April 2010
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- Thursday 1st April
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6:00 p.m. - New Volunteer Induction
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Shirin (2008)
A homage to the women of Iran. With Shirin, the highly regarded Abbas Kiarostami continues to explore the potential of cinema , reimagining an iconic story, based on a 12th century Persian poem, through showing us an audience of women deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see ; an activity women have traditionally been excluded from in Iran. More Info
- Sunday 4th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: New York, New York (1977)
Scorsese's homage to the 1940's MGM musical and to the titular city. Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro pair-up as lovers who struggle through the post WW11 entertainment industry, singing Kander and Ebb classics as they go. Not nearly as much froth as you might expect from a musical. Ticket includes apple pie! More Info
- Tuesday 6th April
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11:00 a.m. - Tyneside Claimants Union Meeting
We are a group of people who meet together to act collectively to solve problems with the benefits system. Anyone is welcome to join us, particularly people claiming benefits of any sort (e.g. JSA, ESA, DLA, Incapacity Benefit, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Carers Allowance, Tax Credits, Pension Credits, etc.), and unemployed workers, unwaged people, etc. More Info
- Wednesday 7th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Thundercrack (1975)
Directed by Curt Mcdowell and written by zany, noted underground film-maker George Kuchar, "Thundercrack!" (midnight) is erotica at its most hilarious —and long-winded (two and one-half hours). An outrageous parody of "The Old Dark House" plot —i.e., a group of people forced to take refuge in a remote, creepy estate during a storm—"Thundercrack!" features about half a dozen young people who are as uninhibited as they are attractive. Sex is great fun in this film—which is absolutely, definitely not for prudes. More Info
- Friday 9th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: CGI Fridays!
Come for the second in a series of Friday night screenings celebrating the wonder and horrors of computer-generated imagery! A handful of short films by local selected contemporary visual artists will be followed by a feature film they have chosen. Curated by Sarah Cook. More Info
- Saturday 10th April
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11:00 a.m. - New Volunteer Induction
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12:00 p.m. - Crafty DIY session
2nd in a series of lo-tech, non-expert skillshares and creative sessions, run by whoever turns up on the 2nd Saturday of the month (which is also volunteer induction day). More Info
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8:00 p.m. - The Masked Ball
- Sunday 11th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976)
An L.A. street gang declares war on a police station about to be shut down that has given refuge to a man who has witnessed a gang slaying. Gang members hold siege outside where the precinct has been totally shut off from the outside world. More Info
- Wednesday 14th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Our Oil, and other tales
Censored documentary about the environmental and social impact of Venezuela's oil industry, by the Gattacicova Collective More Info
- Thursday 15th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: La Ardilla Roja; Red Squirrel (1993)
The Red Squirrel is a complex comedy which crosses several genres. Whilst about to commit suicide a desperate musician is offered another chance when he is forced to help a woman who crashes nearby. She loses her memory so he imagines a new life for both of them. More Info
- Friday 16th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Laberinto de Pasoines; Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
You shouldn't miss this rare chance to glimpse early Almodovar, from an era when he was a filmmaker like John Waters. Putting together outrageous films by the skin of his teeth with an infectious sense of fun and freedom. It's high camp comic melodrama. We'll follow it with a suitably silly disco in the bar to celebrate our 4th birthday! More Info
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9:00 p.m. - STAR AND SHADOW'S 4th BIRTHDAY PARTY
You are cordially invited to celebrate our 4th birthday. Following the great Labyrinth of Passion, there will be a Night on the Pop for you to dance the night away and wish the building, volunteers and everyone who's walked through the doors a very happy birthday. Hip Hip Hooray! More Info
- Saturday 17th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Street Trash (1987)
This shocker will most likely appeal to fans of pitch-black beyond-bad-taste comedy. Others may find it highly offensive and gory as it chronicles the fate of homeless Brooklyn winos when they get into some tainted wine and begin melting into slimy puddles of human goo. The wine, called "Tenafly Viper," is being sold by the owner of a liquor store who found it lying around in his basement and sells it to the bums for a buck. It is later revealed that the wine was deliberately spiked by the government. More Info
- Sunday 18th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: They Live (1988)
Featuring the longest and possibly the best fight scene of all time!!! A down on his luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is as people are being subdued and controlled by aliens through the media and the government. More Info
- Tuesday 20th April
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11:00 a.m. - Tyneside Claimants Union Meeting
We are a group of people who meet together to act collectively to solve problems with the benefits system. Anyone is welcome to join us, particularly people claiming benefits of any sort (e.g. JSA, ESA, DLA, Incapacity Benefit, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Carers Allowance, Tax Credits, Pension Credits, etc.), and unemployed workers, unwaged people, etc. More Info
- Wednesday 21st April
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7:30 p.m. - XXY (35mm)
Another chance to see the Cannes Critics' Week grand prize winning Argentinian drama about a teenager dealing with being a hermaphrodite. More Info
- Thursday 22nd April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Huevos de Oro; Golden Balls (1993)
A satire on macho culture and 80s excess, it's a rise and fall sex comedy which seems to represent perfectly a certain vintage of Spanish Film. Javier Bedem is excellent as the cocky architect who wants to build the tallest building in Benidorm. More Info
- Friday 23rd April
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7:30 p.m. - The Life of Tupsa Grüber [followed by] The Swung Eight club night
An evening from the past: A play - The Life of Tupsa Grüber - set amongst the political undercurrents of 1930s Germany is followed by a celebration of liberation in the form of a vintage-themed club night called The Swung Eight. A means to indulge your love of 30s/40s/50s clothing, music, and swing dancing! More Info
- Saturday 24th April
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7:30 p.m. - Fundraiser for the Indigenous communities affected by the massacre in Bagua, Peruvian Amazon
This fundraising solidarity event will include a documentary and live music to support indigenous communities who are resisting neoliberal policies and socio-environmental exploitation caused by oil and mining companies. This fundraiser will support the communities of those who were slaughtered while protecting their human and environmental rights. More Info
- Sunday 25th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Escape from New York (1981)
In this futuristic fight for survival adventure a condemned criminal Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russel) is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President of the United States( Donald Pleasance) from the walled prison island of Manhattan after a terrorist brings down the President's plane. Very influential science fiction. More Info
- Wednesday 28th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: The Thing (1982)
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. As they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated their paranoia threatens to tear them apart. Classic 80’s horror which ends our John Carpenter season. More Info
- Thursday 29th April
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7:30 p.m. - Film: Toreomolinos 73 (2003)
A serious and apparently straight laced encyclopedia salesman's career takes a new turn making soft core porn, with his wife. He approaches this new task it with the same comic studiousness and all kinds of new horizons open up for the couple. It's an allegory about the end of Franco's regime and a brilliantly daft period comedy. More Info
- Friday 30th April
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8:00 p.m. - Gig: Talk Normal (Brooklyn)
Experimental post-pop/punk duo from Brooklyn making trashed-out ballads in a similar vein to DIY post-feminists like U.S. Girls ie. drenched in noise and cultural trash. Rousing ghosts stirred by Sonic Youth's discordance or Harry Pussy's feedback, Talk Normal uncover all sorts of outmoded and lost American artefacts and humanist feelings through their high tension experimentation on releases on labels like Not Not Fun and Rare Book Room. More Info