New Annual: SURGE - Tantrum Youth Arts

Electric and unexpected, SURGE is a high-voltage extravaganza of art and performance from Newcastle’s most exciting early-career artists. Curated by Tantrum Youth Arts and transforming Newcastle Museum for one night only, SURGE is a punk explosion of new performance, music, and interactive, visual and installation art.




Audiences are invited to curiously curate their own evening from offerings of both scheduled performances and walk-in experiences: Relive your teenage PDHPE class with the most unhinged teachers imaginable; be rocketed into space for a shimmering alien encounter; join the factory line of a pick/pack to explore workplace tensions; meet outrageous music-creating monsters and make some noise. With more genre-bending surprises to come!



Stay for one performance or go all-in. Come for the thing you know you’re gonna love; stay for the unexpected. We double dare you. Full program and timings available in September.



FREE - Registrations encouraged


Duration: 4.5 hours in total, drop-in for as little, or as long, as you like!


SURGE is suitable for ages 16+. Individual works will have content warnings at the event.