Monday 17 Mar To Sunday 23 Mar 2014
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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
20
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 .
21
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.