March 2014
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Film: Av Festival 14: La Région Centrale
1 Mar 2014, 1:30 p.m.
Michael Snow's 1971 masterpiece of experimental cinema presents the landscape in a way never before seen by the human eye. Filmed with a mechanised camera able to move in every direction imaginable.
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Meeting: Other Meeting
1 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: World Spirit Forum Theatre Group In The Roundabout
2 Mar 2014, 3 p.m.
World Spirit Forum Theatre Group explores integration and the asylum process from the perspective of those experiencing it directly. "The Roundabout" looks at the process of seeking asylum in the UK, demonstrating the tedious and frustrating system, where attitudes are cold and cruel, and individuals have little control over their fate.
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Event: Canny Little Library
2 Mar 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.
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Event: Self-Organization Is Possible
2 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
Talk and discussion with information on popular struggles in Italy, Spain and Mexico, as part of the Canny Little Library.
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Meeting: General Meeting
3 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
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Event: Conversation Group
4 Mar 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: Av Festival 14: Double Bill - Coal Money/Man With No Name
4 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A double bill of films by Wang Bing. Coal Money follows a convoy of coal trucks encountering roadside criminals and corrupt policemen. Man with No Name shows man reduced to his most rudimentary elements living in an underground cave.
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No Events Scheduled
5 Mar 2014
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Film: Av Festival 14: Schuss!
6 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Nicolas Rey's 16mm film powerfully recalls two phases of industrial history in the French mountains, the white gold of aluminium in the 1960s and its subsequent replacement by ski resort tourism.
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Event: A Bit Crack - Storytelling Meets Theatre
7 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Fern Smith in Doin’ Dirt Time - a provocative performance questioning the role of the artist in society and what role does art have in a time of change. Created by Emergence.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Palacios De Pena (Palaces Of Pity) + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 11:30 a.m.
In a parable on guilt and oppression, which alludes to aspects of Portuguese colonial history, two cousins are potential heirs to their grandmother’s fortune. This artist-filmmaker is present to discuss his approach to postcolonial cinema. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Spectres + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 2 p.m.
Spectres plunges us into one of the blackest days of the Belgian Congo’s decolonisation. The artist follows a top-ranking Belgian civil servant recalling the assassination of Prime Minister Lumumba. Sven Augustijnen is present to discuss the film. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: It For Others /Les Statues Meurent Aussi + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 5 p.m.
Duncan Campbell has taken Marker and Resnais’ 1953 film Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues also Die) as both source and artefact, to pursue a meditation on the life, death and value of objects. The artist is present to discuss the work. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Images Of The East, Barbaric Tourism + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 9 p.m.
AV Festival is delighted to welcome filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi in person. This film uses footage shot in India by tourists in the 1920s to illustrate the elitist attitudes of Westerners toward the Far East. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: A History Of Mutual Respect, Liberdade, Ornithes + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 11 a.m.
Three short films by Gabriel Abrantes, focus on the new identities and relations forged through globalisation. Each was shot in a postcolonial context in Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Angola and Haiti, and will be introduced by the filmmaker. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc With Will Rose: Africa Addio
9 Mar 2014, 2 p.m.
Having caused considerable controversy upon its release, Africa Addio is presented here as an illustrated screening by artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abbonenc and curator Will Rose, to consider the social and political implications of watching and showing such a film. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Event: Canny Little Library
9 Mar 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.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Electric Fragments Nos. 4, 5: Asia-Africa + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 5:30 p.m.
The filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi are present in person at the screening. Electric Fragments consists of archival material from the 1970s revealing social problems in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Burma, Indonesia, Dahomey, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Film: Av Festival 14: From The Pole To The Equator + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 8:30 p.m.
The filmmakers will discuss their landmark work from 1986, which re-defined the documentary form. This film is drawn from the 1910 archives of Luca Comerio, a pioneering Italian documentary filmmaker who photographed ‘exotic’ peoples from the North Pole to the Equator. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
10 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 14: The Radiant
10 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
The Radiant invokes both the historical promise of nuclear energy and the future threat of radiation that converges on the illuminated cities and evacuated villages of Japan, following the 2011 tsunami.
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Event: Conversation Group
11 Mar 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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Gig: Ne Refugee Justice Benefit Gig
11 Mar 2014, 7 p.m.
Local bands giving it large for NERJ
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Film: Kittiwake Film
12 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A film about the unique inland colony of Kittiwakes on the river Tyne.
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Film: Manhattan
13 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.Starring:Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Mariel Hemingway
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Event: Carnival Of Crows Circus Circus
14 Mar 2014, 8 p.m.
Carnival of Crows presents “Circus Circus” a night of carnival fun, funky music and circus magic. You will be welcomed in by the Ariel Noodlers on trapeze, silks and hoop. Drink a glass of champagne from their shoes and enjoy their ariel antics. Be entertained by jugglers, LED hoop and Poi, burlesque dance and dark magic. Dance your socks off to the funky tunes of live band Carnival of Crows then continue dancing to the eclectic infectious tunes of DJ Sub-D till midnight. Get there early to ensure you don’t miss out on this unique night of frolics and fun.Tickets: £5
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Gig: Ian Mcnabb
15 Mar 2014, 8 p.m.
Pindrop Events & Minus Me present a solo acoustic show by Ian McNabb (The Voice and Guitar of The Icicle Works). His first gig in Newcastle for over 2 years! £tbc
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Event: Canny Little Library
16 Mar 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.
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Event: Frack Free Tyne And Wear Action Meeting
16 Mar 2014, 4 p.m.
With the prospect of fracking and UCG (underground coal gasification) looming, Frack Free Tyne and Wear is campaigning against this madness. Come along and find out how you can get involved. For more info on UCG see: http://frack-off.org.uk/extreme-energies/underground-coal-gasification/
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Film: Irish Film: Poitín
16 Mar 2014, 4:30 p.m.
A West of Ireland poteen maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardai in Connemara. Made in 1977 this is a highly original piece of film making. Lively, funny and at times dark.
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Film: Sleeper
16 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Woody Allen pulls out all the comic stops here, utilizing everything from Orwellian social satire, sci-fi movie parody, Harold Lloyd-style pratfalls,and a scene involving giant fruits and vegetables that has to be the funniest sight gag ever committed to celluoid. And join us before the film at about 7:15pm to hear Yoshie Kawamura play for us on the piano and set the mood for Woody.
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Meeting: General Meeting
17 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 14: Yumen
17 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Yumen is a once-thriving, oil-rich town that has been left derelict and abandoned by Chinese socialism. This ghostly film takes us through its desolate spaces inhabited by restless, hungry souls.
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Event: Conversation Group
18 Mar 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: Av Festival 14: Losers And Winners
18 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
This subtly observed documentary reveals cultural and economic strain on both sides when, in Germany's Ruhr Valley, 400 Chinese workers dismantled and shipped the most modern coke factory in the world to China.
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No Events Scheduled
19 Mar 2014
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Film: Play It Again, Sam
20 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Based on his own stage play about a film critic with seduction problems who takes Bogart as a role model - this shows Allen at his best, exploring the gap between movie escapism and reality. It's not really as pretentious as that with plenty of good sight gags and one-liners. The working out of the parallels with Casablanca are masterly. Unusual in that Allen is here directed by Herbert Ross .
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Film: The Golem And How He Came Into The World (1920) + Live Music: Noize Choir + Wax Magnetic
21 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Loew brings to life a clay monster to save the Jews in this classic tale set in 16th C Prague
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Event: Book Fair
22 Mar 2014, 10 a.m.
Hundreds of brilliant second-hand books!
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Event: Illustration Workshop
22 Mar 2014, noon
Aged 13-18? Come and learn graphic design and illustration in the Star and Shadow Cinema! Focussing on Byker, we'll spend the day learning about illustration and graphic design - doing research into our subjects, drawing by hand, transferring onto the computer and using design and illustration packages.In collaboration with the Canny Little Library.
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Event: Ndanifor Garden Trust Uk 'On The Third Day Of Spring' Party
22 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
A host of international storytelling, food, music and dancing and film to support launch of a CD to support this permaculture Garden project in Cameroon.
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Event: Book Fair
23 Mar 2014, 10 a.m.
Hundreds of great second-hands books!
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Event: Illustration Workshop
23 Mar 2014, noon
Aged 13-18? Come and learn graphic design and illustration in the Star and Shadow Cinema! Focussing on Byker, we'll spend the day learning about illustration and graphic design - doing research into our subjects, drawing by hand, transferring onto the computer and using design and illustration packages.In collaboration with the Canny Little Library.
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Event: Canny Little Library
23 Mar 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.
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Film: Love And Death
23 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
In part a homage to all things Russian especially the literature of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, in part a reprise of the gags of earlier successful Allen movies. Allen siezes the opportunity for sumptuous epic cinematography especially in the battle scenes where Love and Death makes effective use of its technical qualifications. The fact that it looks like an awards-baiting historical epic make Allen’s usual antics look sillier and funnier.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
24 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 14: The Devil's Miner
24 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
This documentary follows two brothers as they work in the Bolivian silver mines, a place believed to be the exclusive province of El Tio, the devil, who is both protector and destroyer.
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Event: Tear Down The Walls - Prison Abolition Tour
25 Mar 2014, 12:30 p.m.
“Tear Down The Walls” is the rallying cry of abolitionists around the world. For those people who understand the harm caused by prisons, the concept of dismantling the prison-industrial-complex seems like the most logical conclusion. But there are still those who cannot imagine a world without prisons. That is why, this March, members of the Empty Cages Collective will be travelling the country to host workshops on the prison-industrial-complex and prison abolition.
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Event: Conversation Group
25 Mar 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: Av Festival 14: Fiebres
25 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Set on the Amazonian plateaus, Fiebres follows the journey of Pierre, a Franco-Venezuelen doctor, as he travels through the forests to treat gold and diamond miners afflicted with a mystical unnamed fever.
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Film: Menstrual Man
26 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Only 1 in 10 menstruating women in India use sanitary pads. The rest use rags, husk, sand, and even ash. One man is out to change that regardless of the impact on his own standing."My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village - I was left all alone in life” A stunning film telling the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham and a low-tech self-help health revolution
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Film: Zelig
27 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Technically advanced and beautifully shot by Gordon Willis. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick, Stuart Robinson and R. Greenberg Associates. Worth remembering this appeared a year before Hollywood was wowed by mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. A gem of a film.
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Gig: Ceylan Hay, Vanity Ward And The Two
28 Mar 2014, 8 p.m.
A chance to hear fantastic talented female folk from Glasgow and Newcastle. Ceylan will be returning to the Star and Shadow after her earlier visit as part of The Forgotten Works. Vanity Ward are local art students and musicians Jayne and Sarah. As well as fabulous duo The Two Matt and Niles. A night to enjoy new directions in folk making use of loop pedals, various instruments and voice.
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Gig: Sounds From The Crypt
29 Mar 2014, 7 p.m.
local metal night featuring bands from across the north of England, with sets from plague rider, twice the trauma, blind spite, ashes of insurrection with more bands to be announced.
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Event: Canny Little Library + Canny Cafe
30 Mar 2014, 3 p.m.
Our monthly delicious vegan cafe + books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection!
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Event: Monthly Prisoner Letter Writing
30 Mar 2014, 4 p.m.
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Film: Annie Hall
30 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
'Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic.' Rotten Tomatoes. Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) reflects on his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Hall). Funny, wry, tender and fashion-setting Annie Hall beat Star Wars to the Oscar for Best Picture. And stay by after the film for a short piano recital by Yoshie Kawamura: after Woody a little musical indulgence with some Chopin…