NE1 MONUMENT MOVIES IS BACK Get Set for a Summer of Classic Cinema and Movie Blockbusters on the Big Screen at Grey’S Monument
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FREE JUL 08-22 2015 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk NE1 MONUMENT MOVIES IS BACK Get set for a summer of classic cinema and movie blockbusters on the big screen at Grey’s Monument PLUS: THE NE1 NEWCASTLE MOTOR SHOW + PRIDE 2015 HENRI MATISSE ON SHOW + SUMMERTYNE FESTIVAL CONTENTS NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre WHAT’S ON IN NE1 04 UPFRONT The perfect mix of stage, comedy, art and one-off events 08 TRY THIS Something different in NE1 11 PICTURE THIS Henri Matisse comes to Newcastle 16 14 MUSIC Movie scores meet Goldie Lookin’ Chain, meets Black Grape 16 REVVED UP Our guide to the first NE1 Newcastle Motor Show 19 YEE-HAW! Mosey on down to SummerTyne 12 20 Americana Festival MOVIE MANIA PRIDE 2015 NE1 Monument Movies is back Our guide to the biggest party of 22 LISTINGS and bigger than ever! the summer Your go-to guide to NE1 goings-on ©Offstone Publishing 2015. 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An exhibition of the COMFORTABLY? including Indian announced at Great North Museum: Hancock. winning images will run until September 27. Having been closed for a refurb, the Centre for streetfood kitchen Dabbawal (pictured), More than 1,600 photos were entered this Great North Museum: Hancock, July 9, free Children’s Books reopens with a fab line-up of Café 21 and Carluccio’s already signed year and you can see the shortlisted entries, northeastwildlifephoto.co.uk exhibitions for book-loving youngsters. up to take part in what is expected to be New exhibits include a show from writer-illustrator the biggest Restaurant Week yet. Michael Foreman looking at the importance of friendship, August 3-9, getintonewcastle.co.uk ALL BAA NONE a lively and colourful nursery rhyme exhibition, and A Bear With material veering from the Called Paddington, in which everyone’s favourite Peruvian IF THE CHOUX FIT staunchly political to the wildly bear comes to life in manuscripts and original illustrations. If you’re looking for an silly, you never know what you’re Seven Stories, from July 19, from £6, sevenstories.org.uk indulgent treat (as we going to get with the Canadian often are here at NE1 comic Glenn Wool. GOOD BYE HQ) head for Les The title of his work-in- Theatre maker Daniel Bye’s new work Petites Choux which progress show doesn’t Going Viral preys on our fears of faces Leazes park. give much away either: contamination in the digital and The family-run café and patisserie is Creator, I Am But A physical world, fusing thrilling packed with pastries, cakes and lots more. Pawn could be a storytelling, playful comedy Leazes Crescent work of religious and educational elements in a les-petits-choux.co.uk soul searching or a nerve-shredding story in which rant about chess. BOOK IT! a strange new disease sweeps FACELIFT Either way, you’re Bibliophiles rejoice - BALTIC’s Artists’ Book the world. One of the city’s assured a good Market is back with wares from artists, The show is followed by a most iconic buildings time thanks to his bookmakers, small press publishers, zine discussion with scientific adviser is undergoing a £1m caustic humour artists and bookbinders. and infections specialist Dr Mark refurb. The work at and theatrical Get involved in a bookmaking workshop, learn Booth at which you can settle Northern Goldsmiths charm. how to create a book using iPad software or go your fears - or not! will be complete any The Stand lo-fi with your very own photocopied perzine Northern Stage day now and is being carried out to July 14, £10 (that’s a personal zine to you and me). July 15-16, from £8 maintain the property’s listed features. thestand.co.uk BALTIC, July 10-11, free, balticmill.com northernstage.co.uk Blackett Street, goldsmiths.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONTNEWS RAISE A GLASS TRAVEL TOP TIPS Learn a new skill and produce some beautiful with Lauren Atchison, Hays Travel artworks of your own thanks to Laing Art Gallery’s workshops. Discover the wonderful world of glass BEST FOR CLOTHES? making on July 12 as Kimoci Glass helps you I love River Island as it’s to create a striking glass window panel using always up to date when it OPEN BOOKS coloured Bullseye sheet glass. On July 19, comes to trends, and it’s Visit the inner sanctum of one of Newcastle’s most Hayley Mardon will show you how to create really good value. unique treasures as The Lit & Phil opens its doors for a gorgeous jewellery made from recycled special open day. materials, offering an environmentally friendly BEST FOR LUGGAGE? From lectures on the rich heritage of the region to insight into design. I tend to shop around when musical storytelling featuring Winnie The Pooh and a Laing Art Gallery, July 12 & 19, from £30 I need luggage. So far this journey through space and time in Astronomy For Kids, twmuseums.org.uk/laing-art-gallery year, Debenhams has had there’s something for all the family. Gail-Nina Anderson the best offers and I’ve looks at the history of the curious Vampire Rabbit sculpture, bagged a couple of bargains. the GHOSTnortheast team share their experiences and crime writer Ann Cleeves pops in for a chat about her work. BREAK A LEG BEST FOR SUNGLASSES? Lit & Phil, July 11, free, litandphil.org.uk Home-grown comic talent will test their I’ve never been able to keep latest work one last time at Northern Stage a pair of sunglasses for very TOMORROW… before heading north to the Edinburgh long so I normally grab a The sun is certain to come out when smash-hit musical Fringe festival this month. couple of affordable pairs Annie comes to Toon this month. The group of top-notch comedians from Primark so I’m not too upset when See Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood as you’ve never includes some of the I leave them by the pool or in my hotel. seen him before, as he treads the boards as the formidable region’s finest up-and- Miss Hannigan in what promises coming talent. Hal BEST FOR GUIDE BOOKS? to be a colourful, energetic and Branson, Rahul Kohli, WH Smith is always my go heart-warming production Sammy Dobson, to as their travel section full of unforgettable WITH THE CANDLESTICK, David Callahan and is huge. songs including It’s A IN THE CONSERVATORY BBC New Comedy Hard Knock Life, Easy Set in the suitably spooky medieval Black Award Winner Lost BEST FOR SUN CREAM? Street and I Don’t Need Gate, Suspect Productions’ thrilling Voice Guy (pictured) I always go to Boots just Anything But You. You whodunnit Once A Knight offers a night of will join MC Lee Kyle before my holidays for all can bet your bottom blood-curdling murder in historic surrounds. for a night chock full of © Hugo Glendinning : those last minute dollar you’ll have a Set in the Dark Ages, the three-act production chortling charm. essentials. There are always fantastic night out! is your chance to turn sleuth and find a Northern Stage really good offers on and their Theatre Royal mysterious killer. Our money’s on the butler. July 30 membership programme is fantastic! July 11-18, from £17 Black Gate, July 10-11, £10 £5, northern IMAGE CREDITS IMAGE haystravel.co.uk theatreroyal.co.uk newcastlecastle.co.uk stage.co.uk 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS SPLASH! Step into the belly of a whale at BALTIC with a new exhibition aboard a 71ft container built to reimagine ‘the longest lorry in the world’ used in the 1950s, 60s, LOOK and 70s to transport a preserved whale INTO MY around Europe.