WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE

COOKING UP A STORM The passionate Italian with the keys to Jamie’s new gaff MARVELLOUS MEETINGS Castles, power stations and other cracking seminar spaces NOW THAT’S MAGIC A mystical world opens up in Newcastle

YOUR FREE FORTNIGHTLY GUIDE 12 MAR 2014 – 26 MAR 2014 run Sunderland YOU’RE IN NEWCASTLE YOUR FORTNIGHTLY GUIDE Be Part of the action on Bank holiday weekend TO WHAT’S ON Hey readers smell that aroma lingering around NE1 right now. I don’t mean the meaty whiff of pasty peddlers and their army of sausage rollers - or even the fruity tang de la transport publique. Fill your snozzcumbers again and you might just catch a whiff of the essence of spring. With the skies a little less black and biblical, the emergency poncho crowd has returned to fill outdoor seats once more and ooh la la doesn’t it feel so cosmopolitan. Flower pots and pocket parks are blooming and the city is alive – yes to the sound of music. But forget connotations of annoying spinning nuns with giant guitar cases. This is proper music 3 runners we’re talking about. There’s top bands like local heroes Maximo Park here this fortnight for the sunderland city sticky floor denizens. At the same time, the sit down set can look forward to the likes of Russell Watson and the force of nature that is Subo. HalF There’ll be laughs too, and plenty of them, with Hebburn star Chris 1 team Ramsey and comedy hightower Miranda Hart among the stand-up stars descending here in the next few days. There’s plenty more besides, so what are you waiting for? Go have some fun.

04 NEWS 13.1 miles Everything you need to know this fortnight 06 PERFECT RECIPE FOOD Welcome to Jamie’s new NE1 gaff 08 MARVELLOUS MEETINGS FEATURE take on the challenge with your friends, Cracking conference spots here in Newcastle 10 MUM’S THE WORD FEATURE family or work colleagues! Give her a Mother’s Day to remember PLUS All the highlights of the next two weeks – your first stop shop for entertainment listings in Newcastle

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HOTEL GOES UP, COLLEGE DOORS OPEN, ARTISTS ASSEMBLE AND A ART LOVERS NEW BAR JOINS THE SCENE. READ ON FOR THESE AND MANY MORE LISTEN UP tu n GOINGS ON IN NE1 THIS FORTNIGHT Want to sample some of the best artists The best of the local gigs scene, that the North East has to offer and with Metro Radio’s Zoe Addison ONE TO WATCH take home some incredible artwork at Want to know the name of the hottest MAKE HASTE OR ridiculously low prices? For art lovers MISS OUT THE ENGLISH BEAT ground breaking artist to impress your in Newcastle, Ouseburn Open Studios Prepare to be friends with? Well, let us introduce Tickets are selling fast for the upcoming Spring Salon Sale, which takes place transported you to Nina Canell. The Swedish artist Maker Faire event in Newcastle next on Sunday 23 March, represents the MODEL SEARCH back more makes sculptures that help provide real month. To get your fill of mind-boggling most significant artistic coming REACHES CLIMAX than three physical substance to often intangible science and technology – including a giant together since Michelangelo’s brush Bethan Sproat, 18, from Blyth, has decades questions. Stopping short of creating robot hand that can crush a car – you better met the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, won this year’s search for the Face down the meaning of life out of tea bags, her act fast. The event, billed as the greatest with 36 Lime Street, Toffee Factory, of…NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week memory lane work does incorporate materials such show (and tell) in the world, takes place Northern Print, Mushroom Works 2014. The would-be model fought as 2 Tone as stray socks and chewing gum. at the Centre for Life on 26 and 27 April. and The Biscuit Factory opening their off tough competition to win the luminaries The Definitely worth a look. Nina Canell: See www.life.org.uk for details. doors to offer very special prices for title and her face will now be English Beat Near Here lands at the Baltic on end of line collections and one off splashed across posters, programmes bop into NE1. Singer, Friday 18 April. works. Running for over 13 years, and adverts publicising the event songwriter and guitarist BAND ON THE RISE NEW BAR BRINGS the event has become a local which takes place in NE1 from 9 behind one of the biggest Ahead of their gig at the Sage on 2 HOLLYWOOD institution, with affordable art, craft – 17 May. The event showcases the bands of its kind, Dave May, fast-emerging Tyneside band GLAMOUR and design begging to be placed region’s fashion industry from the Wakeling is touring with his Kosoti have this month released their There are few camp Hollywood on your mantelpiece. best of retail through to fashion and merry men, and you can taste the 80s action for yourself at debut single War. It’s double A side icons as celebrated as Norma design departments at the city’s their gig on 19 March. promising insanely catchy melodies Desmond, which is the thinking Northumbria University and The event is bound to be a and thoughtful song writing, with behind the newest bar to hit Newcastle College. Finalists wore joyous occasion, with their Pirouettes as the second track. Visit Newcastle’s gay scene. Sunset garments created by fashion design iconic ska-pop rhythms www.kosoti.com to see where Boulevard – named after Norma’s students from Northumbria and upbeat Jamaican vibes you can buy it and for details of most famous film – is the new University following a brief from instantly revisiting the the upcoming Sage gig. addition to our thriving LGBT fashion footwear brand, Dr Martens atmosphere of the era. Dave bar circuit. While Ms Desmond and were photographed by award and the gang promise to BONMARCHE ON may be the archetypical figure of winning photographer, Eric perform all the hits of The THE MOVE faded Hollywood glamour, there’s Murphy. Alisia Murphy, casting Beat including ‘Mirror in the Fans of fashion, I’m a Celebrity nothing faded about this place, director at Boho Models was Bathroom’, ‘Can’t Get Used to Get Me Out of Here and the VIRAL with plenty of Tinsel Town magic among the judges. Losing You’, as well as cover Royal Family, we have you covered. inside. The venue, on Marlborough CALLING ALL www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/nfw of the Smokey Robinson David Emanuel – that bloke who VIDEO Crescent, is also the perfect place WOODY ALLEN FANS classic, ‘Tears of a Clown’. I designed Lady Diana’s dress and for a quick drink before heading Relive the genius of Woody Allen reckon it’s inevitable that upon more recently was seen chewing A little something for those to a show at its quite fabulous on the big screen at the Star and NEWCASTLE INDEED hearing the signature sound animal privates in the celebrity TV that have always wanted to namesake and NE1’s dedicated Shadow Cinema, which is this DOES VINTAGE of that sax in their tunes you’ll get the goose bumps. jungle - will be visiting NE1 to go whale watching. Such cabaret club, Boulevard. Now get month running a season of films Newcastle does vintage very well majestic creatures... Louis ‘Sir Lou’ Kahn from help launch the new site of high ready for your close up darlings. by the screenwriter, director, actor, and the people of NE1 have always The Beat sums up the band’s street fashion store Bonmarché. The comedian, author, playwright, and embraced all things heritage, from plans for the gig: “Dave sees new store, which moves from its musician. Taking in classics like 1950s glamour and distressed furniture his job here on Earth to be former home in intu Eldon Square, HEY YOU UP IN THE SKY… Manhattan, Annie Hall and Play It to everything else that’s old but trendy. bringing a message of love, is opening at 96-98 Grainger Street If you averted your eyes upwards from your smartphone recently you might Again, Sam, the Star and Shadow Those looking to fulfil their every unity and a steady, rhythmic on Thursday 13 March at 9.30am, have noticed two massive cranes towering above the Central Station. Don’t Cinema should be given a big desire when it comes to vintage groove of danceable songs with cupcakes and goody bags for panic, they’re not dismantling our rail link to the world. They are in fact shiny medal for its services to furniture, home wares, clothing, to the masses”. So why not the first 50 lucky customers. Mr cracking on with the £200m Stephenson Quarter development that will celluloid education. The man is jewellery and accessories should look go and dig out your pork pie Emanuel, who will barely have rid include a new Crowne Plaza hotel, which will open in summer 2015. a genius. But, as he says: “I don’t no further than the upcoming hat, ready to hit the Think himself of the taste of witchetty want to achieve immortality Newcastle Does Vintage event at the Tank? dancefloor! grubs since featuring in the last through my work. I want to Theatre Royal on Sunday 13 April. series of I’m a Celebrity, will be COLLEGE OPEN DAY achieve it through not dying.” Part of the Britain Does Vintage series Wed 19 March appearing at the new store on Stuck in a dead end job or craving some education to broaden your mind? The season runs until the end of events held across the country, this Think Tank? Times Square, Newcastle Friday 14 March to sign Newcastle College may have the solution for you and this fortnight is of March. Visit little piece of vintage heaven will 7:30pm autographs, meet customers and hosting a special open day to showcase its degree courses. The event, on www.starandshadow.org.uk feature a cornucopia of traders, as Tickets £19.25 share style tips for the season ahead. Wednesday 12 March, runs until 3pm. See www.ncl-coll.ac.uk for more. for dates and times. well as teas rooms and loads more. www.britaindoesvintage.co.uk 4 5 FEATURE FEATURE

spend a little extra on our dining makes sure he looks after me. Jamie thoroughly modern restaurant, with a The menu is equally as impressive, experience, while still enjoying the speaks to me every day, even when ground floor that is all about relaxing with dishes incorporating pasta made PERFECT RECIPE timeless pleasures of a chicken kebab he’s away.” with a drink or grabbing a fresh every day, Jamie’s Italian burger, during a night on the town. Gennaro has a string of quick bite or a pizza. More fish of the day, sharing planks of However, it takes more than a big cookbooks to his name importantly, it has a cheese and an award-winning name TV chef above your door to and often appears on magnificent bar made kids menu. ensure that customers keep coming TV cooking shows. from railway sleepers, With a prime spot at Monument Mall back for more. He has also headed with industrial style (the restaurant occupies the former To make sure that the restaurant (the up his own restaurant, décor incorporating home of the Newcastle United store) 35th Jamie’s Italian in the UK) gets Passione, which he exposed pipework Jamie’s Italian could well prove to be off to a running start, Jamie has sent ran for ten years. and reclaimed wood one of the most popular restaurants in one of his helping hands, master He’s keen to use as cladding. Yes it does the town centre. chef Gennaro Contaldo, to train much local produce as sound like something from Gennaro says: “We were looking at up the restaurant’s staff and keep possible, which should create Homes From Hell, but trust Newcastle for a long time, for a everything running as smoothly an intriguing Italian- us it works. couple of years. We wanted the as hot marinara sauce. Geordie fusion of tastes. In contrast, the upstairs perfect spot. We wanted everyone to The Italian, from Minori on the “Everything is sourced area is a more formal see us. We have chosen Newcastle Amalfi coast, but based in London, locally, the fish, meat affair, with an open because we want to open a restaurant says: “I just love Newcastle, I love it. and vegetables,” he kitchen that can be in all the major cities.” I feel at home – it’s so friendly. says. “Also, 95% of viewed on one side. Get yourself down there for a Peroni Jamie asked me to give all his love staff here are locals. The décor creates and a plate of mozzarella balls. Just to the Geordies,” Yesterday I was images of what don’t ask for turkey twizzlers. However, he may have to acclimatise training with the kids Christmas could be to his surroundings a little first, “I here. I have never seen so like in Italy, with I HAVE SIX thought somebody here was called many proud young boys hanging garlics, giant Geordie,” he says. “So I phoned and girls.” salamis and prosciuttos instead CHILDREN, Jamie up and asked him who is Inside customers can expect a of tinsel and paper chains. INCLUDING JAMIE this Geordie?” Gennaro, or big boy as Jamie sometimes calls him, has had time to sample the delights of the Grainger Arts and Crafts Market Market during his stay. “I love it”, he Grainger Arcade, Grainger Market, Newcastle says; “People were very proud to show Saturdays 9am – 5pm their produce. I saw passion and love.

I saw a butcher in there and he was 12 October 2013 • 9 November 2013 • 7 December 2013 • 14 December 2013 showing me the sausages and the 21 December 2013 • 11 January 2014 • 8 February 2014 • 8 March 2014 12 April 2014 • 10 May 2014 • 14 June 2014 • 12 July 2014 • 9 August 2014 pease pudding. I’m going to buy it!” Although Gennaro may not be versed in the ways of the North East, we can at least be assured that we are in safe hands when it comes to his food. In fact he taught the mockney chef himself while he was working at THE NEWEST EATERY IN TOWN HAS HAD Carluccio’s Neal Street Restaurant HEARTS FLUTTERING SINCE BUILDING WORK in London. BEGAN LAST YEAR. HAVING NOW OPENED ITS DOORS, JAMIE’S ITALIAN HAS UNLEASHED I SAW TEMPTING NEAPOLITAN AROMAS ON THE PASSION HUNGRY MASSES OF NE1 AND LOVE

This latest addition to the city centre’s the city’s place as one of the best in “He stayed under my wing. I showed culinary circuit joins big name the country to dine out. him how to cook pasta, fish, herbs, restaurants such as Carluccio’s and Yes, we love our nosh here in everything”, Gennaro says. “I have six Phone: 0191 211 5533 Email: [email protected] Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Newcastle and have developed a more children, including Jamie. He calls me www.newcastle.gov.uk Bar & Grill, which have opened in sophisticated pallet over recent years, his London dad. We are very very www.twitter.com/Nclmarkets NE1 in recent years to help cement with many of us now prepared to close. I’m very proud of Jamie. Jamie 6 7 FEATURE FEATURE

the building’s charm. get new ideas out of SOME OTHER VENUES... Conferences are held QUICK your team is perhaps MARVELLOUS MEETINGS The Great North Museum offers in the main hall JOKE through inspiration. something that no other Injecting ‘fun’ into business seminars is which is a beautiful They say creativity THERE WERE 10 conference venue in the North usually a one-way ticket to cringe Victorian space breeds creativity, so IN A BED AND THE East can - its own full size T-Rex, town. Hey guys we’ve replaced chairs with that was used as what about an art Or, why not add a cultural tinge to bean bags, ain’t that zany? Erm, actually a dining hall for LITTLE ONE SAID gallery as a meeting your meetings in the intimate space no, it’ll do my back in. Before we start, Co-op employees. “THESE NHS CUTS space to get juices of the Live Theatre, let’s play our own special team-building The museum’s ARE GETTING flowing.The the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, game of Deal or no Deal. No let’s not, galleries can also be RIDICULOUS” Biscuit Factory on Northern Stage, and, for music unless you’ve got Noel Edmonds hired for evening Stoddart Street offers lovers, the most eye catching heading down with a brief case full entertaining and hospitality. bottomless teas and coffees venue of them all, Sage Gateshead. of cash. www.twmuseums.org.uk – although ironically, not free If you’re looking to give your But the lingering threat of death by biscuits. The Laing, Hatton Art guests the red carpet treatment, Power Point, the scabby half-time PAINTINGS & PROFIT MARGINS Gallery and Baltic also welcome look no further than the Tyneside sandwiches and sterile backdrop Never mind brainstorming, ‘throwing corporate groups. See www. Cinema as a conference venue, or mean most corporate shindigs are ideas into the think wok’ or water getintonewcastle.co.uk for info for a more theatrical experience, the historic City Hall can also cater pretty sad affairs. So how to spice place is perhaps an especially inspiring Newcastle’s industrial history oozes cooler pow-wows. The best way to on all of NE1’s art galleries. for large scale events. them up without cranking up the venue for guests from outside the from every steel plate and ornate Those wanting to inspire the awkward-o-meter? region, who have never gazed upon window arch. QUICK QUESTION imagination of their guests may One way is to escape the glass- its great hulking structure. With suites www.thecastlegate.co.uk find that National Centre for panelled blandness of your standard of varying sizes and turf views event WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE CULTURAL VENUE Children’s Books Seven Stories corporate landscape for a venue with organisers may struggle to keep eyes A BIG KIDS PARADISE IN NE1? is the perfect environment, while personality. Such places are in fixed on the projector screen rather Those crazy tech guys of northern Hatton Gallery. It stages a good mix of historical and the inspirational and ground abundance in NE1, with loads of than the pitch. Meanwhile, the many California know how to have fun at contemporary art and is always looking for people to get involved, be it schools, individuals or community groups. breaking venue that is the character-filled meeting spaces trials and tribulations work. The Googleplex – that Wonka A hidden gem. Centre for Life should help to available. Here’s a few that are certain of Newcastle United factory of workplaces – is ROLAND PEACOCK, GATESHEAD spark creative thinking. to inspire and motivate without a should prove the perfect apparently a fantasy world team-building game in sight. ice breaker during of play things and those tricky inspiring spaces for its BE ROYALTY FOR A DAY networking sessions. staff. Putting a dart board For bosses who rule with an iron fist, www.nufc.co.uk in your canteen doesn’t what better place to galvanise your quite compare, but you Newcastle’s open troops and decry your enemies than A PLACE FOR THE could go one better by a castle? Live out your Game of POWER-MAD booking out Lane 7 for Thrones fantasies – maybe without CastleGate on your next conference or team late so shop ’til 8pm. the rude bits, as that really could get Melbourne Street is a former briefing. The venue, on St James’ awkward – at the Castle Keep. It’s power station that was Boulevard, takes corporate Shop late ’til 8pm Mon-Fri and 7pm Sat* an intimate venue, with room for a opened in 1903 to feed bookings, with guests free reception with 50 people, but about juice into the tram to bowl their socks off, Park free after 5pm Mon-Sat in the Council multi-storey car parks as atmospheric as it gets. If you’re network in Newcastle sing their hearts out putting on an evening doo, watch and Gateshead. It’s and hustle bosses for out for the haunting figure of the now a Grade II listed pay-rises over pool Poppy Girl – and certainly don’t building booming tables. One or several offer her your business card. with character. Think areas of the classy bowling www.castlekeep-newcastle.org.uk the Industrial Zone of alley can be exclusively the Crystal Maze mixed booked out. www.lane7.co.uk SPOT ON FOR SPARKLING with Danny Boyle’s Olympic PITCHES vision of the steam age. It has its own A GRAND OLD VENUE In the iconic buildings stakes, there’s 50-tonne internal crane within the The Great Hall and its Art Deco nothing mid-table or mediocre about Turbine Hall, with other appropriately surrounds at the Discovery St James’ Park. In fact it surely has named spaces including the Foundry Museum provides a majestic space *Some stores may vary Champions League credentials. This Room and Tramways Suite. for business chatter. The museum Delivered by building on Blandford Square was For further information on participating shops and car parks visit: THINK THE INDUSTRIAL ZONE formerly the HQ of the North East branch of the Co-operative Wholesale getintonewcastle.co.uk OF THE CRYSTAL MAZE Society and its rich history is part of 8 9 FEATURE FEATURE PRIZE DRAW MY TOP 5 OUR BIG WIN A FAMILY PASS TO CBEEBIES IDEAS LIVE!’S BRAND In the national know the sugary hit is also for people NEW SHOW AT KEEPING consciousness, suffering with self-inflicted ropeyness THE METRO RADIO Newcastle is that or general sickness. And in fact this is ARENA town up north how they were originally intended MUM that gave the when they were invented here in world stottie cakes, Newcastle. Glucozade was first made SWEET brown ale, lasses in 1927 by Newcastle chemist without coats and William Owen, eventually becoming It’s almost time for the annual credentials even further by taking mum numerous other stereotypes. But what Lucozade in 1929. I’ll drink to that! smothering of mums with chocolates to the opera? Well, as near as damn it, WITH SWING SINGER AND of some of our lesser known gifts to and flowers to help them forget with the Tyneside Cinema showing ACOUSTIC PERFORMER the globe? Here’s a few inventions LIGHT BULBS the years of torture we put a performance of swashbuckling ballet GLEN ROUGHEAD and exports forged in these streets Americans might argue against this them through. Marco Spada performed at the historic which changed the world: one. But who are you going to Mother’s Day is a time when past sins Bolshoi theatre in Russia.The cinema TOP 5 MUSIC VENUES IN NE1 believe? An upstanding publication CBeebies Live! The Big Band is of us kids – like almost burning down is also showing the highly anticipated The Sage. THE HUMBLE WINDSCREEN like NE1 (cough) or a nation which the brand new music-themed kitchens and house party disasters – romantic drama Labor Day, which sees Here audiences can enjoy music WIPER… believes Neil Armstrong walked on extravaganza that is bound to have are forgotten. A hand-made card and Kate Winslet and her young son taken in HD. I will be performing my Where would we be without the moon (we’ve all seen that pre-schoolers rocking in the aisles daffodils plucked from the nearest hostage by criminal Josh Brolin, only biggest show to date there on Gladstone Adams, the Newcastle suspiciously windy flag)? Patent issues when it comes to Newcastle’s roundabout may have cut it when for the pair to develop a romantic Friday the 14 March, as a venue United club photographer who saw American Thomas Edison claim Metro Radio Arena on 10th April. we were younger. But now it seems relationship. Sounds like a mum film to it sounds and looks iconic. I can’t revolutionised driving? As he the light bulb as his, but young Joe Warming up their vocal chords for the gestures have to be on a grander me. Treating mum to a massage or wait to perform on the stage. motored through a storm back from Swan of Gateshead protested that he this spectacular show are some of scale, with Mother’s Day becoming therapeutic treatment is also a sure-fire Newcastle City Hall. the 1908 Cup Final, he imagined a had in fact won the race in 1878. But CBeebies’ best-loved characters as important as birthdays winner and a number of salons in the Having worked there for a number new device that cleared his let the record show that the Lit and including Justin Fletcher MBE and and anniversaries. city centre are offering everything on of years, it’s always been a goal of windscreen as he drove – instead of Phil library in Newcastle was the first his alter ego Mr Tumble, Mister While most dads are Mother’s Day from mine to perform there one day. As having to stop to wipe every now public building in the world to be lit Maker and – making his CBeebies pretty chuffed with For those that like to butter facials to deep tissue a venue it is steeped in history and and then. Nowadays, save for the odd by electricity. Beat that team USA. Live! debut – Mr Bloom. Also a six pack or a Lynx up their mums with flowers: massages. Salons from a performance point of view, banger on ebay, you’ll not see a car strutting their stuff on the tour set come Father’s Katherine’s Florists Ltd include Savannah it sounds amazing. without them. DARK MATTER will be Andy Day, Katy Ashworth, Day, Sunday 30 49-51 Leazes Park Rd Lifestyle Salon & The Cluny. Astro-geeks, before you smash up Nina of Nina and the Neurons March requires a or Spa on Nelson When I first started playing live, A MORNING AFTER CURE… your telescopes in a rage, we realise it and Zingzillas. Plus - raising little more thought Units 32-33 Grainger Market Street, Body & The Cluny was always one venue If you’ve ever wearily sought relief is not possible for Newcastle to have the roof for the first time on to impress mum. Maud’s Florists Mind Massage on which the band and I wanted with the plonk and fizz of Andrew’s ‘invented’ dark matter. But what we CBeebies Live! - the one and It’s just as well, then, Unit 5-6 Grainger Market Mosely Street and to perform at. We played there liver salts, you’ve got your NE1 can tell you is that Peter Higgs – as in only Rastamouse! that Newcastle has a 5th Avenue Flowers Helen Lloyd about 20 times and always had forefathers to thank. They’re actually the Higgs boson elementary particle CBeebies Live! The Big Band is bouquet of 7 Queen Street, Quayside Beauty Therapy at amazing shows there. We were named after St Andrew’s church on whose existence was proven at produced by the creative team restaurants, cafes and St. Mary’s Place. also fortunate to support one Newgate Street which was CERN in 2012 – is an Elswick lad. behind the hugely popular Justin entertainment spots to ensure that you If you’re stuck for gift ideas, you could of my favorite bands there; overlooked by the Gallowgate offices These pages are too small to explain & Friends 2013 Easter Tour which keep your mum sweet for the next check out the Mushroom Works’ The Mooney Suzuki. of pharma men Scott and Turner the significance of Nobel Prize was attended by over 105,000 time you need to borrow some money. Spring Salon on Sunday 23 March. Hoochie Coochie. who launched the product in 1894. laureate Peter’s achievements. But people. Tickets for the upcoming For those looking to show their mums Visitors can pick up what the venue I’ve performed there once and And they’ve been hiding the sins let’s just say in the particle physics tour have been held at 2013 prices, how cultured they’ve become since describes as “affordable paintings” as love what they are trying to do. of our overindulgence world he’s a canny so visit www.cbeebieslive.com spending all day playing video games well as furniture, jewellery, pottery, It’s all about the quality of ever since. big deal. now for the latest tour and and watching B movies in their textiles and illustrations. If you’ve got a musicians there and they have If you’re into ticket information. bedroom, a two course Mother’s Day lot to make up for, you could even go some fantastic acts on from all AND ANOTHER ONE inventions, watch out To win one of 5 family passes (for special at the Baltic’s River Terrace big and commission work direct from over the world! Advertisers would have us for the upcoming upto 4 people one of who must be should do the trick. The package, the artists and designers just in time for Newcastle University. believe sports drinks are Maker Faire show at over 18) email your name, address costing £14.95 per person, includes Mother’s Day. I don’t even know if they do gigs the tipple of choice for the Centre for Life and contact number to: a glass of fizz on arrival, followed by Now that little lot should ensure you there anymore, but when I’ve machine-like athletes who, in April, while you [email protected] a Sunday roast with all the trimmings stay in her good books for at least a played there in the past it was for some reason, only do can investigate Closing date is 17th March, and then a cake stand chock full of few days. always rocking! One of the best exercise topless with Newcastle’s great winner will be chosen at random sweet treats to gorge upon. For details of all featured venues venues I’ve been to. various wires attached to inventors further at and notified by NE1 magazine. Or why not boost your cultural visit www.getintonewcastle.co.uk. their chests. But we all the Discovery Museum. 10 11 ONE-OFF LISTINGS

YOUR COMPREHENSIVE LISTINGS GUIDE TO WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE CITY CENTRE THIS FORTNIGHT WHY MEN ARE FUNNIER proximity to Schwitters’ famous Merz THAN WOMEN ART Barn wall at the Hatton Gallery in PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS Newcastle, adding a new focus to the relationship between the PAUL DIXON Northern Spirit. 300 Years of Art digital and material that was a feature NEWCASTLE FOOTBALL PUNDIT from the North East. This major of that project, and to the interplay You may have seen recently that the BBC, in the permanent display showcases nationally between transience and permanence, and internationally-important work between the disposable and the interests of balance, is to employ more women by artists and makers from the durable that was so central to UNTIL 29 MARCH NOW THAT’S on comedy panel shows. North East. Laing Gallery, New Schwitters’ aesthetic. Hatton Gallery, Death Dwarf in Paradise. In I don’t watch too many of Bridge Street, Newcastle. The Quadrangle, Newcastle University. this new series of works on paper, MAGIC! these programmes as they www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing www.hattongallery.org.uk German artist Jorn Ebner is works primarily consist of Dara BEGINS 21 MARCH towards the dissolution of the O’Briain, Phil Jupitus, figurative image. His starting point is the Death Dwarf, a character Wannabe hobbits, Harry Potter disciples and budding Dynamos Sean Lock and Bill Bailey Lorna Simpson. This first European retrospective presents more than 30 from William S Burroughs’ Nova will be among the crowds sure to flock to theGreat North doing bits of their act, years of Lorna Simpson’s work Express, who re-emerges in these Museum this month… whatever the questions. across the mediums of photography, works as variations of Hans For a new exhibition which opens on 22 March will indulge However, my interest in film, video and drawing. Born in Holbein’s Danse Macabre, a series Brooklyn, New York, Simpson of 41 woodcuts, which Ebner has those who want to dig deeper into Middle Earth, catch a train this is my belief that men are re-drawn as gestural drawings. Vane, from platform 9 ¾ or explore magical realms. inherently funnier than became well known in the mid 1980s for her conceptually rigorous Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim And its organisers promise a magical experience for children women. Just put down that steak and language driven large scale Street, Newcastle. www.vane.org.uk and grown up kids alike. knife, whilst I explain this admittedly works, which combine photographs UNTIL 30 MARCH The V&A Museum of Childhood exhibition Magic inflammatory statement. FROM 14 MARCH and text. Baltic, Gateshead Quays, Worlds runs until 22 June and jumps furry feet first into the Ladies in the market for a prospective mate, will South Shore Road, Gateshead. Sara Barker and Ryder captivating world of magic, wizards, fairies, elves, dragons, be only too aware that not all candidates meet Simon Bill. The oval paintings www.balticmill.com Architecture. Baltic presents a site of Simon Bill draw upon a very specific collaborative commission by magicians and illusionists. Objects on display will include an your ideal. wide variety of sources, from UNTIL 23 MARCH Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture. original 1950s Sooty and the Cottingley fairy photographs How many have the looks of Joey Essex, intellect philosophy to heavy metal, art Working with a combination of history to cookery, Art Deco to RIFF/T. A group exhibition painting, welding and jewellery - which had Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle, of Stephen Fry, wealth of Wayne Rooney and the about painting, abstraction and convinced that fairies existed and inspired the 1997 film Fairy personality of a kids TV presenter? neuroscience. This exhibition, title making techniques. Barker draws Lucky Jim, includes more than 30 representation taking place at out unexpected properties in Tale: A True Story. The market, does it not, seems over-burdened works of missed vintage, from 1999 Baltic’s project spac Baltic 39. material with a sculptural fluidity Literature features heavily too, with objects with candidates with the looks of Stephen Fry, to present. BALTIC, Gateshead Baltic 39, 31 – 39 High Bridge and lightness. Baltic, Gateshead and stories that explore how magic has wealth of a kids TV presenter, intellect of Joey Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead. Street, Newcastle Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead. influenced writers over the centuries, Essex and the personality of Wayne Rooney? www.balticmill.com UNTIL 28 MARCH www.balticmill.com dipping into the magical worlds of Therefore those of us in the 2nd category have UNTIL 15 MARCH UNTIL 31 MARCH Harry Potter, Cinderella, the Lord to have another weapon in the armoury, and that Ørnulf Opdahl: New Paintings. Ornulf Opdahl’s work recall his of the Rings, Aladdin and more. weapon is humour. Eurovisions, 1989. All That Falls For Akio Suzuki: na ge ka ke. This is 2014 Side Gallery is developing three disturbing images of the threatening the first major solo exhibition of work The exhibition targets adults as well as It has evolved in mundane members of the male exhibitions for the 25th anniversary power of nature in his Nordic by Akio Suzuki in the UK. The children, with many of the objects sex, as inexorably as some amphibians in of the coming down of the Berlin landscapes. Although Opdahl’s exhibition includes contemplative harking back to myth of magic from primordial times became terrestrial in order to Wall. The first of these explores the relationship with his native landscape installations that are of sound but are yester year, with toys and games that are get at the juicy morsels on land, and to avoid bodies of work held in its own unique is experiential (he is an experienced soundless: inviting the act of listening sailor and is equally familiar with sure to have you fancying yourself as the next Dynamo, or more being swallowed up by desperate leviathans photographic collection: Mark Power’s and revealing ancient vibrations Berlin Wall and Paul Lowe’s Romanian the mountain routes of the residing in nature. Wednesday to maybe Paul Daniels. Magic Worlds will be accompanied by a underwater, quite frankly. Revolution. The exhibition will also surrounding Sunmøre Mountains), Saturday 11.30am - 5.00pm unless programme of events at the museum, including visits by talking I mean ladies, how many comedians do you show Dana Kyndrova’s The Russians his pictorial approach to it is otherwise stated. The Globe Gallery, dragon Derek, who will be entertaining children on the know who you’d like to see in swimwear? Any of and Jindrich Streit’s Sovinec, projects meditative and philosophical. 53-57 Blandford Square, Newcastle. opening day of the exhibition. Also watch out for illusions and the panel named above? No, thought not, and this which the two Czech photographers Reflecting upon that empty, www.globegallery.org had developed over the 1980s and overwhelming land, his instinct is tricks from magician Martin Duffy, with visitors of all ages is why the BBC’s quest is doomed to failure. It brought to Side. 5-9 Side, Newcastle, not to describe or depict it, but to UNTIL 17 MAY encouraged to dress up in their most magical attire. So grab a isn’t because of discrimination, or being an www.amberonline.com create moods which suggest its latent top hat and get involved – you know you want to. exclusive boy’s club attitude, it’s because there power. University Gallery, Northumbria Marilyn Monroe: A British Love Affair. The exhibition focuses on “We’re hoping that visitors of all ages will join us in the spirit aren’t enough Princesses prepared to kiss that UNTIL 20 MARCH University, Sandyford Road, Newcastle. www.universitygallery.co.uk photographs and magazine covers from of illusion and enchantment,” says Dr Sarah Glynn, manager toad – and accept him for what he is. Not a Wall to Wall. A short-run exhibition 1947 to 1962 that celebrate the of the museum. What you waiting for? Prince in waiting, but just a toad. of artists’ works inspired by the legacy UNTIL 29 MARCH transformation of the world’s most www.greatnorthmuseum.org.uk and spirit of German painter Kurt popular pin-up to acclaimed actress, Schwitters. The pieces on show were ‘16 Reasons’, Newcastle College Art highlighting the British photographers GRAB A TOP HAT AND Send your letters of complaint to originally commissioned for Film and and Design students. Newcastle Arts and personalities who admired her and [email protected] Video Umbrella’s online showcase Centre, 67 Westgate Road, Newcastle. worked with her. Exhibition organised GET INVOLVED MerzBank, and are presented in www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk by the National Portrait Gallery, 12 13 LISTINGS LISTINGS

London. Free entry, Hatton Gallery, of the artist’s installation ‘Paul Noble Smoove and Friends. Music Slash Social Butterfly.Perdu, Collingwood The Quadrangle, Newcastle University. Marble Hall’, currently on show at the Art, 10pm, Hood Street, Newcastle. Street, Newcastle. www.perdubar.com www.hattongallery.org.uk Laing. Paul Noble was nominated for www.musicslashart.com the 2012 Turner Prize alongside artists Club Tropicana. House of Smith, Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage Luke Fowler, Elizabeth Price and World HQ Uplifting Grooves, Collingwood Street, Newcastle. in the Digital Age. Fifteen young Spartacus Chetwynd. Laing Gallery, 11pm,World Headquarters, Carliol Square, www.house-of-smith.com RECOMMENDS London-based artists have been New Bridge Street, Newcastle. Newcastle.www.welovewhq.com commissioned to produce prints TUESDAY 18 MARCH OUR PICK OF THE BEST EVENTS TAKING PLACE www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing Play, 10pm. House of Smith, responding to the provocative Rub a Dub Dub @ The CUT, THIS FORTNIGHT combinations in Eduardo Paolozzi’s UNTIL 19 OCTOBER Collingwood Street, Newcastle. 11pm, £5. St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. ART scrapbook-like collages. Hatton Gallery, www.thecut.squarespace.com The Quadrangle, Newcastle University. Thomas Bewick and His Jukebox, 11pm. The Other Rooms, Lorna Simpson. This first European retrospective presents more than 30 www.hattongallery.org.uk Apprentices. Thomas Bewick is Times Square, Newcastle. www.theotherrooms.com Taboo. Perdu, Collingwood Street, years of Lorna Simpson’s work across the mediums of photography, film, famous for the small-scale wood Newcastle.www.perdubar.com Bunk! “Ready-made metaphors for video and drawing. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Simpson became well engravings he and members of his Full Moon – the authentic Thai beach the dreams of the masses” is how workshop produced, often published Waikiki. House of Smith, Collingwood known in the mid 1980s for her conceptually rigorous and language Scottish pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi party. Riverside Nightclub, Quayside, as illustrations in books. Less well Newcastle. www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk Street, Newcastle. www.house-of-smith.com driven large scale works, which combine photographs and text. Opens described his collages. This collection known are the drawings and paintings on 21 March. Baltic, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead. of works contains some of the earliest also made by these artists. This SATURDAY 15 MARCH WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH examples of British Pop Art, made www.balticmill.com exhibition looks at a range of work Shake @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. mainly from images taken from from the Laing Art Gallery collections Dragnet @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. LGBT magazines given to the artist by St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. made by Bewick and his pupils, St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. www.thecut.squarespace.com Sunset Boulevard. Introducing the newest venue on Newcastle’s LGBT American ex-servicemen. Hatton some of whom, such as Luke www.thecut.squarespace.com scene - a great spot for a cocktail before a show at nearby Boulevard, or Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle. Clennell, went on to be better Laid Bear. Music Slash Art, 9pm, www.hattongallery.org.uk known as painters. Laing Gallery, Rocksteady Saturdays. Music Slash Hood Street, Newcastle. just for partying well into the night. It’s inspired by Tinsel Town and has New Bridge Street, Newcastle. Art, 10pm, Hood Street, Newcastle. certainly brought a touch of Hollywood glam to this part of Newcastle. Markus Karstieß. Leading www.musicslashart.com www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing www.musicslashart.com Open until 1am on Fridays, 2am on Saturdays and midnight on Sundays. contemporary artist Markus Karstieß Pinup, 10pm. House of Smith, shows the results of his year-long CLUBS S@S, 10pm. House of Smith, Collingwood Street, Newcastle. 1 Marlborough Crescent, Newcastle. www.sunsetblvd.co.uk residency in Newcastle University’s Collingwood Street, Newcastle. www.house-of-smith.com COMEDY Fine Art Department. Hatton Gallery, WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH www.house-of-smith.com The Quadrangle, Newcastle University. Dirtiz. Perdu, Collingwood Street, Patrick Monahan: Cake Charmer. This loveable Teessider likes www.hattongallery.org.uk Shake @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. Newcastle.www.perdubar.com hugging and eating cake (not simultaneously!) and is renowned for his St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. superb anecdotes, his unique charm and his unmistakeable brand of THURSDAY 20 MARCH www.thecut.squarespace.com humour. Tuesday 18 March, £12, 8.30pm, The Stand, High Bridge Street, Laid Bear. Music Slash Art, 9pm, Drop @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. Hood Street, Newcastle. MUSIC www.musicslashart.com www.thecut.squarespace.com Royal Northern Sinfonia – Oscar Winners. Barry Norman joins Pinup, 10pm. House of Smith, Phatplastic. Music Slash Art, 9pm, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the ever ebullient Carl Davis to guide you Hood Street, Newcastle. Collingwood Street, Newcastle. through some of the greatest Oscar-winning music in history. Sunday 16 www.house-of-smith.com www.musicslashart.com Love. Digital, Times Square, March, prices vary, 7pm, Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s Square, Gateshead, Dirtiz. Perdu, Collingwood Street, Newcastle. www.yourfutureisdigital.com Rebel. Digital, Times Square, Newcastle. www.sagegateshead.com UNTIL JUNE 29 Newcastle.www.perdubar.com www.yourfutureisdigital.com Rock @ LYH feat. DJ Mel, 8pm. STAGE Turner and Constable: THURSDAY 13 MARCH LYH, Northumberland Road, Newcastle. Hanzo. Perdu, Collingwood Street, Live Screenplays: Rocket Man By Lee Hall. The life of Elton John Sketching from Nature brings www.theheadofsteam.co.uk Newcastle.www.perdubar.com together more than 60 works by Drop @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. from birth to rehab – as told in an outrageous musical extravaganza. Turner, Constable and their St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. Propaganda, 11pm. O2 Academy, Thursday 13 March, £12-£10, 7.30pm. Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Quayside, contemporaries, showing the www.thecut.squarespace.com Westgate Road, Newcastle. Newcastle. www.live.org.uk different techniques each artist www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk used to capture views of the Phatplastic. Music Slash Art, 9pm, Hood Street, Newcastle. World HQ Uplifting Grooves, landscapes of the time, both in Smoove and Friends. Music Slash SATURDAY 22 MARCH Britain and abroad. Oil sketches, www.musicslashart.com 11pm,World Headquarters, Carliol Square, Newcastle. www.welovewhq.com Art, 10pm, Hood Street, Newcastle. watercolours and finished oil Rebel. Digital, Times Square, Newcastle. www.musicslashart.com Dragnet @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. paintings from the Tate collection www.yourfutureisdigital.com The Voodoo Project, 11pm, £4. St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. will be on show, showing Riverside Nightclub, Quayside, Newcastle. Bare Footin’ – R&B, soul, World HQ Uplifting Grooves, www.thecut.squarespace.com picturesque scenes, rural nature, Hanzo. Perdu, Collingwood Street, www.thevoodooproject.com funk, rock n roll, ska, reggae. 11pm,World Headquarters, Carliol cities, rivers and coasts. . Laing Newcastle.www.perdubar.com 8pm, free. Head of Steam, Square, Newcastle.www.welovewhq.com Rocksteady Saturdays. Music Slash Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle. SUNDAY 16 MARCH Neville Street, Newcastle. Art, 10pm, Hood Street, Newcastle. www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing Bare Footin’ – R&B, soul, funk, www.theheadofsteam.co.uk Play, 10pm. House of Smith, www.musicslashart.com rock n roll, ska, reggae. 8pm, free. Say The Word. House of Smith, Collingwood Street, Newcastle. UNTIL 7 JULY Head of Steam, Neville Street, Newcastle. 10pm. Collingwood Street, Newcastle Jungle. House of Smith, Collingwood Rock @ LYH feat. DJ Mel, 8pm. www.theheadofsteam.co.uk www.house-of-smith.com Street, Newcastle. www.house-of-smith.com Jukebox, 11pm. The Other Rooms, Paul Noble, Marble Hall. Artwork Times Square, Newcastle. LYH, Northumberland Road, Newcastle. by Turner Prize-nominated artist Paul FRIDAY 14 MARCH MONDAY 17 MARCH FRIDAY 21 MARCH www.theotherrooms.com www.theheadofsteam.co.uk Noble has been acquired by the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Loop @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. Off the record @ The CUT, Loop @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. Full Moon – the authentic Thai beach Propaganda, 11pm. O2 Academy, Tyne. ‘Villa Joe’ (2008) is a large scale St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. 11pm, £5. St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. party. Riverside Nightclub, Quayside, Westgate Road, Newcastle. wool tapestry which is the centrepiece www.thecut.squarespace.com www.thecut.squarespace.com www.thecut.squarespace.com Newcastle. www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk 14 15 LISTINGS LISTINGS

The Voodoo Project, 11pm, £4. £10, 8:30pm, The Stand, HighBridge SATURDAY 22 MARCH SATURDAY 15 MARCH FROM FRIDAY 14 MARCH Riverside Nightclub, Quayside, Newcastle. Street, Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk www.thevoodooproject.com The Saturday Show with Phil CHILDREN’S FILM CLUB: Need for Speed (12A) FRIDAY 14 MARCH Nichol, Nish Kumar, Harriet Pinocchio (U) – 10:30 Plot for Peace (12A) World HQ Uplifting Grooves, Dyer and host Alfie Joey. £15, Met Opera: Werther – £23/£28.50, Veronica Mars (TBC) 11pm,World Headquarters, Carliol Square, The Friday Show with Kevin 8:30pm, The Stand, High Bridge Street, 4.55pm Newcastle.www.welovewhq.com Gildea, Malcolm Head, Nat Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH Wicks and host Martin Mor. £12, SUNDAY 16 MARCH SUNDAY 23 MARCH 8:30pm, The Stand, High Bridge Street, Andy Fury, Nige, Sean Percival. Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk £12, 9pm. The Hyena, Leazes Lane, EAST SIDE STORIES: Shindo Beauty Live (12A) Say The Word. House of Smith, Newcastle. (Wonder Child) (TBC) – 15:00 10pm. Collingwood Street, Newcastle David Longley, Mike Milligan, www.house-of-smith.com Steve Royle, £11, 9pm, The MONDAY 17 MARCH TUESDAY 18 MARCH MONDAY 24 MARCH Hyena, Leazes Lane, Newcastle. SILVER SCREEN: The Grand www.thehyena.com Patrick Monahan: Cake Budapest Hotel (15) – 12:00 Club Tropicana. House of Smith, Charmer. This loveable Teessider Collingwood Street, Newcastle. likes hugging and eating cake WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH www.house-of-smith.com (not simultaneously!) and is BRINGING IN BABY: Rome, Open TUESDAY 25 MARCH renowned for his superb anecdotes, City (12A) – 11:00 his unique charm and his A/V FESTIVAL 14: Big Men (ADV. Rub a Dub Dub @ The CUT, unmistakeable brand of humour. 15) – 18:00 SATURDAY 22 MARCH 11pm, £5. St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. £12, 8.30pm, The Stand, SUNDAY 23 MARCH www.thecut.squarespace.com High Bridge Street, Newcastle. THE GREAT TYNESIDE CINEMA Elton John – The Million Dollar www.thestand.co.uk Piano (12A) Waikiki. House of Smith, Collingwood Fred MacAulay, £12, 8.30pm. FILM QUIZ – 20:30 Street, Newcastle. www.house-of-smith.com WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH The Stand, High Bridge Street, THURSDAY 20 MARCH THE STAR AND SHADOW Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk CINEMA WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH Miranda Hart: My What I Call STEPNEY BANK MONDAY 24 MARCH A/V FESTIVAL 14: Earth’s Golden Live Show. £27.50, 8pm. Playground (ADV. 12A) – 18:00 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Shake @ The CUT, 11pm, £5. NE1 2NP SATURDAY 15 MARCH Metro Radio Arena Newcastle. Mike Wozniak: Take The Hit £10, MR DRAYTON’S RECORD St Nicholas Street, Newcastle. www.metroradioarena.co.uk www.starandshadow.org.uk www.thecut.squarespace.com 8.30 pm. The Stand, High Bridge PLAYER: George Michael – Listen Russell Howard: Red Raw with Lost Voice Guy Street, Newcastle. The Stand, Without Prejudice – 18:45 Listings subject to change. Please check Wonderbox. £27.50, 8pm. online before your visit. and host George Zach. £2, High Bridge Street, Newcastle. FRIDAY 21 MARCH Metro Radio Arena Newcastle. 8:30pm, The Stand, High Bridge www.thestand.co.ukwww.thestand.co.uk www.metroradioarena.co.uk WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH Street, Newcastle.www.thestand.co.uk TUESDAY 25 MARCH A/V FESTIVAL 14: Silence (PG) The Saturday Show Kevin – 20:30 Kittiwake Film, a film about the THURSDAY 20 MARCH Paul Sinha. £12, 8.30pm. The Stand, unique colony of Kittewakes on the Gildea, Malcolm Head, Nat FROM FRIDAY 21 MARCH Wicks and host Martin Mor. £15, Miranda Hart: My What I High Bridge Street, Newcastle. The River Tyne, 7:30 p.m 8:30pm, The Stand, High Bridge Street, Call Live Show. £27.50, 8pm. Stand, High Bridge Street, Newcastle. The Rocket (12A) THURSDAY 13 MARCH Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk Metro Radio Arena Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk The Zero Theorem (15) www.metroradioarena.co.uk Starred Up (18) Manhattan (12A) 7.30pm SUNDAY 16 MARCH WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH Laid Bear. Music Slash Art, 9pm, SUNDAY 16 MARCH The Thursday Show with Phil Red Raw with Carl SATURDAY 22 MARCH Hood Street, Newcastle. Newcastle Kids Comedy Club. Nichol, Nish Kumar, Harriet www.musicslashart.com £4, 12.30pm. With Kevin Gildea and Hutchinson and host Katie CHILDREN’S FILM CLUB: The Sleeper (PG) 7.30pm Dyer and host Alfie Joey. £10, Mulgrew. £2, 8:30pm, The Stand, host Tony Jameson. Best suited for 8:30pm, The Stand, HighBridge Street, Muppets (U) – 10:30 Pinup, 10pm. House of Smith, 8 to 12 year olds. The Stand, High Bridge Street, Newcastle. A/V FESTIVAL 14: Tim Robinson: THURSDAY 20 MARCH Collingwood Street, Newcastle. Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk www.thestand.co.uk High Bridge Street, Newcastle. Connemara (ADV. U) Play It Again Sam (Unknown) 7.30pm www.house-of-smith.com www.thestand.co.uk Electric Comedy with headliner Tony Jameson. £6, 9pm. Tyneside FILM SUNDAY 23 MARCH SUNDAY 23 MARCH Dirtiz. Perdu, Collingwood Street, Questionable Time. A brand new Newcastle.www.perdubar.com Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. TYNESIDE CINEMA EAST SIDE STORIES: Parade (TBC) philosophical comedy panel show. £5, www.tynesidecinema.co.uk Love and Death (PG) 7.30pm 7pm, The Stand, High Bridge Street, PILGRIM STREET – 15:00 COMEDY Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk FRIDAY 21 MARCH NEWCASTLE THE SIDE CINEMA 0845 217 9909 WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH THE SIDE WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH MONDAY 17 MARCH Chris Ramsey: The Most tynesidecinema.co.uk NEWCASTLE BRINGING IN BABY: Under The www.amber-online.com Red Raw. This weekly showcase for Dangerous Man on Saturday Listings subject to change. Please check Skin (15) – 11:00 NECA Benefit.Proceeds from ticket Morning Television. £16.50. 8pm. Check online for full listings and times. beginners lets the newest comedians sales for this event will be donated online before your visit. A/V FESTIVAL 14: Serra Pelada – in the Northeast try out their material Newcastle City Hall. Northumberland The Legend Of Golden Mountain to NECA; a registered charity in Road, Newcastle. www.newcastlecityhall.org WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH in front of a live audience for the first Newcastle, which provides counseling (ADV. 15) – 18:00 KIDS time. With George Egg and host AV Festival 14: Into Eternity – 6pm SCI:SCREEN: Slumdog Millionaire Matt Reed. £2, 8:30pm, The Stand, and support to those suffering The Friday Show with Phil PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS from addiction. With Seymour Nichol, Nish Kumar, Harriet (15) - TBC High Bridge Street, Newcastle. THURSDAY 13 MARCH Planetarium. Featuring the latest www.thestand.co.uk Mace and Marc Smethurst. £6, Dyer and host Alfie Joey. The EMPIRE CINEMAS 8.30pm. The Stand, High Bridge Stand, HighBridge Street, Newcastle. technology using high-tech LED AV Festival 14: Pripyat – 6pm NEWGATE STREET, THE GATE projectors and offering a choice of THURSDAY 13 MARCH Street, Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk www.thestand.co.uk NEWCASTLE FROM FRIDAY 14 MARCH films and educational programmes The Thursday Show with Kevin The Gavin Webster Comedy Show, Andy Fury, Nige, Sean Percival, www.empirecinemas.co.uk featuring Sea Monsters, Fragile Gildea, Malcolm Head, Nat £6, 8.30pm, The Stand, High Bridge £11, 9pm, The Hyena, Leazes Lane, Under The Skin (15) Check online for full listings and times. Planet, Earth Moon& Sun, Seasonal Wicks and host Martin Mor. Street, Newcastle. www.thestand.co.uk Newcastle. www.thehyena.com Unforgiven (15) Upcoming events include: Stargazing, Infinity Express and 16 17 LISTINGS LISTINGS

Dawn Of The Space Age. Great music and movement, and can easily family Ceilidh in Discovery Museum’s Tea, Mog and Pink Rabbit are back vocalists, musicians and drag queen Exsultate Jubilate. Free, 1,10pm. King’s North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, be used at home. Check online for Great Hall the best place to celebrate at Seven Stories. Along with almost DJs every weekend. One Bar, Hall, Armstrong Building, Newcastle Newcastle. www.twmuseums.org.uk/ availability and times. Sage Gateshead, St. Patrick’s Day. There’ll also be craft 80 years of original artwork, the Marlborough Crescent, Newcastle. University. www.ncl.ac.co.uk greatnorthmuseum St Mary’s Square, Gateshead. tables and face painters. £3, 2pm. exhibition houses a life size Tiger www.sagegateshead.com Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, ready for tea in the kitchen and Mog’s FRIDAY 14 MARCH Discovery Museum. Children can Newcastle. www.discoverymuseum.org.uk basket, perfect for curling up with a enjoy hands-on water activities with FRIDAY 14 MARCH AND good book. An enthralling exhibition The Strangers - 40th Anniversary Play Tyne; discover more about FRIDAY 21 MARCH Mystery Tours by Torch Light. of Judith’s work and her childhood Tour. £23, Doors 6.30pm, military history with A Soldier’s Life; Mysterious figures have been sighted experiences as a refugee. Seven performance time TBC, o2 Academy, find out about the story of Newcastle Zumba with Babies. 1.30pm - in the Ouseburn Valley, they say a Westgate Road, Newcastle. 2.30pm. Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s Stories, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle. from the Romans to the present day manuscript has gone missing, but www.sevenstories.org.uk www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk in Newcastle Story; experience the Square, Gateshead. www.sagegateshead.com where? Can you help Agent J solve The Secret of Seven Stories? Suitable UNTIL MONDAY 21 APRIL Glen Roughead. £21. 8pm. Sage Science Maze fun zone; marvel at EVERY MONDAY Eazy Street. One of the city’s stunning ship models in Story Of The for ages 7+ and their grown-ups. £7, Gateshead, St Mary’s Square, Gateshead, 6.30pm. Seven Stories, Ouseburn Valley, Brick City. This is an amazing most loved hangouts, Eazy Street’s www.sagegateshead.com Tyne; check out the Turbinia, the Little Bears Club. A club for open from noon until 3am every fastest ship in the world, in Discovery’s under-5s and their parents/carers with Newcastle. www.sevenstories.org.uk exhibition of the models featured in the acclaimed book, Brick City. It day offering a wide variety of Gregory Porter. £40, call venue foyer; and explore the region’s rich lots of fun rhymes, songs and stories. entertainment and cabaret. Every for times. Hoochie Coochie, 54-56 history of scientific invention and The club will be a drop-in but places Tales from the Enchanted Wood shows the versatility of LEGO and (signed session). Step into the highlights stunning architecture, art Sunday enjoy their Eazy Street Pilgrim St , Newcastle, 0191 222 0130. industrial activity in Tyneside may be limited on the day. 10am- Follies drag queen show. Free www.hoochiecoochie.co.uk Challenge. Discovery Museum, 10.30am. Newcastle City Library, Princess Enchanted Wood and see Enid Blyton’s and design from across the globe classic story, The Magic Faraway with over 60 scenes including the entry. Eazy Street, 8-10 Blandford Square, Newcastle. Square, Newcastle. www.newcastle.gov.uk Westmoreland Road, Newcastle. SATURDAY 15 MARCH www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery Tree brought to life with props, Colosseum in Rome, Berlin’s TV EVERY TUESDAY puppets and music – a playful, Tower and the London 2012 Olympic www.eazy-street.co.uk Stiff Little Fingers £18.50 Doors. Planetarium @ Life. Explore The imaginative storytelling experience. Park. See how real engineering FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS AND 6.30pm, performance time TBC, Planets at Life Science Centre’s Toddler Time. The BALTIC gallery’s £2.00, 11am. Seven Stories, Ouseburn challenges are overcome in miniature SUNDAYS o2 Academy, Westgate Road, Newcastle. stunning Planetarium. Take a look at learning space is transformed into a Valley, Newcastle. www.sevenstories.org.uk and be inspired to create your own www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk our nearest star, the Sun. Here on magical town for children under 5 and LEGO constructions! Life Science Sunset Boulevard. The newest Earth its warmth and light arevital their families to play with art. Stop off Centre, Times Square, Newcastle. venue on Newcastle’s LGBT scene is Ian Mcnabb. £tbc, 8pm. The Star and to life as we know it, but is our star at the village and play with different www.life.org.uk a great spot for a cocktail before a Shadow Cinema. Stepney Bank Newcastle. really that remarkable compared to materials, colours and shapes to show at nearby Boulevard, or just for www.starandshadow.org.uk decorate the town and find out more SATURDAY 22 MARCH the billions of others in our galaxy? partying well into the night. It’s SUNDAY 16 MARCH Life Science Centre, Times Square, about contemporary art. Ask at the inspired by Tinsel Town and has Info Point for your Toddler Time Magic Worlds Opening Day. Newcastle. www.life.org.uk Come in your finest Magic/dressy certainly brought a touch of Royal Northern Sinfonia – Oscar badge, with which you can have 10% Hollywood glam to this part of EVERY DAY discount in the Café bar. 10.30am to up costume to celebrate the opening Winners. Prices vary. 7pm Barry of the V & A Museum of Childhood’s Newcastle. Open until 1am on Norman joins Royal Northern 12.30pm every Tuesday. Baltic Centre Fridays, 2am on Saturdays and Story Times. Everyone enjoys a good for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Magic Worlds exhibition at the Sinfonia and the ever ebullient Carl UNTIL 16 MARCH museum. Highlights include a visit midnight on Sundays. 1 Marlborough Davis to guide you through some of story, so sit back, relax and enjoy Seven Gateshead. www.balticmill.com Crescent, Newcastle. www.sunsetblvd.co.uk Stories’ resident storytellers to hear Mystery, Magic and Midnight from Derek the Dragon. There’s also the greatest Oscar-winning music in your favourite stories old and new. Feasts - the Many Adventures a free spell book cake for our first MARKETS history. Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s 11.30am & 2pm. Seven Stories, Ouseburn of Enid Blyton. Enid Blyton is 50 visitors. Great North Museum: Square, Gateshead, www.sagegateshead.com Valley, Newcastle. www.sevenstories.org.uk one of the best-selling writers for Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle. MONDAY TO SATURDAY children of all time; her stories www.greatnorthmuseum.org.uk EVERY SATURDAY AND have delighted generation after Grainger Market, 9am to 5pm – SUNDAY generation. This exhibition shows, LGBT Monday and Wednesday, 9am to 5.30pm – for the first time, Seven Stories’ Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mini Illustrators. Dip your toe into EVERY NIGHT Closed on bank holidays. the world of illustration and explore unique Enid Blyton Collection of highlights of Seven Stories’ collection original typescripts and illustrations. Rusty’s Bar. Two floors and a huge EVERY SUNDAY that show how real illustrators do their This is a special opportunity for outdoor terrace, featuring live cabaret work. Have a go yourself and try out SATURDAY 15 MARCH visitors to immerse themselves in to disco, 70s-90s and pop. Led by Quayside Market, Quayside Road, methods including print-making and Enid’s worlds and stories, Rusty herself, five nights a week. every Sunday from 9.30am watercolour painting. Term time only. The Chuckle Brothers in a adventuring with The Famous 8pm-3am, free entry. Rusty’s Bar, Space Oddity. Paul and Barry Five, discovering Toyland with SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONDAY 17 MARCH For budding illustrators over 5 years Times Square, Newcastle. MONTH old and their families. 3pm. Seven visit a toy shop to buy water pistols Noddy and escaping to the The www.facebook.com/rustysnewcastle when they notice a toy spaceship. Magic Faraway Tree with Silky 911, £22, 7.30pm. Mill Volvo Tyne Stories, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle. Arts and Craft Market in the Theatre, Westgate Road, Newcastle. www.sevenstories.org.uk Clambering into the giant ship and Moonface, all before heading Switch Bar. Two bars and an they notice a flashing red to Green Hedges for tea. Seven outdoor terrace make this vibrant Grainger Market Arcade from 9am. www.millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk Busy Bs. Activities for young artists button. The shop keeper shouts, Stories, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle. and busy bar, with chart and pop music FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH TUESDAY 18 MARCH inspired by Baltic’s exhibitions. Suitable “Don’t touch that button!” but, www.sevenstories.org.uk its speciality, a must-visit. Switch Bar, for children aged 13 years and under. being The Chuckle Brothers they Scotswood Road, Newcastle. Farmers Market, Grainger Street, Steel Panther, £18, Doors. 7pm, Baltic, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead. simply cannot resist - they press Tiger, Mog and Pink Rabbit – www.switchbar.co.uk first Friday of every month from 9.30am performance time TBC. o2 Academy, www.balticmill.com the button and accidentally go in A Judith Kerr Retrospective. To until 2.30pm. Westgate Road, Newcastle. to space on a new adventure. But celebrate Judith Kerr’s 90th birthday The Bank Bar & Bistro. A popular www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS what will happen next? £14, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Mog and wine bar offering a lively atmosphere MUSIC AND THURSDAYS 2pm. Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, Pink Rabbit are back at Seven Stories. with good music and a variety of WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH Westgate Road, Newcastle. Along with almost 80 years of original cabaret acts. The Bank Bar, Scotswood THURSDAY 13 MARCH Babies Babble, Play and Move. www.millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk artwork, the exhibition houses a life Road, Newcastle. Find on facebook. Space and Republica 20th Start a musical journey with your baby size Tiger ready Tiger, Mog and Pink Ruth Jenkins Róbertsson Anniversary Tour. £15, Doors in these magical interactive music- St. Patrick’s Day - Family Ceilidh. Rabbit – A Judith Kerr Retrospective. One Bar. A uniquely chilled (soprano) and Will Vann (piano) 7pm, performance time TBC, making sessions. The activities support Music from Tony Corcoran’s band and To celebrate Judith Kerr’s 90th atmosphere that’s buzzing with performing Schumann’s Song Cycle o2 Academy, Westgate Road, Newcastle. your baby’s development through plenty of Irish dancing make the birthday The Tiger Who Came to happy funky house anthems, live Frauenliebe und-leben, and Mozart’s www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk 18 19 LISTINGS LISTINGS

THURSDAY 20 MARCH SATURDAY 22 MARCH a woman’s loss through her struggle story about Queen Victoria’s murder. Tickets from £12. 7.30pm. a 13-year absence. Transporting you for a future and the emptiness she controversial relationship with her 2pm matinee 20 March, 2.30pm to the coolest nightspot in town, Metronomy. £15.50. Doors 7pm, Crystal Palace, Premier League, Kick must overcome to survive. How Indian manservant, Abdul Karim. matinee 22 March. Theatre Royal, sharp-suited, snake-hipped men and performance time TBC, o2 Academy, off 3pm. Tickets on general sale. long will she keep running? £12, £14-£10, 7.30pm. Live Theatre, 100 Grey Street. strong, sassy women perform virtuoso Westgate Road, Newcastle. 7.30pm. Dance City, Temple St, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle. www.theatreroyal.co.uk courtship dances to some of the www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk ESH GROUP EAGLES NEWCASTLE Newcastle. www.dancecity.co.uk www.live.org.uk Stones’ most famous tunes, Refugee Boy. The stage adaptation including Not Fade Away, Paint It BOX OFFICE: 0191 245 3880 SATURDAY 15 MARCH of Benjamin Zephaniah’s celebrated www.newcastle-eagles.com Black, As Tears Go By, Sympathy for novel, Refugee Boy comes to the Devil and, naturally, Little Red FRIDAY 14 MARCH From Paris With Love. Presented Northern Stage. As a brutal war rages Rooster. Tickets from £11.00. by Opera North. Journey through the between Ethiopia and Eritrea one 7.30pm. Matinee 27 March 1.30pm. Leicester Riders, Tip Off 7.30. Tickets city of romance, with leading soloists teenage boy is brought to Britain by Theatre Royal, 100 Grey Street. on general sale together with the orchestra of Opera his parents and left alone in Berkshire. www.theatreroyal.co.uk North. Familiar favourites and FRIDAY MARCH 21 To protect him from the war. To neglected operatic gems are joined by find a new, safe home. Prices vary, FROM 25 AND 26 MARCH the more intimate bohemian cabarets, London Lions, Tip Off 7.30. Tickets Tue, Fri & Sat 7.30pm, Wed 10am on general sale infused with cigarette smoke, love & 6pm, Thu 6pm. Northern Stage, Translations. 1833. Rural Ireland. and heartbreak. Prices vary. 7.30pm. Barras Bridge, Newcastle. The British Army arrives to translate FRIDAY 21 MARCH STAGE Theatre Royal, 100 Grey Street. www.northernstage.co.uk Gaelic place names into the King’s WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH www.theatreroyal.co.uk English. Farm-girl Máire finds herself Maximo Park. £18.50. Doors THE SECOND AND LAST AND FRIDAY 14 MARCH FROM 19 – 22 MARCH torn between the affections of the local 6.30pm, performance time TBC, SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH school teacher and the love of a British o2 Academy, Westgate Road, Newcastle. The Girl of the Golden West by Private Peaceful relives the life of soldier, between her native tongue and www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk Open Stage. Alphabetti Spaghetti Puccini. Presented by Opera Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First a new language, between the comfort Theatre opens the small stage in The North Puccini’s opera, set during World War soldier awaiting the firing of the world she knows and the Fall Out Boy. £27.50. 7.30pm. Dog & Parrot for an intimate evening the California Gold Rush, is a story squad at dawn. During the night he excitement of foreign possibilities. Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle. of performance from creatives and of true love and second chances looks back at his short but joyful past The resulting clash of two worlds www.metroradioarena.co.uk artists alike. Theemphasis is to give involving the love triangle between growing up in rural Devon: his threatens the very heart of the a platform for new, original a wanted bandit, the Sheriff and exciting first days at school; the community as they struggle to Ray Harris. Free, 9pm. Hoochie performance - whether it’s music, Minnie, the Girl of the Golden accident in the forest that killed his interpret a new language and each Coochie, 54-56 Pilgrim St, Newcastle theatre, comedy, dance, spoken word, West who runs the saloon. The father; his adventures with Molly, the other. What gets lost in translation? 01912220130, www.hoochiecoochie.co.uk mime - performers are given the opera boasts some of Puccini’s most love of his life; and the battles and Prices vary. 7.30pm, Wed 6pm & Sat stage to test out new work in front beautiful and innovative music, injustices of war that brought him to 2pm. Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, SATURDAY 22 MARCH of a live audience. It’s a really intimate, which soundtracks this beautiful, TUESDAY 18 MARCH the front line. Tickets from £13/£15. Newcastle. www.northernstage.co.uk friendly atmosphere where performers rarely performed opera. Theatre 11am. 2pm showings on 19 and 21 Maximo Park. £18.50. Doors can try out their work and receive Royal, 100 Grey Street, Newcastle, Moscow Ballet - La Classique: March. Theatre Royal, 100 Grey Street. 6.30pm, performance time TBC, feedback for it over a few drinks. www.theatreroyal.co.uk Swan Lake. Moscow Ballet – La www.theatreroyal.co.uk TALKS/ o2 Academy, Westgate Road, Newcastle. The Dog & Parrot, 52 Clayton Classique once again grace the WORKSHOPS www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk Street West, Newcastle. stage the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre THURSDAY 20 MARCH The Wanted, Prices vary. 7.30pm. www.alphabettispaghettitheatre.co.uk with the most popular of all classic ballets - Swan Lake. The Northern Platforms. This is Dance Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle. UNTIL THURSDAY 13 MARCH world-renowned Moscow Ballet - City’s chance to show you the best www.metroradioarena.co.uk La Classique return to demonstrate of dance being created in the North. How To Occupy An Oil Rig. £5. £730. Dance City, Temple St, MONDAY 24 MARCH their continued quality of dance £14.50, 8pm. There are all sorts of and performance in a dramatic Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear Natives. £7. Doors 7pm, performance lessons to be learned in life. How to production of this timeless Newcastle. www.dancecity.co.uk get served at the bar. How to crash a time TBC, o2 Academy, Westgate Road, favourite set to Tchaikovsky’s 21 AND 22 MARCH Newcastle. www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk boardroom meeting. How to avoid becoming romantically involved superb score. 7.30pm. £20/£22.50. 7.30pm. Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, Wishbone. A cold, crisp Christmas TUESDAY 25 MARCH with an undercover police officer. In this playful and provocative show Westgate Road, Newcastle, morning. It is early. Very early. Those Jason Derulo. £28.50. Doors 7pm, about protest you’ll learn how to www.millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk who are game find a reason to get up and out, whilst those who are not performance time TBC, o2 Academy, do all of this and more. Northern THURSDAY 13 MARCH FROM 18 – 22 MARCH Westgate Road, Newcastle. Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle, snooze on. Up on Collie’s Reach, 40 www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk www.northernstage.co.uk Macbeth by Verdi. presented by Dial M for Murder. When year old Meryl happens upon Jamie, Opera North. Macbeth is a murder calls... hang up. Frederick a disheveled young man still reeling EVERY TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH THURSDAY 13 MARCH successful soldier, but seduced by a Knott’s intense and darkly gripping from a Christmas Eve party. You know WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY dark prophecy and goaded by his thriller, Dial M for Murder, how it is. You pass the time, you get Russel Watson. Prices vary. 7pm. Live Screenplays: Rocket Man wife, he becomes consumed by chatting, you find out what you have Free Guided Tours. The Tyneside By Lee Hall. The life of Elton John famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, Cinema was originally built as Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s Square, ambition that ultimately leads to is now on a UK tour, starring in common. As it transpires, the two Gateshead, www.sagegateshead.com. from birth to rehab – as told in an bloodshed, madness and despair. share a lot more than their appearances Newcastle’s News Theatre in 1937 outrageous musical extravaganza. Christopher Timothy as Inspector and today it’s the only purpose- Based on Shakespeare’s great Hubbard. Tony is convinced his wife betray. £8, 8pm. Live Theatre, Broad Susan Boyle. £45, £37. 7.30pm. £12-£10, 7.30pm. Live Theatre, tragedy, Verdi has created a gripping Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne built newsreel theatre in the UK Newcastle City Hall. Northumberland Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle is having an affair. We watch still operating as a cinema. If you music drama of extravagance and mesmerised at Tony’s precision in Newcastle. www.live.org.uk Road, Newcastle. www.newcastlecityhall.org upon Tyne Newcastle. www.live.org.uk originality. Prices vary. 7pm. want to find out more about the planning what must surely be the 25 AND 26 MARCH history of the Tyneside Cinema and Theatre Royal, 100 Grey Street. perfect murder... until it falters in SPORT Running On Empty is the story of www.theatreroyal.co.uk newsreel theatres, come and have a a man, a woman and their encounters the most unexpected way. Rambert. The rock’n’roll swagger of look around our fascinating NEWCASTLE UNITED over time - travelling through dreams, FRIDAY 14 MARCH Claustrophobic and frightening, the Rolling Stones is brought building. 11.15am, Free Entry. ST JAMES’ PARK fears and jagged memories. Absurd, Lucy Bailey’s exciting new production thrillingly to life in Rooster – one of Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, BOX OFFICE: 0844 372 1892 humorous and sometimes devastating, Live Screenplays: Victoria & reclaims this brilliant and erotic tale Rambert’s all-time best-loved works, Newcastle. www.tynesidecinema.co.uk www.nufc.co.uk Running On Empty journeys from Abdul. By Lee Hall. A fascinating of betrayal, passion and ultimately, making a much anticipated return after 20 21 LISTINGS SIGN UP NOW EVERY TUESDAY 22 AND 23 MARCH Irish music. Alphabetti Spaghetti Theatre (Upstairs at The Dog & Parrot). 52 Conversation Group. Informal The Digital Discovery Weekender. Clayton Street St West. Newcastle. weekly English language conversation This two day workshop will give you practice to meet and learn language the opportunity to view the museum’s SATURDAY 22 MARCH Worth skills. Open to people with any or no collections in a whole new light, using level of experience. The group aims to the museum’s many different and Amphibians of the North East. be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. intriguing objects as a backdrop to Join local expert John R Grundy to Free, 4pm. The Star And Shadow your digital creations. Former BBC learn about the different types of Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. video journalist, Mark Batey will be on newts, frogs and toads that can be www.starandshadow.org.uk hand to help you create stories inspired found in the North East and have a go by objects on display. Mark is a video at finding and identifying them in the EVERY THURSDAY wild. The first session will be held at getting out journalism trainer and producer who the Great North Museum: Hancock, Film Club. Every Thursday at 3pm has trained hundreds of journalists to followed by a break and then a local the Film Club meets in the Tyneside film and edit great stories. Topics of the site visit looking for amphibians. Bar, giving people the chance to talk course include framing and shooting £15.50, 1.30pm and 5.45pm. Great about the same film and have a drink video, editing, shooting still photos, North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, and a catch up too. The club’s open recording audio, structuring a Newcastle www.greatnorthmuseum.org.uk for anybody and participants decide storyboard and script. £79 for both of bed for... which film out of our current days. 11am - 4pm. Discovery Museum, Ndanifor Garden Trust Uk ‘On programme they all should see the Blandford Square, Newcastle. The Third Day Of Spring’ Party. Our FREE weekend must-read guide is packed Thursday before. Tyneside Cinema, www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery Beginning with family story telling Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. between 6pm and 7pm, the party with great things to do with your downtime www.tynesidecinema.co.uk ONE OFF EVENTS includes live music, international food, international dancing, auction, films THURSDAY 13 MARCH FRIDAY 14 MARCH and launch of the Ndanifor ‘Songs for and African Garden CD 2014. All STROLL AWAY FROM IT ALL The Bombing War 1939 – 1945: Carnival of Crows Circus Circus. profits to the Permaculture project New Perspectives. Bombing in the A night of carnival fun, funky music in Cameroon. Bar provided by the BIT OF CHAT BOOK IT NOW Second World War continues to excite and circus magic. You will be Start and Shadow.£5, 6pm. Star and controversy 70 years later. Richard welcomed in by the Ariel Noodlers Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, FEAST - STAY IN WEEKENDING Overy, Professor of History, University on trapeze, silks and hoop. Drink a Newcastle. www.starandshadow.org.uk TIME-OUT of Exeter re-examines the many myths glass of champagne from their shoes FEAST - EAT OUT and misconceptions surrounding all and enjoy their ariel antics. Be the bomber offensives, focusing in entertained by jugglers, LED hoop LAST WORD... particular on the impact of the Blitz, and Poi, burlesque dance and dark the policies behind Anglo-American magic. £5, 7.30pm. Star and Shadow That’s a wrap for another two bombing, and the effects of this Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. weeks. We hope you got offensive not only in Germany, but www.starandshadow.org.uk everything you need to fill your also across occupied and Axis Europe. boots in the city centre’s throng Free, 5.30pm. Curtis Auditorium, of shops, eateries, drinking Herschel Building, Newcastle University, holes and cultural sites. Next Newcastle. www.ncl.ac.uk time we meet the lighter nights FRIDAY 14 MARCH and better weather will no doubt have everyone salivating Writing for children and young over thoughts of summer. adults with writer Ellen Phethean. Clothes shops have already 7pm. 10.15am. The Lit & Phil, 23 swapped their racks of onesies Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, for bikinis and speedos and the Newcastle. www.litandphil.org.uk SATURDAY 15 MARCH city’s pubs are stocking up with TUESDAY 18 MARCH Walking Tour: The History of pear cider and strawberry ale as beer gardening season Noble Endeavours: England Newcastle United. Join the team and Germany – in praise of a at Discovery for a walking tour approaches. Watch out next forgotten friendship. This talk, of the prestigious St. James Park, issue for more tips and titbits held by novelist and biographer home to the football club. to guide you through this great Miranda Seymour, considers £5, 11am. Discovery Museum, city of ours. In the meantime, Blandford Square, Newcastle. see if you can’t get yourself a reconciliation between two countries www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery through a history of their friendship table at Jamie’s new joint. By and cultural and political exchange. MONDAY 17 MARCH the early accounts, you won’t Beginning with the alliance of two regret it. Protestant powers in 1613, and the MIXTAPE: Now That’s What I creation of a Shakespearean theatre call St Patrick’s Day. Come along to in Heidelberg, it ends with the MIXTAPE’s St Patrick’s Day edition For more visit performance by English POWs of and be in with the chance of winning getintonewcastle.co.uk The Merchant of Venice to their the highly coveted Golden MIXTAPE Nazi guards. Free. 5.30pm. Curtis and a four pack of Guinness. Part NEXT ISSUE IS OUT Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle theatre show & part pop quiz. 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