The conference takes place in one of NewcastleGateshead's most spectacular buildings and tourist attractions – The Sage Gateshead. The Norman Foster building is a centre for music and musical discovery, and its concert halls have fast become recognised as some of the finest in the world.

We asked local AMA member reps, Jonny Tull and Craig Millar and local AMA board member Emily Till, to give us the insider info on NewcastleGateshead - just so you know what to expect when you get there ...

" To get the clichés out of the way, we're going to welcome you at the coal staithes with our whippets tied up outside the nearest pub and a warm stottie cake ready as you step off the train into the rain.
We'll then make our way to the Bigg Market for a pint and a fight and a great night out!

ONLY KIDDING.

NewcastleGateshead is no longer as it was depicted in the 1970s film Get Carter – it's a thriving cosmo hub of artistic delights that will get you in its thrall, and a city to better any other in the UK in terms of things to do, places to go, and interesting people to talk to.

As AMA members in the north east, we're lucky to live here, and we have seen so many changes to the place that we're all constantly amazed at not only how far it has come, but also how the amazing artistic and architectural visions here have slipped so easily into becoming part of international culture.

Did you know that NewcastleGateshead has more listed buildings than anywhere in England outside London apart from Bath? From the neoclassical beauty of Grainger Town (Newcastle’s City Centre), to the medieval buildings tumbling down to the Quayside, to the industrial behemoths of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the spectacular contemporary buildings of the twenty-first century, it is a fascinating and beautiful place to visit – and walk around, being very compact.

OK, so some of us like a bit of football, but we also like The Sage Gateshead, BALTIC, Tyneside Cinema, Live Theatre, the Laing Art Gallery, The Castle Keep, Northern Stage, the incredible Seven Stories Centre for Children's Books, The Tyne Bridge (it is nice!), countryside just minutes away in each direction, Ouseburne Valley, a lovely coastline, the Centre For Life, Discovery Museum, Hatton Art Gallery, Theatre Royal and loads more.

Oh, and we do like a bit of shopping as well.
So there you go, sexy, sporty, fashionable and cultured.
And we have loads of (quirky) pubs as well."

Jonny Tull, AMA Member Rep and Marketing and Communications Manager at Tyneside Cinema
Emily Till, Head of Marketing, The Sage Gateshead and AMA board member
Craig Millar, AMA Member Rep and Marketing and Communications Manager at arc