Monday 17 Nov To Sunday 23 Nov 2008

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Meeting: General Meeting

17 Nov 2008, 6 p.m.

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No Events Scheduled

18 Nov 2008

19

Film: La Bete (The Beast) (1975)

19 Nov 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Intially banned from British screens for 25 years. La Bete tells the story of a poor family, pleased when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to marry their son. A striking and usual take on both beauty and the beast, and liberation of inner desires. La Bete displays imagination and an erotic insight into Borowczyk's style.

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Film: Changing Perspectives 2

20 Nov 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Part of a multimedia archive project addressing the reactions to the bicentenary of the 1807 Slave Trade Act of 25 African families living in North East England.

21

Gig: Barbara Morgenstern

21 Nov 2008, 8 p.m.

A cult figure in the UK, and a major star in Europe, Asia and Australia Barbara Morgenstern is the thinking raver's techno Goddess.

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Gig: Urban & Eastern Presents: Emily Portman And Friends

22 Nov 2008, 7:30 p.m.

"Her songs are rooted in the English tradition, but with a visceral and mysterious edge. Her take on the old ballads is all too contemporary" - Wat Tyler

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Film: Fred Wiseman Season: Racetrack (1985)

23 Nov 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Beginning with the birth of a thoroughbred foal and running through to the conclusion of the Belmont stakes in 1981, Racetrack is not so much horse feathers as real flesh as Wiseman's camera probes the darker recesses of the industry.