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What’s on this weekend: February 10-12

This week’s top pick

The Big Win - A Morality Tale. Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 2pm-5pm. Free admission.

A newly commissioned contemporary intervention from Barnaby Barford. The exhibition explores a contemporary morality tale, presenting seven sculptures that examine our insatiable appetite for celebrity culture and living beyond our means. It tells the story of a layabout, who aspires to a celebrity lifestyle as he wins the lottery. The theme is loosely based on the narrative of ‘A Rake’s Progress’ by 18th century artist Williams Hogarth. Barnaby has left the space with room for visitors to determine the end of the story. Later in the year he will choose his favourite closing chapter, and complete the scene.

Music

The Cornshed Sisters and Annie Dressner - Independent, Sunderland. Saturday February 11, 8pm. Tickets: £3.

Guitar pop, folk, protest song, country and gospel: The Cornshed Sisters are certainly an eclectic proposition, and are renowned for their beautiful acapella harmonies in North East accents. Annie Dressner recently relocated from New York, bringing her fragile songwriting with “conversationally awkward” lyrics.

Cinema

Coriolanus - Stockton Arc. Saturday February 11, 8pm. Tickets: £6; £5 concessions.

Film adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Gerard Butler. Coriolanus is a revered and feared Roman General who is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. His pushy mother wants him in the powerful position of Consul, but he can’t bring himself to ingratiate himself with the masses, whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. The public refuse to support him and Coriolanus’s anger sees him thrown out of Rome, before he takes revenge.

Food and Drink

Hartlepool Historic Quay Farmers Market. Saturday February 11, 8.30am-2.45pm.

One of the Northern Dales Farmers Markets, stallholders offer up bread, cakes, biscuits, puddings, cereals, cookware, fish, meats, pies and pasties, preserves, jam, honey and fudge, as well as fresh vegetables and fruit.

Comedy

Andy White, Eriick McElroy, Tanya Lee Davis - The Hyena Cafe, Newcastle. Friday February 10. 6.30pm. Tickets: £11

Andy White is a Brummie who escaped from a call centre to become a comic. He likes silly voices, funny faces, observational humour, topical humour and his mixed race background to create cheeky comedy. Erich McElroy is from Seattle and has been gigging regularly on the UK circuit, and has been described as a natural. And LA native Tanya Lee Davis supplies here racy performance.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .