January 2014
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No Events Scheduled
1 Jan 2014
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No Events Scheduled
2 Jan 2014
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Event: A Bit Crack - Storytelling - Eat Your Words
3 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Storytelling - Open Night
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Event: Taste The Waste
4 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Leading off with the award winning documentary 'Taste the Waste' which focuses its lens on me you the supermarkets restaurants as food waste mounts, many starve. After the film there's a discussion led by Food Cycle and other direct action organisations dedicated to taking action by recycling Food.
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Event: Canny Little Library
5 Jan 2014, 3 p.m.
Books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection! Stock focuses on more political, radical, thought-provoking, action-inspiring & critical titles than other libraries. Categories include: books for children & young people, health & relationships, info for action, diy, global struggles, feminism, queer, history, anarchism & more! http://cannylittlelibrary.tumblr.com
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Film: Tyneside Hunt Sabs
5 Jan 2014, 4 p.m.
A film/documentary about animal welfare & explaining the work of hunt sabs.
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Film: Ratatouille
5 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An animation film by Pixar that goes down a treat with audiences of all ages. The story of Remy the rat, with whose remarkable culinary skills save a restaurant and provoke envy. A tale of aspiration and acheivment. A franco- american dream packed into a rat(atouille).
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Meeting: General Meeting
6 Jan 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
7 Jan 2014, 4 p.m.
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No Events Scheduled
8 Jan 2014
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Film: Food Inc.
9 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
The film documentary you have to see if you want to understand the nature of agri-business and the implications the industrialisation of farming have for our planet. Followed by discussion.
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Event: I Am What I Eat - An Evening Of Film Supersize Me And Performance
10 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Supersize Me (USA 2004 100 mins) Morgan Spurlock's hideously graphic documentary account of the physical effects of a month long MacDiet of fast food. The evening continues with local performance artists producing work inspired by the rubric: I am what I eat…Tickets: £5 and £3.50(C)
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Event: Stop Trident! Ne Action Awe Campaign - Planning Meeting
11 Jan 2014, 1:30 p.m.
STOP TRIDENT! The Government wants to keep nuclear weapons until 2060. The rest of the world wants to eradicate nuclear weapons. Time for us to join Action Atomic Weapons Eradication!
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Event: Tea Dance Night
11 Jan 2014, 7 p.m.
An evening of tea tasting from and with Newcastle's ethnic communities, a film - Tea House of the August Moon (Daniel Mann, 1956, DVD, 123 mins, USA, English) followed by dance with DJ T Dance Smith, Shoeshop Quartet and jazz players Sheffaffu.
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Event: Canny Little Library
12 Jan 2014, 3 p.m.
Books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection! Stock focuses on more political, radical, thought-provoking, action-inspiring & critical titles than other libraries. Categories include: books for children & young people, health & relationships, info for action, diy, global struggles, feminism, queer, history, anarchism & more! http://cannylittlelibrary.tumblr.com
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Film: The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover (1989)
12 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Perhaps the British Art House movie of the 20th century. Greenaway probes in outrageous detail the relations of food to power, sex, revenge and death in its many forms.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
13 Jan 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
14 Jan 2014, 4 p.m.
Informal weekly English language conversation practice to meet people and learn language skills. Open to people with any or no level of experience. The group aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. New volunteers and members very welcome!
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Film: The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
15 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: More Than Honey
16 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An extraordinary journey into the depths of the bee hive, across different cultures, to understand something of the nature of bees and their importance. Followed by the chance to talk about and discuss Bees and Honey with local Bee Keepers. Tickets: £5 and £3.50
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Event: Lady Koo's Big Chocolate Night
17 Jan 2014, 7 p.m.
An evening of Chocolate with Lady Koo! Featuring the screening of Chocolat with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Followed by a cabaret set from Lady Koo and the Kooky Kitchen who serve up a feast of music from the the 20's and 30's with a side dish of special Lady Koo chocolate cakes and chocolate cocktails!
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Event: Our Food 'What Do We Really Want?' Workshop
18 Jan 2014, 3 p.m.
Our Food (Swingbridge Media, 2013) is about a North-East based project working towards allowing excluded voices to have more of a say in the future of food and farming, particularly through collaborative research http://ourfood.org.uk/.Come and see the film, question those involved and join the discussion about how to re-imagine our food system.
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Event: Gig: Reason Breeds Monsters + The Forgotten Works + Thieving Herer
18 Jan 2014, 8 p.m.
A fabulous line up highlighting some of the incredibly talented, passionate, distinctive and lively voices in northern folk. A welcome return to Ouseburn for Hexamshires' fine Thieving Herrer and first visits to the friendliest valley in the toon for RBM and The Forgotten Works your chance to hear them all at probably the loveliest volunteer run venue on Hadrians Wall.
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Event: Canny Little Library
19 Jan 2014, 3 p.m.
Books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection! Stock focuses on more political, radical, thought-provoking, action-inspiring & critical titles than other libraries. Categories include: books for children & young people, health & relationships, info for action, diy, global struggles, feminism, queer, history, anarchism & more! http://cannylittlelibrary.tumblr.com
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Film: Distant Thunder (Ashami Sanke)
19 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Ray's film about the 1943 famine, caused by the British exporting grain from Bengal. Ray's approach to famine is not to exploit images, but rather to engage the audience in an intensive series of indicators of despair: the slow ratcheting up of the price of staple foods. Followed by discussion on The Right to Food.
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Meeting: General Meeting
20 Jan 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
21 Jan 2014, 4 p.m.
Informal weekly English language conversation practice to meet people and learn language skills. Open to people with any or no level of experience. The group aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. New volunteers and members very welcome!
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Film: Nothing Like Chocolate
22 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A mythbusting and hopeful exploration of the massive and often highly exploitative cocoa industry. Bhavnani introduces us to Mott Green an anarchist choclatier whose passions encouraged him to start a workers co-op and take on the might of the chocolate industry. Meet NGOs farmers and families facing realities in Cote d'Ivoire including child slave labour and questions like how fair is Fairtrade?
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Film: Kings Of Pastry
23 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Pennebaker is best known in the UK for his Dylan documantary, Don't Look Back. Here turns his eyes to pastry chefs competing in France to be King Patissier. Three days of cream, chocolate butter and frustration.
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Event: On The Eve Of Burns Night - An Evening Of Folk Film And Song From The Root Of The Heart.
24 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A marking of Burns Night starting at 7:30pm with screening of the wonderful Ealing Comedy: Whisky Galore (Mackendrick UK 1948 U) staring Joan Greenwood and James Robertson Justice. Passing on to a night of song, folk and personal from some of the best acoustic performers onTyneside: Cath and Phil Tyler Steve Malley and Paul Handyside. The music will be accompanied with drams and a big pot of neep soup from Phil's farm Tickets: Film and Music £6 and £5(c) Music event only £5 and £3.50(c)
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Event: Paris Is Burning (With Soul Food & Dancing)!
25 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
The award-winning movie Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, USA, 1991) explores the poor black NY drag balls of the early '80s. Followed by a night of camp, disco and HiNRG from the Funky Butt Club … with added soul food.
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Event: Canny Little Library + Canny Cafe
26 Jan 2014, 3 p.m.
Our monthly delicious vegan cafe + books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection! Stock focuses on more political, radical, thought-provoking, action-inspiring & critical titles than other libraries. Categories include: books for children & young people, health & relationships, info for action, diy, global struggles, feminism, queer, history, anarchism & more! http://cannylittlelibrary.tumblr.com
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Event: Schumacher North Meeting
26 Jan 2014, 4:30 p.m.
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Film: Tampopo
26 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
An outrageous spoof on the Samurai culture which uses the location of Tampopo's noodle bar to introduce a bizarre gathering of different talents to trigger a series of comic vignettes whose sole unifying theme is the focus on food.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
27 Jan 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
28 Jan 2014, 4 p.m.
Informal weekly English language conversation practice to meet people and learn language skills. Open to people with any or no level of experience. The group aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. New volunteers and members very welcome!
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No Events Scheduled
29 Jan 2014
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Film: Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
30 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Les Blank's ecstatic paean to the joys of garlic and all the goodness it promotes under the sun. If you were ever moved by a clove of garlic come and rejoice. Plus Adrin Neatrour's Last Kill (UK 2004; 40 mins) A meditation on the last days of an old itinerant slaughterer.
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Event: Gm Food Film /Debate
31 Jan 2014, 7:30 p.m.
In a world stressed by climate change the issue of GM crops is again rising to the top of the socio-political agenda. Agri-business, as supported by some scientists, promotes GM as the only way forward. Star and Shadow is holding a film led debate with experts across multiple disciplines to help the community appreciate what is at stake.