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SUMMARY:Opt Indie Books: The Spirit of Stone with Wyl Menmuir
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 17th June for an evening in conversation with Wyl Menmuir\, as we turn our attention to the landscapes beneath our feet. \nFrom ancient monuments and drystone walls to caves\, quarries and rugged coastlines\, Wyl explores the ways stone shapes not only the world around us\, but our histories\, identities and sense of belonging. Bringing together travel writing\, memoir\, folklore and social history\, it is a thoughtful meditation on our relationship with place and a fitting conclusion to a remarkable trilogy that has taken readers from sea\, to woodland\, and now to stone. \nWe can’t wait to talk with Wyl about the book and the questions it asks about how we live with\, understand and care for the landscapes that surround us. \nTickets\nTicket Only: £5.00 \nBook & Ticket: £15.00 Includes a copy of The Spirit of Stone (RRP £16.99)
URL:https://thecommonroom.org.uk/event/opt-indie-books-the-spirit-of-stone-with-wyl-menmuir/
LOCATION:The Common Room\, Westgate Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Whisky Tasting - An Evening With...Mark Watt
DESCRIPTION:In person whisky tasting event. \nThere are whisky people\, and there are whisky people. Mark is the latter.\nOne of the true characters in the industry whose career has led him via Duncan Taylor and Cadenheads\, to starting his own Independent Bottler with his (just as impressive) wife\, Kate. “Watt Whisky” has established itself as one of the most trustworthy of the “new wave” of indies with a focus on quality whisky at an affordable price. \nMark will be joining us (for the first time in Newcastle) on Friday June 26th. Seriously\, you don’t want to miss this! \nDrams for tasting will be confirmed at least four weeks before the event! \nWe’ll see you there!
URL:https://thecommonroom.org.uk/event/whisky-tasting-an-evening-with-mark-watt/
LOCATION:The Common Room\, Westgate Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Newcastle Poetry Festival | Deryn Rees-Jones and Denise Riley
DESCRIPTION:Reading and In Conversation Deryn Rees-Jones and Denise Riley. Part of Newcastle Poetry Festival. \nDenise Riley\nDenise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry and has been praised as ‘one of the great poets of our time’. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry at UEA. She has taught philosophy\, art history\, poetics\, and creative writing. She is the author of the award-winning poetry collections\, Say Something Back and Lurex. \nHer latest book\, A Chorus of Ears\, is a series of essays on voice\, lyric and the persona of the poet. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, A Chorus of Ears meditates upon the emphasis we place upon the persona of the poet\, relegating their actual poetry to a second-order importance.\nWhat\, Riley asks\, might be discovered about the purpose of poetry\, its originary point within our language and more yet besides\, when we liberate it from the persona of the author? In allowing the poem to speak\, what might we hear? \n‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – The Sunday Times \nDeryn Rees-Jones\nDeryn Rees-Jones is Professor of English at Liverpool University and the editor of Pavilion Poetry\, Liverpool University Press. Her poetry collections Burying the Wren and Erato were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of Paula Rego: The Art of Story (Thames & Hudson 2019) and the lyric essay Fires (Shoestring\, 2019). \nHer remarkable latest collection Hôtel Amour\, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026\, sees Deryn Rees-Jones returning to ongoing preoccupations: the complexities of memory and memorialisation\, desire and the body\, and poetry’s place in a hostile world. Playful\, and moving by turn\, Hôtel Amour experiments with fragmented narrative and poetic form creating a breathing space for a multilayered and powerful meditation on illness\, love and time. \n‘Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy’ – The Telegraph \nSaturday 27th June | 2pm -3.30pm \nReading and In Conversation\nTICKETS £6/£3 (students) \nOnline Bookings Only.\n(Café open from 1.30pm)
URL:https://thecommonroom.org.uk/event/newcastle-poetry-festival-deryn-rees-jones-and-denise-riley/
LOCATION:The Common Room\, Westgate Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Northern Chords Festival: Nature and Folk
DESCRIPTION:An evening of music inspired by Nature and Folk including The Lark Ascending and Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. \nTonight’s program invites us into a world where music draws its breath from the natural landscape and the voices of folk tradition. Across cultures and centuries\, composers have turned to the rhythms of the earth—rustling forests\, open skies\, and the pulse of dance—to shape melodies that feel both deeply personal and universally familiar. Folk music\, with its raw energy and storytelling spirit\, meets the evocative power of nature\, creating soundscapes that are at once vivid and timeless. \nAt the heart of this journey stands the Violin Concerto in D major by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky\, a work that captures both the lyric sweep of the natural world and the spirited character of dance. From its soaring opening to its electrifying finale\, the concerto blends heartfelt song with folk-inspired vitality\, culminating in a dazzling celebration of virtuosity and joy. \nKonstantia Gourzi “message between trees”\nR.Vaughan-Williams The Lark Ascending\nG.Holst St. Paul’s Suite \n-interval- \nP.Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (in a special arrangement for string orchestra) \nBenjamin Baker: violin\nJonathan Bloxham: conductor\nNorthern Chords Festival Strings \nSTUDENTS UNDER 18: FREE\nGENERAL ADMISSION: £15\nFESTIVAL PASS: £45 \nThe 17th Northern Chords Festival\, which will take place on the 26 – 28th June in venues across the region\, has incredible group of musicians travelling to the North East and we can’t wait to welcome you to our concerts. \nTo buy tickets for individual concerts or for a festival pass\, this option is available on all 3 of the ticket pages by following this link HERE
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