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We’ve teamed up with Darlington Civic Theatre to bring you some great 2 for 1 offers. This week we’re offering you a Culture Club discount on the Vagina Monologues.
DATE 28/11/05 & 29/11/05 VENUE Civic Theatre TICKETS £13 - £19
Following a sell-out season last year, The Vagina Monologues returns to Darlington this Autumn with a brand new celebrity cast. This hilariously witty and moving collection of tales gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, brave and thoroughly human stories.
A staggering number of the world's most famous and talented women, from Kate Winslet and Whoopi Goldberg to Sophie Dahl and Jerry Hall have chosen to take part in the show in New York, Los Angeles and London.
This time it stars Linda Robson (Birds of a feather), Josie D’arby (TV presenter) and Alison Newman (Footballer’s Wives).
The Independent described this show as 'Laugh out loud FUNNY, witty provocative and deeply poignant – let us know what you think.
Please note that this production is not suitable for under 16's. Some explicit language is used during the show. The show runs from November 28th to December 3rd but the ticket offer is only available on the first 2 nights.
John Stevens, Chief Constable of Northumbria Police from 1991-1996, will be in conversation with David Whetstone, literary editor of the Journal, talking about his bestselling book, Not for the Faint-Hearted: My Life Fighting Crime on Monday 21 November, 7pm at Waterstone's, Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, Newcastle.
John Stevens has received twenty-seven commendations for bravery or skilled detective work, and in 1991 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal. He was knighted in 2000 and raised to the peerage as Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington at the beginning of 2005.
During his role as Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force he achieved the most spectacular reduction in crime ever known in Britain.
Not for the Faint Hearted tells the inspiring story of how he rose through the ranks, beginning as a copper on the beat on London's Tottenham Court Road, to becoming Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 2000-2005. He talks about 9/11 and the recent London bombings, breeches of security against the Royal Family, the maintenance of public law and order and much, much more.
Tickets normally cost £3 but we have teamed up with Waterstones to offer Culture Club members the chance to get 50% off the ticket price - so you pay only £1.50.
FACTOTUM (15)
Thursday November 17th from 6.30pm
Due for release at the end of November 2005, this is a pitch-perfect English-language feature film by Norwegian director Bent Hamer (director of the international Ktchen Stories). Matt Dillon is the downbeat writer Henry Chinaski. With no interest in working for a living he does the minimum to sustain his unwavering commitment to drinking, gambling, women and writing stories that are continually thrown out by publishers.
Co-starring Marisa Tomei and Lili Taylor, as two of his conquests, Dillon plays a perfect representation of the character devised by beat poet Charles Bukowski.
Tickets normally cost £6 (£5 for concessions) but Culture Club members can get 2 for the price of 1 with this fantastic offer.
Gosta Berlings Saga (with Live Musical Accompaniment)
Sunday November 20, 2005 at 7pm
This is the film that persuaded Hollywood that Garbo could be a star. Gosta Berling, a rebellious defrocked priest with an idelaistic attitude to life is our reluctant hero in this story of excess and love under fire. Garbo plays the Countess Elisabeth Dohna who falls for the wayward priest and brings him back from the edge of destitution. A glorious chance for Garbo fans to see her in her first major female lead with a brand new musical score by Matti Bye.
Matti Bye is one of Sweden’s most prominent composers and musicians and has worked with some of the world’s greatest screen and stage directors, from Ingmar Bergman to Robert LePage. Perhaps best known for his unique accompaniments to silent film he was commissioned by the Swedish Film Institute to write an original score for Garbo’s The Gosta Berlings Saga to commemorate the centenary of her birth.
It was performed in front of a rapturous crowd in Stockholm in September and now it’s being performed live and exclusive in the UK for Northern Lights Film Festival.
Tickets normally cost £6 (£5 on concessions) but Culture Club members can purchase a ticket for only £4.
Christmas shoppers looking for that special gift can take their pick of quality textiles and designer jewellery on sale at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
The Gallery's annual selling exhibition, Christmas Present, is now in its fifteenth year and enables visitors to buy work by nationally renowned makers, all in the relaxing surroundings of the Shipley.
This year's exhibition focuses on textiles and jewellery and gives shoppers the chance to pick up a unique Christmas gift. The exhibition features items by over 40 leading textile and jewellery designers, including wall hangings, framed textiles, rugs, scarves, neckpieces and bangles.
Some of the makers whose work will be available include textile artists Sara Keith, who uses Shibori, the ancient art of Japanese resist dyeing, to produce a range of unique fashion accessories and Wendy Freeman, who uses a combination of embroidery and painting to produce unusual textile art.
Jewellers who will be exhibiting their work include Shimara Carlow, a renowned silversmith whose work featured in the Shipley's contemporary silver exhibition, Shimmer, earlier this year.
Many of the makers featured are also local to the region, including textile artists Paddy Killer, Ali Rhind and Fiona Rutherford who are from Newcastle, Sheila Martin from Hexham and Jasmine Hixson from Durham.
Works in the exhibition range in price from £25 to around £1,000.
Christmas Present runs from 18 November 2005 to 8 January 2006 at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. The gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 2pm to 5pm. Admission is free.
We have 20 exclusive invitations to the launch of the exhibition to give away to Culture Club members. The launch takes place on Thursday November 17 from 7pm to 9pm and Paddy Killer, textile artist, will open the exhibition.
The Journal Culture Club has teamed up with The LockerRoom, Newcastle's most comprehensive beauty, health and therapy salon, to offer 15 Culture Club members plus a friend, the chance to relax and pamper themselves at an exclusive evening on Wednesday November 16 beginning at 6pm.
The salon, which offers a range of beauty treatments for men and women, has agreed to host a drinks, nibbles and a pampering evening to celebrate it's first anniversary, exclusively for Culture Club members. The evening will include a host of beauty demonstrations and special offers to members.
Located In the city centre's Bigg Market, TheLockerRoom is a spacious retreat from the fast moving city life, encompassing fine furnishings in a relaxing, tranquil atmosphere.
The salon offers range of treatments and therapies, which can be tailored to suit individual needs, utilising the most modern and up to date equipment, products and techniques. The team of professional beauticians are not only trained to perform facials, aromatherapy massages, waxing and hand and foot treatments, but the salon also offers CACI and Epil-Pro.
CACI is a completely painless non-surgical face, body lift and toning treatment, which soothes the appearance of lines and wrinkles. Epil-Pro is a revolutionary new system of hair removal, it uses sound waves and static energy to destroy hair at its root, thereby ensuring a safe, painless, fast and permanent result.
TheLockerRoom also offers caters for group bookings whereby you can reserve the lounge room and pamper yourselves with treatments for an entire day.
Packages with relevant names such as 'Beat the Blues', 'Holiday Time' and 'De-Tox' are also offered on a day-to-day basis, which include a variety of treatments for a set price. These are also ideal for hen parties.
TheLockerRoom is located at Abbey House, 7 / 9 Bigg Market. The salon is open from 9am am until 6 pm Monday- Saturday and has late night opening until 8pm on a Thursday.
The evening is strictly limited to 30 places and is free to Culture Club members. Each member may apply for 2 places.
A Cock and Bull Story (15)
Thursday November 24th from 8.05pm
The UK’s most prolific and innovative director. Michael Winterbottom, turns his hand to filming a book that was always described as being unfilmable, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern.
Rather like Ricky Gervais’ BBC comedy Extras with every episode mixing the story in front of and behind the camera, this film is an anarchic blend of scenes from the 18th century tale and footage of the cast and crew’s back-stage antics in the 21st century.
It flits hilariously between the two ‘realities’ with the fabulous pairing of Steve Coogan as Tristam Shandy (I’m Alan Partridge, 24-Hour Party People) and Rob Brydon as Uncle Toby (Marion and Geoff). They are supported by an excellent cast that inlcudes Stephen Fry, Dylan Moran, David Walliams, Mark Williams, Kelly MacDonald, Ian Hurt and Shirley Hendersen. There’s barely a moment when you won’t be laughing.
Tickets normally cost £6 (£5 for concessions) but Culture Club members can get 2 for the price of 1 with this fantastic offer.
We’ve teamed up with Darlington Arts Centre and Darlington Civic Theatre to bring you some great 2 for 1 offers. This week we’re offering you a Culture Club discount on Marrying the Mistress – a drama classic.
DATE 14/11/05 and 15/11/05 at 7.30pm
VENUE Civic Theatre TICKETS £13.00 - £19.00
Television favourites Caroline Langrishe (Judge John Deed), Adrian Lukis (Peak Practice), Jeremy Clyde (ITV's Dr Zhivago) and Polly Adams (The Camomile Lawn) star in the world premiere of Joanna Trollope's best-selling novel Marrying the Mistress brought to you by the producers of The Shell Seekers and Arsenic & Old Lace.
After many years of marriage, a distinguished judge announces that he is leaving his wife to marry his younger mistress. This decision, not surprisingly, has a shattering effect on his family, disrupting not only his life, but the lives of his children, their respective partners, and his grandchildren. One of the author’s most popular and widely read novels, Marrying the Mistress shows Joanna’s wonderful storytelling talent at its very best.
The RSC’s Newcastle Residency starts next month, running from 14 November – 3 December at the Theatre Royal, The People’s Theatre and Live Theatre. The RSC is delighted to be able to offer The Journal Culture Club members an exclusive ticket offer to see one of the productions from their highly acclaimed Gunpowder Season.
Tickets for A New Way to Please You at The People’s Theatre, Heaton on Friday 18 November at 7.30pm are available for just £16 (normally £20) and the ticket also includes a free glass of wine before the show and a pre-show talk about the production.
A New Way to Please You, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, is an hilarious black comedy. When a law is passed stating that every man at the age of 80 and every woman at the age of 60 should be ‘put down’ for having no further use to society, cross-generational fireworks are unleashed!
We’ve teamed up with Darlington Arts Centre and Darlington Civic Theatre to bring you some great 2 for 1 offers. This week we’re offering you a Culture Club discount on Gaslight – a thrilling drama.
DATE 08/11 and 09/11 VENUE Civic Theatre TICKETS £11.50 / £17.50
Gaslight stars Leah Bracknell and Peter Amory, best known as Zoe and Chris Tate from ITV’s Emmerdale.
This dark thriller is set in the late 19th century, and looks at one evening in the life of Mr and Mrs Manningham who live in Angel Street, London.
Manningham is suave, authoritative: his wife Bella is nervous, almost frightened. Manningham has made hurtful accusations and Bella feels everyone is against her. Is she insanely paranoid, or is the criticism justified? After Manningham leaves abruptly, a stranger named Rough visits Bella. He astonishes her with his explanation of the mysterious disappearance of random objects and the dimming of the gaslights.
A true classic both with worldwide theatre audiences and film fans who will recall Ingrid Bergman’s oscar-winning performance in Hitchcock’s memorable film. This is spine-tingling theatre at its best!
To celebrate the 6th anniversary of La Riviera, one of the regions best loved restaurants, we’re offering 5 Culture Club members and their guests the chance to attend what promises to be a truly fabulous VIP evening.
At last year’s anniversary celebrations La Riviera showed 400 guests a night to remember as endless glasses of 1960 Vintage Laurent Perrier Champagne flowed into the early hours complemented by a delicious hot and cold buffet. As the music played guests danced into the night and a posse of entertainers transfixed their audience with fire-eaters and magic tricks. The whole evening was recorded and played back to the guests during the night.
For their sixth anniversary on Tuesday 15th November, La Riviera plan to exceed last year’s extravagances and have some fantastic surprises up their sleeves.
Similar to last year’s celebrations the party will be a ‘Red Carpet Affair’. The film crew will be there to capture the guests’ arrival and the evening will commence with a Champagne Reception complete with canapés and mouth-watering cuisine.
It was six years ago that La Riviera opened its doors offering diners an extensive range of high quality continental delicacies in their intimate and inviting surroundings. The popularity of the restaurant is not only due to the excellent cuisine and extensive menu. It is also the sincere and warm reception that all guests receive upon entering the restaurant from owner Ali and his experienced team of staff.
So if you have more va va voom than Thierry Henry or you simply follow Ms. Aniston’s philosophy, ‘because I’m worth it’, then why not enter our competition?
If you haven't been to the Lit and Phil Library, you're missing one of Newcastle's most interesting buildings. Unlike many of the city's historic buildings, this one remains today what it was purpose built to be 180 years ago.
This amazing Grade II* listed building was opened in 1825 as a permanent home for the Literary and Philosophical Society and the magnificent reading rooms remain largely unchanged today. In the early days, members were leading thinkers and included Robert Stephenson, Lord Armstrong and Joseph Swan. The society's lecture theatre was the first public room to be lit by electric light, during a lecture by Joseph Swan in October 1880.
Today the library houses a wide selection of current fiction and non-fiction alongside historical collections covering every field of interest.
This independent collection is being preserved and enhanced, as over 1000 books are added every year. The music library is without equal in the north of England. Over 6000 CDs and 10000 LPs cover classical, jazz and folk music together with over 5000 items of printed music, miniature scores and a wide selection of music books and periodicals. Six hundred CDs are added to the music library every year.
The Lit and Phil has an interesting programme of events including book launches, poetry readings, historical lectures and recitals. Events are free and open to members and non-members.
The library is open from Monday to Saturday from 9.30am until 7pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8pm on Tuesday, 5pm on Friday and 1pm on Saturday.
Now's your chance to learn more about the building, the society and its fascinating history. Culture Club members are invited to join us for a tour of the Lit and Phil, on November 15, 2005 at 6.30pm.
The tour is strictly limited to 25 places and is free to Culture Club members. Each member may apply for 2 places.
Following on from our hugely successful 'behind the scenes' event at the National Glass Centre last night, we have teamed up with Arts & Business to give Culture Club members a special treat this month.
The National Glass Centre is a cultural centre dedicated to the exploration, creation and promotion of glass. Based in an innovative new building, set on the north bank of the River Wear, the venue supports creativity in glass through a diverse programme of exhibitions, talks, tours, hot glass demonstrations, workshops and glass production facilities.
Starting tomorrow (Saturday October 22) and running until Saturday November 5, 2005 Culture Club members plus one guest may visit the National Glass Centre and take the Behind the Scenes Glass Tour free of charge.
 
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