Monday 24 Mar To Sunday 30 Mar 2014
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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…