, cult and indie movies. It’s great if you want to engage in thought provoking discussion! 📚🎬
Sometimes we attend talks and lectures too, on various subjects: science, history, psychology, classics and more! It’s a great opportunity to learn something new and explore ideas together 🤓.
Our events are primarily based in Newcastle and the surrounding areas, but sometimes we’ll venture a little further afield for day trips and some special adventures! If you’re interested in helping out with hosting in Durham, Sunderland or Northumberland, let us know as we’d love to branch out to offer events for young people there as well. If you have any ideas for new events, too, we are certainly open to suggestions ☺️.
We do ask that members use their first name rather than an initial on their profile, and recommend using a recognisable photo of themselves. We are all here to meet with new people face to face! Clarity about who you are when you show up helps both the organisers and the members 😊.
The group is fuelled on the values of friendliness, kindness and mutual respect. We are all adults, so let’s act like it 😉! Bigotry, harassment and abusive behaviour won’t be tolerated. We aim to foster a pro-social environment, so try to be considerate of your fellow members.
Now let’s have some fun 🤩!
Upcoming events
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Alphabetti Theatre: That's Not My Name
Alphabetti Theatre, 18 New Bridge Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, GBUsing their lived experience of madness, Sammy began to write TNMN whilst in a psychiatric hospital: where they started pretending to rehearse stand-up instead of talking out loud to themselves in order to appear sane.
About
Sprinkling some more "culture" into the "Culture and Conversation" 🤩
That's Not My Name is a one-woman show exploring mental illness and personality disorders. On country tour now, and previously shown at Edinburgh Fringe.Costs
£15 per ticket; £7 concessions (Please book here)
I've booked seat G8, if you want to join me.Where
Alphabetti Theatre: St James' Blvd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4HPWhen
08/04/2026; 19:304 attendees
Badminton Social Session 🏸
Nucastle, Diana St, NE4 6BQ,, Newcastle, GB🏸 Whether you’re dusting off your racket or just really keen to rally with players of a similar level, our Badminton Social Session is a great way to get back into the swing of things!
💸 Costs & Contributions
The sports centre charges a £10 advance booking fee per court (currently £40 total per event).
To keep these sessions sustainable, we invite attendees to make a voluntary contribution.
We suggest £2.25–£2.50 per person per hour, but any amount is appreciated 🙏Donations link:
https://pay.collctiv.com/newcastle-culture-and-conversation-badminton-meetup-group-68666📅 Time & Place
🕓 When: 1:15-2:45pm
📍 Where: NUCASTLE – Newcastle United Foundation
👋 We’ll meet in the foyer around 1:05pm for intros and warm-ups before heading to our court.25 attendees
Book Club 📖: Bunny 🐰 by Mona Awad
The Vampire Rabbit, 29 Collingwood Street, NE1 1JE, Newcastle Upon tyne, GBWhether you’re a true bookworm or simply seeking a motivation to get reading more often, the book club is a great place for conversation and meeting new people! Come and enjoy some interesting discussion alongside more relaxed chatter, with the book as the jumping off point.
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This time, we’ll be reading Bunny by Mona Awad: a dark, satirical comedy following protagonist Samantha, a creative writing student at a prestigious university, who befriends a group of rich girls called the Bunnies and enters their peculiar and unsettling world 🐰🖤 …
The novel appeared on many Best of 2019 hit lists and has been described by Waterstones as:
"a subversive, razor-sharp and darkly hilarious exploration of class, ambition and the shady side of female friendships”.
Our favourite feminist literary grand dame Margaret Atwood has characterised the novel as ”very funny, kind of horrifying and quite far outside the lines" …
Between Bunny’s incisive psychological exploration of female friendship; its boldly commingling genres of fairy tale, horror and satire; and Awad’s cultural referencing from both mythology and movies, we should find rich material for some robust discussion and analysis!
The Vampire Rabbit is an elegant cocktail bar that fits our leporine-themed book quite neatly! 📕🍷And it is just down the road from Central Station 🚂✨, so pretty easy access with transport links and parking.
This is an open session, so feel free to drop by at any time during the evening - we’re pretty easygoing ☺️.
Hope you can join us! 🤩
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