March 2013

01 Event: A Bit Crack - Storytelling

1 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Regular Storytelling event

02 Event: Mental Health Event

2 Mar 2013, 10 a.m.

A market and series of events to raise awareness of mental health issues and sources of help and advice

02 Event: 'How To Programme A (Successful) Film Season At The Star And Shadow'

2 Mar 2013, 11 a.m.

The Ins and Outs of Programming a Film Season

02 Film: Possession (1981)

2 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Masterpiece of horror and suspense, this film follows the breaking down of a relationship with events going from the strange to the supernatural.

03 Event: Canny Little Library

3 Mar 2013, 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.cannylittlelibrary.tumblr.com email: cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com

03 Film: Daughters Of Darkness (1971)

3 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

“One of the most exquisitely mesmerizing adult horror films ever made”, this is an erotic vampire film about a honeymoon that goes badly wrong.

04 Meeting: General Meeting

4 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

05 Event: Conversation Group

5 Mar 2013, 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.

05 Event: Nrg Quarterly Meet

5 Mar 2013, 7 p.m.

Newcastle Roller Girls quarterly meeting in bar and cinema. This event is open to members of NRG only.

06 Film: I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse (1973)

6 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Cinematic surrealism and chaotic violence feature in this great film from the Spanish director of Viva La Muerte. Running away from the police, a man goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man with a special link with “Mother-Earth”.

07 Event: Volunteer Induction

7 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome! led by Marian & Danny

07 Film: An Evening Of Nicolas Provost Shorts (2002-2011)

7 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

“The most beautiful thing I discovered is the fine line between fiction and reality. The moment in which the audience asks themselves ‘is this real or is this fiction? ” – NICOLAS PROVOST

08 Event: Cancelled - Gilad And All That Jazz

8 Mar 2013, 6:30 p.m.

The Star and Shadow volunteers, after a serious discussion have decided not to allow this event, organised by Jazz North East, to be hosted in the Star and Shadow. This decision was not taken lightly and there were many differing opinions. A record of the way in which it was reached is here.

08 Event: Cancelled - Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble

8 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

09 Event: Volunteer Induction

9 Mar 2013, 11 a.m.

Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!

09 Event: Comedy Pick & Mix

9 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

Eclectic comedy from half a dozen or more up and coming local comedians on every subject under the sun. Tickets £3 for Star and Shadow members, £1 extra to join if you haven't already.

10 Event: Canny Little Library

10 Mar 2013, 3 p.m.

10 Film: Underwire - Women Filmmakers Night

10 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

This is an open film night for women who make films, and who would like to show their work. Just come to show a film, to watch films, or to chat!

11 Meeting: Programming Meeting

11 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

12 Event: Conversation Group

12 Mar 2013, 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.

13 Film: A Separation (2011) + Introduction By Tina Gharavi

13 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

14 Film: Our Daily Bread (2005)

14 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Award-scooping documentary Our Daily Bread is a highly impressive look at the mechanised process of food production.

15 Film: A Lizard In A Woman’S Skin (1971) + Euro-Disco In The Bar

15 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Psychedelic nightmares, LSD use and mysterious murders feature in this Italian giallo set in London. A young woman is accused of murdering her hippy neighbour after dreaming it exactly as it happened…

16 Event: Canny Little Library Cafe + Abc Prisoner Support Event

16 Mar 2013, 3 p.m.

4 - 5pm: Talk with Unrooted ABC about Anarchist Black Cross activities. all welcome!3 -6pm Canny Cafe will be catering with vegan snacks and cakes for donation what you can afford/ free if your skint.

16 Event: Slabs Of The Tabernacle

16 Mar 2013, 10 p.m.

For our first party of the year we've invited the magnificent Intergalactic Gary to make a rare UK appearance at the Star and Shadow. His all night DJ sets are memorable affairs, driven by a groove no matter what the genre

17 Event: Make And Mend Market

17 Mar 2013, 11 a.m.

Make and Mend Spring time Vintage Special

17 Event: Canny Little Library

17 Mar 2013, 3 p.m.

17 Event: German Conversation Group With Necll

17 Mar 2013, 5:30 p.m.

Fancy practicing German? Then come along, it's free!

17 Film: Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

17 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

With a great psychedelic score that became a hit in the British charts in the 1990s (in the album Sexadelic Dance Party), this is an erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

18 Meeting: General Meeting

18 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

19 Event: Conversation Group

19 Mar 2013, 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.

20 Film: Frontier Blues (2009)

20 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

On Iran's northern frontier with Turkmenistan, the land of "heartbreak and tractors", first time director Babak Jalali mines absurdist humour and quiet pathos from the immutable routines of a stranded group of men.

21 Film: Reel Iraq Festival

21 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Ten years since the invasion of Iraq, we host a night of films dedicated to a culture coming to terms with the legacy of conflict, and experimenting with modes of expression to make sense of now.

22 Gig: Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six + Holy Moly And The Crackers + Lady Koo And The Kooky Kitchenette

22 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six are back with their relentless dirt-swing, stories about grieving lovers, thieving lovers and deceiving lovers seep from their songbook like a putrescent parade of painful parables. It's strangely beautiful. Expect to dance!

23 Gig: Helm, Basic House, The Cankles & D Js

23 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

Helm is Luke Younger (Alter Records/Birds Of Delay) - a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sourceshttp://www.wegottickets.com/event/208957

24 Event: Canny Little Library

24 Mar 2013, 3 p.m.

24 Event: Efterklang: The Ghost Of Piramida

24 Mar 2013, 4 p.m.

One is in equal measures amazed and fascinated upon visiting Piramida, the Russian mining town on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, which remains deserted as if it was a fictional setting of the time after World War III.

24 Film: The Arbor (2010) + Short: The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)

24 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

The perceived and the actual are at odds in this double-bill conclusion to our Real and the Invisible film season.

25 Meeting: Programming Meeting

25 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

26 Event: Conversation Group

26 Mar 2013, 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.

26 Event: Better Words Ahead - A Writing Workshop With Amelia Bande

26 Mar 2013, 6 p.m.

All writers and their unique styles are welcome: Poets, Narrative, Broken Language, Essays, Scripts & Plays, Lyrics for Music. No previous experience required.

27 Film: Offside (2006)

27 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Girls try to watch a World Cup qualifying match in Stadium but are forbidden by law because of their sex. The film was inspired by the director's daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran but its screening was banned there

28 Film: Nerosubianco (1969)

28 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

With an incredible soundtrack from a band comprising 2 members of the prog rock band Procol Harum, this is non-sensical 1960s psychedelia at its best.

29 Festival: Weekender...

29 Mar 2013, noon

classic, ephemeral, obscure…exclusive premieres, live music and free films…every bank holiday weekend

29 Event: Weekender...Phid Video Installation Launch

29 Mar 2013, 7 p.m.

kicking off a weekend of experimental art and free film featuring video installations from esteemed guest artists, London collective PHiD install a collection of screens displaying corrupted found footage and broken street lighting, all designed to induce a disturbance in the audience…free

29 Film: 8 Masters/Return Of The 18 Bronzemen/The Blazing Temple

29 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

hack your way through the night with one of the unsung heroes of Hong-Kong cinema, Carter Wong, in a marathon of shaolin style chop-socky…ALL FREE

30 Film: The Sign Of Four (1932)

30 Mar 2013, noon

while the public argue over Basil and Jeremy many critics site Arthur Wontner as THE Sherlock Holmes, played closest to the literary version (bar a minor change of address) this Holmes is not the showman of later incarnations, but the banter with Watson describes a much more balanced relationship…free

30 Gig: Real Dead Herer

30 Mar 2013, 8 p.m.

A night of sludgy grunge, bone crunching alternative rock and knee lifting rock n reel. Get yem selves down to the shadow for a right old neck knacker.

30 Film: Five Minutes To Live (1961)

30 Mar 2013, 10 p.m.

featuring johnny cash and ron howard…a gang of bank robbers terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers…aka "door to door maniac" this is midnight movie mayhem, on your doorstep!

31 Film: Five (1951)

31 Mar 2013, noon

after the bomb dropped only five were left…there are many post-nuclear apocalypse movies, but this was the first…a relentlessly dark, oddly philosophical, psycho-social drama peppered with beautifully haunting scenes and plot holes you could fly a b52 through…free

31 Event: Canny Cafe + Prisoner Letter Writing Support Group

31 Mar 2013, 3 p.m.

Come and find out about some ways to support people locked up for their political activities. From 4-6pm there will be the opportunity to find out more and get involved. Everyone welcome!3-6pm Canny Cafe will be serving tasty treats and snacks, all vegan.

31 Event: Canny Little Library

31 Mar 2013, 4 p.m.

31 Film: At Five In The Afternoon (2003) Panj É Asr

31 Mar 2013, 7:30 p.m.

A story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban. The title comes from a Federico García Lorca poem and is a tale of flourishing against the odds.

31 Event: Creme Organization/Bunker Den Haag (Club Night)

31 Mar 2013, 11 p.m.

Quit the grinnin' and drop that linen!