Dec- Jan 08 Programme
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FINAL TEXT FOR PROGRAMME SENT TO DESIGNER 31.10.07
Fri 30 Nov
Recyke y'Bike presents
Newcastle's 1st Bicycle Film Festival
6.00pm
Meet at St Thomas' opposite the Haymarket and cycle over to the Star + Shadow en masse via Sandyford Road and Portland Road.
7.30pm FILM: We Are Traffic We Are Traffic! chronicles the history and development of the "Critical Mass" bicycle movement-- one of the most spirited and dynamic social/political movements of the apathetic 90's. In over 200 cities in 14 different countries, Critical Mass has now become a monthly ritual of reclaiming the streets by bicycle activists riding en masse. We Are Traffic! tracks this leaderless, grassroots movement from its beginnings in San Francisco in 1992 to its spread across the globe. With a radical direct-action approach the participants of Critical Mass are celebrating the bicycle and in turn taking on perhaps the century's most sacred cow: the automobile. Dir Ted White 1980, USA, 7 mins.
9.00pm FILM: Jour de Fete Jour de Fete is a rarely seen classic comedy from Jacques Tati, and tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French postal carrier who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to town. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel on the rapidity of the American postal service, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed his mail deliveries aboard his bicycle. Dir Jacques Tati 1949, France, 79 mins.
Sat 1 Dec
Recyke y'Bike presents Newcastle's 1st Bicycle Film Festival
10.30am Join in a session of bike maintenance training covering the basics run by a Recyke y'Bike mechanic. Book your place ASAP as numbers are limited (07737 52 6020). £8.00 each. Bring your own bike to work on.
12.30pm Lunch: Bring your own bait and get a drink from the bar
1.30 approx FILM: The World Naked bike ride: a documentary following the annual naked bike ride in London and some explanations of why it is done.
SHORT FILM: Cycling Washing Machine: introducing a new domestic contraption: a pedal powered washing machine, with an interview by its inventor.
3.00pm FILM: Flying Scotsman Jonny Lee Miller stars as real-life Scottish cyclist Graham Obree, who breaks records with a bike constructed from bits of an old washing machine but struggles with his own demons. A chance to see this great movie that celebrates British eccentricity, and disappeared from the cinema screens all too quickly. Dir Douglas Mackinnon 2007, Germany/UK, 96 mins Festival all inclusive ticket is £10.00, excluding bike maintenance class, or £4 per film plus £1 membership.
8.00pm GIG: Lucero Somewhere between out and out punk rock and riff laden alt.country, Lucero write songs about girls and guitars, and about life, love, drinking, each with their trademark vivid storytelling: slice-of-life pictures of small town America. To call Lucero Memphis' answer to Bruce Springsteen is not a stretch. It's just how it is. Recommended for fans of: Uncle Tupelo, The Hold Steady, My Morning Jacket, Bruce Springsteen. Tickets £6 in advance from www.portionsforfoxes.co.uk
Sun 2 Dec 1pm Green Festival management meeting 2pm Green Fsetival Planning meeting. Both in office. 3pm Film: www.nativeskatestore.co.uk presents 'Fully Flared'
The Skateboard Film you've all been waiting for, brought to you by Lakai Footwear. Check out www.lakai.com for details of the film. Any more info needed please contact Scotty at scotty@nativeskatestore.co.uk
7.30pm FILM: The Wrong Box Comedy starring Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore and a host of other classic actors. Two brothers, each eligible to inherit a trust, go to fiendish lengths in their determination to be the sole survivor. Dir Bryan Forbes 1966, UK, 35mm, 105 mins.
Tue 4 Dec
6.00pm-7.15pm: CREATE! Group screening through Woodhorn.
8.00pm-9.30pm: Leazes Woodcraft Folk meeting (Robin.brown@ncl.ac.uk)
6.00pm MEETING: Glimpses of Autonomy This fortnightly gathering is a time for people to discuss and plan how we can confront the injustices across the globe and in our everyday lives. We discuss, organize, watch films, eat, drink and act together. All welcome.
Wed 5 Dec
7.30pm-midnight GIG: Backlash - experimental visual artists and electro music Backlash presents OTTO VON SCHIRACH (Schematic, Beta Bodega, Addict, Touchin' Bass) LIVE! Taking a break from his tour with Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert, part Cuban, part German, Otto Von Schirach's performances have to be seen to be believed. Using an array of outfits, masks and props he blends an unusual mix of electro, gore-grind metal, booty bass, breakcore-gabba-jungle and gangsta rap into one supersonic sess-pit. KEEF BAKER (Ad Noiseam) LIVE! Beautiful melodic glitchy techno-breaks from down Leeds like. SNIFFA DOG LIVE! plus DJ's armaged:DON & Backlash plus chill out space - alternative aussie art films by dzinxy' plus oddball concepts, visuals and art from Barry Fox. £8 on the door.
Thu 6 Dec
7.00pm FILM: Keita: The Heritage of the Griot This haunting film, from Burkina Faso (one of the centres of African cinema), has been programmed in partnership with tomorrow night's A Bit Crack storytelling guest: Sally Pomme Clayton. One of Britain's best-loved storytellers and a lecturer on world oral traditions at Middlesex University, Sally chose this film in homage to the long history of spoken storytelling that pre-exists the written word. Keita creates a unique world where contemporary and 13thC. West Africa co-exist through the mind of a young boy, Mabo Keeta, learning the history of his family. 94 minutes, 1995, Burkina Faso Dir: Dani Kouyat 1995, Burkina Faso, 94 mins SPECIAL DOUBLE TICKET: £7/6 for this event and A Bit Crack on Dec 7 (normal ticket price: £4/3)
9.00pm LAUNCH: Wor Diary Pub Quiz Tonight is the launch of the 2008 diary. Not a corporate mass-produced diary but 'wor diary', made by local people to remember and be inspired by Tyneside's forgotten histories of protest, rebellion, mutual aid and dignity! 'Bring out your banners' for the long-forgotten protest banner display. 'Free Shop music' - everything played is given away. Teams of 5 for the alternative pub quiz based on the real history of Tyneside. All welcome. No experts necessary. Entry price includes a copy of this high quality 2008 DIY diary, price tbc but will be cost price - not for profit. www.wordiary.org
Fri 7 Dec
7.30pm EVENT: A Bit Crack Monthly storytelling night.
Sat 8 Dec
11.00am Monthly volunteer induction session. 1.00pm EXPERIMENTAL WALK: 'Art Walks' -experimental walk organised by Visual Arts Forum plus short screening.
8.00pm GIG: That Defensive Arm EP Launch Gig also features Scrabbo and Razzmatazz Lorry Excitement.
Sun 9 Dec
4.00pm PERFORMANCE: Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel is an internationally-recognised artist living in New York who works with media technologies - from old Nintendo consoles to the Google search engine, to Hollywood film. He will perform for the first time an "interactive" lecture / product demonstration, introducing the computer code he has written for his recent projects (including the new commissioned piece on view at the NGCA, Sunderland). This "code" is the engine behind his artwork and can be used to effectively recreate his artwork yourself. His performance will be followed by
7.30pm FILM: Cory Arcangel presents Untitled Translation Exercise This is the only UK theatrical screening of the project 'Untitled Translation Exercise' by New York based artist Cory Arcangel. Cory often hacks popular culture moving images, and this project is no different: the script for the film Dazed and Confused was sent to an executive assistant outsourcing firm in India where the assistants were instructed to read the different parts and record their performances. The results were then painstakingly dubbed with the original motion picture. As a viewer watches the feature length film, they are struck by the inconsistencies and manipulations that underline the split between sound and image in the cinema. A film in English has been dubbed into English, an act which makes the familiar strange. UTE is by Cory Arcangel, Ben Jones, with additional production by Miriam Katzeff. FREE The Cory Arcangel event is organised by Sarah Cook in association with Film and Video Umbrella, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, and the University of Sunderland.
Tue 11 Dec
Daytime - ouseburn farm community do. Christo arranged with them - their number: 07947793953 - definitely going ahead.
6.00pm FILM: Four Docs Northern Film & Media and FourDocs invites the documentary filmmaking community of North East to come to a special screening and meet-and-greet with Kate Vogel, Commissioning Editor of Channel 4's 3 Minute Wonder and Charlie Phillips, Editor of FourDocs. Watch the best short docs from Channel 4 and FourDocs from the last couple of years and then pitch your ideas. All welcome. Please rsvp roxy@northernmedia.org
wed 12 dec
Whitley bay High school 7pm- 8:15 private hire. Music video showcase. Confirmed on 14 Nov. geordiepet41@hotmail.com. Confirmed on 21st nov
Thu 13 Dec
7.30 FILM: Straub and Huillet A rare opportunity to see two works by French-born, Italian-based mavericks Jean-Marie Straub and Danile Huillet, who made rigorous and intellectually stimulating films between 1963 and 2006. Tonight we will be showing their first film Machorka Muff, and from 1965 Nicht vershnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht (aka Not Reconciled, or Only Violence Helps Where it Rules), which has been described as maddeningly opaque and fragmented, yet abstractly intriguing and curiously resonant.
Fri 14 Dec I am booking for private hire for the North of England Refugee Service Christmas party. It will be a day thing 1 - 6pm so if anyone wants to do in the evening, you are welcome
Sat 15 Dec 1pm -4pm Private event - steps forward mentoring project winter celebration (film screening) . (Hannah 07951 539677, hannah@shu12.freeserve.co.uk)
[Palestine film event now shifted to 2 Feb 2008. Peter Snowdon peter@redrice.net]
Sun 16 Dec
Green Fest meeting 1-3pm in office
private party 4 santas helpers 4-8 in office
7.30pm FILM: One Way Pendulum Comedy starring Eric Sykes and George Cole. The Groomkirby family are so wrapped up in their private fantasies that they might as well be living in different worlds. Dir Peter Yates 1966, UK, 35mm, 84 mins.
Tue 18 Dec
6.00pm MEETING: Glimpses of Autonomy
Wed 19 Dec
7.30pm FILM and DISCUSSION: Director Yasmin Fedda Kuwaiti-born Palestinian film-maker Yasmin Fedda has a background in anthropology, and has worked on several film projects in the Middle East, USA and around the UK, including working with Bridge and Tunnel Productions in Newcastle. She comes to the Star + Shadow to talk about her life, politics, work, and future projects, all informed by a migratory life that has taken her from Palestine to Canada, Qatar to Scotland and Syria to Kuwait. We will also be showing two of Yasmins short documentaries:
Breadmakers (2007) looks at the intricate social relationships in a community of workers with learning disabilities making a variety of organic breads for shops in Edinburgh, while Milking the Desert (2004) explores the life of Frederic, a French novice at the St. Moses the Abyssinian monastery deep in the Syrian desert. We follow him and Syrian monk Boutrous through their daily chores and routines: milking goats, making cheese and praying. Their lives create a backdrop for Muslim and Christian relations in the area.
Yasmin Fedda will be in discussion with Light Bulb 08 Director Craig J Wilson.
Thu 20 Dec
7.30pm FILM: Some Like It Hot Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in this classic of mistaken identity, the Mob and cross dressing. What more could you ask before Christmas? To be followed by the Star + Shadow Christmas Party, at which cross-dressing will be more than welcome! Dir Billy Wilder 1959, USA, 16mm, 121 minutes
Fri 21 Dec CINEMA CLOSED
Sat 22 Dec
EVENT: Queerbeats Christmas Party
23 - 30 Dec CINEMA CLOSED
Wed 2 January Dave Douglass 60th party (079 0016 0841)
Thurs 3 Jan
Les Cox (sportifs) Album launch & Gig. Special guests and DJs 8pm - late. Organised, promoted by & starring: Micheal Patterson / Christo Wallers / Christopher Rollen.
Fri 4 Jan
7.30pm EVENT: A Bit Crack Monthly storytelling night.
Sat 5 Jan - GIG & Caster Sugar Disco booked by Debbora debbora@thecuckoopress.co.uk, booking taken by Pauline gigs@starandshadow.org.uk
Sun 6 Jan
7.30pm FILM: The Yacoubian Building The Yacoubian Building is an Egyptian film which has broken all records across the Arab world, and caused a hail of controversy with its depictions of homosexuality and corruption. Set in 1990 at the time of the first Gulf War, the film is a scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'etat of 1952. Set in downtown Cairo, the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serves as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and in which the primary characters live, work and interact.
Critic Deborah Young wrote that The Yacoubian Building was as satisfying and enjoyable as a good, long read, and credited its frank treatment of homosexuality as revolutionary in the context of Egyptian cinema.
The BBC meanwhile, referred to the film as a handsomely staged, ambitious and certainly expensive account of modern life in Cairo. Dir Marwan Hamed 2006, Egypt, 161 mins.
Tue 8 Jan
6.00pm MEETING: Glimpses of Autonomy
Wed 9 Jan
7.30pm FILM: 12:08 East of Bucharest A few days before Christmas smug TV host Ion Sapdaru is calling around his small town, looking for guests to appear on his afternoon panel show. Two men eventually agree to help: drunken, deep-in-debt history teacher Teo Corban, and grumpy old Santa Claus impersonator Mircea Andreescu. All three men engage each other and their neighbors in casual, dryly funny conversations that wind around and tell viewers all they need to know about post-Communism Romania, where people struggle to fill their days and to decide who to blame for their shortcomings. The New York Times said The film is, at first glance, as rumpled and unassuming as its weary, fatalistic inhabitants. But though it is modest, almost anecdotal, in scale, it is also characterized by a precise and sneaky formal wit. Dir Corneliu Porumboiu 2006, Romania, 89 mins
Thu 10 Jan 6 - 7.30 Green Fest Committee meeting in Office Phil 07986 758 931
7.30-9.30 Projectile FF meeting in office - Pauline, gigs(at)starandshadow.org.uk
7.30pm FILM: The Yacoubian Building
Sat 12 Jan
11.00am Monthly volunteer induction session.
8.00pm
GIG: Kalidah Rachel Casey, Guy Schofield, Harriet Cole, James Milne. By chance they met in the cover of darkness: drawn together by bad computers, murderous tower blocks and seaside bourbon. With enough blackpool rock to fill their oversized pockets, and cardboard gin traps in their eyes, they returned with a narcotic mixture of new heartbreak sounds straight from the teeth of north shore. 'Nu-Kalidah' has arrived! They play 2 guitars, 1 pianos, 2 synths, 5 drums, 1 mandolins, one oboe and one violin.
Sun 13 Jan Green festival planning meeting 1-3 in office if doesnt clash with below Phil 07986 758 931 phil.capon@gmail.com
4pm *** Can we realy change the world through grassroots movements for change? *** Booklaunch and workshop with the Trapese Collective (mighty.alan(at)tesco.net)
7.30pm FILM: 12:08 East of Bucharest
Wed 16 Jan participatory video training course in January during the day. <duncan.fuller@unn.ac.uk>
Wed 16 Jan
7.30pm FILM: Cantina Latina! Goes to Colombia Maria Full of Grace Maria, a 17-year-old young woman, takes drastic measures to escape her mundane life in a rural Colombian town.
Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin, which she must swallow to transport to New York. On arrival, she gets entangled with immigration and caught up in the ruthless world of international drug trafficking and has to make decisions to protect herself and her future. Maria Full of Grace is not one true story, but based on 1,000 everyday true stories. Dir Joshua Marston 2004, USA/Columbia, 110 mins
¡Cantina Latina! is a monthly Spanish film, food, music and conversation night for students and native speakers. Cost £4 film, £2 conversation/music only (after 9pm) cantinalatina@gmail.com www.myspace.com/cantinalatina
Thu 17 Jan participatory video training course in January during the day. <duncan.fuller@unn.ac.uk>
Thu 17 Jan
7.00pm FESTIVAL: Saint Etienne Festival Saint Etienne started out as pop band but their creativity has expanded far beyond that. To celebrate the completion of their residency at Londons South Bank Centre they are coming up to show us their new film about that classic fifties modernist building on the Thames. We'll also be showcasing most of their other films all about London that help us to think about the city here and how it is changing. Accompanying all the aesthetic and cerebral stimuli are some cracking tunes. Oh and we've also got a first ever exhibition of the classic football programmes curated by Bob & Paul from the band.
FILM: The London Nobody Knows Bob from Saint Etienne says that "The London Nobody Knows, [is] a 1967 documentary stroll around the city with James Mason. No horseguards, no palaces, but Islington's Chapel Market, pie shops, and Spitalfields tenements. Carnaby chicks and chaps, the 1967 we have been led to remember, are shockingly juxtaposed with feral meths drinkers, filthy shoeless kids, squalid Victoriana... There is romance and adventure, but mostly there is malnourishment. London looks like a shithole." Dir Norman Cohen 1967, UK, 53 min.
The film (and original book) have been an inspiration to the band's films, mostly obviously in the chirpily creative documentary about the lower Lea Valley, a vast but largely forgotten swathe East London. The film-makers caught this "unplanned, ungentrifiable and untamed" patch of the city on the brink of a massive redevelopment programme to "transform" it from industrial wasteland to the site of the 2012 Olympic Games.
FILM: What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? is named after a 1970s West Ham goalkeeper, and is at once a dreamy reverie, a series of snapshots (narrated by David Essex and Linda Robson) and an oral history of a part of London that is due to disappear in order to house the 2012 Olympic Games. Dir Paul Kelly 2006, UK, 50 min
Thu 17 Jan
8:30pm Discussion: Who is the smarter cultural Ouseburn for? The area around the cinema used to be dominated by manufacturing and small industry. Massive financial investment is changing the character to be a concentration of expensive art, drinking, live music, nice flats and this cinema. What are we gaining from this transformation? What of value are we losing? Join us for a critical discussion.
7:30pm - Projectile Meeting in office - Pauline
Fri 18 Jan
1.00pm FILM: The London Nobody Knows + What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? (see listing for 17 Jan)
Fri 18 Jan
2:30pm DISCUSSION: Where is the beauty in degeneration? Often it is the sleek and colourful that gets celebrated as art. But knackered old buildings, the ordinary industrial streets the everyday are rarely celebrated for its vibrancy. Stimulated by the previous two films this discussion will draw out what so pleasing about To kick if off Paul, Bob and Pete, who made What ever happened to Mervyn Day, will give their perspective.
Fri 18 Jan
6.00pm EXHIBITION: The Golden Age of British Football Programmes Bob & Paul from Saint Etienne have pulled together a collection from the golden age of British football programmes in their book "Match Day". The colourful graphics and often quirky illustrations are beautiful to even those who don't like the beautiful game! This exhibition runs at the cinema until 31 January.
8.00pm FILM: This is Tomorrow The Southbank Centre is an iconic building loved by the band Saint Etienne. It was created with modernist hope at the centre of the 1951 Festival of Britain site. This film is the end product of the bands year-long residency during its refurbishment. It celebrates the people, ideals and design embodied in this popular building. Bob, Pete and Paul from the band will introduce the new film. Dir Kieran Evans & Paul Kelly 2007, UK, 75 min. Followed by Bob & Pete from the band DJ'ing with the bar open till late.
Sat 19 Jan
3pm to 7pm Tyneside Community Action for Refugees - booked by Sam, booking taken by Pauline gigs@starandshadow.org.uk.
Sat 19 Jan - EVENING IS FREE FROM 7PM
Sun 20 Jan
5:30pm FILM: This is Tomorrow
7.30 FILM: Straub and Huillet (see Dec 13)
Mon 21 Jan General meeting, 6pm
Tue 22 Jan
6.00pm MEETING: Glimpses of Autonomy
INFORMATION SESSION: CoHousing Info Session If you are frustrated that we live in a society where there is little sense of community, ridiculous house prices, a lack of control over our lives, and that negative impacts on our environment are being swept under the carpet, then CoHousing might be of interest. It is a combination of living in deliberate community of people wanting to live to together, with have the private space to be yourself. Tonight we will see some films of how people around the world have tried it. We'll chat about it could happen here.
Wed 23 Jan
7.30pm FILM: Nicko and Joe's Bad Film Club Flying killer Piranha's and dumb hot girls in bikinis could this be the best worst film ever? The Bad Film Club invite you to enjoy Piranha 2: Flying Killers, one in a long line of wonderfully abysmal films about small killer animals causing havoc amongst happily holidaying campers, Piranha 2 exceeds its predecessor, the imaginatively named Piranha, in its stupid plot, horrible special affects, bad score and even worse acting!
For the first time the shackles of polite cinema etiquette are discarded as the audience are encouraged to jeer, heckle and participate creating a unique interactive cinema experience. Armed only with their wit and their laser pointers Nicko and Joe from the Bad Film Club will take you on a journey through bad plot lines, terrible dialogue, awful acting and some of the worst special effects known to man through a live commentary just in case you missed the worst bits. Funded by Northern Film & Media in partnership with Star and Shadow Cinema.
Thu 24 Jan
7.30pm FILM: Eyes Wide Open Open Submission Night
7.30pm Projectile meeting in office - Pauline
Fri 25 Jan Green Festival AGM from 7.30pm Phil 07986 758 931 phil.capon@gmail.com
NOT ON (checked by Phil with Patrick )GIG & AV - singer/songwriters Ian Briedis, Graham Testo, and Ian Courtney and AV artists Patrick Snape and Diane Shaw. Booked by Patrick 07846476535, booking taken by Pauline gigs@starandshadow.org.uk
Sat 26 Jan
12 noon FORUM: A future for the Star + Shadow A forum for all stakeholders/volunteers involved in the cinema, focusing on the way the Star + Shadow works.... A facilitated day of discussion and visions of the Star + Shadow; with delicious shared food, beer and maybe even dancing! All are warmly welcome to come and join in the plotting! possible evening burns meal together so keep free
Sun 27 Jan
1pm to 3pm Green Festival Planning Group meeting Phil capon 07986 758 931
6pm THEATRE: Bill O's play. Starts after film, approx 8.30pm. Cinema in use from 11.00am - 18.00pm for Unity Theatre's dress rehearsal.
7.30 pm FILM: Hidden Sorrows(60 mins) by Michelle Kelso documentary chronicling the rarely told narratives of Gypsy survivors of Nazi persecution and the story of their deportation. The second part looks at their attempt in recent years to receive compensation from the German and Swiss governments. For more information, see: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/iisite/pdf/Fall-06-IIJournal-HiddenSorrows.pdf Booked by Sylvie: sylvieplanel@gmail.com
Mon 21 Jan programee meeting, 6pm
Mon 21 Jan Don's youth project meeting, 6:30pm
Tues 29 Jan" "How non-violence protects the state" talk by Peter Gelderoos. (booked by Alan)
Wed 30 Jan
7.30pm FILM: John Carpenter's Dark Star (83 mins) 1974 - programmed by Phipps late - Welcome to the deep-space cruiser Dark Star; charged with the objective of destroying unstable planets and filled with a top-notch crew of dedicated astronauts. Hmmm. Well the first part is true enough but the pilots have enough trouble with anarchy, let alone order - Star Trek was never like this! Fortunately their tour of duty is coming to an end - only one more thermostellar bomb to drop before they can go home. Will their mission be accomplished without hiccups? Some how I doubt it.
Thu 31 Jan
7.30pm FILM: Three documentary films by Adrin Neatrour The Cobbler's Last Tale (38 mins) The Last Kill (40mins) Catch-a-Fishie (50mins) Three documentary films which chronicle a world where traditional occupations have become dying trades, all told with music and humour. The Cobblers Tale documents the demise of one of the last traditional cobblers in the North east; The Last Kill documents the end of the career of Davey Kelly, an itinerant slaughterer in Galloway; and Catch-a-Fishie looks at the decimation of the North East's fishing industry from Shields to Eyemouth.
7.30pm Projectile meeting in office - Pauline
