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We've teamed up with The Sage Gateshead and Samling Opera to give Culture Club members this great opportunity to purchase two tickets for the price of one for the new production of Mozart's much loved opera with six international young singers, Northern Sinfonia and conducted by Northern Sinfonia's Music Director Thomas Zehetmair.
If you buy a ticket for the performance on Friday 8th July you can claim a second to the same value absolutely free!
The concert takes place on Wednesday 6 July, Friday 8 July (offer performance) and Saturday 9 July in Hall One, The Sage Gateshead at 7.30pm.
Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a tale of love and deception, of heartache and betrayal. The scheming Don Alfonso persuades his two young friends Guglielmo and Ferrando to test the fidelity of Fiordiligi and Dorabella, with each trying to seduce the other’s sweetheart.
What begins as an elaborate joke turns into a dangerous game, and we are never really sure whether true love can triumph. International opera star Sir Thomas Allen directs this simply staged new production of Mozart’s well-loved opera, featuring six fantastically gifted young singers.
This production is in association with The Samling Foundation. Tickets cost £6, £11, £16, £21, £26.
The Treehouse at The Alnwick Garden is open for dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6pm. Every Thursday evening from 7pm there is live jazz, featuring some of the finest musicians in the North East, playing from a musical menu of popular jazz standards, American song book, gypsy hot club, original pieces and more.
The Treehouse offers a fantastic range of locally sourced and produced high quality food in a unique treetop location, and you can choose from our chef's a la carte menu or from a set menu.
We're giving Culture Club members the chance to win dinner for two in The Treehouse on one of our summer jazz evenings. The winning pair will be able to enjoy dishes such as oven-baked John Dory with coriander courgettes and sherry hollandaise or fillet of Alnwick estate venison with rosti potato and Drambuie and peppercorn jus, on any of the following evenings:
Thursday 7th July - Lindsey Hanan (vocals) and Ben Gilbert (keys)
Thursday 14th July - Graham Wood (keys) and Andrea Pattinson (vocal)
Thursday 21st July - Sue Ferris (saxes) and Colin Haikney (keys)
Thursday 28th July - Fiona Lander (keys, whistle, recorder) and Paul Mason (guitar)
Thursday 4th August - Giles Strong (guitar) and Nick Walsh (double bass)
Thursday 11th August - Paul Donnelly (guitar) and Emma Fisk (violin)
Thursday 18th August - Colin Haikney (keys) and Neil Harland (bass)
Thursday 25th August - Roly Veitch (guitar) and Neil Harland (double bass)
Thursday 1st September - Noel Dennis (trumpet) and Adam Dennis (keys)
Thursday 8th September - Stewart Collingwood (keys) and Gary Linsley (sax)
Thursday 15th September - Ruth Lambert (vocal) and Paul Donnelly (guitar)
Thursday 22nd September - Alison Hildreth (keys and vocal) and Mick Wright (guitar)
We have teamed up with Marshall Hall and the directors of Arts Dictionaries Ltd to invite you to the launch of the new revised and enlarged edition of ‘The Artists of Northumbria ‘at University Gallery and Baring Wing.
The event takes place on Thursday July 21st 2005 from 6-8pm and we have secured 5 invitations for Culture Club members and their guests to go along on the night.
Marshall Hall, author and art lover published the first edition of the book himself in 1973. It featured 315 painters, was a complete success and sold out in just over a year. A second, enlarged edition of The Artists of Northumbria, featuring 650 artists, came out in 1982. Marshall says it has become a collector’s item, changing hands for £70 against the original cover price of £15!
This latest lavishly illustrated new edition of The Artists of Northumbria includes more than 1,000 artists on 450 pages and costs £55. Those attending the launch can purchase the book for only £44 – a discount of 20%.
We’ve teamed up with Arts & Business to bring you a night of theatre at Newcastle’s Castle Keep on Tuesday July 26, 2005. We’re offering our members the chance to come along and see the first performance of ‘Burning Ambition’, a new play written by Andrea Sutherland and directed by Gary Wilkinson, absolutely free!
A little after midnight on Friday 6 October 1854 a fire broke out at Wilson’s worsted factory on Hillgate Quay in Gateshead. Crowds gathered to watch as the building was reduced to rubble in less than an hour. The flames then spread to Bertram’s warehouse, jammed full of highly combustible materials, causing a huge explosion.
In one of the most dramatic and tragic events in the history of Tyneside, many people perished, and hundreds more were left homeless and destitute on both sides of the river.
As part of the celebrations surrounding the Tall Ships race, Newcastle-based theatre company, Stage Focus, is presenting Burning Ambition, a new play, which focuses on the events leading up to the tragedy. Following exhaustive research, writer Andrea Sutherland has recreated a vibrant cross-section of Victorian Tyneside society.
Featuring a mix of history, comedy and live music courtesy of Northumbrian folk outfit, Death at the Leek Show, Burning Ambition is recommended to everyone interested in theatre and the North East’s rich heritage.
Stage Focus is one of the region’s most acclaimed and popular non-professional theatre companies. As resident theatre company at the Castle Keep, it has produced a string of sell-out shows at the venue, including adaptations of A Christmas Carol, Dracula and, most recently, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as their own work, The Dead House. In addition it has staged productions at Live Theatre and The Buddle Arts Centre in Wallsend.
Max Adams, TV writer & presenter, has agreed to give an exclusive talk to Culture Club members about his new book ‘Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero ’. In it he discusses the life of Newcastle-born, Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson's great friend and the man who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte.
Max paints a vivid, engrossing and often moving portrait of a man who was an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist.
This is a unique opportunity for Culture Club members to learn about one of England’s greatest unsung heroes – and get to meet his charming biographer Max Adams.
The event will be held at The Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle on Tuesday July 12, 2005. Guests will be asked to arrive at 6pm and will be shown to the function room where they will be able to enjoy refreshments. Max will then give a 45-minute talk about Collingwood and his new book before opening the floor to questions.
Calling all aspiring chefs! We’ve teamed up with North East restaurant Oldfields to invite you to a fantastic cooking demonstration on Thursday July 28, 2005 at Oldfields restaurant on Osborne Road, Jesmond.
Starting at 6.30pm the evening will begin with a cooking demonstration, where guests will be shown how to recreate some of the dishes on Oldfields’ menu. Tasting of the ingredients will be encouraged but try to leave room for the fantastic 2 course meal which follows the demonstration (please note that the meal will be included in the ticket price).
Owner and director of Oldfields, Bill Oldfield, will host the evening. “We feel it’s really important to help our customers recreate some of the more popular dishes on the menu and the cooking demonstration evening allows us to show them,” said Bill, who also owns Oldfields in Durham city.
Ingredients and a full range of wine will be available to purchase on the evening and there will be lots of opportunities to ask questions.
This is sure to be a fantastic evening but places are limited so don’t miss out. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
We’re offering Culture Club members the chance to attend this great event for only £15 per person. The cost to non-members is £20 per person.
Read Bill Oldfield’s food and cookery page every Saturday morning in The Journal.
Northumbrian Alfresco is a series of outdoor open-air concerts featuring Northumbrian music happening throughout the North East region at Durham Riverside, Gibside, Wallington and the Source of the Tyne Festival in Northumberland from 16 July – 27 August 2005.
We are delighted to offer Culture Club members £5 off every ticket on receipt of this coupon on booking.
The remaining programme for this wonderful series of events is as follows:
THE NORTHUMBRIAN PROMS AT WALLINGTON COURTYARD on Saturday 27 August 2005
Join Graeme Danby, principal bass with English National Opera, his wife, soprano Valerie Reid, and their friends, the Bede Wind Philharmonic, in a party to celebrate the music of the North East, with traditional Proms favourites and a firework finale. Bring your own chairs and picnics (and alcohol as Wallington is a temperance estate). Bus service is available from Morpeth and Rothbury
Ticket prices: adult £25.00 - child £12.50, On the day £30/£15. Party rates available.
Box Office, The National Trust, Scots Gap, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 4EG. Box Office: 01670 773939 Email: wallington@nationaltrust.org.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/northeastevents
 
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