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DEJA VU? It’s to be hoped that indie legends Echo and the Bunnymen will finally appear at the O2 Academy on Valentine’s Day after two cancelled shows last year. So, it is with some trepidation that we announce this gig which showcases the band’s latest album and - we hope - iconic classics. O2 Academy, February 14 £26.50 o2academynewcastle.co.uk WORD ON THE WOMAN STREET ABOUT TOON WITH MISS RORY Piled on the pounds AKA DAN CUNNINGHAM over winter? HOST/DJ, BOULEVARD Newcastle Sports Injury Clinic may have the answer with Who dresses you? its performance Fenwick obviously! It has an excellent pilates classes and one-to-one selection under one roof and the sessions. The clinic, which has moved to customer service is fantastic, which is Saville Place, also offers yoga and tai chi, very important. I love it! so get on move on! Saville Place newcastlesportsinjury.co.uk Where do you eat your cupcakes? That’s easy - I love The Great British The fab EAT! Festival SEAN SANE Cupcakery, Bakehouse & Parlour returns with EAT! IN Comedian, actor, author and all things on Queen Street. Everything there is across the city Feb rather clever, Sean Hughes struggles to homemade, the cakes are to die for and 20-Mar 1. Events stay on the right side of sane in his next the staff are lovely. It’s beautiful inside, include pop-up show at The Stand. too. A sweet delight! paladres in secret Hughes’ new Mumbo Jumbo act is a venues and an eat and drink-along jumble of stories which he uses to illustrate Where do you go for great evening with a screening of The Great his belief that the two sides of his brain performance and music? Gatsby at the Lit & Phil. Tasty! are in constant and irreconcilable conflict. I adore Hoochie Coochie for great gigs www.eatnewcastlegateshead.com Hughes’ rambles include a bizarre story in a fantastic atmosphere. We saw the PSYCHO THRILLERS of being serenaded at dawn by hairy fab disco DJ collective Horse Meat Suffering from greasy While cinema audiences get hot under the collar Cure frontman Robert Smith, a series of Disco there recently and they were just spokes? Worry not! with the much-hyped film adaptation of E.L James’ bewildering conversations with his amazing! Of course, I have to mention Dr Bike - everyone’s bonkbuster Fifty Shades Of Grey, Tyneside Cinema mum, and communing with gorillas. Boulevard and our wonderful, full-on favourite bike marks its release with an altogether more interesting There are also a few poems, a West End productions right here in NE1, mechanic - pops up look at love and lust with a weekend of sexually charged three-minute musical about as spectacular as they are hilarious, I on Northumberland psychological thrillers. ageing, and a fair amount have to say, we’re unbeatable! Street soon. Supported by NE1, the Dr They include The Secretary, an off-beat look at the of tomfoolery. This Bike team offers free checks and basic darker side of love; the pyschological Japanese horror combines to produce a And where do you people watch? repairs, just ride along on any of the drama Audition; David Cronenberg’s graphic and shocking nonsensical night out and 9Bar at the Theatre Royal - the terrace following dates. Northumberland St Crash; and David Lynch’s sexually charged hallucinogenic a lot of laughs. provides a feast for the eyes! Feb 27, Mar 13 and 27, 8.30am-4pm thriller Blue Velvet. Be warned - these are not date movies! The Stand, February 10, £15 boulevardnewcastle.co.uk Tyneside Cinema, Feb 9-15, tynesidecinema.com thestand.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONTNEWS UPFRONT

ANYONE FOR MARIACHI? Bizarre but true, the seven amigos pictured above were once hardcore punks. Now, however, they’re big into the Mexican folk I’M READING… genre mariarchi and heading to The Cluny. KERRANG!!! American punk to Mexican folk is an unlikely jump we know, but Head bangers unite! The iconic heavy rock music mag Mariachi El Bronx are renowned for their superb musicianship which BILLY MOFFAT, 27, STUDENT Kerrang! is bringing four heavy hitters to Toon. has garnered them fans worldwide. On the evidence of their third NEWCASTLE The gig is headlined by post-hardcore and surprisingly eponymously titled album, this is going to be quite a gig. Ole, amigos! I’ve just read the third well-groomed band Don Broco (pictured), whose pop-rock The Cluny, February 8, £12, thecluny.com installment of Bridget sound has earned them worldwide plaudits. If your tastes Jones’ Diary, which are a little more raucous, US pop-punkers We Are The In was just brilliant. I Crowd are on the bill alongside melodic metalcore band relate to it all, which is Bury Tomorrow and hardcore punks Beartooth. a bit worrying! O2 Academy, February 15, o2academynewcastle.co.uk

GEORGE ZACH, 31, COMEDIAN NEWCASTLE I’m reading Too Big to Fail about how the NOW banking system collapsed in America. IN 3D It’s too smart for me Stretch your artistic CRACKING THE CODE but I’m stuck with it experience with Hatton Tyne & Wear In The First World War is now. It’s very interesting but I am at the Gallery’s In Three commemorated in a two-week series of art point where I don’t know what’s going on Dimensions exhibition - a events and installations across the city. anymore. So far all I know is that bad snapshot of pioneering BACK IN OUR DAY Decoded 1914-18 showcases artworks things happened! abstract artist Victor 70s music giants Jefferson Starship and 10cc and performances by seven artists who explore Pasmore’s career are reliving their heyday with UK tours, both of themes ranging from the crucial role of women DANIELLE KEATING, 22, HEATON displaying the evolution of his work from 2D figurative which land at Sage Gateshead any day now. in the First World War economy, to wartime Iv’e just read the paintings to 3D reliefs. Jefferson Starship (pictured) have kept the communications technologies, to the impact of Game Of Thrones Pasmore, who helped develop the ‘Basic Design’ psychedelic flame of San Franciscan pop wonders war on folk traditions such as rapper dancing, clog series which was revolution in art education at Newcastle University in Jefferson Airplane alive in recent years, while the dancing and folk song. Taking place across the great, totally the late 1950s, produced some of the most radically melodic 10cc continue walking in the rain and the city at venues including the Discovery Museum un-put-downable, It’s uncompromising paintings and reliefs of the period and snow with, as it turns out, plenty of places to go. and Newcastle University, there are opportunities also good to see the is widely thought of as one of the most important British Jefferson Starship, Feb 4, £22.50 to meet the artists and join in with special events. difference between the books and the artists of the time. Hatton Gallery, February 6-May 9 10cc, Sage Gateshead, Feb 13, £34.50 Tyne & Wear Museums, February 16-28, free TV series. It’s great stuff. free, twmuseums.org.uk/hatton-gallery sagegateshead.com decoded1914.org.uk

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CLASSIC ROCK We’re not sure when a concert audience last rocked out with their air guitars, but it may well happen when the hits of rock gods Queen are re-imagined in a show performed by Royal Northern Sinfonia. Described as “monumental and outrageous” by Queen guitarist Brian May, Queen Symphony is an orchestral take on THE WINNER IS... Quen’s hits. A Bohemian Rhapsody, no doubt! Sage Gateshead, February 7, £33-£10, sagegateshead.com OSCAR OVERVIEW WITH JOHN HODGSON MANAGER, EMPIRE CINEMAS LISTEN UP NEWCASTLE IRISH AYES The fact that Gavin Webster has recently been voted Always wanted to learn how to dance like Riverdance UK Circuit Comedian of the Year by his peers should You can always guarantee there’ll legend Michael Flatley? Of course you have, and tell you all you need to know about the irreverent be great films on at the cinema Tyneside Irish Centre wants to help you. Tyneside funnyman. during awards season, and this year The Centre’s free adult education courses offer many Webster’s monthly All New Northumbrian Assembly show is a great one, with a host of Oscar opportunities to learn something new - and not only dancing. moves to Live Theatre this month, promising moronic jokes, hopefuls on a screen near you now. Whether you fancy exploring the ancient language of Ireland, revolutionary calls to arms, dark observations, angry anti- If you can only see one of the movies keeping fit with a Ceili class, or learning to play traditional comedy and extraordinary set pieces. in the running for the Best Picture Oscar, Irish jigs on any instrument, there’s something completely Anarchic sketch troupe Funny Team add musical make it the amazing Birdman with different for most of us. mayhem, bizarre characters and odd sketches to the mix. Michael Keaton. It’s dark, original and will Tyneside Irish Centre, tynesideirish.com Live Theatre, February 12, £10, live.org.uk keep you thinking long after you’ve left the cinema. If Michael Keaton doesn’t win the Best Actor award for Birdman, then TOON TWEETS I hope Eddie Redmayne (pictured) A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING… TWEET US @NEWCASTLENE1 snatches it for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, PICS OF OUR LIVES LOFT CREATIVE JESSIE J RUSSIA which has been a big hit in Newcastle. (@QUEENLIVEPICS): (@LOFTCREATIVEUK): (@JESSIEJRUSSIA): If you didn’t see the incredible Queen + Adam Lambert Had a fantastic morning filming Jessie J at O2 Academy Boyhood when it was showing in Newcastle @MurphysLegacy ‘s flash mob at Newcastle cinemas, treat yourself to the DVD asap, Grey’s Monument! #IrishDanceReborn or head to the cinema to catch fellow Oscar nominees American Sniper or CHRIS RICHARDSON MICHAEL MARSH DAVID CURRAN Whiplash while they’re still showing. (@CHRISRICH25): (@MJ_MARSH): (@DCURRAN_1): The last 12 months has been a hell @Beverleycallard me and some Cracking grub @LonghornsBBQuk - Loved @FirstAidKitBand tonight in Newcastle! of a year for cinema, and there’s still time friends launching this years british get yourself along to Mosley Street, So talented to savour it.

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THE BIGGEST Roast chicken, herb dumplings & RESTAURANT stock pot carrots WEEK EVER! #NE1RestaurantWeek It’s official, folks - we’ve just eaten our way through the biggest-ever NE1’s Restaurant The Broad Chare Week, with 80 restaurants taking part and a (@_thebroadchare) 74% rise in visits to getintonewcastle.co.uk. There was a 50% rise in trade for participating restaurants compared to the same week in Smoked salmon 2014 (correct at the time of going to print). To croquettes with whet your appetite for the next NE1’s Restaurant lemon mayonnaise Week in August, here are some of the tastiest at @_Cafe21 pictures from the week courtesy of the North East #NE1RestaurantWeek Twitterati, all in the best possible taste! TWEET US USING NorthEastFamilyFun (@NEFamilyFun) THERE’S NEIGH BEER LIKE WYLAM... #NE1RESTAURANTWEEK @Dabbawal A great Day four of port of call for #NE1RestaurantWeek! #NE1RestaurantWeek Can we tempt your taste Great food, great buds with our yummy atmosphere, brilliant menu culinary delights?

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MEET BJORN THE POLAR BEAR Pan, Shrek, and the ice queen and One of the world’s deadliest (and enjoy crafts and interactive story fluffiest) predators, get nose to times. Better than being outside in snout with Bjorn The Polar Bear the rain, every day of the week! at Great North Museum: Hancock Seven Stories, February 14-22 this half term. Bjorn walks, growls admission from £6 and loves to be stroked, and he even sevenstories.org.uk has his own keeper named Ursula. Shows are at 10.30am, 12.30pm THE SNOW QUEEN’S and 2.30pm. Grrrrr! CORONATION BALL Great North Museum: Hancock Back by popular demand, every February 16-17, free (no booking) prince and princess in the land twmuseums.org.uk/ is invited to the Snow Queen’s great-north-museum Coronation Ball at Discovery Museum. This spectacular BOWL THEM OVER performance features songs, Ring the changes over half term dancing, storytelling and party with a family trip to Lane7 bowling games, plus there’s a party bag for alley and kitchen, which is opening every child too. Discovery Museum its doors at 11am every day during February 18 and 19, £15 per child half term. In addition to bowling, you twmuseums.org.uk/discovery can play pool and ping pong and enjoy homemade burgers, chicken GET YOUR SKATES ON wings and the like, plus a vegan menu. It’s still cold outside, and a trip to Lane7, lane7.co.uk the skate park at Exhibition Park is a fab way to get warm and wear LITTLE MONKS’ out the kids. Whether you’re a skater, COOKERY SCHOOL boarder or a BMXer, you’ll be right at The popular Little Monks’ Cookery home and there’s plenty of room for School is back at Blackfriars this beginners to give it a go, too. half term, giving kids aged 8-16 the Exhibition Park, free chance to indulge their interest in SKOOL’S OUT! all things food. The one and two-day It may feel like we were in the midst of the GET SLIPPY workshops run 10am-3pm and give Christmas holidays a couple of weeks ago, but the The ice rink at Life Science Centre youngsters the chance to learn at first half term of 2015 is upon us. closes on February 22, which their own pace, have fun and build Keeping in mind that this is Feb half term, which means means that if you’re going to go, confidence in the kitchen. there’s a significant risk of sun, rain, hail and snow in any you need to get your skates on. Blackfriars, February 17-18 one day, we present a selection of distractions to keep While you’re at it (and when it gets £60 per child for two days everyone happy during the week. Good luck! too cold) head inside and explore (£35 for one day), including lunch For more ideas, offers and information go to the centre’s many attractions which blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk getintonewcastle.co.uk include the Planetarium, the Young Explorers’ zone, and 4D motion ride. FAIRYTALE FUN Got a great idea, or trying out one of ours? You can get buy-one-get-one-free on Fear not the rain, dear reader, weekday skating until February 13 at Seven Stories has a week full of TWEET US USING getintonewcastle.co.uk too! activities to keep you dry indoors. Life Science Centre BJORN THE POLAR BEAR Meet Snow White, Cinderella, Peter @NEWCASTLENE1 until February 22, life.org.uk

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WHO KILLED BAMBI? Not necessarily a question for a ROLL UP, February day in Newcastle, but choreographer Renaud Wiser asks ROLL UP... just that in the title of one of two The Greatest Show on Earth rolls into Toon productions at Dance City. this month as the extraordinary tale of While Bambi looks at the tension Phineas T Barnum comes to Theatre Royal. between individuals and society in a The exhilarating musical follows the life of thought-provoking fusion of dance, film, the legendary showman played by Brian Conley theatre, and music, The One is a solo as he lights up the world with colour, warmth work which shines a light on illusion and and the excitement of his imagination. Expect deceit. Intriguing! Dance City, Feb 7, £5 circus thrills and spills and an exuberant score dancecity.co.uk featuring There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute and Join the Circus. Theatre Royal, February 17-28, from £21 theatreroyal.co.uk

TOY STORY SIGNS OF THE TIMES Scottish Ballet brings the magical story of The Themes of poverty and austerity are brought Nutcracker to life with a production that will into heartbreaking focus by award-winning delight audiences young and old. theatre company Paper Birds’ production at Join young Clara as her Nutcracker Prince Live Theatre. comes to life and takes her on a journey to the Based on interviews taken across the UK last magical Land of Sweets. year, Broke explores real life stories from the front The Scottish Ballet Orchestra performs the line of poverty and debt in a visually stunning, world-famous Tchaikovsky score as dancers heartfelt production. From displaced families and conjure up the magic of plush Victoriana, full of gambling addictions to beans on toast, Broke festive fare and childhood charm. offers the opportunity to pause for thought. Theatre Royal, February 11-14, from £11.50 Live Theatre, February 10-11, £14-£10 theatreroyal.co.uk live.org.uk

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HOT HITS I DO, I DO, I DOOOOO! The oldies are still the best when Tying the knot this year? it comes to smoochy records, Blackfriars’ Wedding Fayre is and record store 586 Records is home to oodles of romatic ideas sharing the love during Valentine’s for hair and beauty, decorations, month with a 10% discount for photography, cakes and NE1 magazine readers Feb 4-18. entertainment, and you can Owner Antony Daly recommends check it out within Blackfriars’ Barry White’s You’re The First, The uber-romantic Banquet Hall. Last, My Everything for your vinyl- Blackfriars, February 22, free loving Valentine. Quote NE1 for blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk your discount! 586 Records, Pilgrim Street PRE-DATE GROOMING facebook.com/ Prepare to be pampered with fiveeightsixrecords Forever Long’s Couples Grooming offers. Gents can get a new haircut, MUSIC IS THE FOOD OF LOVE ladies can have a hair-up and Experience a night of romantic make-up session, and you can music from Royal Northern indulge in a bottle of Bucks Fizz Sinfonia and newly wed singers to share. Smoochy! Susanna Hurrell and Ben Johnson. Forever Long, Nun Street For an extra treat, indulge in a February 10-14, £50 three-course meal plus a glass of foreverlonghair.com Prosecco for just £50 per couple. Sage Gateshead, February 14 TEMPTING TREATS £33-£10, sagegateshead.com Hotel Chocolat’s romantic Love Birds chocolate heart has a ARTFULLY YOURS beautiful intricate design and Locally made gifts by crafters, tastes of romance; one half of it designers, photographers made of salted caramel chocolate and artists are on offer at and the other a rich milk praline. Lovenortheast’s Valentine’s Art Fair. Love in chocolate form, people! Grab something unique! Hotel Chocolat, Blackett St Nicholas’ Cathedral, February Street, Love Birds heart £26, 14, stnicholascathedral.co.uk hotelchocolat.com

GET JIGGY, PEOPLE! QUIRKY AND CUTE Get your Valentine’s groove FEEL THE LURVE..! UpSideDown Presents is a haven on at World Headquarters with This Valentine’s Day there’s no need to rely on traditional of heartfelt and lovefull gifts, Mungo’s Hi Fi, and bump and grind cheesy gifts; Newcastle is home to loads of love-full including Love Heart-themed to some sexy reggae and dub destinations to seek out unusual and quirky gifts and treats ink stamps and sweets, cute key tunes. Or keep it old school with to make your loved one swoon with happiness. rings, Bonny Lass and Canny Lad the ever-reliable Uplifting Groove For more ideas and offers go to getintonewcastle.co.uk candles, and cards of lurve! Quote ‘Jiggytastic’ party upstairs and feel NE1 in store for a 14% discount the love, people! until the end of Feb! World Headquarters, February TWEET US UpSide Down Presents, candles 14, £10-£8, welovewhq.com @NEWCASTLENE1 £7.95 each, 61side.co.uk

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Murray is standing against UKIP leader Nigel Farage in the general election. Research shows that while Murray has toured extensively in last few months, Farage’s ‘material’ has gained more laughs than the Guvnor’s.

Announcing he would stand for election, Murray said: “Let it be known that like many of the parliamentary hopefuls in the election, I have no idea where South Thanet is, but did that stop Margaret Thatcher saving the Falkland Islands? No!” Good luck to the residents of South Thanet. You may need it!

Murray’s alter ego, the heavy-drinking, xenophobic pub landlord first appeared in 1994. Since then, the story-telling barman has become a renowned philosopher, “informing the nation what we should do about this, that and the other.” Shopping late isn’t just for Christmas. Murray studied modern history at Shop ’til 8pm Mon–Fri & 7pm Sat. Oxford, and he likes to present history Park free from 5pm Mon–Sat in Council multi-storey car parks. documentaries. Yup, he’s an intellectual.

Newcastle. Get more from your day. Murray’s family is chock-full of lords and ladies. The family holds the barony of Delivered by Strange and the dukedom of Athol, which makes our Al really quite posh.

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22697 AN NE1 Post-Xmas A5 Mag.indd 1 26/01/2015 12:08 HAPPY NEW HAPPY NEW NEWS YEAR YEAR WHO KNEW? KUNG HEI FAT CHOI! February 19 marks the beginning of the The Chinese New Year is ushered in on Sunday February 22, year 4713 in the Chinese calendar. with a riot of colour, noise and fab food on Stowell Street - Newcastle’s own Chinatown. The Chinese Zodiac runs on a cycle of Thousands of people are expected in and around Chinatown to 12 years. Each year is named after an welcome the Year of the Sheep with a day of free Chinese events animal and people are said to hold similar and performances. personality traits to the animal of the year Be prepared for spectacular dragon and lion dances, music, they were born. food and drink, traditional crafts, dance, music, food and drink, lots of noise and happiness. 2015 is the Chinese Year of the Sheep. There’s a Chinese market, fairground and a children’s marquee People born in the year of the sheep are with fab Chinese arts and crafts to try out at Bath Lane and said to embody luck and prosperity. Thornton Square. Plus, you can get into the Chinese zodiac, calligraphy, calendar making and fortune telling at The Chinese One Chinese New Year tradition involves Centre on Westgate Road. The party starts at 11am and the the older generation handing out red dragon and lion dances are at 12.30pm. Kung Hei Fat Choi! pockets (Hong Bao) filled with lucky money. www.getintonewcastle.co.uk NE1 RECOMMENDS The Discovery Museum hosts two days of Chinese-inspired arts and crafts on February 17 and 19. You can take part in Chinese calligraphy and dance workshops, have your face painted and enjoy fan, ribbon and dance performances. Discovery Museum, February 17 & 19 free, twmuseums.org.uk/discovery

Newcastle Arts Centre is offering a four- week course in Chinese Brush Painting led by Dr Chun-Chao Chiu. The course runs Saturdays 10am-1pm, with the first session on February 21. Materials and refreshments are included in the price. Newcastle Arts Centre, Feb 21-March 14 £80, newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is welcoming the Year of the Sheep with a weekend of free drop-in workshops for children and their families. Baltic artists will be on hand all weekend to help you to create and animate your own Chinese dragon and traditional New Year decorations. Baltic, free, February 21-22 free, balticmill.co.uk

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ART UNTIL FEBRUARY 21 North East architectural EVERY WEDNESDAY JUNGLE FUTURE BOOGIE firm Ryder & Yates Get jungle fever! Smoove & Tim Shaw. FEBRUARY 6-APRIL 2 RUTH BRENNER Hatton Gallery, twmuseums NAKED House of Smith, Head of Steam, MUST Exploring craft and .org.uk/hatton-gallery House of Smith, Floritas & house-of-smith.com theheadofsteam.co.uk FRANS WIDERBERG: industrial processes. Madame Koo THE ART OF RE- Newcastle Arts Centre, UNTIL JUNE 28 EVERY FRIDAY KINKY DISKO SEE ENCHANTMENT newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk HIGHER GROUND Up-tempo RnB and house. Exuberant paintings Inspirational sounds. CLUB NOIR Tup Palace, providing an antidote UNTIL FEBRUARY 22 Music Slash Art, Party tunes. tuptuppalace.com KIDS to the banalities of musicslashart.com Metropolis, facebook. industrialisation. GRAEME DURANT com/metropolisncl BE SOMEBODY University Gallery, Sculptures, collages, DIRTIZ Hip hop, RnB, commercial. FEBRUARY 7 Northumbria University, drawings and installations. 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collection of historic ON THE EDGE OF FAITH: represented in paintings. pastel. 4x3 hour sessions electrical inventions. ANCIENT WISDOM FOR A £55, 10am-4pm. £75, 10am-1pm. Free, 11am. SCIENTIFIC WORLD? Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Arts Centre, Discovery Museum, Professor Tom McLeish newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk twmuseums.org.uk/ is a professor of physics discovery at Durham University FEBRUARY 18 AND 25, and author of Faith And MARCH 4 AND 11 ONE-OFF FEBRUARY 5 Wisdom In Science. Lecture will be followed by EVENTS a book signing. Free, 6pm. The Lit & Phil, FEBRUARY 14 litandphil.org.uk

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THE BOOK OF WAYS Launch of Colin Wills’ PAINTING IN ACRYLICS THE SHAKESPEARE dynamic poetry book. With Narbi Price, an CLUB Free, 6pm. in-depth introduction to This month’s play is The Lit & Phil, painting with acrylics. Measure For Measure. litandphil.org.uk 4x3 hour sessions £95. LOVE NORTH EAST ART Free, 6pm. Newcastle Arts Centre, & CRAFT FAIR The Lit & Phil, FEBRUARY 7 newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk Hosting some of the litandphil.org.uk North East’s most SOFT PASTELS talented arts and crafts INK AND DRINK WITH WORKSHOPS people - selling their work SARA OGILVIE With Aiden Doyle, helping in beautiful surroundings. Learn about award-winning to develop confidence and St Nicholas Cathedral, illustrator Sara Ogilvie’s competencies in working in stnicholascathedral.co.uk creative process. 18+, £5 includes entry to centre and glass of wine or soft drink on arrival, 6pm. DRAWING WORKSHOP Seven Stories, With Jenny Purrett, sevenstories.org.uk exploring the ways in NEXT ISSUE which we can transform WHEN THE LAMPS WENT the ordinary into the IF IT’S HAPPENING IN NEWCASTLE NE1, OUT TOUR extraordinary. Join curator Alisdair Wilson £45, 10am-4pm. IT’S IN NE1 MAGAZINE. IN THE NEXT for a tour of the exhibition Newcastle Arts Centre, EDITION, OUT FEBRUARY 18: When The Lamps Went newcastle-arts-centre. Out: Life on Tyneside in co.uk the First World War. £2. EAT! IN festival Discovery Museum, FEBRUARY 11 twmuseums.org.uk/ X Factor Live discovery THE INGENUITY OF THE SEAGOING ENGINEER Top Gear Live John Dobson takes a look back at life in the engine BBC 6 Music Festival room whilst out at sea. Free, 2pm. Discovery Museum, twmuseums.org.uk/ discovery

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