Monday 15 Oct To Sunday 21 Oct 2012
15
Meeting: General Meeting
15 Oct 2012, 6 p.m.
16
Event: English Language Conversation Group
16 Oct 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.
16
Event: Talk By Polly Higgins On Eradicating Ecocide
16 Oct 2012, 5:45 p.m.
(postponed from the 9th oct)
In March 2010 international barrister and award winning author Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations that Ecocide be made the fifth Crime Against Peace. There are currently four Crimes Against Peace: genocide, war crimes, crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity. Ecocide is the missing fifth crime – it is a crime against humanity, against current and future generations, and against all life on Earth.
17
Film: Benny & Joon (1993)
17 Oct 2012, 6:30 p.m.
A quirky romantic comedy about two people who, deemed as misfits by society, fall in love with each other. Johnny Depp stars in one of finest performances emulating the eccentric and slapstick humour of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
18
Event: Free Drawing Games
18 Oct 2012, 5 p.m.
Join in with the drawing games as part of The Big Draw
18
Film: Surrealists & Cinema
18 Oct 2012, 7:30 p.m.
A selection of elusive and rarely-seen short films presented with introductory talks by Leeds Surrealist Group. The programme will include films both made by and admired by surrealists past and present, spectral projections of dream and desire.
19
Event: Baltic Preview Afterparty
19 Oct 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening of experimental film, drinks and conversation to celebrate the exhibition openings of The Encampment of Eternal Hope by Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich and Ulterior Vistas by Tris Vonna Michell at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, plus the first day of international DEATH ANIMATIONS symposium.
20
Event: Leave Me Here Presents.....Goat (Sweden), Beauty Pageant, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
20 Oct 2012, 8 p.m.
Goat produce heavy, afro psych punk, with absorbing percussion.
21
Event: Short Films From The Newcastle Irish Festival
21 Oct 2012, 3 p.m.
Working with Gypsy, Roma and Irish Travellers children in the North East for many years, Joe Crane's films and stories were made to celebrate and promote awareness of their lives.
21
Event: Canny Little Library
21 Oct 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. 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
