If you are a regular visitor to this site, you will already know about these three upcoming events:
Conversations on a Bench on Radio 4
Two Countries at Berwick Literary Festival
Sun at Life Planetarium, Newcastle – Friday Night Life
If you don’t already know about them, please read on:
Conversations on a Bench
BBC Radio 4, Sunday October 9th 4.30 pm
Repeated Saturday October 15th 11.30 pm, and on iplayer
Anna Scott-Brown returns to hear more stories from the people who stop to sit beside her on benches around the country. In this episode, she is joined on a bench overlooking Beadnell Harbour in Northumberland by holiday-makers, environmentalists and some members of the last remaining fishing families of Beadnell.
Throughout the programme, a specially commissioned work by poet and Beadnell resident, Katrina Porteous draws on the voices of locals and passers by.
Presenter: Anna Scott-Brown
Producer: Adam Fowler
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4.
Two Countries at Berwick Literary Festival
Sunday October 23rd noon
Guildhall, Berwick Town Hall
Two Countries
Poetry and Northumbrian pipes from Katrina Porteous and Alice Burn
shortlisted for the 2015 Portico Prize for Literature, Katrina Porteous’ Two Countries draws on traditions of the Border Ballad and Northumbrian story-telling to explore the shifting relations between landscape and community. Katrina will be joined by BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Musician of the Year finalist, Northumbrian Piper Alice Burn.
Tickets £5 – available from Berwick Maltings but please note that event takes place in Guildhall
Event sponsored by Greaves, West and Ayre
Photo credit Marjorie Baillie
by Katrina Porteous and Peter Zinovieff
World Premiere, Friday November 18th
An exploration of our nearest Star in words and music
In partnership with Northumbria University and Think Physics
Planetarium, Life Science Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4EP
Two evening performances (times to be announced)
Planetarium visuals by Christopher Hudson
Our Sun is amazing. Space telescopes like NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory allow us to ‘see’ it in wavelengths far beyond human vision, to ‘hear’ the sounds it makes, and to use those sounds to ‘look’ inside it.
Sun draws on data from the Sun as the basis for some of its digital music. Through its soundscape and poetry, supported by stunning photographic images, it examines what our nearest star is made of: hot plasma (ionised gas), threaded by a strong magnetic field. This magnetism is generated by internal convective motion via a dynamo process, responsible for sunspots and dramatic solar flares which directly affect us here on Earth.
Through the interaction of music and words, Sun explores these awesome processes, upon which all light and life on Earth depend.
Part of Life Science Centre ‘Friday Night Life’
Duration: approximately 45 minutes, including a short introduction to the Sun by a member of Northumbria University Solar Physics Research Group
Online advance tickets: £8.00 per person. On the door: £10 per person. 20% discount for annual pass holders
http://www.life.org.uk/whats-on/friday-night-life-18-november-2016