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Viz at the Lit & Phil 12th August - 4th September 2010
Viz at the Lit & Phil - 12th August - 4th September 2010
Viz fans will be thrilled to learn that the Lit & Phil is hosting an exhibition of original artwork from the last 30 years of the comic, with classic characters including Roger Mellie, Sid the Sexist and Biffa Bacon.
Opening Times - Mon-Thurs 10am – 7pm, Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 10am – 1pm
Charge - £4/2 (concessions/Lit & Phil members)
Exhibition Events Programme
Saturday 14th August 2-4pm ‘Cartoons for Absolute Beginners’ Workshop with Suzy Varty. Suitable for ages 8 to 80 (20 places). FREE
Tuesday 17th August 7.00pm Q&A Come and ask the current Viz artists what it’s like trying to think of new rude stuff all the time. Graham Dury, Simon Thorp and Wayne Gamble will answer. £2
Thursday 19th August 7.00pm Mini Comics – make your own comic in under an hour with Leonie O’Moore
Create short satirical comic books around current events and topics that matter to you. The session will include a short discussion, pointers on sequential story telling and a class in how to make a small eight page folded booklet. Some materials will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own along as well. FREE
Thursday 26th August 7.00pm Mel Gibson 'Words about pictures' Viz takes over the University!
Come along and learn about the ways in which the academy and comics intersect with Dr. Mel Gibson, a UK based comics scholar and consultant. £2
Tuesday 31st August 7.00pm ‘How to make yourself popular and successful using gutter language’ Simon Donald tells us the story of how it all started. £4/2
Art, Literature and Music
Wednesday 8th September 7.00pm Three local poets read from James Kirkup's A Bewick Bestiary, Terry Kelly, Tom Kelly and Alistair Robinson
£5 non-members, £3 members
Friday 10th September, 1.00pm The Life of Lord Armstrong, Ken Smith. £2 non members, FREE for members
Friday 10th September, 7.00pm 'Fairest Isle': songs of old England. A programme of Renaissance, Baroque and folk songs from the British Isles, accompanied by lute and folk harp, including works by Dowland, Purcell, Locke and Anne Boleyn. With Rachel Davies and Jessica Blake.
For the complete programme, please click here
JESSICA BLAKE and RACHEL DAVIES met in 2000 at Birmingham University’s Centre for Early Music Performance and Research.
Jessica and Rachel have performed lute song recitals around Britain and Germany. Their programmes comprise a mixture of Renaissance, Baroque and folk music: both ‘composed’ and ‘folk’ pieces from English Renaissance courts, Dowland lute songs, and pieces from Restoration masques.
Tickets £3 for members; £5 for non-members. Please reserve a seat.
Tuesday 14th September, 12.30pm Literary Lunch: Women of Mystery, Sophie Hannah and Cath Staincliff, hosted by Ann Cleeves. £10 please pay in advance.
Thursday 16th September, 1.00pm Jesmond from Mines to Mansions, Alan Morgan in association with Tyne Bridge Publishing. £2 non-members, FREE to members.
Thursday 16th September, 7.00pm Book Launch: Simon Thirsk reading from 'Not Quite White' FREE
Wednesday 22nd September, 6.00pm An evening with David Almond and Janni Howker. £5 members, £3 members, FREE under 16s.
Thursday 23rd September, 7.00pm Poetry Event: ID on Tyne Press. Degna Stone launches her first chapbook 'Between the Floorboards'. £2
Friday 24th September 7.30pm Concert: The Katie Doherty Trio perform a one-off gig, all proceeds to the Lit & Phil appeal. £7 non-members, £5 members.
Tuesday 28th September 7.00pm Poetry Event: An Evening with Jo Shapcott, Don Paterson and Sean O’Brien.
£5/£3 Wine sponsored by Wetherspoon
Wednesday 29th September 6.00pm Hugh Trevor-Roper v Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Duel - Adam Sisman.
£2/FREE members
Thursday 30th September 7.00pm Poetry Event: Asit Maitra reads from Knife on the Edge. In association with Red Squirrel Press. FREE
Friday 8th October 7.00pm Concert: Music for Flute & Strings by Mozart, Debussy, Gordon Jacob etc, given by the Genista Ensemble (Brian Stewart, Marion Hillier, Noel Broome, and Ruth Bennett).
£10. Wine sponsored by Wetherspoon
Wednesday 13th October 6.00pm Lecture: Coming Home: John Piper's Artistic Concern with the Local and Particular, Frances Spalding, Professor of Art History, Newcastle University
£2/ free
Thursday 14th October 7.00pm Poetry Event: ID on Tyne Press: Sheree Mack launches her latest chapbook Night’s Skin £2
Friday 15th October 7.00pm An evening with novelist Sarah Waters, in conversation with Gail-Nina Anderson, discussing the supernatural in her work.
£5/£3 (fundraising event)
Thursday 28th October, 7.00pm Bobby Bendick’s Ride is the first publication from Enchiridion, a small imprint set up by the poets Peter Bennet and Sean O’Brien and the artist Birtley Aris. Beautifully illustrated with Birtley Aris’s inimitably atmospheric ink drawings, is an enigmatic narrative poem of a supernatural tendency. Oddly enough it is referred to in a short story by Sean O’Brien, ‘It Follows, Therefore’, first heard at the Phantoms at the Phil. The poem and the story will both be read, and copies of the highly collectable chapbook of the illustrated poem will be available to buy. All welcome. Wine will be served.
Wednesday 3rd November 7.00pm Peter Mortimer reads from his novella Uninvited. In association with Red Squirrel Press. £5/£3 (Fundraising) Refreshments.
Wednesday 10th November 6.00pm Robert Spence Watson Lecture: Elizabeth Gaskell: Country and City Jenny Uglow
£2 members Free for members
Thursday 11th November 6.00pm Desert Island Records
Noel Broome in conversation with Alan Fearon £2 non-members, FREE for members
Wednesday 17th November 7.00pm Death by the book: Who Murdered Lucinda Parr? A Lit & Phil Murder Mystery, written by Ann Cleeves
£10 in advance (fundraising)
Wednesday 24th November 7.00pm Red Squirrel Press poets Kevin Cadwallender, Tom Kelly, Eleanor Livingstone, Alistair Robinson, and Salt poet Rob Mackenzie read from their poetry collections.
£5/£3 (Fundraising)
Wednesday 15th December 1.10pm Lunchtime concert - Vocal recital with Teresa Magnowska, and David Foster on piano
£2/Free to members
Wednesday 15th December 7.00pm ID on Tyne Press: Maggie Tate launches her first chapbook £2
Thursday 16th December 6.30pm Songs and stories for Christmas, with the Vivace Quartet.
Minced pies and mulled wine £5/3
To reserve your seat:
Please reserve your seat by calling (0191) 232 0192, emailing library@litandphil.org.uk or by calling in.
If you reserve a ticket and are subsequently unable to attend, please let us know as we often have a waiting list. Thank you.
In addition to the events listed here, there will be more events added to the list throughout the year. Please check here or in the library for details.