March 2012
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Event: New Volunteer Induction
1 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
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Gig: Av Festival 12: 24h Music Event: 9 Beet Stretch
1 Mar 2012, 11:59 p.m.
9 Beet Stretch is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony digitally stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions by Oslo-based artist Leif Inge.
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Event: A Bit Crack - Transferred To Chillingham Arms Due To Double Booking.
2 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Goosewing performed by Christine McMahon is one not to miss!
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No Events Scheduled
3 Mar 2012
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Event: Canny Little Library Plus Dirty Coal Infotour!
4 Mar 2012, 3 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks 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: Av Festival 12: Stalker (1979, Russia, Dir. Tarkovsky)
4 Mar 2012, 9 p.m.
One of the most enigmatic films ever made about time, from the widely admired director Tarkovsky.
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Meeting: General Meeting
5 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
6 Mar 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: Av Festival 12: Five + Discussion (2003, Iran, Dir. Kiarostami)
7 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Radically minimalist film from the genius Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
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Event: Stars And Shadows - Public Experiments With Light
8 Mar 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Demolish Newton's theories with a beam of light! Join with Goethe in eradicating the materialist paradigm! Discover Perspective!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Frost (Start Of Slow Cinema Wkend) + Q&A (1997, Germany, Dir. Kelemen)
8 Mar 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Frost is a landmark European film, made on 16mm film by german director Fred Kelemen.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Evening Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 6pm - 11pm + Directors Q&A
9 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
Masterpiece from German filmmaker Fred Kelemen + incredible from "the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema".
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
10 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Gorgeous film from British superstar Ben Rivers + 10 hour film from Phillipino director Lav Diaz!
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Event: New Volunteer Induction
10 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
11 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Latest film from the incredible British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers - NOT TO MISS!! Followed by film epic from Lav Diaz.
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Event: Canny Little Library
11 Mar 2012, 3 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks 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. 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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Meeting: Programming Meeting
12 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
13 Mar 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: Av Festival 12: Colossal Youth + Discussion With Samm Haillay (2006, Portugal, Dir. Pedro Costa)
14 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
An intimate epic, where present and past move as one, collaboratively filmed with patience and empathy.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Honor Of The Knights + Intro From Film Lecturer (2006, Spain, Dir. A. Serra)
15 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Serra’s striking, controversial adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a revelatory portrait of the relationship between the frail Quixote and his stout loyal scribe Sancho.
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Film: Viva La Muerte (1971)
16 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
An extremely rare chance to see a print of a masterpiece of its type. Fernando Arrabal, was co-founder of the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowski and this film owes much to that style. However where his more famous collaborator's work is unapologetically trippy, Arrabal's films and plays use the same chaotic and extreme language to serve a social conscience of sorts.
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Gig: Sexual Objects
16 Mar 2012, 9 p.m.
Third coming of Saint Davy Henderson and Sexual Objects. S'Obs play sexmusic and a 6Music Marc Riley live session to be aired following unforgettable performances in November 2010 and on CHILDREN OF GODARD night in March 2011.
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Gig: The Peter James Taylor Guitar Orchestra!
17 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Leave Me Here Proudly Presents… a night of Noise and Improvisation! Including members of Khunnt/Spokes, Young Liar, Waskerly Way, Dextro, Zadok, GNOD, Shields + more… Expect 12+ guitarists/Bassists/Drummers meeting on stage for the first time, under the direction of acclaimed touring composer ‘Peter J. Taylor’ to create a fierce wall of noise…
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Event: Canny Little Library & Open Discussion
18 Mar 2012, 3 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks 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. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. Plus, today at 4pm: Open Discussion – Safer Spaces – How can we create welcoming, inclusive and anti-discriminatory spaces? Bring your ideas, experiences, questions and thoughts.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Finisterrae + Skype Q&A W. Director! (2010)
18 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Two Russian-speaking ghosts leave the Sonar Music Festival, along the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela then on to Finisterre: the end of the world, to seek rebirth. Inspired by Garrel’s 1972 film The Inner Scar, this surreal and humorous tale is Caballero’s first feature, with a stunning soundtrack including Nico and Suicide.
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Meeting: General Meeting
19 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
20 Mar 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: Av Festival 12: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours + Discussion (2011, Thailand)
21 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
This debut feature by visual artist Tiravanija is a portrait of the slow passage of time and simplicity of everyday life in a small village near Chiang Mai. The artist follows old uncle Lung Neaw with a 16mm camera during his daily routines. With compassion and humility, we see him walk, talk, eat, pray, cook, hunt, smoke, drink and visit his neighbours.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Still Life (2006)
22 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Still Life is set in Fengjie, 150 miles from the Three Gorges Dam, the hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River that submerged thousands of towns and displaced more than a million people. Shot while Fengjie was being demolished, the film has a powerful documentary impact, as two people travel there separately to look for their missing spouses.
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Gig: The Alternative Miss Newcastle Pageant
23 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
The Alternative Miss Newcastle explodes onto the arts calendar on March 23, with the inaugural pageant taking place at the Star and Shadow Cinema.
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Gig: Av Festival 12: The Time Is Out Of Joint: Forest Swords, The Caretaker, Pye Corner Audio
24 Mar 2012, 9 p.m.
Three live performances embrace the concept of Hauntology at the moment we skip an hour to mark the beginning of British Summertime.
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Event: Canny Little Cafe
25 Mar 2012, 3 p.m.
The Canny Little Cafe brings you delicious hot drinks and snacks, all vegan, to accompany your sunday afternoon!This month you are invited by the Canny Cafe to bring, take and make rebellious music of all forms and styles with a mix tape/ cd swap! All this and the usual radical/alternative/critical books n zines. 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.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Eternity + Discussion (2010)
25 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
This debut feature won the prestigious Tiger Award at Rotterdam 2011. Evoking the traditional Thai belief that the spirit of the dead returns, Eternity follows a man through three stages of being - as a ghost in his childhood home, as a young man falling in love, and absent in the life of his family in the days following his death.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
26 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
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Event: English Language Conversation Group
27 Mar 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: Av Festival 12: Double Bill: Butterflies Have No Memories + Independencia
28 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Special double bill!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
29 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Russell’s stunning feature debut is an epic road movie drawing from documentary and ethnography. Set in Suriname and shot almost entirely with 16mm steadicam, in thirteen extended ten-minute shots it follows two brothers as they trek from Paramaribo to rainforest villages of the Maroons. Their journey powerfully mirrors that undertaken by their ancestors escape from slavery 300 years earlier.
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Event: Our House 2
30 Mar 2012, 10 p.m.
Follow up to first Our House night.
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Film: El Topo (1970)
31 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Jodorowsky is El Topo, the black clad gunslinger and he's looking for trouble. The Midnight Movie sensation El Topo, like a cross between Sergio Leone and Siddharta, is not a classic for it's genre - because it does not have one!