September 2007
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Gig: Queerbeats Festival
1 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
a celebration of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender culture in Newcastle.
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Film: Films Without Borders Presents... No Borders Camp Uk 2007
2 Sep 2007, 4 p.m.
A week-long camp is being held at Gatwick Airport from 19th to 24th September. Sparked by the imminent opening of a new immigration detention centre (prison) near Gatwick, the No Borders Camp will be a place where we can come together to learn, take action, and to challenge the visible and invisible borders that divide people. Films Without Borders invites you to an evening of films, bands, and feasting on ideas! Come and join us.
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Gig: No Borders Gig
2 Sep 2007, 7 p.m.
Helictite and others
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Meeting: General Meeting
3 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
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Film: Claim To Fame (2007)
4 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Native Skate Store presents …
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Film: Claim To Fame (2007)
4 Sep 2007, 9 p.m.
Native Skate Store presents …
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Film: No More Pictures Babe (2006-07)
5 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
Reception & screening of autobiographical films. By artist, secret photographer, writer and filmmaker Zuzana Lola Hruskova. The author’s films speculate about the desperate feelings of photographer to satisfy her needs, which are unlike the real world in various important ways are insane or hysterical.
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Film: Latcho Drom (1993)
5 Sep 2007, 9 p.m.
One hundred minutes of music, singing and dancing on a gypsy journey heading from India to Egypt, Turkey, Romania and France.
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Film: When The Road Bends: Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan (2006)
6 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
At the centre of our two-day gypsy music festival is the new celebratory film of Roma musical culture.
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Gig: Polka Madre Y La Comezón - !Canceled!
6 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Gypsy Punk is one of the sounds of the summer and tonight we are lucky enough to host a visit to the Toon by one of the hardest touring bands.
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Gig: A Bit Crack
7 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Monthly story telling night
08
Festival: Volunteer Induction
8 Sep 2007, 11 a.m.
Your chance to find out how the cinema works so you can help out. Cinema
08
Festival: Mayflies
8 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
Mayflies is a series of one day art events taking place across the North of England – in Sheffield, Manchester and in Newcastle. Mayflies bookings@mayflies.co.uk
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Gig: Jazkamer, Mark Durgan, John Wiese, Tight Meat, Harm, Jazzfinger, Culver, Chalfont, Putrefier/Romance, Posset, Brothers Yemen
9 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
An 11 act free noise blowout headed by Norwegian noise everymen Jazkamer, gracing our shores with their infernal sonic pummelling.
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Meeting: General Meeting
10 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
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Gig: Glimpses Of Autonomy
11 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
This fortnightly gathering is a time for people to discuss and plan how we can confront the injustices across the globe and in our everyday lives.
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Film: War On Democracy (2006)
11 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
On a significant anniversary we turn our attention to another war – the USA’s government's attacks on Venezuela. After many of years of exposing injustice on the small screen John Pilger makes his cinema début. There are many things Bush and his cohorts hate about Hugo Chávez – come prepared to question whether he is the great hope of the global south.
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Festival: You're My Density!
12 Sep 2007, 6:30 p.m.
An exhibition of works on paper by Rachel Lancaster, Laura Lancaster, Emma Mclaughlin and Flora Whiteley. Rachel Lancaster, Laura Lancaster, Emma Mclaughlin and Flora Whiteley.
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Film: War On Democracy (2006)
13 Sep 2007, 5:45 p.m.
On a significant anniversary we turn our attention to another war – the USA’s government's attacks on Venezuela. After many of years of exposing injustice on the small screen John Pilger makes his cinema début. There are many things Bush and his cohorts hate about Hugo Chávez – come prepared to question whether he is the great hope of the global south.
13
Film: Light Bulb 08 Presents: Love And Anarchy - The Wild, Wild World Of Jaimie Leonarder
13 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Filmed over a six year period, this film explores the life and multi-layered passions of Sydney counter-culture personality, Jaimie Leonarder.
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Film: Light Bulb 08 Presents: Love And Anarchy - The Wild Wild World Of Jaimie Leonarder
13 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Filmed over a six year period, this film explores the the life and multi-layered passions of Sydney counter-culture personality, Jaimie Leonarder. It captures the essence and humanity of the enigmatic mental health worker and the extraordinary creative community around him.
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Film: Light Bulb 08 Present: Love And Anarchy - The Wild Wild World Of Jaimie Leonarder (2003)
13 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Filmed over a six year period, this film explores the the life and multi-layered passions of Sydney counter-culture personality, Jaimie Leonarder. It captures the essence and humanity of the enigmatic mental health worker and the extraordinary creative community around him. Leonarder is the man behind the Mu-Mesons, the influential noise band loved by Richard Kern, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and Mike Patton (Fantomas, Faith No More, Mr Bungle) all of whom appear in the film. Comprised of manic depressives and schizophrenics, the band was inspired by Leonarder's early career working as a diversional therapist with the mentally ill and his love of underground music culture and performance. This film is a must for fans of outsider music and art, and if you loved The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital, you will love Jaimie. PLUS: DJ set by Potra Poika
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Gig: Noite Of Stars
14 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
A full night of film, poetry and music with a Latino/Scottish feel
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Festival: Private Party
15 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
hired out ?
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Film: My Name Is Albert Ayler
16 Sep 2007, 7 p.m.
Kaspar Collin's rightly praised documentary on the life of the founding voice of free jazz whose impact still heard and felt throughout improvised music. As Ayler said " If people don't like now, they will".
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Gig: Charles Gayle / William Parker / Mark Sanders
16 Sep 2007, 8:30 p.m.
Charles Gayle is compared to both Ayler and John Coltrane. His playing is by turns stark and simple, then ecstatic and monumental.
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Meeting: General Meeting
17 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
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Gig: Warm Digits
17 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Warm Digits are Steve Jefferis (Cathode) with Andrew Hodson (The Matinee Orchestra) - an evening of ear-troubling rhythm 'n' noise from the drum, guitar and keybord duo: expect krautrock rhythms, free improv drumming, no-wave guitar and radiophonic electronics.
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Gig: Motor Ghost
18 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Motor Ghost is the riotously unbounded union of Alex Neilson and Ben Reynolds, both ever more vital figures in the UK's flourishing and genre-defying free music underground.
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Film: !Cantina Latina! Presents Paloma De Papel (2003)
19 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Beautifully shot and emotionally-charged story of a ten year old boy whose childhood is caught between political allegiance and personal freedom. Set in the iced-peaked Andean mountains of Peru, Paper Dove is a deeply moving humanistic film based on a true story.
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Film: Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
20 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Werner Herzog's experimental Sci-Fi feature film Wild Blue Yonder has finally got general release in the UK!
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Festival: Private Party
21 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
hired out ?
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Gig: Spectrum 20th Birthdayparty
21 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
20th Birthday Party for Spectrum Imaging
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Meeting: Other Meeting
22 Sep 2007, 10 a.m.
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Gig: Trashing Heaven's Graveyard: A Tribute To Nick Cave
22 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
From The Boys Next Door to the legendary Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds to Grinderman, Nick Cave's songs and music have been an enduring influence on songwriters and performers for a quarter of a century.
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Gig: Iron Fisted Champion #13 Featuring Diy Punk Rock Bands
23 Sep 2007, 3 p.m.
Influenced by the likes of Jawbreaker, Superchunk, Leatherface and Dinosaur Jr, Lemuria are an indie-pop trio out of Buffalo, New York, and are on the Buffalo-based label Art of the Underground.
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Film: Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
23 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Werner Herzog's experimental Sci-Fi feature film Wild Blue Yonder has finally got general release in the UK!
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
24 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
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Gig: Glimpses Of Autonomy
25 Sep 2007, 6 p.m.
This fortnightly gathering is a time for people to discuss and plan how we can confront the injustices across the globe and in our everyday lives.
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Film: End Of Suburbia (2004)
25 Sep 2007, 8 p.m.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their new-found wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. This film explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era with global demand for fossil fuels beginning to outstrip supply.
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Film: Basement Basement
26 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Basement Basement is a collection of films celebrating Ayton Basement, the artist run space that opened on the Quayside in 1976.
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Film: Fantastic Planet (1973)
27 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
With its powerful allegories about cultural ignorance and genocide La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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Film: Parent's And Babies Screening
28 Sep 2007, 1 p.m.
film tbc
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Film: Interstella 5555 (2003)
28 Sep 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The band Daft Punk didn't produce a few music videos for their ground breaking "Discovery" album. They made a whole Animé-style film to go alongside it.
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Film: The Other Possibility (2007)
29 Sep 2007, 9 p.m.
"I know, lets you and me swap blood, at least there’s music in mine." Upon discovering that she has an incurable blood cancer, Kaz Hauser, a feisty Berlin music journalist, heads to England to seek out the father she's never met and save her soul. Kaz is about to take the journey of a lifetime to get a better grasp on her past and maybe find a cure for her future…