Monday 06 Dec To Sunday 12 Dec 2010
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No Events Scheduled
6 Dec 2010
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No Events Scheduled
7 Dec 2010
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Film: Jane Arden Season: Separation (1967)
8 Dec 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Scripted by and starring Jane Arden, Separation portrays the fragile complexity of its protagonist during a marital breakdown, through fragmented scenes, experimental, fragmented sequences. Set against the backdrop of 'swinging' 60s London. The soundtrack is by Procul Harum and light shows by artist Mark Boyle.
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Film: Top Hat (1935)
9 Dec 2010, 7:30 p.m.
For the last Decades of Musicals film we are throwing chronology to the wind and going back to the 1930s where, let's be honest, all the best musicals live. Astaire and Rogers partner up again and croon such classics as 'Cheek to Cheek' and, of course, 'Top Hat…'.
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Event: Platform Set Up And Take Down
10 Dec 2010, 9 a.m.
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Event: Platform00000010
10 Dec 2010, 6 p.m.
Annual event presented by Platform North East to showcase the best new artists working with live art in the north east region. Experience exciting, curious and unexpected acts of performance art, experimental theatre and contemporary dance, often mashed up with genre-defying skill. If you're moved by art that moves, this is for you.
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Event: New Volunteer Induction
11 Dec 2010, 11 a.m.
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Event: The Canny Little Library
12 Dec 2010, 3 p.m.
Newcastle's Radical Library. Today with extra added bookmaking entertainment!
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Event: Canny Little Bookmaking!
12 Dec 2010, 3:01 p.m.
Newcastle's best alternative little library, a collection of hundreds of great titles, books on everything from composting to communism (via women's health, history and know your rights information) is hosting an event of book-inspired creative crafts. Come along to learn how to use different techniques to make notebooks/ storybooks/ picturebooks. Paper and some texts provided, if you have any text or patterns you want to use as pages bring that too to make more unusual books. Musical performances and an informal open-mic too.
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Film: Jane Arden Season: The Other Side Of The Underneath (1972)
12 Dec 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Arden's violent and powerful film is an exploration into the mind of a woman labelled schizophrenic, whilst challenging the taboos of society. It is the only British feature film of the 1970s with a solo female direction credit and features a powerful soundtrack led by cellist Sally Pullinger.