Waygood Gallery's Little Jewel Cinema launches a new season of short films today. The Sapphire Season is Little Jewel's third at the free peephole cinema on High Bridge, Newcastle, where passers by can peep through a hole in a window to watch films, documentaries, music videos and animation. The new season opens with Peep Show, a screening of films by six North-East artists. Carole Luby and Nathalie Levi take a look at voyeurism, Laura Navndrup Pedersen invites us to observe intimate portraits, Peter McAdam deals with childhood, Andrew Ross highlights the ambiguity of the everyday and Pete Hindle scrutinises the art world. Pigeons are the subject for Michael Cousin's 19-minute abstract film Luminous Fluxus which runs from June 14 to June 27. Steven Ball's The Defenestrascope depicts the views from monumental towers around Europe and runs from June 28 to July 11. Trailer Truths 1 by Erica Scourti is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda. It runs from July 12 to July 25. The fifth installment, A Violent History of Interruption by Rob Kennedy, runs from July 26 to August 8. Rob unpicks the violence of cartoons in a film developed during a residency in Bulgaria. As part of the new season Alison Knowles, founder member of art performance group Fluxus, created Shore Line last Saturday. Around 20 artists and volunteers walked with a long washing line of clothes stitched together, from High Bridge to Baltic. Waygood Gallery is calling for anyone who saw Shore Line to leave comments via its website www.waygood.org Little Jewel Cinema is on 31 High Bridge: (0191) 265-6857. * A FREE all-day music event is on in Blyth this Saturday in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. The day is an extension of Modern World, a live music night every Saturday at The Quay in Blyth, which has been running for seven months and has brought new independent bands from across the UK. It has attracted such bands as The Romance, Brandon Steep, The Lurios, Odd Shaped Head, The Hungover Stuntmen and The Chapman Family. Modern World organiser Vince Race says: "The night has been a phenomenal success so far. Our aim is to offer a platform for independent bands to play in front of an enthusiastic crowd and we have definitely achieved this." This Saturday's line-up of indie, punk, Hip-Hop, rock and country bands at The Quay brings together Illegal Waste, Modes, Odd Shaped Head, The Same Kicks, Dialect, GST Cardinals, Clear Blue Skies and Lazy Baker. Headlining are Chauffeur Driven Aviator. Entry is free, but buckets will be passed round and a raffle held to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, which fights the UK's most common life threatening inherited disease.
Modern World is at The Quay, Bridge Street, from 2pm to 2am and also includes DJ sets.
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