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NEWCASTLE lawyer Rod Smith has been recognised for his pro bono work with non-profit organisation Renew Newcastle.
The Sparke Helmore lawyer was awarded the City of Newcastle Service Award for his work with the organisation that finds artistic and cultural uses for vacant and unused inner-city buildings.
Mr Smith was presented with the award, which coincided with his appointment to the Renew...
En aquest capítol del programa radiofònic "Destins" presentem "Renew Newcastle" una proposta d'un grup de ciutadans de la ciutat.
Artistic collectives are joining forces with councils and developers to transform empty buildings into studios, writes Catharine Munro.
Look out, Clover Moore. Newcastle is beckoning your artists. To shore-up talent in her domain, the Lord Mayor has arranged for buildings disused by the City of Sydney council to be leased as studio space.
*During my first ever trip to Newcastle earlier this year I was amazed, like the majority of first-time visitors, by the number of vacant buildings throughout the main streets of the city. It was a veritable ghost town.
Delving a little deeper I realised this was not strictly the case. Scattered throughout the stretches of unused real estate, hidden within the shells of heritage structures...
SUSY Pow's tale of the life journey of her favourite typewriter from op shop to its end as rusty flotsam of the Pasha storm in 2007 embodies her other serious occupations as a creator and distributor of zines.
Zines are not magazines, or books or newspapers.
They are hand-made publications, perhaps a one-off, designed to be enjoyed at leisure.
"Small and slow, yeah," says Pow, 22.
A young person w...
The recent Hunter Valley Research Foundation Lecture given by Renew Newcastle founder Marcus Westbury has unexpectedly garnered a lot of media attention around the world for its analysis and response to the problem of dysfunctional commercial property markets.
The discussion started was started by Justin Fox, the Economics Ediitor at TIME magazine. It was then picked up by Felix Salmon at...
Renew Newcastle featured on last night's edition of Stateline, NSW. It's a great story on a project that according to host Quentin Dempster has "recycled, reinvigorated, revived, revitalised, recreated and reimagnied the city."
This video is hosted on facebook for embedding purposes. The original is actually here.
Grant Wolter went out this week to check out some of the more offbeat, underground sounds happening at Newcastle independent record store Vox Cyclops.
Speaking with founders Mark, Nick and Jarred, we find about yet another project from the Renew Newcastle initiative to put some life back into the city centre.
The Renew Newcastle project has featured on JJJ's current affairs program Hack this week:
Click to have a look and listen.
"Bird in the Hand is one of many spaces involved in the Renew Newcastle project which is bringing life back to Newcastle’s CBD by connecting artists and other cultural projects with the owners of vacant or disused spaces."
