Oct-Nov 08 Programme
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BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS
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This Page is a working document that contains regular events and provisional bookings at Star and Shadow for the next two months.
Entering information for a date is provisional. ALL EVENTS NEED TO BE CONFIRMED AT A PROGRAMMING MEETING.
Provisional bookings must include your name and contact details - phone or email - or they will not be accepted.
The emphasis is on you as a programmer to attend a meeting, otherwise your event will not be confirmed. This applies for all bookings - made prior to and post brochure deadline. If you cannot attend a meeting (see dates below) please email the Programme Team: programme@lists.starandshadow.org.uk link: [1]
Events that have been confirmed will be indicated by a C and date of meeting.
NB: For ALL gig bookings, email gigs@starandshadow.org.uk - link: [2] before booking info on this wiki.
Meetings for this programme will be:
6pm Monday: 14 July, 28 July, (11 August, 25 August brochure deadline tbc)
If you are new to the cinema, please come to an induction session - second Saturday of month at 11am.
STRUCTURE OF WEEK:
MON MEETINGS,
TUES CLOSED,(or meetings)
WEDS ANYTHING GOES,
THURS FILMS ONLY, (first Thurs of month Cinema of the World)
FRIDAY ANYTHING GOES, (first Friday of month A Bit Crack)
SAT ANYTHING GOES, (second Saturday 11am induction and maintenance day)
SUNDAY FILMS ONLY
October / November
Wed 1 Oct - Reel News (London video activist collective) 7:30 booked by Alan peterpiperatriseupdotnet
Thurs 2 Oct - Cinema of the World ["First Thursday" evening event next door at the ArtWorks. Keep the noise down here!] 7.30pm Since Otar Left (format TBC) France/Georgia, Juliette Bertucelli, 2003.103mins, English subtitles.
Cinema of the World celebrates Georgia this month, with a multi award winning film from Juliette Bertucelli, who worked on films by Otar Ioseliani and Krystov Kieslowki before this first feature. Set against the picturesque decay of Tbilisi, Georgia, we follow three generations of women, with their distinct relationships to their country, as they eagerly devour any communictaion from their brother/son Otar. Otar has moved to France, but Marina, his sister, learns of his death in an industrial accident. She decides to keep this from their mother...a beautifully crafted picture, not to be missed.
Fri 3 Oct - A Bit Crack Storytellers Open Night Voices and songs from whoever comes £6 / £4
'C'Sat 4 Oct - What goes on - Velvet Underground night. Late bar 2am close 3am (ian__evans@hotmail.com, 07813578052) [3]
Sun 5 Oct - Gay in The Gardens. 7:30 Johnny Oldhitz kikcs off his exhibtion of stunning photographs from the booming Newcastle gay scene with this candid documentary portrait of the notorious "Gardens" area of the city. (organised by phipps
Facilitation training during the day 10am - 4pm bethanunderscoredathotmaildotcom
Mon 6 Oct - meetings only
Tues 7 Oct - closed (or meetings only) - Changemakers session 3 meeting in bar 4.30-8.30 - private hire please don't disturb! Booked by Ilana, Jon is contact and has own key Jonathan@changemakers.org.uk 0191 226 7330
Wed 8 Oct - SAMA – South Asian Festival presents: Through an Exile Lens Films
The Unwinking Gaze (dir Joshua Dugdale I UK 2008 I 74 mins)
The result of 18 months unprecedented access to the Dalai Lama in his exile home in Dharamsala, Northern India, The Unwinking Gaze offers a unique portrait of the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader and his recent working life. With the events that swept across Tibet earlier this year, this films presents a timely insight into the Tibet issue, following the Dalai Lama as he has to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the political reality of the Tibetan situation, seeking to lead the Tibetan people towards a peaceful resolution with China.
Thurs 9 Oct - What next after climate camp?
For a week in August, at a camp near Kingsnorth power station, climate
activists worked together to live sustainably, learn new skills, and take
direct action against the causes of climate change.
What can we learn from this year's camp?
It's clear that the North East could quickly become a massive focus in the
current drive towards increased coal production.
How can we work together locally and effectively to tackle the huge issue of
climate change?
All are welcome to a public meeting and film night, where we'll discuss some of these questions, and watch films including footage of some of the action taken at the Climate Camp. Films include, Climate of Hope, Reclaim the Power and Cheat Neutral. glimpses@lists.riseup.net
Fri 10 Oct - STONE HATE Pandemonium ov Horror and Beauty
'...in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether consciously, to remain a servant of falsehood...' - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A varied musickal experience from old to new, featuring a shitalo discotek, performance art and general superficiality. With Party Bags. CHEAP. "martin kellett" <captaink@hotmail.com>
Sat 11 Oct - 11 am - volunteer induction
SAMA – South Asian Festival presents: Through an Exile Lens Films . The Other Final (dir Johan Kramer I Netherlands 2003 I 78 mins)
On 30th June, the day Germany and Brazil competed in the World Cup Final 2002, another extraordinary football game was being played - between the Bhutanese national side against the team of Montserrat, the two lowest ranked teams in the FIFA world rankings. Set amidst the spectacular scenery in Thimphu, capital of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, the match captured the imagination of football fans around the world while the film itself also explores this little known place in the mountains.
Sun 12 Oct - Eyes Wide Open - Open Submission Night
Mon 13 Oct - meetings only
Tues 14 Oct - closed (or meetings only) DAYTIME HIRE: PARTICIPATORY VIDEO COURSE (DUNCAN FULLER, UNN). 7:30pm Provisional
Tues 14 Oct closed or meetings
Wed 15 Oct - cantina latina DAYTIME HIRE: PARTICIPATORY VIDEO COURSE (DUNCAN FULLER, UNN)
Thurs 16 Oct - Peter Whitehead screening - Wholly Communion (1965) and The Fall (1969). Contemporary Films, Christo. DAYTIME HIRE: PARTICIPATORY VIDEO COURSE (DUNCAN FULLER, UNN)
“The brilliant work of Peter Lorrimer Whitehead, full of an incomparable energy, pulverises the false barriers between formal research, documentary reportage, psychedelic cinema, cinema engage, pop cinema and auteur cinema.“ Nicole Brenez: “The Exigency of Joy.”
Tonight we celebrate the 40th anniversary of 1968 (in spirit and action) through the work of underground British documentarist Peter Whitehead, with two films that share a vision while seeming to be wide apart in subject. Pink Floyd, London '66/ '67 documents Syd Barrett and the Floyd at their most imaginative, using experimental techniques which are considered to herald the music video (an accolade declined by Whitehead). The Fall, widely considered his masterpiece, blends engaged political cinema with the internal meanderings of the author, capturing in every way possible the spirit of the times, while focusing on the highly dramatic occupation of Columbia University by students protesting against the Vietnam War in 1968.
Pink Floyd, London '66/ '67 (UK) 1967, 30mins, colour, Beta SP The Fall (UK) 1969, 116mins, colour, Beta SP
Fri 17 Oct - FILM: 17th October - Death Note (Desu Noto) Shusuke Kaneko, Japan, 2006,126 mins, Japanese.
Kaneko's thrilling story begins when brilliant college student Light Yagami finds a mysterious Notebook that will allow him to rid the world of it's criminals. An intrinsic battle of wits commences when talented detective, and future nemisis, L reveals his identity in order to capture Light. Gripping Japanese yarn; boasting it's own set of rules.
Sat 18 Oct - 9pm till 4am
Road to Rimini
Fratelli Di Rimini present their third Road to Rimini of 2008. Dutch Jackmaster Orgue Electronique Live and DJ support from crème organisation head honcho TLR and the Fratelli. Prices tbc. For details: www.myspace.com/roadtorimini.
Sun 19 Oct - 3.00 film Lord of War Nicholas Cage plays the antiheroic protagonist, an illegal arms dealer with similarities to Russian arms dealers Viktor Bout and Leonid Minin. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the trafficking of weapons by the international arms industry. 2005. 122 mins.
Followed by a speaker from CAAT (Campaign Against Arms Trade). Part of Medact's film programme aiming to encourage discussion about war and the arms trade. Contact Tony at A.J.R.Waterston@newcastle.ac.uk
7.30 film Gumshoe, Bingo caller Eddie Ginley [Finney] starts up his own detective agency in the style of Philip Marlow and becomes involved in more than he bargained for when he takes on his first case, complete with femme fatale. A good detective story despite being played as a spoof. Also starring Frank Finlay and Billy Whitelaw, 1971, 88 mins, 35mm [KP jennifer@jpartington.orangehome.co.uk] Available 35mm - sony
Mon 20 Oct Images For Change meeting (4 - 5:30pm). alantatchurchhypenpovertydotorgdotuk. 6pm: meeting, including quarterly finance report as part of it
Tues 21 Oct - closed (or meetings only) climate camp meeting 7-9pm office phil 07986 758 931
Wed 22 Oct Images For Change meeting (2-4pm). alantatchurchhypenpovertydotorgdotuk. 7:30pm - Silent Running Directing debut by special effects master Trumbull Silent Running is a downbeat, post-nuclear war fantasy in which a scientist refuses to destroy the remaining elements of organic life aboard his orbiting space greenhouse. Silent Running (dir Douglas Trumball, 1972, USA, 89 mins) Cert U Phipps
Thurs 23 Oct - film - 7:30pm "The King and I" and "Ali in Wonderland".
4pm Family films (Lindsay)
Fri 24 Oct - Urban and Eastern presents DRINKING SONGS
Following our successful Murder Ballads evening in May, we're launching ourselves liver first into Oktoberfest with a special night of songs about alcohol and drunkenness. An all star cast of North Eastern musicians, including Bridie Jackson, Dirty Diamonds, Emily Portman, Rebecca Jones and the Cornshed Sisters will watch their lives float away through the bottom of a glass. Tickets £5. (Craig 07890 038336)
Sat 25 Oct - Lee - wedding party. Needs lots of discussion. Pauline, Ilana and Haz to continue this conversation. pencilled in. lee.wells@blueyonder.co.uk. In fact, Haz has continued this discussion and the reception is going ahead. Haz is OK to keyhold but is aware that it might be hard to get volunteers for the night so any stalwart help welcomed!
Sun 26 Oct - film provisional- two films without dialogue from the 1960s, The Plank and A Home of Your Own will be of special interest to those interested in construction work wild west style. KP to organise
3pm Family films (Lindsay)
Mon 27 Oct - meetings only
Tues 28 Oct - closed (or meetings only)
Wed 29 Oct - Film: Ulrike Kubatta 'She Should Have Gone to the Moon'[programmer:elecarpenter@gmail.com]
SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON A film by Ulrike Kubatta.
Doors open 7pm. Screening 7.30pm. Artist filmmaker Ulrike will give a talk about her work at Newcastle University Fine Art Dept at 12noon, and introduce her film at the Star and Shadow in the evening.
The astonishing story of the pilot and pioneer, Jerri Truhill, who trained in NASA's top secret Mercury 13 programme in 1961, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts. The documentary is a lyrical journey propelled by shattered dreams and a lifelong battle against female stereotypes and male prejudice.
Thurs 30 Oct - “Bidesh” by Lalon Amin: This is a documentary by a local film-maker exploring the reactions of young Asian people to their experiences of racism. To accompany “Bidesh” we will screen 3 short films made as part of the University of Northumbria's “Community Video Project”. Film-makers and some of the participants will be available for questions and discussion after the screening.
Fri 31 Oct - michael clunkie vinyl junkie's pop shop presents Lulu's Pension Party: Camera, Lights, Actionettes! Help see Lulu swing into her sixties with a film screening of her finest celluloid moment ‘To Sir, With Love' (1967) together with an after show disco of vital vinyl moments from both her and her fellow 1960s brit girls spiced up by a rare appearance north of Watford from London dance group The Actionettes and lessons in indiepop from Cardiff live band The School. The weekend starts here… £6 (Michael Clunkie 07812 372970)
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November
Sat 1 Nov - GIG: Urban & Eastern present: Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby
Wreckless Eric was one of the original new wave mavericks, releasing the legendary Whole Wide World on Stiff back in 1977. Since then he has made countless albums in different guises, moving between bubblegum pop, grunge, psychedelic and techno but always remaining true to the DIY spirit of his early Stiff days. Amy Rigby started a country band in eighties New York City and has been called ‘one of rock's most distinctive and consistently excellent songwriters‘ (Washington Post). Tonight they are supported by Les Cox (Sportifs) and Mush. £10 (Craig 07890 038336)
Sun 2 Nov
6pm - Ready Steady Skip
"Scrapheap Challenge" meets "Ready Steady Cook" - skipping for food & whipping up some tasty dishes, with plenty of hilarity (& people diving into skips). Every year over 17 million tons of food are put straight into landfill sites, yet over 4 million tons of this is perfectly edible & still well within it's sell-by date! Skipping is all about reclaiming perfectly edible food "waste" from the jaws of an insane system founded on greed, & making good use of it. Come along & be inspired! £4/3 donation, all proceeds to local campaigns. Ready Steady Skip (2008, 23 mins, Nottingham)
Mon 3 Nov - meetings only
Tues 4 Nov - closed (or meetings only)
Star & Shadow Post 2010 planning 6pm
Climate camp meeting - bar/cinema 7-10pm. (Bethan 07515 950 256)
Wed 5 Nov - Free (a touch early for Wor Diary launch).
Thurs 6 Nov - Cinema of the World ["First Thursday" evening event next door at the ArtWorks. Keep the noise down here!] Heavy Metal In Baghdad. Life is as hard as their music for the only metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. They are normal guys who just want to play metal, but dictatorship, war, occupation, insurrections, bombings and exile make it a struggle just to practice let alone play. What ever you're music tastes one has to respect their determination. dir Suroosh Alvi & Eddy Moretti, Iraq, 84 mins, DVD) Cert 15
Fri 7 Nov - A Bit Crack
Sat 8 Nov - 11 am - volunteer induction
C hannah & laura booking for meetings sat and sun daytime, 9 - 5 ish. discussed at programming meeting in june. doesn't need to go in the programme, just on here so people know that the space will be being used (probably office sat due to cabaret set up, bar sun). 07951539677
Sat 8 Nov - 8pm - Protect and Survive An evening of live entertainment for a post-nuclear world, hosted by Apocalypse Cow. Will include performance, skittles and plastic ration book cookery. Remember how it was. Worry that it might be again. From 8pm onwards. (£5/4)
Sun 9 Nov - daytime - see above (hannah 07951 539677)
- film: Rememberance Sunday. Film suggestions: Oh What a Lovely War, or All Quiet on the Western Front to mark the day. Both films demonstrate the futility of warfare and would be appropriate to mark the day KP
Mon 10 Nov - meetings only
Tues 11 Nov - Confirmed: Wor Diary Pub Quiz. 7pm, quiz starts 8prompt. Price in gets you a free diary. Nibbles. No volunteers needed. Exceptional Tuesday use okayed at meeting. Mike D wordiary@gmail.com
Wed 12 Nov - CANCELLED: FILM: WW1 90th Anniversary (partnership with Lit and Phil) Craig/Keith
Thurs 13 Nov Jazz North East present at 8:00pm a night of stunning jazz from the international trio of Chicago reedsman Ken Vandermark, innovative bassist Barry Guy (on a rare visit from his home in Switzerland), and the UK's leading improvising percussionist Mark Sanders. There's also a support set from trumpeter Alex Bonney and bassist Dave Kane, two of the leading figures in the new generation of UK improvisers. Don't miss. ( adrin 07984 929330 or paulbream773@btinternet.com) Tickets: £8 full; £6 conc; £3 student. CONFIRMED
Fri 14 Nov & Sat 15 Nov - FIELD MUSIC PRESENT: Field Music are Sunderland brothers David and Peter Brewis, with their friend Andrew Moore. Uncut called them 'the garage Beach Boys' and Mojo made Peter's The Week that Was debut their album of the month. In short, Field Music are the most vital pop artists in Britain in 2008. The Star and Shadow is proud to have Field Music curate a meltdown weekender of their favourite live music and film, including DJ sets and other surprises. (Craig 07890 038336)
Sun 16 Nov Start of the Star and Shadow's Fred Wiseman season which comprises of 4 films from this remarkable film maker plus an open seminar on the state of the doc. The whole season has been generously supported by Norther Film + Media. First film in the Fred Wiseman Season: Hospital (1969 - 84 mins USA DVD) Wiseman's second movie covers the daily action in outpatients and emergency in a large New York hospital; rated by New York magazine as one of the most memorable films made in the city. (adrinuk@yahoo.co.uk) CONFIRMED
Mon 17 Nov - meetings only (Ilana's 'Activator Network' will be in the building today for a meeting)
Tues 18 Nov - closed (or meetings only)
Wed 19 Nov - FILM: La Bete (The Beast) Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1975, 103 mins, French, Italian, English.
Intially banned from British screens for 25 years. La Bete tells the story of a poor family, pleased when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to marry their son. A striking and usual take on both beauty and the beast, and liberation of inner desires. La Bete displays imagination and an erotic insight into Borowczyk's style.
Thurs 20 Nov - Changing Perspectives 2, By Peter Adegbie. Part of a multimedia archive project addressing the reactions to the bicentenary of the 1807 Slave Trade Act of 25 African families living in North East England. Changing Perspectives 2 is produced by the North East England African Community Association under the direction of film-maker Peter Adegbie. The film presentation will include highlights of workshops that were part of the project as well as extracts from the testimonies of three generations of Africans living in our region.
4pm Family films (Lindsay)
Fri 21 Nov - GIG: BARBARA MORGENSTERN
German electronic performer/producer Barbara Morgenstern has recorded with To Rococo Rot, Robert Wyatt, Chicks on Speed, the Pastels, and Thomas Fehlmann. Her CV stretches back to the Neue Deutsche Welle and her work has been compared to DAF, Hot Chip, Depeche Mode and Broadcast. Ever accessible but constantly surprising, Barbara will be supported by Les Cox Sportifs, Andy Hodgson and Road to Rimini DJs. £9 (Jona 07940 731 375)
Sat 22 Nov -
Transition Town workshops, not in brochure but booked through holly 12-5pm holly to keyhold
GIG: Urban and Eastern present New Weird Folk
Inspired by the Carter Family, Moondog, Harry Partch and the Elliotts of Birtley, New Weird Folk is our bi-monthly evening of challenging roots and folk musics. November's NWF will feature Emily Portman and Friends, plus Bridie Jackson and The Horse Loom AND a rare showing of 'Lomax the Songhunter', a cinematic documentary on the life of Alan Lomax, meeting the people he recorded on his reel-to-reel on desolate Scottish islands, through the withered interior of Spain and in isolated Italian mountain villages. All this for a fiver - you can't go wrong. £5 (Craig 07890 038336)
Sun 23 Nov - FRED WISEMAN: RACETRACK (USA 1985 114mins DVD) Beginning with the birth of a thoroughbred foal and running through to the conclusion of the Belmost stakes in 1981, Racetrack is not so much horse feathers as real horse flesh from the horses mouth. (ADRIN) CONFIRMED
3pm Family films (Lindsay)
Mon 24 Nov - meetings only
Tues 25 Nov - closed (or meetings only)
Wed 26 Nov - FILM: Provisional: Lucia Puenzo's 'XXY' (Tess Denman-Cleaver, tess_78953_6@hotmail.com).
Thurs 27 Nov - “Capture” –Community documentaries in association with the Community Channel – tbc
Fri 28 Nov - LifeWorkArt
Music, Conversation, Dancing and Good Company. A social event open to everyone that follows the LifeWorkArt student conference (The conference, running throughout the day, is open to final year fine art students – contact david.butler@ncl.ac.uk for more info on conference) - David Butler david.butler (at) ncl.ac.uk contacted Ilana who put it here. all day and eve, as last year.
Sat 29 Nov - provisional booking comedy night - contact john smith, montysmythe at yahoodotcodotuk, 07525 163 717; booked by Stephanie 077 59 70 31 32, stephoswald2002@yahoo.fr
Sun 30 Nov Star and Shadow market 11.00 - 16.00: craft and flea market in conjunction with Ouseburn open studios. - Fred Wiseman: MISSILE (1987 115 mins USA DVD) It doesn't frighten the audience with apocalyptic scenes of nuclear holocaust. Missile simply documents the step by step training of the sincere young men and women whose fingers are on the button. (adrinuk@yahoo.co.uk) CONFIRMED 1-3pm in office Green Festival Planning Meeting, Phil 07986 758 931
