Teesside Cyberpunk Convention PROGRAMME OF EVENTS Key to Venues Basecamp The Arc Georgian Theatre M’bro Town Hall Wilton Teesside Uni Northern School of Art Cineworld DAY ONE - Thursday 7th November 13.00 Registration and welcome 18.15 Blade Runner Final Cut Outdoor Screening at Wilton 16.00 Coaches to Wilton International International, Redcar 17.00 Coach Tour of Wilton International, Redcar (Chemical works 21.00 Coaches to Base Camp, Middlesbrough inspiration for Blade Runner opening sequences/Hades 22.00 After Party at Base Camp, Middlesbrough. Landscape) Featuring Nixon (DIANE) 01.00 Close DAY TWO - Friday 8th November 10.00 Refreshments (ARC Centre Stockton-on-Tees) 15.00 Ivor Powell: Associate Producer of Alien and Blade Runner ‘In 10.30 Talk 1: Iain Souter: The Inhumanity of Man; Heroes and conversation’ event, chaired by Clarisse Loughrey, Chief Film Villains; and Transcending Artificiality. (Iain Souter. Founder Critic for The Independent. of the world’s largest Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 17.30 Stockton refreshments! fans groups) 18.00 ‘How Many Electric Sheep Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?’ 11.15 Talk 2: Ian Dunn: Cyberpunk and Anime (Stockton’s very own Written and performed by Scott Turnbull, a Teesside Ian Dunn - pen-name Ian Wolf Anime and Manga critic) adaptation of Philip K Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Elecric 12.00 Chaired panel/Q+A (with Jaime Prater, Shoulder of Orion Sheep’. New commission funded by Stockton-on-Tees Council. Podcast, Worlds leading Blade Runner podcast) 19.00 An Audience with screen legend Joanna Cassidy (Zhora 12.30 Lunch break Salome in Blade Runner) with Paul M. Sammon (author of 13.30 Talk 3: Beth Singler: Mercerism, Religion and Gender (Dr Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner), ARC, Stockton-on- Beth Singler Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Tees Homerton College, and Associate Research Fellow, The 21.00 Cyberpunk Social event at Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on- Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge Tees, featuring: SHACKLETON, The Rosen Corporation, The University) Invisible Presence, STEEL CITY COLLECTIVE (DJ Jonny Lazer 13.30 Special Katy Haber (Production Executive, Blade Runner), and DJ LA Rock), + more TBC + new Teesside based artist AV workshop with local school and college students. commission funded by Stockton-on-Tees Council. 14.30 Break/refreshments 02.00 Close DAY THREE - Saturday 9th November 10.00 Cyberpunk Market open (Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt, 16.00 Keynote by Paul M. Sammon followed by Q+A Fire Station, Court Room and Court Yard) Open til 5pm 19.00 Cyberpunk Ball at Middlesbrough Town Hall, featuring: 11.15 Stephen Wright, European School of Visual Art ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, KINDRED LUFT FRONT, STEEL CITY 12.00 Chaired Q+A with Beth Singler and Robin Bunce COLLECTIVE (DJ Jonny Lazer and DJ LA Rock), Robot(A), 12.30 Break for lunch and trip to Cyberpunk Market Bonnacons of Doom, plus premiere of Paul Sullivan’s ‘DEATH OF AN ANDROID’ performed by Joanna Cassidy with score by 13.30 John Byrne, Liverpool JMU (Court Room MTH) VESSEL and Daniel Thorne 14.00 Dr Benjamin Lamb (Court Room MTH) 02.00 Close 15.00 Katy Haber (Production Executive, Blade Runner) ‘In Conversation’ with Paul M. Sammon DAY FOUR - Sunday 10th November 10.00 Coaches to Greens Beck Road, Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees 13.00 Screening of ‘Boy and Bicycle’ (Ridley Scott 1965) in from outside Holiday Inn, Middlesbrough collaboration with the Northern Art School, Hartlepool. 10.30 Talk by local historian at Greens Beck Road, Hartburn, 14.00 Coaches to Transporter Bridge Stockton-on-Tees outside Ridley Scott’s old house 14.30 Sound artwork whilst crossing the Transporter Bridge 10.45 Ridley Scott ‘Boy and Bicycle’ Re-enactment bike ride to 15.30 Screening of Blade Runner 2049 followed by Q+A with Hartlepool (Town of Ridley Scott’s former college) Dr Robin Bunce (Cambridge University. Author of Blade 12.30 Ceremonial procession Sound artwork whist cycling down Runner 2049 and Philosophy.) Church Street and into Church Square, Hartlepool (New 20.00 BASE CAMP finale party: Natalie Sharp/Lone Taxidermist and commission) Nik Void performance with visuals by Dan Tombs 12.00 Close Tickets & Information: www.cyberpunkconvention.com.