proudWORDS - the only literature event with Ophelia Balls on the programme.
Friday 14th October, 5.45p.m. - 8p.m.
Newcastle Central Library (Entrance on John Dobson St) (map)
Let's Gay up the Library!
Featuring drag queen Ophelia Balls
"What book would you take on your gay desert island?" Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the 8th Annual proudWORDS festival.
The Northeast LGB community read from favourite books.
FREE - No need to book.
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Saturday 15th October, 2p.m. - 5p.m.
@ proudWORDS, 2nd Floor, The Old Casino, 1-4 Forth Lane (by The Forth pub) (map)
Workshop: "Get Published and Make a Million!"
This workshop can't guarantee publishing success or lots of money but who knows where it might lead!
Join Mel Ashby from Mslexia, Kelly Smith from US publisher Bywater Books and novelist Joan Opyr from Idaho, USA, for an entertaining look at the world of LGB publishing. There'll be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
For anyone interested in books and writing. You don't have to have written anything to enjoy this event.
FREE - Booking Essential: all workshops are booking up quickly and there are only a few places left - so book now!
Saturday 15th October, 7.30p.m.
@ the end bar (ex-Rockies), 78 Scotswood Rd, Newcastle (map)
Join a host of funny women, novelists and musicians at one of Newcastle's nicest gay bars for a night of belly laughs and loud titters (now then...)
V.G. Lee has written The Comedienne and Woman in Beige (Diva). Her new novel Diary of a Provincial Lesbian will be available from Onlywomen Press in 2006.
Helen Shacklady is the author of five books, the most recent The Vinland Sheep is a 15th century Welsh romp where history has not been allowed to get in the way of the story.
Joan Opyr is our guest novelist from the U.S.A. whose Idaho Code will be published later in the year (Bywater Books). The evening will be polished off with songs from The Friglets.
FREE - No need to book.
Sunday 16th October, 11a.m. - 2p.m.
@ proudWORDS, 2nd Floor, The Old Casino, 1-4 Forth Lane (by The Forth pub) (map)
Workshop: "This Is My Life" with V.G. Lee workshop
Workshop showing how reminiscence, personal experience and oral history can enrich and invigorate our fiction writing. We will look at some contemporary writers who draw on their own lives but the workshop will also enable participants to see what they can make of their histories be it for background, character or plot.
FREE - Booking Essential: all workshops are booking up quickly and there are only a few places left - so book now!
Sunday 16th October, 8p.m.
@ The Bridge Hotel, Castle Garth, Newcastle (map)
Internationally Acclaimed American Poet Alfred Corn joins Linda France
Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, in 1943. He grew up in Valdosta, Georgia and currently lives in Rhode Island.
His first book of poems, All Roads at Once, appeared in 1976, followed by A Call in the Midst of the Crowd (1978), The Various Light (1980), Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984), The West Door (1988), and Autobiographies (1992). His seventh book of poems, titled Present, appeared in 1997, along with the novel Part of His Story. Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992, appeared in 1999, followed by Contradictions in 2002.
A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The Nation, he also writes art criticism for Art in America and ARTnews magazines. Corn has received fellowships and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts amongst others.
He is teaching a course at the Poetry School in London for 2005-2006 and will be appearing at the Manchester Poetry Festival and guesting at The Arvon Foundation. This is a rare opportunity to hear an American poet of such stature!
He will be joined by Linda France whose collections include Red, The Gentleness of the Very Tall, Storyville, The Simultaneous Dress (all Bloodaxe) and most recently, Aerogramme with poems written about Nagpur, India.
All welcome. Donations on the door. Get there early if you want a seat!
Tuesday 18th October, 7p.m. - 9p.m.
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, King's Walk (map)
proudWORDS is once again pleased to support this LGBT writing and art project with this unique event. Jenny Kitzinger is an internationally renowned and respected academic, writer and media analyst. She will be visiting us from Cardiff University for one night only to give a talk and answer your questions on the media representation of the "gay gene" debate.
FREE - No need to book.
Wednesday 19th October, 7.30pm
@ Newcastle Central Library (map)
Please note change of venue
Peter Tatchell and Bea Campbell.
We're everywhere... in Government, books, on the telly, (OK, not the Church). In December we can even register our partnerships.
Is it time to look beyond issues of sexual orientation and LGB equality towards global concerns such as poverty and the environment?
This is a rare chance to hear legendary activist Peter Tatchell and the renowned academic, writer and broadcaster Bea Campbell in spate. Peter is the author of six books and 2000 published articles. Bea is visiting professor of women's studies at Newcastle University.
Join the debate and be prepared for controversy!
The event will be hosted by Catherine Donovan.
This event is now taking place in Newcastle City Library rather than the Tyneside Cinema Coffee Rooms. The time remains unchanged.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
FREE - No need to book.
Thursday 20th October, 7.30pm
@ Caedmon Hall, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead (map)
Hosted by Huffty.
We're delighted to welcome Rhona Cameron - stand up comic, celebrity and writer - to Newcastle/Gateshead.
Rhona will be reading from her novel, 1979: A Big Year in a Small Town (Ebury Press), and answering questions about writing, comedy and what's it like being a celebrity lesbian.
Tickets: £3/4 Pay on door.
To reserve tickets
or phone 0191 488 85 80.
Tickets for Rhona are going fast so make sure you get yours quickly:
Tickets must be reserved in advance and paid for on the door'.
Friday 21st October, 8.00pm
@ Side Cinema (map)
Derek Jarman double bill in association with the Other Side.
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye, 2004, UK, Beta SP, 60mins
One of Britain's most innovative and controversial filmmakers, Derek Jarman fused a radical queer sensibility with a highly personal, fiercely independent and poetic vision of the possibilities of cinema. This documentary includes interviews with Jarman's family, friends and closest collaborators.
Derek Jarman, UK, 1986, 16mm, 93 mins
This is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to making a mainstream film. It's a stylishly bold tribute to the volatile artist, starring Nigel Terry as the controversial painter torn between his rugged lover (Sean Bean) and his mistress (Tilda Swinton). Jarman sees the handsome Caravaggio as a passionate man with a liking for "rough trade." An elegant tale about both the creative process and the touching homoerotic love story of the two men.
Tickets: £3/4 Pay on door - No need to book.
Saturday 22nd October, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
@ proudWORDS, 2nd Floor, The Old Casino, 1-4 Forth Lane (by The Forth pub) (map)
Out of the Picture: a digital storytelling workshop
Have you got a story to tell or a memory to share of a queer place or event in Newcastle? It could be a bar from the past, a current hang out, a demo, your first Pride, an activist meeting or an allotment...
Bring your tales (and any connected visual materials you may have; photos, flyers, programmes, objects) and we will work together to fashion them into short moving image stories.
No previous experience is necessary and all equipment will be provided.
It is hoped that, with your permission, the finished films will be shown at the proudWORDS party in the evening and donated to the LGBT archive currently being developed by Our Place In History (OPIH), in conjunction with Tyne & Wear Museums.
Workshop lead by local artist, Kate Sweeney and Tyneside Cinema's Julie Ballands, who programmes OtherSide at Side Cinema
FREE - Booking Essential: all workshops are booking up quickly and there are only a few places left - so book now!
Saturday 22nd October, 5p.m.
The Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle (map)
Questions and Answers with QBoy
"refreshingly explicit yet deeply sincere talent... this hot, innovative young rap dude is already legendary"
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A tea time treat, a chance to meet superlicious QBoy. Half Spanish, half Essex and 100% Queer. He's fast making a name for himself in the dizzy world of hip-hop. The self-declared "faggot rapper" has toured the States, been interviewed by Boy George and is hot property at Pride Festivals throughout the UK.
Is hip-hop the new poetry? Discover for yourself...
You can reserve your place for QBoy's Q&A or just turn up on the door - it's free!
Saturday 22nd October, 8p.m. onwards
The Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle (map)
Featuring QBoy and DJs.
"QBoy is like Eminem but less camp"
Simon Amstell - Pop World
His hit EP Even the Women Like Him is available at HMV, Clone Zone and joy.com: Check out QBoy, the ever-rising gay hip-hop star and celebrate LGB culcha with drinks and music.
Tickets: £3/4 Pay on door - No need to book.
Sunday 23rd October, 11a.m. onwards
@ Tyneside Coffee Rooms Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle (map)
Stoke up on the carbs at the gayest coffee shop in town. Feel free to be creative with your breakfast menu. Sonnet-Croissants, brunch-stories, toasted rhymes welcome
To reserve tickets for any of the workshops or for Rhona Cameron or phone 0191 488 8580.
All workshops are booking up quickly and there are only a few places left - so book now!
For more details of workshops phone Mary on 07973 894 912 or e-mail .
We have tried wherever possible to hold events in venues that are wheelchair accessible. If you would like more details ring either the venue, or Mary on 07973 894 912.
Should you require the services of an interpreter, please let us know in advance.
Workshops (marked with the W graphic) are a chance for lesbian, gay and bisexual people to express themselves and as such are only open to LGB people. All other events are open to everyone.
proudWORDS: 07973 894 912
2nd Floor, The Old Casino, 1-4 Forth Lane Newcastle (off Pink Lane, round the corner from The Forth Pub)
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Caedmon Hall: 0191 433 8400
Caedmon Hall
Gateshead Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead (close to Shipley Art Gallery and Leisure Centre)
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Newcastle Central Library: 0191 277 4100
Princess Square (off Northumberland Street), Newcastle - use entrance on John Dobson St
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the end bar (formerly Rockies)
78 Scotswood Rd, Newcastle
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The Black Swan:0191 261 5618,
Newcastle Arts Centre, (bottom of Westgate Road) Newcastle
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Tyneside Coffee Rooms: 0191 261 9291
Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle
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Side Cinema: 0191 232 2208
Newcastle Quayside, (bottom of Dean Street), Newcastle
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The Bridge Hotel: 0191 232 6400
Castle Garth, Newcastle
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