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March Events

WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH 2012

NORTHUMBERLAND & DURHAM FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

MEMBERS’ EVENING

ST. HILDA’S CHURCH
VISITOR CENTRE
MARKET PLACE
SOUTH SHIELDS

AT 7.00 PM FOR 7.30 PM

Beginners welcome, Find out about the Society and how it can
help you in your family history research, Information on your local branch
Question and Answer Session, Get help from other researchers.

Want to explore your family history but don’t know
where to start? Come along and find out!

20th - 24th March 2012

‘Tipp’ the Taxi Driver

The Customs House, Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne and Wear NE33 1ES
0191 454 1234

A local play is hoping to raise funds for St. Clare’s Hospice with the help of taxi firm Dial A Cab.

‘Tipp the Taxi Driver’ will be on at The Customs House in South Shields from March 20th until March 24th and was written by Tom Casling, a writer from Durham.

Set in the North East, the play deals with the complex relationships which can develop between the most unlikely of people including the title character Tipp, a reluctant taxi driver who is married to Margaret, his long suffering wife.

Tom realised there was a natural link with local firm Dial A Cab and also the opportunity to raise funds for local charity St. Clare’s.
He explained , “I wanted to do something to help a good cause in the area and thought it would be a good idea to get the drivers of Dial A Cab to donate their tips for any fares they take to the Customs House to see the play! Thankfully Ian Tate the owner was more than happy support us.”

Vanessa Mustard-Wright, Senior Fundraiser at St. Clare’s said, “We were delighted to receive a phone call from Tom with this novel idea! I hope lots of people in the area will go and see the play and generate some much needed funds for the Hospice. Dial A Cab supported us as a Corporate Partner for 2 years and have always helped us whenever they can and we are so pleased they were able to come on board and help us again. “

Ian Tate from Dial A Cab said,” Dial A Cab has always supported St. Clare’s and we were pleased to receive a call from Tom with this great idea. We hope it will boost the Hospices campaign.”

Tickets cost £10 or £12 for the show and Tom will donate £2 from each sale if theatre goers mention St. Clare’s Hospice when booking. All money raised will go toward fundraising for St. Clare’s Hospice which needs to raise just under £2m every year and has recently been featured in The Shields Gazette’s C/o St. Clare’s Campaign.

Throughout March

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.

Thursday 22nd March 2012

Sunderland Empire, High Street West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX

Box Office 0844 871 3022 Website www.atgtickets.com/sunderland Save £££s - Book as a group 0844 871 3042

Comedian Freddie Starr Set For Sunderland!

The madcap legend that is FREDDIE STARR is back from the jungle and will be thrilling UK audiences this Spring, as he takes his hilarious new show the COME BACK TOUR to some of the country’s top theatres, including a one night stop at the Sunderland Empire

One of Britain’s best loved and most enduring performers, Freddie has established himself as one of the all time greats, with his place in the Comedy Hall of Fame assured and will be bringing back some of his well loved impressions and brand new sketches with his exciting brand new show!

Don’t miss this evening of madness and mayhem....but if your easily offended stay away!

Thursday 29th - Saturday 31st March 2012

Gosforth Musical Society: The Gondoliers

Gosforth Musical Society will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan's Gondoliers at the Jubilee Theatre, St Nicholas Hospital, Jubilee Road NE3 3XT on Thursday 29th - Saturday 31st March 2012 at 7.30 pm (plus Saturday Matinee at 2.30). Tickets £10/£6 for under 16s available on the door. Pre-book on 07757 953871

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

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.