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April Events 2012

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Throughout April 2012

Monkwearmouth Station Museum, North Bridge Street, Sunderland, SR5 1AP

Tel: (0191) 567 7075

Exhibition of original 1972 Olympic Games posters - includes David Hockney & Oskar Kokoschka

The posters designed by major avant garde artists for the infamous Munich Olympic Games of 1972 are to be shown at Monkwearmouth Station Museum.

The specially commissioned works by contemporary artists of the day, like David Hockney, Serge Paliokov, Oskar Kokoschka, Allen Jones and Max Bill, display strong, individual designs in a wide range of styles.

The exhibition consists of 19 of the 26 original posters and runs from 11 February – 5 June 2012.

4-5 High Street West Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR1 3EX

0844 847 2499

Mon 16 – Sat 21 April 2012

SPAMALOT

Tickets: £12.50 - £34.50, Premium Seats and concessions available.

Audiences all around the world have been roaring with laughter since
Monty Python’s SPAMALOT won the Tony Award for Best Musical. SPAMALOT
tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and
features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings
(cancelled - health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people,
and features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention, including
He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the
Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2010) Always Look On The
Bright Side Of Life.

Todd Carty returns as Patsy from the original national cast, alongside West End and
TV star Stephen Pacey as King Arthur and TV and stage favourite
Bonnie Langford as the Lady of the Lake. SPAMALOT is directed by Christopher
Luscombe and features Eric Idle himself as God (As a recording! As if we could
afford to cart this God-like comic round the country!)

27th April 2012

The Caledonian Hotel, Osborne Road, Jesmond

Tom Wyllie Sings raising funds for The Toma Fund, supporting families, who have a child with cancer.

7.30-11.30pm

http://www.tomafund.org/ for further details.

25th April to 5th May 2012

Darlington OS Present "Titanic The Musical"

To comemorate the Centenary of the sinking on her maiden voyage, DarlingtonOS present the multi award-winning new musical "Titanic" at the beautiful 900 seater Darlington Civic Theatre. Evening performance start at 7.15pm with a 2pm matinee on Saturday April 28th.

Book your tickets online now at www.darlingtonos.org.uk

Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG
Tel: (0191) 232 7734
Textphone: 18001 0191 232 7734
Open: Monday to Saturday 10am– 5pm & Sunday 2 – 5pm
www.laingartgallery.org.uk
Nearest Metro: Monument
Free entry

Until 29 April 2012

Shakespeare in Art

IMAGE: B8136 Portia 1887 by Henry Woods, Courtesy of the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)

To celebrate the 175th birthday of Newcastle’s Theatre Royal in 2012, the Laing will host an exhibition which explores how Shakespeare has inspired artists for centuries. Displaying paintings, prints and objects from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' collections, visitors young and old will recognize characters from Shakespeare’s best-known plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and much more.

Victorian Artists in Newcastle

Until 29 April 2012

During the 19th century, Newcastle was home to a thriving art world. This exhibition explores the work of many of its key figures who captured the life and spirit of the age, with familiar names such as Ralph Hedley, Robert Jobling and John Falconar Slater.

Northern City Renaissance

Until 6 May 2012

Centred on Sting’s commissioned painting 'Northern City Renaissance, Newcastle, England' (2004-2008) by leading contemporary American painter Stephen Hannock, this exhibition will show scenes from the Laing Art Gallery’s collection depicting the Tyne’s sites of industrial shipbuilding and coalmining history.

Until 2 September 2012

Barnaby Barford

The Big Win: A Modern Morality Tale

A newly-commissioned contemporary intervention by Barnaby Barford responds to the Laing Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection. It explores a contemporary morality tale relating to themes in the collection, through a series of seven sculptures that touch on our insatiable appetite for celebrity culture and living beyond our means.

Until 6 May 2012

AV festival - Torsten Lauschmann

Part of AV Festival, which features major exhibitions, over 50 film screenings and music events in the North East, the Laing will be hosting Lauschmann’s critically acclaimed work has been described as too slow to be film, and too fast to be photography. Working across old and new technologies, he creates magical installations that reference pre-cinematic optical entertainment and the power of illusions. This solo exhibition responds to the context of the Laing, continuing his interest in the history of image technology from paintings to game engines. Including Father’s Monocle, in which animal flocking behaviour is projected through a rotating monocle lens.