Canopy New Music

AV Festival, in partnership with Inspire Northumberland, seek to appoint an artist in residence at NaREC, the centre of excellence for new and renewable energy technologies in North East England.

The residency will provide an opportunity for an artist to carry out new research and share ideas in response to one or more areas of sustainable energy technology undertaken by NaREC, which are: Marine Renewables, Offshore Wind, Advanced Photovoltaics, Low Carbon/Distributed energy and Electrical Networks. The fee for the residency is £10,000.

The residency is open to any professional artist working within or outside the UK, and can be worked flexibly between September - February 2010 as part of AV Festival 10. The artist will be invited to give a public presentation about the residency as part of AV Festival 10 which has the theme of energy. The festival dates are 5 - 14 March 2010, and it will take place across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland.

Deadline for proposals: 9am, 22 July 2009
Shortlisting: 24 July 2009
Interviews: 5 August 2009

The residency brief can be downloaded at: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/news/opportunities/av-festival-10-announcement-and-call-for-artists

AV Festival forms part of North East England's world-class festival's and events programme.

KINOAUTOMAT

Thursday 5 March, 8.00pm

Tyneside Cinema

Pilgrim Street, Newcastle

0845 217 9909

www.tynesidecinema.co.uk

A once in a lifetime cinematic event takes place at the Tyneside Cinema on Thursday 5^th March.  

As the digital age creates new ways of collaborative filmmaking the Tyneside presents a unique live performance of the world’s first interactive film. What may surprise you is that it was made in 1966!

Created by great Czech filmmaker Radúz Cincera, Kinoautomat caused a sensation at the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. It’s a black comedy in which you make decisions for the central character at key moments in the film using a wireless voting system. Groundbreaking and great fun, Kinoautomat has been restored by Cincera’s daughter Alena Cincerova for its latest incarnation and comes to Newcastle as part of the Tyneside’s Pixel Palace programme.

The story is this: The film’s main character, Mr. Novak (portrayed by Miroslav Hornicek), is interrupted by a nearly naked neighbour ringing his doorbell. Clad in a towel, she has locked herself out of her own apartment and asks Mr. Novak to let her into his home. So what to do? A charming young lady in a difficult situation is asking for help. On the other hand, Mrs. Novak will return any minute. And on top of that, today is his wife’s birthday...

Utterly charming, utterly groundbreaking, the movie was written and directed by members of the Czechoslovak new wave in film in the 1960s:  Raduz Cincera, Pavel Juracek, Jan Rohac, Vladimír Svitacek and Miroslav Hornicek. The film features Miroslav Hornicek, Miroslav Machacek, Josef Somr, Karla Chadimová, Libuse Svormova, Jan Libicek, Jiří Schmitzer and others.

Tickets are available now:

Stalls: £8.00/£7.00 concessions. Circle: £10.00/£8.00 concessions