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What’s on this weekend: March 23-25

This week’s top pick

Flow - North bank of the Tyne, Newcastle Quayside. From Sunday March 25 onwards. Free.

Flow is a floating tidemill that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel. Housing electro acoustic musical machinery and instruments, it responds to the changing environment of the river in creating different sounds. Three-interconnected sonic instruments blend traditional and digital sounds by drawing water from the river, and passing it through a series of filters, lasers and sensors, which bubble, beep, hiss, creak and groan. “The Salinity Sampler Sequencer” creates a tune from the last 12 hours of tide by storing and playing hourly river water samples, while the “Bubble Synth” and giant overhead Bellows create sounds from resonating bubbles, controlled by the chemical composition of the river.

Family

Make It - Centre For Life, Newcastle. Saturday March 24 and Sunday March 25.

A range of hands-on activities for building, creating, tinkering making. In a series of workshops, artists and makers will lead participants through a variety of classes in the gallery. This weekend, guest maker Theresa Easton shows you how to create a book and draw collage onto the pages.

Food and Drink

Medieval Banquet - Blackfriars Restaurant, Newcastle. Friday March 23. £39 per person.

Established in 1239, Blackfriars Restaurant is the claimed to be the oldest dining room in the UK. Customers are invited to dress like their medieval ancestors by buying a range of monk and wench costumes direct from its website. Banquets take place in the restaurant’s candlelit Banquet Hall, which houses long convivial oak tables and features authentic banners, chandeliers, wall coverings and stained-glass windows, created by local craftsmen.

Music

The Dirt Daubers and Kentucky Cowtippers - The Cluny. Sunday March 25. £10.

Hailing from Paducah, Kentucky and Nashville Tennessee, The Dirt Daubers play a mix of Appalachian folk, ragtime, jazz standards, cowboy songs, bluegrass and honky tonk. J.D Wilkes, of The Legendary Shack Shakers fronts the three piece, who have travelled the world with their loud and proud style.

Art

Transmitter / Receiver: The Persistence of Collage - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. All weekend.

A touring exhibition that traces the use of collage in British art, from the first influences of the Parisian avant-garde in the early work of Ben Nicholson and Surrealists Eileen Agar and Roland Penrose through to present day artists such as Steve Claydon, David Noonan and Idris Khan. The exhibit boasts traditional collage on paper, alongside painting, sculpture, film and slide projections from the Arts Council Collection.

Cinema

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Saturday March 24. 8.05pm. Tickets: £8; £6 conc.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2011, this gorgeous looking film follows the search by police, prosecutors, a doctor and the alleged culprit for the body of man buried in the Anatolian steppes. Set over the course of a day, the plot slowing unfolds with black humour and hypnotising scenes. The Independent called it “a character piece, a landscape study, a police thriller and a philosophical contemplation.”

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