Launchpad presents Stuff & Nonsense Christmas Extravaganza (08/12/2015)
Showcase of comedy & new writing by mental health survivors & supporters – special guests JaZZ RiOT & MC Sharon Race - “Well being is for life...not just for Christmas!”
Showcase of comedy & new writing by mental health survivors & supporters – special guests JaZZ RiOT & MC Sharon Race - “Well being is for life...not just for Christmas!”
Discover a magical place full of surprises for all the family. A weekend you'll never forget featuring:
Traditional Christmas craft fayre
WonderIce rink*
Father Christmas Grotto*
Pop up photo Moon Booth*
Free family art workshop
Musical performances
Magical Fire Garden
Linger, and listen to sounds and live preformances in the Fire Garden. As dusk falls and the Fire Garden illuminates, explore flame lined paths among copper flowers that breathe fire, carefully carved flaming flower boxes and scorching sculptural trees. Watch as brass bands and choirs create an uplifting musical finale.
Free admission to the craft fayre, Fire Garden and Woodhorn museum and exhibitions.
Skating: the brilliant Super-Glide skating surface will give you a real "skate-like-ice" experience. Cost: £4.50 - Child, £5.50 - Adult (30 minute session and includes skate hire) Open to ages 2+ but under 5s must be accompanied by an adult. Please wear warm clothing.
Father Christmas Cost: £6 per child (gift included).
Moon Booth: small charge applies.
Normal parking charge applies.
Assistance dogs only.
An evening of print making, mince pies and Christmas crafts at the Laing Art Gallery, in celebration of the exhibition ‘The Arts & Crafts House: Then and Now’
Your ticket includes exhibition entry on the night, exhibition tours with curator Amy Barker, informal talks with lecturer Michael Johnson, your chance to make Arts & Crafts inspired prints with a professional printmaker, construct your own Christmas decorations and stock up on stocking fillers in the Laing Shop.
PLUS A free mince pie as you arrive.
Buy your ticket at the Laing Art Gallery shop or via Ticketsource.
£10 per person, booking required.
Bring the little ones to visit Father Christmas in his traditional stable grotto and see their faces light up - an unforgettable festive treat with a gift to take home.
Open every weekend and school holiday day from 28 November to 23 December, 10am - 4pm
Open until 6pm on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December as part of the Weekend of Wonder.
£6 per child, including gift.
Take a spin around our new WonderIce rink - a brilliant skating experience in Northumberland this winter.
Skating times:
Our WonderIce rink is open every weekend and school holiday day from 28 November to 23 December, 10am - 4pm (last skate admission 3.30pm). Special extended opening until 6pm (last skate admission 5.30pm) on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December as part of the Weekend of Wonder.
After school skating with free parking:
Every Thursday and Friday in December up to Christmas 3/4, 10/11 and 17/18 December from 3.30pm – 5pm (last skate admission 4.30pm).
Expect festive family fun, with the cast of Nice Swan’s pantomime, Cinderella entertaining the crowd, FREE face painting and performances from The Academy of Music and Sound, The Sage Gateshead, and headlining, Jen Stephens and the Hiccups!
Throughout the evening Justin and Kelly from Heart Radio breakfast show will be getting the crowd into the seasonal spirit, so, come along and enjoy the atmosphere, shop late at one of our many stores and even enter a raffle to win a bundle of prizes!
X Factor 2014 winner Ben Haenow visits hmv to meet fans and sign copies of his debut album.
Having won over the nation as the 2014 X Factor champion, Ben Haenow releases his eagerly anticipated debut self-titled album.
The diary for Tyneside Cinema for the week commencing Friday 13 November 2015 is now confirmed, and includes the following films and events:
THIS WEEK’S FILMS
FREE EXHIBITION IN THE GALLERY
10:00 – 17:00 daily (11:00 – 17:00 Sunday)
Ursula Mayer: Cinesexual (The Film London Jarman Award 2015)
Friday 13 November
Free Guided Tour 11:00
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (R)
The Lady In The Van (12A) 11:15/13:30/15:45/18:05 (C)/20:00 (R)
Suffragette (12A) 12:00 (R)
Brooklyn (12A) 12:45/15:10 (E)/17:45/20:15 (G)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:15 (R)/17:40 (E)/20:30 (C)
Steve Jobs (15) 17:20 (R)/20:45 (E)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
SILENT MOVIE: Phantom (PG) 14:30 (FREE ENTRY)
Saturday 14 November
CHILDREN'S FILM CLUB: London International Animation Festival Shorts (U) 10:30 (R)
The Lady In The Van (12A) 11:00 (E)/11:55 (C) 16:05/18:25 (E)/20:00 (R)
Free Guided Tour 11:00
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (C)
Suffragette (12A) 12:55 (R)
Steve Jobs (15) 13:20 (E)/17:35 (G)/20:45 (E)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:10/17:20/20:30 (C)
Brooklyn (12A) 15:10/17:40 (R)/20:15 (G)
Sunday 15 November
The Lady In The Van (12A) 10:20 (R)/11:55 (C)/16:05/18:25 (E)/20:15 (G)
Brooklyn (12A) 10:55 (E)/14:50/20:00 (R)
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (C)
Suffragette (12A) 12:35 (R)
Steve Jobs (15) 13:20 (E)/17:20 (R)/20:45 (E)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:10/17:20/20:30 (C)
The Lobster (15) 17:40 (G)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
BRUNCH CLUB MOVIE 10:30 (FREE ENTRY)
Monday 16 November
Free Guided Tour 11:00
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (C)
SILVER SCREEN: The Lady In The Van (12A) 12:00 (E)
Brooklyn (12A) 12:35/15:00/17:35 (R)
The Lady In The Van (12A) 13:05 (C)/15:00 (R)/17:45 (E)/20:50 (G)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:45 (E)/18:05** (G)/20:30 (C)
(**18:05 screening subtitled for those with hearing loss)
Suffragette (12A) 15:30 (C)
Steve Jobs (15) 17:50 (C)/20:00 (E)
Short Film Night (15TBC) 19:00 (DL)
FESTIVAL OF HUMANITIES: Witchfinder General (15) 20:15 (R) (FREE ENTRY)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
SILENT MOVIE: Phantom (PG) 14:30 (FREE ENTRY)
CULT FILM NIGHT 21:00 (FREE ENTRY)
Tuesday 17 November
Steve Jobs (15) 10:30 (R)/17:45 (G)/20:00 (E)
Free Guided Tour 11:00
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (C)
The Lady In The Van (12A) 11:55 (C)/15:15/17:40 (E)/20:45 (R)
Brooklyn (12A) 12:50/15:15 (R)/20:20 (G)
Suffragette (12A) 13:00 (E)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:10/17:20/20:30 (C)
UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Network (15) + introduction 18:00 (R)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
SILENT MOVIE: Phantom (PG) 14:30 (FREE ENTRY)
QUIZ NIGHT: Transgender Remembrance Week Quiz 20:30
Wednesday 18 November
The Lady In The Van (12A) 10:35/12:50/14:50 (C)/17:50 (E)
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (R)
Steve Jobs (15) 11:45/20:45 (R)
Brooklyn (12A) 12:15/15:20 (E)/20:15 (G)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:20 (R)/17:20/20:30 (C)
ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS: I Am Nasrine (15) + Introduction 17:45 (R)
Show and Tell 18:00 (G)
Love (3D) (18) 20:10 (E)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
SILENT MOVIE: Phantom (PG) 14:30 (FREE ENTRY)
Thursday 19 November
BRINGING IN BABY: The Lady In The Van (12A) 11:00 (R)
Free 15m Newsreel: Royal Command Performance (November 1937) 11:15 (C)
The Lady In The Van (12A) 11:55 (E)/16:25 (C)/20:10 (R)
Suffragette (12A) 13:10 (R)
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY CINEMA: Guys And Dolls (U) 13:30 (C)
SPECTRE (12A) 14:10/17:20/20:30 (E)
Brooklyn (12A) 15:15/17:40 (R)
Steve Jobs (15) 17:35/20:15 (G)
NT LIVE: Of Mice And Men (recorded as live) 19:00 (C)
TYNESIDE BAR CAFÉ:
SILENT MOVIE: Phantom (PG) 14:30 (FREE ENTRY)
LIVE MUSIC: Ruth McGivern 20:30 (FREE ENTRY)
KEY:
(C) = The Classic
(R) = The Roxy
(E) = The Electra
(G) = The Gallery
(TB) = Tyneside Bar
(DL) = Digital Lounge
It’s the reunion they said could never happen - even the members themselves have admitted it. But today Busted announce their return to the world of pop in 2016. Matt, James and Charlie are returning to the road with a full UK arena tour, and they are working on brand new Busted music for the first time since 2004.
With an incredible five million record sales, two 4 x platinum albums and four number one singles to their name, a staggering 700,000 concert tickets sold in one year, two BRIT Awards and a Record of the Year Award, Busted are one of the biggest home-grown pop acts of the 21st century.
Busted? These boys are fixed, back and ready to shake up the pop world all over again.
Tickets costing £37.50 & £41.50 will go on sale 9.00am Friday 13th November 2015 and are available online, from the booking hotline number 0844 493 6666 or in person from the Metro Radio Arena Box Office.
Bennett’s award-winning double bill is a pointedly satirical snapshot of two members of the infamous ‘Cambridge Five’, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, both recruited as spies by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Olivier Award-nominated Rachel Kavanaugh will direct Nicholas Farrell (as Guy Burgess), Belinda Lang (as Coral Browne and Her Majesty the Queen) and David Robb (as Anthony Blunt).
Following their success with The King's Speech, the new production is a collaboration between Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
In 1950s Moscow, Coral Browne receives an invitation to lunch with shunned Soviet spy, Guy Burgess, with the sole instruction to ‘bring a tape measure’. An Englishman Abroad is a wry and touching play which chronicles the pair’s fleeting friendship and Burgess’ attempts to cling to his way of life as a Soviet citizen.
A Question of Attribution gives us a glimpse into Anthony Blunt’s life of espionage within the very walls of Buckingham Palace. Following his double-life as an art historian to royalty and a Soviet spy, this witty tale of forgery and deceit culminates in a sharp and candid interrogation from Her Majesty the Queen herself.
Single Spies premiered at the National Theatre in 1988, opening to critical acclaim and receiving an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 1990.
Nicholas Farrell’s extensive film and TV career includes The Iron Lady, Legend, Chariots of Fire, Spooks and Call the Midwife.
Belinda Lang is best known for playing Bill Porter in hit TV show 2 Point 4 Children (BBC) further screen credits include Second Thoughts (LWT), Doctors (BBC) and Midsomer Murders (ITV). She has recently appeared on stage in Oklahmona! (Northampton/Tour) which visited the Theatre Royal in June, Ladies in Lavender (National Tour), Hay Fever (Royal Exchange and Haymarket Theatre) and East is East (Birmingham Rep).
David Robb is currently on screen as Dr. Clarkson in the multi-award winning drama Downton Abbey (ITV) his extensive television credits also include Wolf Hall, Roman Mysteries and Garrow’s Law (all BBC). On stage he has recently appeared in The Audience (Apollo Theatre) and Hamlet (Tour & West End)
Rachel Kavanaugh was Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre and has directed multiple celebrated productions at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre including The Sound of Music (nominated for Best Musical Revival, Oliver Awards; winner of Best Musical Revival, WhatsOnStage Awards), Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It. For Chichester Festival Theatre, Kavanaugh’s Love Story was Olivier Award-nominated for Best New Musical and received a West End transfer.
Single Spies is at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tues 15 until Sat 19 March 2016, playing evenings at 7.30pm, matinees on Thu 2pm and Sat 2.30pm. Tickets from £14.50 (save 50p per ticket online). Tickets can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 Calls cost 7ppm plus your phone company’s access charge or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk