https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/2014/01/feed/Star And Shadow Events 2014-01-01 to 2014-01-31en-gbSat, 15 Sep 2018 22:24:51 -0000https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1302A film/documentary about animal welfare & explaining the work of hunt sabs.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1302https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1268 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).https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1268https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1202The 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1202https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1204Perhaps 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1204https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1306https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1306https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1300https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1300https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1205An 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 £3.50https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1205https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1206Ray'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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1206https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1301A 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?https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1301https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1209Pennebaker 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1209https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1208An 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1208https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1210Les 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1210https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/993Storytelling - Open Nighthttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/993https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1244 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.  https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1244https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1305Books & 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.comhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1305https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1292https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1292https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1225Supersize 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)https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1225https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1286STOP 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!https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1286https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1226 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1226https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1306Books & 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.comhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1306https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1293Informal 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!https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1293https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1223An 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!https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1223https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1285Our 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1285https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1281A 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1281https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1307Books & 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.comhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1307https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1294Informal 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!https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1294https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1280A 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)https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1280https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1231The 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1231https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1309Our 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.comhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1309https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1310https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1310https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1295Informal 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!https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1295https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1235In 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/1235https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/385General Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/385https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/386Programming Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/386https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/387General Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/387https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/388Programming Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/388