Our special events programme January - March2010
Artist Exhibition
On display until Thursday 25 February, free entry
Meet artist Michelle Hobby as she launches an exhibition of her latest work in our Tyneside Bar. After gaining exclusive access to the abandoned Pilgrim Street Fire Station, Michelle worked with the interior spaces to create facsimiles of the interçades, and a first person experience of these spaces through video. Shifting and connecting places and spaces, using architecture as a prop to challenge the conventions of photography, Michelle’s work opens an exciting new exhibition space in the city centre. www.michellehobby.com
Enjoy a glass of Sauvignon Blanc or Merlot, or a bottle of Fentimans Botanically Brewed Beverages for only £2.00 in our Tyneside Bar tonight (limit one per customer).
Broadcast live via satellite
Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi
Armida - Gioachino Rossini
Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday 6 February 2010, 6.00pm
Click here for full details about Simon Boccanegra
Hamlet - Ambroise Thomas
Saturday 27 March 2010, 5.00pm
Click here for full details about Hamlet
Armida - Gioachino Rossini
Saturday 1 May 2010, 6.00pm
Click here for full details about Armida
Season tickets: January–May 2010
Classic stalls: £51. Classic circle: £66. Carmen is not included. Includes Simon Boccanegra, Hamlet and Armida.
Tickets for individual performances
Classic stalls: £20/£18. Classic Circle: £25/£23. Friends of Tyneside Cinema: £1 off ticket price.
Wednesday and Thursday from Wednesday 3 February
to Thursday 18 March (not Wednesday 17 & Thursday 25 Feb), 9.00pm (doors 8.00pm), Free entry
The Tyneside Bar gets a whole new role as our brand new informal screen as we present Film Nights. We have two programmes to enjoy.
On Wednesdays, come along and sample the most terrifying films to come out of Asia as we turn things terrifying with East Asian Horror, and Thursday nights bring the answer to the winter blues with Vitamin C – a shot in the arm of vibrant and eclectic films focusing on tropical aesthetics and an off-kilter approach to ‘feel good’ moods.
Guest speakers may also be on hand at selected screenings to introduce the films, and entry is FREE.
Full Film Night programme details are online at our Learning Revolution mini-site or via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/tynesidecinema.
Live music in the Tyneside Bar
Monday 8 February, 8.00pm
Oscars Special: Monday 22 February, 8.00pm
Your favourite film quiz returns with more cinema conundrums for you to wrack your brains over. There will also be a special Oscar themed quiz on 22 February so make sure you’re clued up on everything from Best Picture in 1967 to the Best Sound Mixing in 2004. All will be led by your quizmaster Mike Tait.
Entrance per team is just £5.00 (maximum 5 per team). Sign in from 7.00pm, quiz starts at 8.00pm.
Meet the critic
Mark Kermode: It’s Only a Movie: Scenes from a life lived through a lens
Wednesday 10 February, 8.15pm
What happens when you spend most of your childhood in a cinema? Does it mean movies become more real than ‘real life’? Film critic Mark Kermode comes to the Tyneside to talk about the real life scenes that he remembers with cinematic clarity: getting shot while interviewing Werner Herzog in Hollywood, being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the BAFTAs, and being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French. Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Kermode gives a hilarious account of a life obsessed with film that will appeal to anyone who's ever wondered: ‘Who would play me in the film of my life?’
Tickets: £10.00/£8.00 concessions/Friends.
Dir. Roman Polanski. USA 2002. 2hrs 29mins.
Thursday 11 February, 7.45pm
Ronald Harwood is a playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter. He won an Oscar in 2003 for his work on The Pianist, Roman Polanski’s incredible telling of the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody) who, in the 1930s, was an accomplished piano player, who went into hiding as a Jewish refugee in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Join Ronald at the Tyneside for this unmissable chance to hear about his incredible career.
Tickets: £10.00/£8.00 concessions.
In association with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts at Newcastle University.
Friday 12 February, 7.30pm, in the Digital Lounge, free entry
Datarama is back for the New Year! The show and tell session for people who like to make interesting things returns to the digital lounge. Datrama Is a unique and democratic data sharing event hosted by The Polytechnic, and at recent Dataramas we’ve had interactive 3D maps, a php flight simulator, new music, animation, gadgets, and some very, very nice design. The Digital Lounge bar will be open too, so come along and prepare to be dazzled!
Dir. Rob Reiner. USA 1989. 1hr 35mins.
Sunday 14 February, 8.00pmBuy tickets
Beating off stiff competition from the likes of Casablanca, Brief Encounter and last year’s winner The Notebook, Rob Reiner’s classic 80s romantic comedy starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan is the perfect movie to warm you up on a cold Valentines’ Night.
Setting the bar for all romantic comedies to follow, the film charts the relationship between Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) from the moment they meet and take a disliking to each other, to becoming firm friends and then, eventually, realising that they are madly in love.
A touching, sweet and very, very funny film, that will have you screaming for more come the end, and we’re sure you won’t be faking it.
A Good Yarn
Tuesday 16 February, 7.00pm onwards, Free event
Tuesday 2 March, 7.00pm onwards, Free event
A new year and a new decade are upon us, and Knitting Club is back. Come and join our fortnightly crafty community and see what all the fuss is about. If you've never knitted (or crocheted) before but still fancy taking up a new hobby, never fear, as our resident expert Denise is always on hand to help you get started. And if you’re in need of any paraphernalia, Kym from Treacle Hand Knits is on hand to find precisely what you'll need for all those crafty conundrums. And now you can join us and keep up to date on all the crafty goings on, discussions and projects via our Facebook group!
Billy Bragg
Breaking Rocks
Dir. Alan Miles. UK 2009. 1hr 15mins.
Friday 19 February, 9.30pm
UK music legend Billy Bragg comes to the Tyneside to introduce this inspiring documentary which tells the story of Jail Guitar Doors, his initiative which aims to provide instruments to help achieve the rehabilitation of prison inmates.
The film features performances by ‘graduates’ from Jail Guitar Doors as well as from many of the artists that have supported the programme including Mick Jones of The Clash, Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters, Sam Duckworth of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and Billy Bragg himself.
Billy will discuss the film and take part in a short acoustic set after the show, along with graduates of the JGD scheme! Tickets: £11.00/£9.00 concessions.
In association with Sensoria festival of music and film.
Lawrence Burn
The Great Escape
Dir. John Sturges. USA 1963. 2hrs 50mins.
Friday 26 February, 1.45pm
In November the Tyneside reached the astonishing figure of 200,000 cinema tickets sold since reopening and the holder of number 200,000 was Lawrence Burn of North Shields, who received a six month pass to the cinema and the chance to get a film of his very own choosing onscreen.
Lawrence has chosen the best wartime film of all time, based on the true story of a group of allied prisoners put in an ‘escape proof’ camp who make their bid for freedom. Steve McQueen on THAT bike, Donald Pleasance’s eyesight, ‘Thank you’ and many more unforgettable moments make for an unforgettable adventure.
Join Lawrence at his special screening to see this great movie.
The Lovely Bones
Dir. Peter Jackson. USA, UK & New Zealand. 2hrs 15mins.
BBFC consumer advice: Contains child murder theme, disturbing scenes and moderate violence.
Sunday 28 February, 1.00pm
Come to Book Club and discuss this adaptation with Dr Stacy Gillis from Newcastle University and learn more about Jackson’s handling of one of the most read and most loved stories of recent years. Book Club is an informal post-film chat for anyone. If you would like to attend just come along, buy a ticket and sign up as a free Book Club member on the day.
Peter Jackson returns, swapping Hobbits and giant apes for a tale of the afterlife in this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s beloved novel. Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan stars as Susie Salmon murdered in 1973 by her neighbour, George Harvey (an eerie Stanley Tucci). Susie finds herself in ‘the in-between’, a dream-like place where she observes her family as they grieve for her. But when she discovers that her killer is planning to murder again, she must try to find a way to get her family to stop him. An incredible and heart wrenching adaptation, it’s the perfect project for Jackson who handles it with his usual panache. See overleaf for details of our Book Club show.
“…it is doubtful that we will see a more imaginative, courageous film in 2010.” Empire
Live music in the Tyneside Bar
Monday 1 March, 7.30pm
March will feature Glaswegian duo Mike and Solveig, who fuse world guitar and classical violin styles and folk songstress Fran Smith, whose stunning work has been praised by Antony and the Johnsons and The Unthanks.
Tickets: £3.00
Live via satellite
Based on a novel by Terry Pratchett. Adapted by Mark Ravenhill.
The Habit of Art – The New Play By Alan Bennett
Thursday 22 April, 6.45pm
The National Theatre presents the new play from national treasure Alan Bennett (The History Boys), a wonderfully funny and moving story centered around a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten (Alex Jennings) and poet W H Auden (Richard Griffiths). Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. Tickets: £10.00/£9.00 concessions/Friends.
Friends of the Tyneside Cinema can advance book tickets for The Habit Of Art until Friday 12 February. Tickets go on sale to the general public after this date.
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