September 2011
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Event: New Volunteer Induction
1 Sep 2011, 6 p.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
02
Event: A Bit Crack
2 Sep 2011, 6:52 p.m.
Performed by David Metcalfe. Earthy Strong will comprise of stories and songs of life, love and death from the tomb of history.
03
Gig: Warm Digits Album Launch With Special Guests + Silver Fox
3 Sep 2011, 8 p.m.
Warm Digits is the krautophonic blizzard-wave duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, who make a semi-improvised brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics (think Neu!, My Bloody Valentine and Emeralds with a hint of cosmic disco).
04
Film: King Kong (1933)
4 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive sci-fi, fantasy, special effects movie. A film crew go to a mysterious, tropical island to finish a shoot, but what they find there was bigger than they ever imagined… Adventure to make you wonder if it's TRUE, while your very eyes convince you that it IS!
05
No Events Scheduled
5 Sep 2011
06
Event: Conversation Group
6 Sep 2011, 4 p.m.
Every Tuesday, 4-6pm, informal conversation group to practice speaking English and to meet people. New learners with any or no experience of speaking English always welcome. Travel expenses can be covered for people who need it. New volunteers to support with practising English (and making tea!) always welcome. No experience necessary, volunteers can assist with answering questions, chatting and offering more individual support in smaller group activities. We try and make the sessions inclusive, welcoming and anti-discriminatory.
06
Event: Nrg Rules Night
6 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
An evening for Newcastle Roller Girls to get together and talk rules.
07
Film: Love Lived On Death Row (2007)
7 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Love Lived on Death Row by Linda Booker, tells the story of the four Syriani siblings whose father was sentenced to die for the murder of their mother. An incredible story of surviving tragic loss, followed by a journey of forgiveness and a battle for clemency. A powerful examination of not only the healing process, but also of the role capital punishment plays in serving justice. http://lovelivedondeathrow.com/trailer.html
08
Gig: The Twisting Ducks Academy
8 Sep 2011, 7 p.m.
Gig & Open Mic presented by The Twisting Ducks
09
Gig: "A Gathering Of Artistic Folk"
9 Sep 2011, 8 p.m.
The current Artistic Renaisance of folk and acoustic music and artistic talent descends on Star and Shadow for one night only!!!!!!!
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Event: New Volunteer Induction
10 Sep 2011, 11 a.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
10
Gig: Cast A Long Shadow - An Evening With The Monochrome Set
10 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The most cinematic d'Anglais post punk bands, The Monochrome Set, walk to the big screen to cast a long shadow over the Star and Shadow Cinema tonight; from 1979, with an exclusive DVD screening of their complete M80 US Festival appearance followed by a very special live performance from the current 2011 line up.
11
Event: Library 1st Birthday Celebrations!
11 Sep 2011, 3 p.m.
1st Birthday Party for the Canny Little Library! Celebrate the best little library at the Star and Shadow with an afternoon of reading- inspired events. 3-5pm Screen printing workshop - bring a t-shirt/ patch, get the canny library logo to eep! Zine-making workshop - participate in creating a mini- magazine. Inspiration available from the zine library. Book making workshop - learn how to bookbind and take a handmade journal/ notebook/ sketchbook away with you. Librarian workshop - learn how the library works and how you too can be a librarian! 5-6 pm. Film screening: Documentary on individuals, zines and DIY community in Portland, USA (inspiring!). 6-7pm Got a favourite passage from a book?! A collection of words that inspires you or makes you think? Now's your chance to share it and hear others. You are invited to read a short extract from any text you currently love. This was so good on our opening night we're doing it again! Plus birthday cake!
11
Film: Wuthering Heights (1939)
11 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Our Great British Romance season begins with one of the greatest love stories ever told. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven star in this classic tale of doomed love upon the Moors. Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy!
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No Events Scheduled
12 Sep 2011
13
Event: Conversation Group
13 Sep 2011, 4 p.m.
Every Tuesday, 4-6pm, informal conversation group to practice speaking English and to meet people. New learners with any or no experience of speaking English always welcome. Travel expenses can be covered for people who need it. New volunteers to support with practising English (and making tea!) always welcome. No experience necessary, volunteers can assist with answering questions, chatting and offering more individual support in smaller group activities. We try and make the sessions inclusive, welcoming and anti-discriminatory.
13
Event: Culture Lab Conference After Party
13 Sep 2011, 8 p.m.
Culture Lab Newcastle is throwing a Beats & Pieces party in the last days of summer, Ibiza-style, to end the season in trance… or not. Part of a larger event with an international conference and an exhibition, the party is the whipped cream to the strawberry cocktail. And it's FREE.
14
Event: Reel News
14 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The second Wednesday of every second month is REEL NEWS. REEL NEWS is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - in this country and across the world. Anti-capitalist action, protests against cuts and privatisation, the growing social movements in Latin America, Mass-action, skill sharing. The evening will start at 7:30 with a 90 minute newsreel, followed by discussion, bookstalls, shared food, the Canny Library, an Open-Mike or radical DJ sets. Local contact Robin.brown@ncl.ac.uk 0191-251-0076 https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254250971262494&pending
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Film: I Know Where I'M Going! (1945)
15 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Powell and Pressburger most certainly know how to do romance! Wendy Hiller is magnificent as the unromantic and stubborn Joan Webster who is out to marry for marriage's sake, but who finds love along the way.
16
Event: Tyneside Anti-Cuts Networks Defence Fund Benefit Gig
16 Sep 2011, 7 p.m.
17
Gig: Blood Stereo And The Choc Monk Dweebs Tbc
17 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
TBC
18
Event: Make And Mend Market
18 Sep 2011, noon
The biggest independent monthly market in Newcastle! Art, crafts, vintage & second hand. FREE entry! Also SWAP between 2-3pm in cinema space, only £2 up to 15 items (This is a 'mixed' Swap for ladies clothing/accessories, books, films & music!) Bring your preloved items in good condition to swap into something 'new'! You will find us on FACEBOOK ; Make and Mend market group and or email to MAKEANDMENDMARKET@googlemail.com for sellers info. Note, this market operates 'bi-montly' at Star and Shadow cinema, Grainger market being another venue.
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Film: The Wicked Lady (1945)
18 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
A Gainsborough picture to shock and break your heart. Barbara Worth (Margaret Lockwood) meets her match in Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason) in a film of dandy highway men, dissatisfaction and desire.
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Meeting: General Meeting
19 Sep 2011, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
20 Sep 2011, 4 p.m.
Every Tuesday, 4-6pm, informal conversation group to practice speaking English and to meet people. New learners with any or no experience of speaking English always welcome. Travel expenses can be covered for people who need it. New volunteers to support with practising English (and making tea!) always welcome. No experience necessary, volunteers can assist with answering questions, chatting and offering more individual support in smaller group activities. We try and make the sessions inclusive, welcoming and anti-discriminatory.
20
Film: Unrepentant: Kevin Annett And Canada's Genocide (2006)
20 Sep 2011, 7 p.m.
Winner: Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Winner: Best Director for an International Documentary at the 2006 New York International Film Festival
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Gig: Jazz North East
21 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Newcastle stop-over for two great bands: WSP and Synkoke
22
Film: Brief Encounter (1945)
22 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Our season ends with the ultimate of all Great British Romance films. A chance meeting leads to an impossible love affair, every Thursday, over a cup of tea. It's GREAT. It's BRITISH. It's ROMANCE!
23
Event: Jeremy Marre's Reggae Britannia Plus Funky Butt Club
23 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Marre’s stunning history of reggae in Britain includes Aswad, Laurel Aitken, Misty in Roots, the Cimarons, Matumbi, the Specials and more. From the sound system to Top of the Pops, reggae has had a sublime influence on everyday life in the UK. The Funky Butt Club will also be playing a night of reggae, bluebeat, ska, soul and rhythm & blues until 1am!
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Event: Eddie & Sheena
24 Sep 2011, 8:30 p.m.
“Dirty Rock’n'Roll and filthy Punk Rock” Some people like punk AND rock n roll; they like garage AND girl groups; they like the New York Dolls AND Gene Vincent; Suicide AND Little Richard. That’s why we’re playing them all at EDDIE & SHEENA.
25
Event: Canny Little Library
25 Sep 2011, 3 p.m.
The Canny Little Library is the best library in the star and shadow/ city / uk for books, zines and pamphlets with a focus on titles with a more critical stance towards the society we live in and not available in most regular libraries/ bookshops. The collection includes graphic novels, art, feminism, queer, gender, lgbt, politics, sex, health, relationships, DIY, anarchism, philosophy, global struggles, science, nature and environment, worker's struggles, history, prison struggles, cookery, anti-racism and information for action. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com
25
Film: Nippon Re-Read: Radical Fragments And Abstractions From Japan (Various)
25 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
A spectrum of experimental moving image works from Japan, ranging from late 60s to contemporary works, are presented in Kinema Nippon’s two-part program. Although varying greatly in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and innovations in their medium.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
26 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
27 Sep 2011, 4 p.m.
Every Tuesday, 4-6pm, informal conversation group to practice speaking English and to meet people. New learners with any or no experience of speaking English always welcome. Travel expenses can be covered for people who need it. New volunteers to support with practising English (and making tea!) always welcome. No experience necessary, volunteers can assist with answering questions, chatting and offering more individual support in smaller group activities. We try and make the sessions inclusive, welcoming and anti-discriminatory.
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No Events Scheduled
28 Sep 2011
29
Film: Vertigo + Introduction From American History Specialist! (1958)
29 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
One of Hitchcock’s masterpieces, seen as one of the best films ever made, it contains love, fear, sweat and James Stewart in San Fransisco. This is a special screening, as the film will be introduced by a Historian, specialist of American History and of San Francisco!
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Event: 2011 Regional Forum For Intercultural Arts
30 Sep 2011, 9 a.m.
NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC - INTERCULTURAL ARTS ORGANISING - contact office@interculturalarts.co.uk for more info
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Gig: Lambs Gamble
30 Sep 2011, 8 p.m.
3 giant improv-heads shake down the traditional ‘rawk n roll’ power trio orchestration of drums (Fritz Welch), bass (George Cremaschi) and guitar (Eric Boros) and stretch them into awkward and unstable positions. Energetic and precise playing is then slathered in added electronic noodles leaving a clumped and clotted fog and unsightly stains all over your tablecloth. There’s heavy emphasis on organic percussive swipes, metallic texture and keening wails…The Cream they ain’t baby!