Monday 19 Sep To Sunday 25 Sep 2011

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Meeting: General Meeting

19 Sep 2011, 6 p.m.

20

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

21

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!

24

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

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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.