How languages changed my life: From a young age, I have always been surrounded by different cultures and languages. My mum is Japanese, so we…
Children across the North East can unlock a lifelong love of languages as a festival favourite prepares to celebrate its fifth birthday. Images from Festival…
This week we are publicly launching Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages 2025. Discover a world of language, culture, and creativity! Designed to spark…
We are delighted to announce that we will host our fifth annual Festival of Languages from 8th January to 31st March 2025, with support from…
We are thrilled to be sharing the Festival Song video for 2024, ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, a highlight of this year’s Festival. 78 schools, community…
We are delighted to share the Mother Tongue Other Tongue e-book, a digital anthology of children’s writing from across the North East. The anthology includes…
We were delighted that our partners at British Council offered all North East schools participating in any activities during this year’s Festival immediate qualification for…
We were delighted to present our partnership work and achievements on Newcastle City of Languages and Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages at the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)…
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages has broken our previous 3 years of participation figures. We…
The Confucius Institute at Newcastle University (CI) collaborated with International Newcastle (IN) to host, for the first time, a series of “Welcome to China” Chinese…