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The Glendale Show being held at Wooler on Monday August 27, 2007 is a fun day out for all, bringing town and countryside together with something for everyone.
The Show celebrates all aspects of farming and rural life and features many attractions including equine classes and industrial and horticultural sections. The Countryside Marquee features a number of different skills and demonstrations such as fly-tying, beekeepers and woodturning.
The Horticultural and Industrial Society Marquee is one of the Show’s glories, and this year is its 100th Birthday. With over 3000 entries, onlookers are always captivated by the astonishing display of perfect vegetables, flowers and crafts, and children’s classes.
In the main ring, spectators can enjoy The Devil’s Horsemen with their dare devil stunts, and the Jumping Jake Semtex Stunt Show.
For a spot of retail therapy, there are 160 trade stands ranging from equestrian and pet products, clothing and footwear through to handicrafts and giftware. There is also a wonderful array of local speciality food stalls, catering and cookery demonstrations.
Open from 9 am, the show offers a fantastic day out in the countryside with something for all the family.
We have 2 family tickets to give away to lucky Culture Club members.
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We have 3 pairs of tickets to see Ivor Novello Award winning director Keith Strachan’s hit show Dancing in the Streets at The Journal Tyne Theatre on Monday September 24, 2007.
The spectacular celebration of classic music from the heart of the Motor City - Detroit, will entertain North East Motown fans from Monday 24th until Saturday 29th September 2007.
Motown was a prominent force in breaking down barriers around the world and was responsible for producing some of the worlds most influential and enduring songs of the 20th century. The Dancing in the Streets company will re-create the energy, style and music of the stars of the Motown stable. Together they will certainly have you dancing in the aisles!
The show features music from artists such as The Four Tops, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson Five, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Commodores, Lionel Ritchie, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Isley Brothers, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas.
Culture Club members are invited to the preview of the new season of films at Waygood’s Little Jewel ‘peephole’ Cinema, located on High Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In its fourth season of artist’s films, the Moldovite Season, is a study of one family, the six members of the Zet Family. The season is named after a semi-precious stone found mainly in the Czech Republic, where Martin and his family live.
In ZET GARDEN II artist Martin Zet focuses on each member of his family, his wife, himself and their four children. Each fortnight a film featuring a different member of his family will screen in Waygood’s Little Jewel Cinema.
Martin Zet explained, “My family has 6 members: 4 children, my wife and me. I have been working with all of them, sometimes with their agreement, sometimes without. This is a chance to introduce results of this collaboration/exploration to the public. Each one will be in some sense the main character of one projection.”
Martin will bring his family across from the Czech Republic to Newcastle for the preview, and family negotiations permitting, the four children will sit in the shop window of the gallery (there is room just for four chairs there) during the evening of the preview.
Martin Zet currently lives in Libusin, a village to the north of Prague, Czech Republic with his wife and children and Golden Labrador named Iphigenia.
Waygood Founder and Creative Director, Helen Smith, met Martin Zet in Bucharest in 2006. She was at the Muzeul National de Art Contemporana, the major contemporary art gallery in Romania, which is located in a wing of what was Ceausescu’s Palace.
Waygood's Little Jewel cinema is a 'peephole cinema showing artists films and videos located in a former shop front at 31 High Bridge, Newcastle. Passers-by can peep through the holes in the window to see a different short film fortnightly. It is one the projects that Waygood Gallery & Studios is running whilst waiting for its city centre site to be redeveloped. For more information see www.waygood.org or ring Waygood Gallery & Studios on 0191 265 6857.
We have 20 invitations for Culture Club members and a guest to attend the preview of ZET GARDEN II on Saturday 18 August between 4.30 – 8pm at Waygood’s Little Jewel cinema, 31 High Bridge, Newcastle.
The authentic Italian restaurant Strada, Newcastle is currently holding a Summer Risotto Festival. The festival, which lasts until August 19, 2007, showcases Strada’s sumptuous signature dish in a variety of guises.
Located in the brand new development in Old Eldon Square, Blackett Street, Strada offers diners a contemporary and stylish setting in which to enjoy their full Italian menu - including hand made pizzas and fresh pasta as well as fish and meat dishes using only the finest fresh ingredients. However, one of the most popular dishes on the menu is their delizioso risotto.
The Risotto Festival aims to offer an extensive variety and choice as well as to celebrate all that is wonderful about this eclectic dish, the origins of which can be found in Northern Italy, in the Piedmont, Milan, Lombardy and Venetian areas, where rice rules the day!
Rice came to Italy sometime in the 10th century and the north of Italy took to rice farming four to five hundred years later, and have since made it their own regional signature dish. The area has remained the premier rice growing and rice eating areas of Italy to this day. In the same way that people in the rest of Italy put plates of piping hot pasta on the table at every main meal, northerners resort to rice.
“Risotto is one of our favourite dishes,” said Strada Head Chef Richie Brent. “Not only because it can be prepared with ingredients that are delicate or hearty enough to make it a primo piatto or a main course, but because cooking the dish is almost as satisfying as eating it! We are all excited about the festival as it will give people the chance to sample a wide variety of different dishes, priced from £8.95.”
Risotto Festival favourites include a traditional Italian risotto with sautéed tiger prawns, zucchini, white wine, garlic and chilli and a risotto made with thyme roasted butternut squash, chilli and smoked pancetta bacon finished with parmesan, baby spinach and pine nuts.
Strada serves purely regional Italian wines, as well as beers and spirits, which have all been carefully chosen to complement the menu. In addition each table receives complimentary bottled purified water.
Strada would like to offer Culture Club members the chance to purchase 2 risotto dishes for the price of 1 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the life-span of the Risotto Festival.
Picture House Film, Art and Design at Belsay will be held at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, Northumberland until Sept 30, 2007.
Curated by Judith King and Juha Huuskonen, the fifteen works of art form part of the groundbreaking exhibition of film, art and design specially commissioned from a range of leading artists, film directors, thespians, musicians and fashion designers. The list includes actress Tilda Swinton, film director Mike Figgis and fashion duo, Viktor and Rolf.
The historic nineteenth-century hall is the source of inspiration for the exhibition, with each artist first visiting Belsay to choose a location and then creating an installation in response to the site - be it the atmosphere, social history, architecture or location. Almost every room has been filled with objects, projected film, sound, smells or animation, and the five month long exhibition promises to offer visitors a unique experience.
When Belsay Hall was signed over to English Heritage, part of the agreement was that it should be left empty, only maintained and not dressed in any way. Every few years English Heritage uses this ‘blank canvas’ as a setting for themed exhibitions.
The exhibition is open from 10am to 5pm, daily.
Admission normally costs £8.50 for adults with concessions at £6.40 and children at £4.20 but Culture Club members can claim 2 tickets for the price of 1 with our great offer.
Following the success of its first Stage Experience project in 2006, the Sunderland Empire is delighted to announce the production for 2007, as the hit rock musical We Will Rock You.
Stage Experience is a two-week, not-for-profit, musical theatre summer school for 9 to 25 year olds, which seeks to give 150 young people in the North East the opportunity to perform or be part of a production team in a professionally produced musical.
Running at the Sunderland Empire from Sunday 22 July to Saturday 4 August, participants work alongside a professional director, musical director, choreographer and backstage crew to train in singing, dancing, acting and technical theatre. During the two weeks, participants learn all their songs, dances and lines – and then perform on the main stage for four performances of We Will Rock You from Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 August.
The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete! Everywhere the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. On Planet Mall all musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate the tunes and everybody downloads them. Nothing is left to chance; hits are scheduled years in advance.
But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age, when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time The Rhapsody.
Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in a rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find his axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?
But the Ga Ga cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rye.
Who is Galileo? Where is the hairy one’s lost axe? Where is the place of living rock?
Culture Club members can see We Will Rock You at the Sunderland Empire with a fantastic £7.50 matinee ticket offer on Saturday August 4, 2007 at 2.30pm.
Culture Club members are invited to a Secret Curry Night on Monday August 6, 2007. Guests can enjoy a curry, a rice or naan, a pappadom and a small wine or small cobra or soft drink for only £10 per person for one night only. This deal is not available to walk ins and is available by advance reservation only. Choose from chicken tikka masala, chicken korma, lamb vindaloo, lamb bhuna or vegetable jhalfrezi curry only.
This week Culture Club members have the opportunity to submit photographs that will become part of a large painting. We’re also giving Culture Club members the chance to come to a special event to meet artist Glenn Cruddas, bring their photos and talk to him about the process of painting at 6pm on the evening of 14 August at Waygood Gallery & Studios, Harker¹s Building, Shields Road, Byker.
Whilst Nude_14962, by Glenn Cruddas is on display on the billboard outside of Waygood Studios as part of Waygood Gallery & Studio¹s Harker Herald project, Glenn will create a painting on a 26 metre (86 ft) by 2.5m (8ft) high canvas within the studios at Harkers Building, Byker. He is also offering the public the opportunity to bring in or send their photographs to be interpreted in his own style within the painting.
Culture Club members are invited to send in images for Glenn to depict within the painting. These can be of any subject matter, portrait, landscape, a pet, an object or an abstract. Send images by email to tglennc@hotmail.com or go to the Harker Herald page on www.waygood.org and follow the links to see the work in progress.
Glenn adds: “People can send me photographs in any format and of anything they like, just so long as they understand that the image will be distorted in my painting. I am also interested if find out how people react to distortion of their images. My paintings start out as one thing but then undertake a journey to become something else, although this journey often involves return visits to certain stages of development, with each stage adding something, a trace or a memory that creates the final image”.
Harker Herald is a billboard displaying work by a different artist each month, outside Waygood Gallery & Studio’s temporary home in the Harker’s Building, 548-560 Shields Road, Byker. An accompanying calendar with postcards of each billboard image can be requested by emailing liping@waygood.org or ringing 0191 265 6857.
For more information see www.waygood.org or ring Waygood Gallery & Studios on 0191 265 6857.
Come along to The Alnwick Garden for a great line-up of comedy and entertainment skilfully hosted by compere Mike Hancock, on Friday August 24, 2007. There’s a little bit of the Edinburgh Fringe, comical adult puppetry, loads of laughter, the best beer drinking trick, and even Marilyn Munroe!
Mike Hancock has been producing high class comedy shows with magic and music for nearly twenty years, he’s performed at festivals all over Europe and toured the comedy clubs of the UK. During the performance he builds a strong relationship with the audience through singing, foolish trickery and even levitation!
Helen Kane performs as Marilyn Monroe in a “camp, unstable, unpredictable display of temperamental exuberance”. Helen has appeared on TV shows and performed at numerous cabaret nights and comedy venues.
Matt Barnard performs as Man of Tweed, a comedy show in which the character experiences comical cultural changes and ends the show with an impressive beer-drinking stunt.
The Wright Stuff Theatre of Puppets bring their ‘Ruff Daddy’ to The Alnwick Garden, it’s described as “More drunk and moody than Punch and Judy, this double act is strictly for adult cabaret performances only. Bad Mutha interrupts Ruff Daddy’s unique take on world affairs to descend into domestic dysfunction”.
There will be a bottle bar and food available for purchase.
The Alnwick Garden has an exclusive Cabaret Club offer for all Culture Club members: buy three tickets and your fourth ticket will be free. The show takes place on Friday August 24, 2007 at 8pm in The Pavillion.
The Alnwick Garden is located on Denwick Lane, Alnwick NE66 1YU.
Direct from the West End, Lady Salsa, the sexiest dance show around shimmies into the Sunderland Empire for one week only on Monday 20 August and Culture Club members can join the party with a salsational 2 for 1 ticket offer.
From the producer of West End smash hits ‘Fame’ and ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and directed by Toby Gough, Lady Salsa is a sizzling celebration of the spirit of Cuba. Salsa the night away with thirty of Cuba’s hottest dancers, musicians and singers and surrender to the unbridled spirit of a hedonistic night in downtown Havana.
This phenomenal dance spectacular charts Cuba’s volatile history from dictatorship through to liberation with red-hot Rumba, Mambo, Cha-Cha and more sensational salsa. Gorgeous dancers in an incredible array of glittering, sexy costumes transport you to the streets of Havana and the world of salsa, rum and revolution.
A smash hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 2000, becoming an instant hit with both audiences and critics, it quickly transferred to London’s West End and onto a world tour across Europe, South East Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
Culture Club members can see Lady Salsa at the Sunderland Empire with a fantastic 2 for 1 ticket offer, from Tuesday August 21 to Thursday 23 August, 2007. Tickets cost £14.00 to £22.50.
Earlier in the year we ran an exclusive cooking event at The Spice Cube Restaurant. It proved to be a big hit with our members so we have teamed up with them to offer our members some great dining deals this summer.
The Spice Cube is situated in the heart of Newcastle City Centre. It has established itself as the north's most chic Indian Restaurant. It offers a casual but sophisticated dining experience with innovative cooking that is both accessible and affordable.
It already embraces the best trends in modern design with splashes of India. The 'traditional meets modern ethos' continues through to the menu created by one of the most experienced and knowledgeable Indian chefs in the UK - Dinesh Rawat. Dinesh at the Oberoi School of Hotel Management in Dehli and has since worked extensively as a chef across the globe including Singapore, Australia, Thailand and Sweden. He launched The Anna Khan Restaurant in Stockholm, which, within three months of opening, was named one of the Swedish capital’s top five restaurants.
Dinesh joined Spice Cube owner Jalf Ali in 2006 and the pair has since been striving to change perceptions of Indian cuisine in the UK.
The Spice Cube has numerous mouth watering menus including a light lunch menu and an a la carte menu. The restaurant boasts fabulous facilities for private and corporate parties with twin mezzanines and snug VIP booths.
The Spice Cube would like to offer Culture Club members the chance to purchase two starters and two main meals for the price of one. When two people dine together from the à la carte menu, the starter and main meal of equal or lesser value is given free.
Funky Elephant is a new online concept store bringing you unusual bags, exotic scarves, intricate jewellery boxes and handmade jewellery to match to the North East. With a great love for travelling and beautiful handcrafted one-of-a kind accessories, we personally attend to all our buying trips in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia to name a few in order to source and handpick the best from the Far East.
The Far East is well known for many things – food, culture, the people and the wonderful sights and sounds. These products are handmade by the talented arts and craftsmen from an exotic part of the world. It is not about acquiring a product but an experience - with each product comes a little history and culture of the place where it was made. And we would like to share that with you. We also try our best to purchase from small manufacturers and cottage industries in order to provide the indigenous people a sustainable livelihood. Deliveries to mainland UK addresses are free!
Funky Elephant would like to team up with the Journal Culture Club to provide all members a 15% discount.
Paramount Redworth Hall Hotel is undoubtedly one of the most luxurious hotels in the region, offering guests the perfect combination of traditional elegance and state-of-the-art facilities.
The hotel, at Newton Aycliffe, has retained all the original features of this historic country home but has also benefited from a multi-million pound refurbishment.
With its own luxury spa and health club, Paramount Redworth Hall is the ideal place for a well-earned break.
Culture Club members can enjoy a fantastic stay at Paramount Redworth Hall with an exclusive offer. You can have an overnight stay with a three-course dinner taken from the Table D’Hote menu and full English breakfast for just £99 per couple.
The offer is valid until the end of August and is subject to availability. Limited Saturdays are available. It cannot be taken in conjunction with any other offer. To book ring 01388 770600 and quote CULTURE0607.
For further information about Paramount Redworth Hall call the number above or visit www.paramount-redworthhall.co.uk
Stuart Clarke emerged as football's foremost photographer with his dynamic Homes of Football exhibition and books, begun after the Hillsborough disaster. Determined to keep his base in the north of England, he set up a permanent collection in a 3 storey Victorian former art gallery, on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Over the last 10 years, North-Easterners have been our best customers and the most appreciative of the photographic artworks on show. Celebrating a decade at Ambleside, anyone visiting Football Photography & The World bearing a Culture Card will be entitled to £25 off the price of all pictures priced at £125, be they from The Homes of Football or from the non-football Stuart Clarke collections. Every title including favourites as "Welcome To Roker" and "The Geordie Crowd Outnumbers United" as well as "Breathing Ayresome" can be bought at the discounted price (though it will take 10 days to turn round and will be posted on free of charge). Indeed, the new modern style of certificated unframed hand-captioned pictures displayed throughout the lower exhibition gallery all fit into this price bracket.
The work of Stuart Clarke includes The World Cup, British domestic football (The Homes of Football), the World game, the best of photography, music festivals, environmental nudes, black & white, The World and Cumbria The Lake District. The football work is sponsored in England by The PFA & supported around the World by The Premier League.
There have been 5 books, 2 television programmes and 89 major exhibitions. In this the 10th year at Ambleside, there is a whole programme of Clarke exhibitions.
For more information please visit www.footballphotographyandtheworld.co.uk
100 Lake Road, Ambleside, Cumbria The Lake District LA22 ODB. Tel: 015394 34440 Open Wednesdays to Sundays with admission free by donation.
 
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