July-Aug 07 Programme
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July copy Deadline: 1st June
sometime in July - volunteers induction
Please put your name, a contact (or person who would know how to contact you if you dont want this publicly) and date after any entries.
Dub John wants to programme some dub films and have a reggae night - can we do this in the Beach Party section? Christo
Catriona (cemaddocks@aol.com) would like her show 'udder chairs and septopusses' to open at the beginning of july if there is a free day some where. also im tryin to find 'Little Otik' to show on the opening night. cheers cx
JULY- stop motion animation fest!! jo x NOT HAPPENING
JULY - Summer Tyne Festival
Sun 1 - 5:30pm free - what about a film chosen by Bill? NOT HAPPENING
Sun 1 - 7:30pm MOVE film (alan)
Tue 3 - 6pm Glimpses of autonomy
Tue 3 - 7pm Climate Camp Action (film - text below)
Wed 4 - gig Ted Leo, organised by Colin 07843 054811 -
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (USA) Lake Me (Newcastle) Young Soul Rebels (Brighton)
Doors at 8pm, Tickets are £5, available from Alt Vinyl, Beatdown Records and RPM.
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists will be playing at The Star & Shadow Cinema in Newcastle (on Stepney Bank). - a much smaller venue than those on the rest of their UK tour. The band cancelled a date at The Cluny on their last tour 2 years ago at the very last minute as their driver was taken serious ill. This night at The Star & Shadow has been arranged at the special request of the band to make up for the earlier cancellation.
The band formed in Washington D.C in 1999. Ted Leo was formerly in mod/pop/dc punk band Chisel. The Pharmacists have previously included members of The Evens, Trans Am and Tsunami, and for this tour welcome back second guitar player James Canty (formerly of The Make Up and Nation of Ulysses, currently of Dischord Records faves French Toast).
The new album "living with the living" has just been released on Touch and Go Records. Their music is essentially punk/indie, but incorporates elements of mod, folk, dub and experimental music.
Thu 5th - Julies birthday (TBC but check before boking anything)ACTUALLY PRIVATE HIRE - OPUS UNDERGROUND 'Cinema of the World night is back on the 6th September..)
Fri 6 - A Bit Crack
Sat 7 - Road To Rimini club/gig night [1]
sometime this week, exact date tbc - POLYTECHNIC: DATARAMA (Dominic Smith / Sarah Cook) with guest Japanese artist from /sLab
Sun 8 - Film - 10 Canoes
Wednesday 11 - Film - 10 Canoes
Thurs 12 - Guca (2005) (no certifcate) for International Brass Festival. Contact: JamesLowther@durham.gov.uk
Directed by Milivoj Ilic
Length: 94mins minLanguage: Serbo-Croatian / RomainianFormat: DVD Guca (pronounced Gucha) is the name of a small village in Serbia which for over 40 years has been home to the national trumpet festival. Once a small local affair, it now pulls crowds of over 200,000. Milivoj Ilic's account of the place, the people and the competitors in 2005 is as exuberant, joyous and noisy as the festival itself.
Fri 13th - Cath Campbell private hire 2pm (Cath - 07722 848241) 50 giuests, food and projections
Catriona Maddocks Opening + Jan Svankmajer Short films: DEATH AND STALINISM IN BOHEMIA, OSSUARY, THE LAST TRICK, FOOD, THE COMB.
Sat 14 - SUGGESTED DATE FOR PUBLICISED VOLUNTEER INDUCTION AND TRAINING DAY....? (HOLLY TO CONFIRM)
Cube-Cola Lab Saturday 14 July. 12 noon - 4pm
The Cube Microplex (Bristol) is possibly the only volunteer-run cinema in the UK to manufacture its own cola inhouse. The Cube's Kayle Brandon and Kate Rich present a realtime, DIY workshop/lab on how to make Cube-Cola from raw materials, using an open source recipe and techniques siphoned from the worlds of laboratory science and cake-making.
Further information on Cube-Cola: http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola
No food technology expertise required. Test tubes, hammer drill and kitchen whisks will be provided.
To book a place for the lab please email: sneha@ptechnic.org.
Cube-Cola Soiree Saturday 14 July. 6pm
The fruits of the day's labour will be sampled in an apres lab openhouse, Star and Shadow bar, where we will blind-taste Cube-Cola with a number of major market competitors.
All welcome, bring your own cocktail umbrellas.
14th july - Potentially film: Scratch plus band to follow 27 Club. Hip-hop night organised by barney. tbc which date he'd like. IM 27/3/07 - NOT HAPPENING
Sunday 15th - 10 Canoes
Mon 16 - 8pm/£4 (gig in bar) - Bristol singer-songwriter Jane Taylor, with support from Dot to Dots and John Egdell. Contact: John, 07711359541 / johnegdell@gmail.com
DETAILS/SPEIL:
That Jane Taylor raised the funds for the manufacture of her debut album, Montpelier, by pre-selling copies three months in advance of release says a lot about the dedication of those who've chanced upon her beautifully crafted melodies and wry introspective lyricism, and even more about her inherent charm. The album, named for the Bristol suburb in which Jane wrote most of it’s songs, has found fans in all corners - having garnered airplay, including a live session, on Radio 2, on the strength of public response to Johnnie Walker playing a track on his Drive Time show, Jane has went on to sign a distribution deal with Pinnacle, secure support slots with the likes of Colin Vearnecombe, and Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile, and to perform at both the Glastonbury and Edinburgh festivals. The hazy autumnal melancholy and gentle jangle of her music draws favourable comparison to fellow Bristolians The Sundays, and to the acoustic folk of artists such as Kate Rusby or Kathryn Williams. This summer sees Jane continue to tour extensively, including a welcome return to the North East.
Jane Taylor plays at the Star & Shadow, Stepney Bank, Newcastle, on Monday 16 July. Support comes from John Egdell, and Dot to Dots, featuring ex-A Woman of No Importance member Marc Oliver.
Tue 17 - Glimpses of autonomy
Weds 18th -daytime. activist geography people in. confirmed at meeting. kye.askins@unn.ac.uk
Wed 18 - 7pm ¡Cantina Latina! Goes to Brasil with Radio Favela 7pm, Weds 18 July – Cantina Latina - na Brasil Radio Favela – Uma Onda No Ar 2003, Dir Helvécio Ratton, 92 mins,
¡Cantina Latina! diversifies to Portuguese as we go to Brasil, with this story in the same vein as Brazilian cinema classics City Of God and Favela Rising.
Based on a true experiences Radio Favela follows the lives of a group of friends who dream of running a pirate radio station by and for the residents of the favela in which they live. The four young boys set up a community radio station that shouts at the world the voice of the voiceless, and express their reality and music.
In a short time, the radio gained a huge following with upfront denunciation and spontaneous language. Radio Favela went far beyond the reach of its air waves, and into conflict with the authorities.
¡Cantina Latina! is a monthly night of film and conversation, usually in Spanish, this month we head to Brasil and hope to encourage students and natives speakers of Portuguese to converse in the cinema bar after the film. Cost £4 film, £2 conversation only (after 9pm) cantinalatina@gmail.com www.myspace.com/cantinalatina
Thurs 19th - daytime. activist geography people. confirmed. kye.askins@unn.ac.uk
20-31st Star and Shadow beach party film festival. 'outside bookings' are discouraged unless they fit the bill. beach films, hot films, beach nature docs, teen movies, surf films.
Fri 20th - Countryman "First in our series of reggae films comes Countryman, out of the lush green mountains of Jamaica charged with spirit and rocking to a first class soundtrack. The story is essentially one of "natural law vs politricks" "nature vs babylon" or as one friend put it "weed vs greed". A plane crash sparks a chain of political events, this leads to a young couple seeking refuge with a rasta countryman in the fold of nature where supernatural powers are called upon to protect, great stuff. It also features one of my all time favorite tracks "Dreadlocks in moonlight" by Lee Perry. Directed by Dickie Jobson Produced by Chris Blackwell Original music by Wally Badarou With a soundtrack featuring Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee Perry, Dennis Brown, Aswad, Steel Pulse and Toots and the Maytals. Riddims follow with Dub Jon and cohorts helping you with some heavy bass. - license til 3am. Sat 21 - Ouseburn Festival
Sauturday 21st June
Daytime Star and Shadow are teaming up with the Tanners Arm for an Ouseburn fest carnival in the street. with live music and DJs until ?? Inside the cinema Catriona Maddocks will lead a mask making workshop for children (accompanied by adults only please) from 11am
Beach Party films, 1963, Three films from the fabulously kitsch Beach Party film series. Seven of these teen sex comedies were made between 1963 and 1966 in which Annette Funicello and (usually) Frankie Avalon spend their summers hanging around, surfing, looking great in swimwear, falling in and out of love, singing kitsch nonsense, and avoiding the bad guys. We’ll kick off with Beach Party (1963) in a screening on our very own beach, and then take it inside for more movies from the series, DJs and cocktails with parasols in.
Sun 22 - Ouseburn Festival
Puberty Blues - Copy required!!
tues 24 - rachael unthank album launch (private hire) (no copy neccessary??) Not Confirmed but first refusal - Adrian McNally 01434633311
wed 25 - **The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the collapse of the American Dream ** Dir. Greg Greene, 2004, 78mins, dvd) This award-winning documentary-film explores, with brutal honesty and touces of irony, the prospect of the american suburban dream being threatened by the world reaching oil peak as we enter the 21st century. Are today's suburbs the slums of tommorrow? What can be done NOW, individually or collectively? Come along, be inspired and stay for snacks and a hearty discussion led by Wilf Richards in the bar afterwards... (organising - holly 07747 015 892 )
PLUS potentially rachael unthank album launch (private hire) finished by 7.30pm
Thursday 26th - Big wednesday - 7:30
Directed by John Milius - Length: 120 mins minLanguage: EnglishFormat: 16mm
Big Wednesday is an awesome film, chronicling 12 years in the lives of three surf buddies as they get into scrapes, party hard and try to avoid Vietnam and cheesy dialogue. The surfing and the photography in those sequences takes your breath away. The size of some of the waves in the movie has to be seen to be believed. It is just an excellent summer movie.
Friday 27th Surfer Night- (hopefully we can get other surf docs?? hint in copy)
film: Riding Giants Directed by Stacy Peralta - Length: 105mins minLanguage: Eng
Their boards are bigger, their waves are bigger, their teeth are bigger, their hair is bigger, their butts are bigger... ...hell everythings bigger except unusually the ego's in this stylish, classy sometimes poetic sometimes poinigant documntary from Stacy Peralta the director of those skateboarding classics Dogtown and Z-Boys. Here Peralta swaps the skate for the surf in this daring ten to fifteen metre high big wave, coil riding extraveganza.
"Riding Giants is a film that presents surfing with a context, and a film that I hope answers one of the main questions which has always plagued surfing: why people devote their entire lives to the pursuit of riding waves."
Stacy Peralta
Sat 28th
Film: "Piranha" followed by Piranha-rama Disco Terror in the Bar
1978 Joe Dante, USA, 91mins, cert 15
Truly a beach horror to chatter your teeth to. Those dopes at the US military forgot about their secret weapon experiment, you guessed it, mutant piranhas. As if piranhas weren’t terrifying enough in the first place… Anyway, after an unfortunate swimming experience where it turns out they’re not as accommodating as dolphins, the discovered teeth with fish attached set out on a meat feast, will the children’s summer camp be saved?! Some how I don’t think so..
Plus after the film… disco terror at Piranha-rama till 1am
Sunday 29th - Big wednesday 7:30 Directed by John Milius - Length: 120 mins minLanguage: EnglishFormat: 16mm Big Wednesday is an awesome film, chronicling 12 years in the lives of three surf buddies as they get into scrapes, party hard and try to avoid Vietnam and cheesy dialogue. The surfing and the photography in those sequences takes your breath away. The size of some of the waves in the movie has to be seen to be believed. It is just an excellent summer movie.
Wed 2 August - Nicko & Joe's Bad Film Club (see www.badfilmclub.com). Catching them on their way up to the Edinburgh Festival. alan
Sat 4 August - 50th birthday party...
AUGUST - Sean Conway Filming int he cinema - Samm Haillay is main contact.0786655941
AUGUST - CHRISTO OFF FOR A MONTH! AS WELL AS DEBBIE, MAT, BECCA, ILANA...
AUGUST - CINEMA WILL BE DARK - THERE WILL BE NO PROGRAMME FOR AUGUST. JUST A ONE MONTH ONE FOR JULY.
Tues 3 July
Climate Action Camp (long text, for website)
voices from the camp for climate action-2006, in a world driven by profit, humanity seems unwilling to change the course of the fossil fuel economy. However in the summer 2006, the hottest year ever recorded in recent history, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a camp for climate action outside of Drax coal-fired power station in yorkshire. A space of collective learning, sustainable living and taking direct action on the root causes of climate change. after the film we can discuss the action planned for summer 2007. We have less than 10 years to radically reduce our carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change. The time to act is now. This summer be part of it. Get involved and come to the camp anytime from 14 to 21 August.
