Salon Events
In 17th- and 18th-century Europe, influential hosts, often prominent women, held regular gatherings in their salons: evenings of conversation where philosophy, art, writing and politics were turned over in equal measure, at once social and intellectual. Our Salons borrow that spirit. They’re smaller, more experimental gatherings built around ideas and the people thinking them through. The three coming across 2026 each take their own unique structure and format.

Youth Futures Lab
Around 75 high school students spent a day shaping and sharing ideas for a smarter, kinder Newcastle, at NUspace, University of Newcastle.

60-Second Talk Night
Our second Salon of 2026: seventeen Novocastrians, one idea each, sixty seconds to share it.

Newcastle 2050: What If?
An evening of bold questions and new perspectives.
More salons across the year.
More Salons are coming across the 2026 season. Subscribe and we’ll let you know the moment the next one is announced.