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Culture Club members have the chance to win a pair of tickets to see, international opera star Angelika Kirchschlager in an exclusive performance of opera and song showcasing some of today's best, young professional, classical artists on Saturday March 27 at Newcastle’s Royal Grammar School. The programme will include popular arias and ensembles from some of the greatest operas, including Puccini's La bohème.
Culture Club members have the chance to win a pair of tickets to see the burlesque cabaret show The Fascinator Lounge at The Lamplight Arts Centre, Stanley on Friday March 26 at 8pm.
With its first outing outside of Newcastle, The Fascinator Lounge promises to deliver its own unique brand of mischievous flirty naughtiness, together with a smidgen of tassels to surprise and delight audiences.
Compere, Lord Leighly Park will amuse and entertain whilst introducing spectators to the seductive tease and humour of burlesque artistes such as Bettina Spankehaus and Amber Le Fay.
Culture Club members are invited to come along to an exclusive wine tasting event at the Northumbrian Piper on Thursday, April 1, 2010.
The Piper, which has been one of Gosforth’s most treasured watering holes for more than 40 years, was relaunched with a new look and a new menu, after being taken over by new owners John and Lynne Griffin earlier this year.
The Northumbrian Piper has teamed up with Oddbins of Gosforth for another wine event in the form of a tasting of wines from around the world together with cheese. The evening will start at 7.30pm and will consist of a wine tasting of selected wines from around the world followed by a fun wine quiz with a prize for the winner. The cost for the evening is £10 per person made payable on the evening.
Jane McDonald, much loved singer, Loose Women host and star of BBC show The Cruise, comes to the City Hall on Friday 26th March 2010 and Culture Club members have the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets.
After a fantastic show earlier on this year Jane is set to thrill audiences in her own unique mixture of music and laughter. Complete with her fabulous band and backing singers, not forgetting those amazing frocks, she has been delighting audiences around the country all year and look forward to yet another memorable evening.
Culture Club members have the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to see The Sopranos at The Journal Tyne Theatre on Thursday, March 25 at 8pm.
Direct from their sell-out European tour The Sopranos premier the UK. Eight talented ladies enthral, captivate and beguile the audience with timeless classics from the World of Opera to Broadway, paying homage to the greatest Divas the world has ever seen: from Shirley Bassey to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland to Celine Dion. This makes for a glittering evening of everyone's favourites not to be missed.
The Sopranos have the audience eating out of their hands with their spine-tingling harmonies and beautifully crafted arrangements, backed by a virtuoso band including a stunningly sassy string quartet. This lavish production performs some of the best-loved and instantly recognisable music of all time in its own, inimitable and evocative style: from hushed, intimate tones to full-throttle rock, the spine-tingling vocals unite with breath-taking harmonies for an evening full of glitz, glamour and oodles of personality. This world-class show takes the audience on an ever-evolving musical journey and delights all ages with unstoppable music.
Culture Club members have the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to attend the St Georges Day Prom 2010 on Friday April 23 at Newcastle City Hall.
The programme will be full of memorable English music from the vast wealth of English composers. All the old favourites are there for a popular and rousing night of all things English.
The Sheriff of Newcastle, Councillor Brenda Hindmarsh will be in attendance and the night has been dedicated to the Help for Heroes charity and the Lord Mayors charities the Children’s Heart Unit Fund.
Tickets are priced from £9.50 and are available from the City Hall Box office on 0191 2612606 or on line www.newcastlecityhall.org
Tyneside Cinema and Momentum Pictures are giving Culture Club members the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets for the fantastic new film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as a copy of the book the film was based on.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released on Friday 12 March, tells the story of mysterious computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist who unite to solve the case of a missing girl. The unlikely duo form a fragile alliance as they dig into the past of a secretive and dysfunctional, high profile family. But as they unravel the dark mystery, they begin to find their own lives under threat. This edge of your seat thriller is an outstanding adaptation of the bestselling literary phenomenon by Swedish author Stieg Larsson and acts as an excellent opener to a trilogy of films that will continue later this year.
The film will be screening at the Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne from Friday 12 March. To find out more visit www.tynesidecinema.co.uk
The 2009 Journal Culture Awards will take place on Tuesday 23th March at The Gala Theatre, Durham and Culture Club members have the chance to win one of eight pairs of tickets to attend this exclusive event.
The event will begin with a drinks reception with canapés from 6pm. The Awards will run from 7pm – 9.30pm with a wonderful range of performances in between from local band Smooth and Turrell, Poet and comedian Kate Fox, and North Eastern Singer/ Song writer Katie Doherty.
Committed to working with local suppliers, Hilton Newcastle Gateshead has introduced a selection of beers into the hotel bar and are giving 25 members of Culture Club the chance to attend a Wylam beer tasting on Tuesday, March 23 at 6.30pm at Hilton Newcastle Gateshead.
The evening will be hosted by David Saragossa, the Bar Manager at Windows on the Tyne, Hilton Newcastle Gateshead and aided by Matt Boyle of the award winning Wylam Brewery.
Over the course of the evening guests can enjoy a range of Wylam bottled beers including Rocket, Northern Kite, Angel, Bohemia and Locomotive, all of which are for sale at the hotel. David who is a huge supporter of the brewery said:
“The Wylam brand has been enthusiastically received by our customers and I am sure their beers will continue to prosper in the months ahead. We have designed our Wylam beer tasting to give our customers an overview of the vast selection of beers available in the Windows Bar."
WYLAM BREWERY was set up in a disused dairy on a farm near Heddon on the Wall (on Hadrian's Wall) in May 2000 by John Boyle and Robin Leighton driven by their passion for real ale. It was three months in the building and the first cask was produced in August that year. The brewery grew rapidly on the strength of the quality of its ales, winning awards at festivals around the UK. They outgrew the original 1000L plant in 2006 and brought on stream a new 3500L plant in August in a bespoke barn conversion. Since then they have enjoyed continued strong growth.
For further information on beer tastings in Windows on the Tyne Bar contact Lynn Waterman, Director of Sales on 0191 490 9700.
The UK’s largest independent wine merchant Laithwaites is to hold a special seasonal tasting in Newcastle next week and we have five pairs of tickets to give away to Culture Club members.
The event is at Assembly Rooms, Fenkle Street from 6.45pm to 8.45pm, on Wednesday March 10. CultureClub members will taste a selection of 30 wines from around the world.
Tickets are priced at £19.50 and are available from Laithwaites on 0845 194 7720. All wines bought on the evening will have ten per cent off and free delivery.
On Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13, the Customs House theatre, South Shields, is hosting two special gala shows as part of the South Tyneside International Magic Festival 2010.
The gala shows are annual highlights of the week-long event and this year feature performances from some of the most renowned and respected magicians from around the world.
We’ve got five pairs of tickets for the Friday show to giveaway, including performances from Swedish magician Lennart Green, who is renowned for his unique and comedic card tricks, Newcastle’s Matthew Dowden and German performer Jeton, otherwise known as the Gentleman Juggler.
Australian magician and comedian Brad Manuel will also be making his first ever visit to the UK in order to compere the show and will appear alongside award-winning British magician Richard McDougall and Michael J Fitch, star of Channel 4’s Freaky Magic, who will be presenting an audience with legendary magician Wayne Dobson.
Tickets for the Gala Shows on Friday 12 and Saturday, March 13 are priced at £13 or £12 concessions and are available by calling the Customs House on 0191 454 1234 or visiting www.customshouse.co.uk
Join Time Bandits for a tour of Berwick upon Tweed's ancient walls on Saturday march 20 at 11am, the tour will encompass five centuries of history from Robert the Bruce to Bonnie Prince Charlie and include flying visits from Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, Sir John Vanburgh and numerous others ... fire and sword, siege and sack, slaughter, fire and pillage.
AV Festival 10 presents the remarkable Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on Sunday 7th March 2010 at Middlesbrough Town Hall. The work features an original score by J. Spaceman (from the band Spiritualized) and an introduction on the night by Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe from Living TV’s ‘Most Haunted’.
AV Festival 10 is delighted to offer Culture Club members a pair of free tickets to this performance. Limited places are available for a free coach departing Newcastle 5pm and returning from Middlesbrough 8pm.
Silent Sound is conceived as an otherworldly experiment using controversial mind control technology to transmit a subliminal message during a live music performance. The composition for the project by J. Spaceman is designed to carry the subliminal message. Silent Sound sets out to warp your perception and stage a remarkable experience loaded with potential which intensifies your experience of being in the here-and-now. Drawing on the powerful psychological set-up of 19th century Spiritualist public performances and inspired by Victorian entertainers The Davenport Brothers who were famed for attempting to contact the souls of the dead using their ‘spirit cabinet’, Iain and Jane will perform inside their own specially created soundproof cabinet. From the stage inside this cabinet they will repeatedly broadcast a spoken ‘message’, this signal is fed into a custom-made Silent Sound machine, which subliminally embeds the message within the music and transmits it throughout the duration of the performance.
The event will be recorded live and a CD will be given to everyone in the audience as they leave. A limited edition of the CD will also be available following the event.
For more details about Silent Sound visit: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/silent-sound
Please note that doors open at 6.00pm and there will be no admission after 6.30pm. The performance lasts for 1 hour.
Culture Club members have the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to see Chris Deans Syd Lawrence Orchestra on Sunday, March 28 at 7:30pm at The Whitley Bay Playhouse.
The show which features music from greats such as Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and many more promises to be a captivating and exciting performance packed with sizzle, where you will be transported back to those glory days of live music.
Tickets are priced from £17.50 and are available from the Whitley Bay Playhouse on 0844 277 2771.
Culture Club members have the chance to win a pair of tickets to see Bootleg Sixties at the Empire Theatre, Consett on Wednesday, March 10 at 7.30pm.
The 60s was, without doubt, the most dynamic and innovative of decades, and the impact upon society is still being felt throughout the world even now. This fully self-contained two-hour plus show is packed with great music from all the classic artists of the decade, and is back-dropped by fantastic visual footage, including archive material from each town and city hosting the show.
Tickets are priced from £14 and are available from the Leisure Works Box office on 01207 218 171 or book online at www.leisureworksonline.co.uk.
Culture Club members have 100 places for a preview screening of ‘I love you Phillip Morris’ on Tuesday March 9 at 6:30pm at The Odeon Gateshead. The improbable but true story of a spectacularly charismatic conman’s journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, brilliantly escaping from the Texas prison system on four separate occasions – all in the name of love.
Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann), and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another. Told with an uncanny sense of humour and a lot of heart, “I Love You Phillip Morris” is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide.
Culture Club members have the chance to attend a guided tour of China: Journey to the East at Sunderland Museum and Winter garden on Tuesday, March 9 at 1pm. The unique touring exhibition of over 100 objects from the British Museum’s collection, offers visitors the chance to experience one of the world's most important and influential civilisations. The exhibition is the largest UK loan of Chinese material the British Museum has yet undertaken.
3,000 years of Chinese history and culture will be explored through five key themes: Play and performance, Technology, Belief and festivals, Food and drink and Language and writing. Hands on objects and activities will allow visitors to experience the displays through sights, sounds, touch and smell.
Culture Club members have the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to attend a unique concert on Saturday March 13, as The Avison Ensemble present18th century music by Vivaldi and Wassenaer with a performance of Pergolesi’s celebrated Stabat Mater. International soloists Julia Gooding, soprano and Robin Blaze, countertenor will be joining the Avison Ensemble under the direction of director and violinist, Pavlo Beznosiuk.
Tickets are available priced £12 from JG Windows Ltd, Central Arcade Newcastle. Students and under 18’s are entitled to free entry.
The Live Theatre Newcastle are offering Culture Club members the exclusive opportunity to join Lee Hall (The Pitmen Painters, Billy Elliot) at a special pre-show drinks reception as he officially launches Live Theatre’s new writing festival, Different Stages.
Following the launch the winning Culture Club members will be able to relax in the intimate setting of Live Theatre and listen to Lee Hall talk about How to Make A Successful Play in his event on Friday, March 5 at 7.30pm.
There are five pairs of tickets available for this invitation only event for the special price of £8.
 
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