January 2012
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No Events Scheduled
1 Jan 2012
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No Events Scheduled
2 Jan 2012
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
3 Jan 2012, 4 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking English in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come.
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Meeting: General Meeting
3 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Film: The Florestine Collection (2011)
4 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. (31 mins) + DIY animation programme
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Event: Film Production Workshop
5 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
Whether you're interested in development, locations, costume, special effects, logistics, filming or marketing there is an opportunity to get hands on experience with Itinerant Motion Picture Company this winter during the shooting of "Noctambule" a dreamlike trip in a surreal labyrinth. This open house session is for all with even a passing interest in how films are made.
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Event: A Bit Crack - Open Night
6 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Anyone can join in! The floor is open, the stories are waiting and the next teller could be you! Here is a chance for listeners to become tellers and share the stories closest to your heart alongside A Bit Crack - or just come and listen, you’ll be just as welcome.
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No Events Scheduled
7 Jan 2012
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Event: Canny Little Library
8 Jan 2012, 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: Alice In The Cities (1974)
8 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
After brief encounter with an elusive American woman Phillip a roving German reporter reluctantly accepts temporary custody of little Alice. Their friendship grows while traveling through European cities on a search for the girl's grandmother. Inventive and witty, Wenders reflects on the influences of American pop culture on postwar Europe.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
9 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
10 Jan 2012, 4 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking english in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come.
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Event: Nrg Meet
10 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
In bar and cinema. (This is a closed meeting for members of NRG only)
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No Events Scheduled
11 Jan 2012
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Event: Film Production Workshop
12 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
Whether your interested in development, locations, costume, special effects, logistics, filming or marketing there is an opportunity to get hands on experience with Itinerant Motion Picture Company this winter during the shooting of "Noctambule" a dreamlike trip in a surreal labyrinth. This open house session is for all with even a passing interest in how films are made.
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Film: The American Friend (1977)
12 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying. Knowing this Jonathan's American friend, displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper) introduces him to a gangster who asks him to become a mob assassin. Ripley intends Jonathan to do his dirty work, but has second thoughts when he becomes friends with the doomed man.
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No Events Scheduled
13 Jan 2012
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Film: Japanese Film Festival 2012: The Ghost Cat And The Mysterious Shamisen (1938)
14 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Incredible horror film from 1938, never shown in the UK before 2011.
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Event: Japanese Film Night
14 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Event: Canny Little Library
15 Jan 2012, 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: The State Of Things (1982)
15 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Highly autobiographical work concerning a shoestring movie producer and his ragtag crew. Stranded in the outer reaches of Portugal, the director does not even have any film in his camera. There's nothing left to do but scare up a potential backer - preferably one of those rich, movie-mad Americans.
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Meeting: General Meeting
16 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Meeting: General Meeting
16 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
17 Jan 2012, 4 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking english in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come.
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Film: Japanese Film Festival 2012: Enter The Cosmos: Takashi Makino + Introduction!
17 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Three experimental films from 2004 to 2011 and an introduction from a specialist.
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Film: Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water (1980)
18 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
The American director Nicholas Ray, mostly known for Rebel Without a Cause, is dying slowly of terminal cancer yet he stays at home with his closest friends. Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments, failures and compromises, and reminisces about Joan Crawford, James Dean and many other Hollywood stars.
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Event: Film Production Workshop
19 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
Whether your interested in development, locations, costume, special effects, logistics, filming or marketing there is an opportunity to get hands on experience with Itinerant Motion Picture Company this winter during the shooting of "Noctambule" a dreamlike trip in a surreal labyrinth. This open house session is for all with even a passing interest in how films are made.
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Film: Japanese Film Festival 2012: Shirome (2010)
19 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Funny / horror teenage mockumentary, especially translated for Zipangufest - Blair Witch Project meets The X-Factor.
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Gig: Film + Gig: Divine Trash Presents Journey To The Centre Of Uranus
20 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Divine Trash is going from the outer limits of space to the depths of bad taste as we go BARBARELLA, with Roger Vadim's hymn to young Jane Fonda, set amongst the sexiest of galaxies. On the decks is THE VILE MISS PEARS with punk, rockabilly, surf and trash, followed by the UK's only transgender punk band, WOMEN IN REVOLT.
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Event: Clubnight: Our House
21 Jan 2012, 10 p.m.
Our House is a new night coming to Newcastle on the 21st January 2012.
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Event: Canny Little Library
22 Jan 2012, 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.
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Film: Film: Land Of Plenty (2004)
22 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Lana returns to the USA after years of living abroad with her missionary father. She wants to find her only other living relative - uncle Paul, a Vietnam veteran with deep emotional war wounds. A tragic event witnessed by the two takes them on a journey of healing, discovery, and kinship.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
23 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conservation Group
24 Jan 2012, 4 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking english in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come.
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Event: Anti Cuts Network
25 Jan 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Anti Cuts Network Meeting with Reel News
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Film: Reel News
25 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
REEL NEWS is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - not just in this country, but across the world. We are doing this through producing a bi-monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings. Reel News is completely independent and non-aligned. We are completely against sectarianism in all its forms, anti-capitalist in outlook, against the anti-trade union laws and in favour of mass collective action in the workplace and on the streets to change society.
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Event: Film Production Workshop
26 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
Whether your interested in development, locations, costume, special effects, logistics, filming or marketing there is an opportunity to get hands on experience with Itinerant Motion Picture Company this winter during the shooting of "Noctambule" a dreamlike trip in a surreal labyrinth. This open house session is for all with even a passing interest in how films are made.
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Event: One-Man-Show: He Do The Police In Different Voices
26 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
A one-man show from Spectrum Arts Theatre Company, which brings the poetry of T.S. Eliot to life through performance. http://www.wegottickets.com/event/147643
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Film: Japanese Film Festival 2012: Beyond Anime: The Outer Limits
27 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
A selection of 17 animation short films from 2002 to 2011.
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Gig: One-Woman-Show: Josie Long - The Future Is Another Place
28 Jan 2012, 7 p.m.
Josie Long is back again with her fifth solo show. Come along! This is a show about feeling newly tormented by the world around you and about optimism and despair.
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Event: Canny Little Library
29 Jan 2012, 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.
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Film: Japanese Film Festival 2012: Kanzeon + Discussion With The Directors! (2011)
29 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Gorgeous documentary about Japanese Buddhism, or more precisely some of its sounds.
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Meeting: Other Meeting
30 Jan 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conservation Group
31 Jan 2012, 4 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking english in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come.