December 2008
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No Events Scheduled
1 Dec 2008
02
Meeting: Programming Meeting
2 Dec 2008, 6 p.m.
03
Film: Northern Lights Film Festival: Go With Peace Jamil (2008)
3 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Go With Peace Jamil is about ancient religious hatred, love, punishment, guilt, redemption, being responsible for one’s own actions and refusing a path of violence.
04
Film: Northern Lights Film Festival: Tsietsi My Hero (2006)
4 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Director Portia Rankoane will be present, all the way from South Africa, to introduce this poignant documentary. The film is about T. Mashinini, the leader of the Soweto student uprising, and the apartheid government’s most wanted man in 1976. Plus South African DJ to finish the night!
05
Event: Story Telling: A Bit Crack
5 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
The theme tonight is: Home Is Where The Heart Is, with David Campbell (Scotland)
06
Film: Huutajat - Screaming Men (2003)
6 Dec 2008, 2 p.m.
The Star & Shadow celebrates Finnish Independence Day with a showing of this fascinating insight into John Peel's favourite Scandinavian band, Mieskuoro Huutajat.
07
Festival: Fred Wiseman Season: Free Seminar - The Doc In The Dock
7 Dec 2008, 2 p.m.
Seminar on Documentary Film led by Professor Michael Chanan of Roehampton University and Diane Myers of Leeds Universtiy. Adrin Neartrour
07
Film: Fred Wiseman Season: State Legislature (2007)
7 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Wiseman's hommage to the democratic process charts the activities of the Idaho State Legislature as it discusses and debates: school violence, second hand smoke, Mad Cow Disease, illegal immigration and video voyeurism.
08
Meeting: Programming Meeting
8 Dec 2008, 6 p.m.
09
No Events Scheduled
9 Dec 2008
10
Festival: African In Motion
10 Dec 2008, midnight
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Film: African In Motion: As Old As My Tongue + Live Music! (2007)
10 Dec 2008, 7 p.m.
Film: As Old as My Tongue about the remarkable story of the oldest singer in the world, Zanzibari legend Bi Kidude. Followed by live Music from Sierra leone!
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Event: Africa In Motion: Reel Lives (Family Screening)
11 Dec 2008, 4 p.m.
Post-school family session (free event open to all)
11
Film: Africa In Motion: Ezra (2007)
11 Dec 2008, 7 p.m.
In the year 2000, it was estimated that some 300,000 children were serving as soldiers in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries around the world. Inspired by his own war-torn upbringing, Aduaka's film is the story of seven year-old Ezra, who is kidnapped by rebels on the way to school.
12
Event: Platform00000008
12 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
platform00000008 is this year's one day event presented by Platform North East to showcase the best new artists working with live art in the north east region.
13
Event: Volunteer Induction
13 Dec 2008, 11 a.m.
The Star and Shadow Cinema runs on the love and work of a large and ever-growing collective of volunteers. If you would like to volunteer, whether that be with a particular skill or resource or a general enthusiasm to make the cinema run come along to our monthly session for new volunteers. All welcome!
13
Gig: Urban & Eastern Present: Cool Yule At The Star And Shadow
13 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
A night of Yuletide themed songs and pagan merriment.
14
Event: Star & Shadow Market Double Whammy
14 Dec 2008, 11 a.m.
Our last market event until March 2009. This will be a double whammy as we have teamed up with The Cluny to do the market across the 2 venues.
14
Film: Africa In Motion: International Interactive Film Workshop
14 Dec 2008, 2 p.m.
Join Star & Shadow film makers Christo Waller & Andy Jones in a live link up with South African documentary maker Mayenzeke Baza and a team of young film producers from Mandela Bay Pictures for an afternoon of experimentation with multimedia film technology including mobile phone & flip cameras.
14
Film: Africa In Motion: Clouds Over Conakry (2007)
14 Dec 2008, 5 p.m.
Guinean filmmaker Cheick Fantamady Camara's debut feature proposes a romantic twist on the recurrent tradition-versus-modernity theme of African cinema, as a lovestruck cartoonist learns the spirits have chosen him instead of his religious older brother to succeed his father as imam of Guinea's capital, Conakry.
14
Film: Africa In Motion: Sms Sugar Man (2006)
14 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Johannesburg - an evil ugly city on a Christmas Eve. This is the turf of the lonely and the damned and no more damned can they be than Sugar Man (Kaganof) cruising the streets in his Automatic 1966 Valiant 200, continually on his mobile phone, peddling his girls to wealthy black punters.
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No Events Scheduled
15 Dec 2008
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16 Dec 2008
17
Gig: Nathalie Stern In Concert
17 Dec 2008, 8 p.m.
A unique evening of music and experimental film.
18
Film: The Red Balloon + White Mane (1953 And 1956)
18 Dec 2008, 7 p.m.
Two super cult French films about childhood
19
Gig: Club Night: Road To Rimini
19 Dec 2008, 10 p.m.
Night of mayhem with the best DJs in town
20
Event: The Grinning Idiot Xmas Special
20 Dec 2008, 8:30 p.m.
After their very successful first night at the Star and Shadowm the Grinning Idiot comes back with a Christmas Special…
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21 Dec 2008
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22 Dec 2008
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23 Dec 2008
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24 Dec 2008
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25 Dec 2008
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26 Dec 2008
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27 Dec 2008
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28 Dec 2008
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29 Dec 2008
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30 Dec 2008
31
Event: Cloud '0'9 - Star And Shadow New Year Party
31 Dec 2008, 9 p.m.
Good tidings we bring of a party happening at the universe's favourite venue to celebrate this Newe Yeare's Eve, a time when one year literally passes into another at the strike of a clock. AWESOME!