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The Lit & Phil are offering Culture Club members six places to attend the launch of Sean O’Brien’s collection of short stories, on Wednesday, December 10.
Sean O'Brien is one of Britain's most decorated poets and also a prolific essayist and writer for radio. His first collection of short stories, The Silence Room (Comma Press), a dark, archly gothic ensemble of visions spawned from the vaulted rooms of one particular public library: The Lit and Phil. Members have the opportunity to attend this unique event where Sean will be reading stories in the very building that inspired them.
Culture Club has six places to offer members and their guests. There will also be complimentary wine on the evening.
To find out about future events at Lit & Phil go to www.litandphil.org.uk
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is are inviting five Culture Club members plus guest to an exclusive preview reception to welcome this internationally recognised artist to the region and to mark the opening of Yoko Ono’s exhibition Between the Sky and My Head.
The private party, which Yoko Ono will attend, will take place at BALTIC on Saturday, December 13 from 6.00pm. We have five pairs of tickets for members to attend this special event, supported by Laurent Perrier Champagne.
Yoko Ono is one of the pioneers of conceptual art and has an international exhibition career spanning nearly 50 years. This exhibition is one of the largest of her work to date and will occupy two floors of BALTIC with additional works ONOCHORD, Film No. 5 (Smile) and Wish Trees located outside the gallery. Inside BALTIC, the exhibition will cover more than 1400m² of gallery space containing sculpture, paintings, drawing, photography, films and sound installations, as well as participatory works.
Those lucky enough to attend the VIP reception are also invited to stay for the larger Preview Party which begins at 7pm enabling all guests to leisurely enjoy the exhibition and have a drink. Complimentary champagne is available to those attending the VIP Reception and a pay bar will be in operation at the Preview Party.
For those Culture Club members not lucky enough to win VIP tickets are invited to attend the Preview Party which starts at 7.00pm.
As part of Newcastle Gateshead’s winter festival - Glow, three Culture club members plus guests are invited to attend an atmospheric poetry reading in historic Morden tower, followed by a Blue badge tour of the historical city walls.
Glow will quite literally throw the spotlight on Newcastle’s rich heritage by using architectural light projections to illuminate the medieval town walls. Described as a ‘visual exercise in Geordie Geography’, the projections will incorporate black and white images drawn from historic sources, such as 19th-century maps and Thomas Bewick engravings. It aims to reveal buildings, spaces and views often unknown to local residents and visitors
Glow will be illuminating the West Walls at Gallowgate, Morden Tower, and The House of Recovery; and the Sally Port Tower on Tower Street, from Thursday, December 11 through to Monday, December15.
Three Culture club members plus guests are invited to attend an atmospheric poetry reading in historic Morden Tower – part of the old town walls - on Saturday, December 13. It will celebrate North East poetry, the tower’s little-known heritage as a unique meeting place for poets – including the likes of legends Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney and Tony Harrison. Following the poetry reading, a Blue Badge Guide will take members on an hour’s walking tour highlighting the history of the city walls.
For the first time, this year Durham’s Gala Theatre is taking its pantomime
in-house, producing a show packed full of fun for all the family with the enchanting tale of Aladdin.
Featuring live musical accompaniment and a script written especially for Gala, Aladdin will appeal to everyone, staying true to the original story whilst giving it a truly North Eastern flavour.
On Wednesday, December 17 at midday, Culture Club members are invited to join the cast, crew and director of Aladdin for a pre-show buffet lunch, followed by the 2pm performance of the panto filled with North Eastern promise. Tickets for this combined event for members are priced just £7.50 a saving of £6 off the usual ticket price.
In the penultimate of a series of ticket offers for Culture Club members, the Northern Lights Film Festival 2008 are giving five members plus guest the opportunity to attend Cook County on Saturday, December 6 at 3:45 pm at Tyneside Cinema.
This riveting, no-punches-pulled film from American Director David Pomes takes a look at the ravages of crystal-meth addiction.
David Pomes offers a film that is both harrowing and intimate with complex characters that rise above the stereotypes and sensationalism one normally encounters regarding this topic. Pomes, will be present to introduce his film and take questions.
For further information about the festival check out www.nlff.co.uk or call the box Office on 0845 217 9909
Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour is coming to the Metro Radio Arena and we are offering Culture Club members eight family tickets along with an exclusive meet and greet after the show.
Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour is making a return visit due to popular demand, with some of the world’s most talented skaters playing the roles of East High School’s own Troy, Gabriella, Ryan, Sharpay, Chad and Taylor. They’ll be using the ice as a dance floor and performing chart-topping tunes and signature choreography from the cultural sensation ‘High School Musical.’
Culture Club members have the opportunity to win one of eight family tickets for Friday January 2 2009 at 7.30pm. Tickets include an exclusive meet and greet after the show, and there will be goody bags for the children in each party.
Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour runs from Friday, January 2 to Sunday, January 4, 2009 at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Tickets cost from £12.00 to £32.50 and are available by calling 0844 493 8000 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.co.uk/disnyeonice and www.metroradioarena.co.uk
The Journal Tyne Theatre are giving five lucky Culture Club members the chance to win VIP family tickets for Cinderella, which includes a special after show meet and greet with the cast.
The madcap team of Brendan Healy and Maxie and Mitch are back with a sparkling production this year, promising traditional fun-packed panto for all the family with the much-loved tale of Cinderella. This top trio have worked their magic at the Tyne Theatre for over 10 years, bringing audiences a fabulous collection of ugly sisters, barmy barons, wacky wizards, stupid sidekicks and, of course, hissable villains and glamorous princesses.
As always the team will bring good clean family fun to audiences in a panto that is promising to crank up the comedy to a new level this year with three terrifically over the top Dames and a completely batty Baron Hardup. And with Brendan Healey as the wicked Stepmother, Maxie Peters and Kevin O’Keefe as the Uglies and Billy Mitchell as the Baron…well, it just doesn’t get any uglier or battier than that.
Making a prettier picture on stage will be Catherine McCabe as the lovely Cinders and Stephanie Constable as her dizzy Fairy godmother.
Cinderella is at the Journal Tyne Theatre from Friday, December 5 until Saturday, January 3, 2009. Tickets cost from £8, (tickets may be subject to service charge) available from The Journal Tyne Theatre Box Office (10am-3.30pm and event days), Credit Card Booking and Information Line 0844 493 9999 (24 hour 7days), Internet www.thejournaltynetheatre.co.uk (click on the Ticketmaster icon in Box Office). Group Bookers should call (0191) 260 6062 and Special Needs bookings should call (0191) 260 6066 for further details.
In a series of exciting ticket offers for Culture Club members, the Northern Lights Film Festival 2008 are giving 10 members the opportunity to attend Captain Abu Raed on Saturday, December 6 at 3pm at Tyneside Cinema.
The first Jordanian feature film in over five decades, this film scooped the coveted Audience Award at this year’s Sudance Film Festival. Amin Matalqa’s feature film is a beautiful tale that restores faith in humanity and the power of an individual to stand up for one’s neighbour.
In Arabic with English subtitles this film is suitable for families with children aged 12 and over.
Star of the film Nadim Sawalha will be present to introduce it and take questions.
Every month, the Culture Club Book Group meet at The Biscuit Factory to review our featured titles. It’s free to attend and all members are welcome. You do not have to attend every month or confirm your attendance but you must be a Culture Club member.
This month’s featured title, Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness.
In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.
The acclaimed Hallucinating Foucault is Patricia’s first novel and won the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize.
 
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