Newcastle, Gateshead,
Middlesbrough and Sunderland
2nd - 12th March 2006
The AV Festival 06 is the UK's newest, and largest, international
festival of film, digital arts, music, games and new media. A
bi-annual event (the 2006 festival is the second, the first was in
November 2003) AV Festival 06 will take place in venues in
Newcastle Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
The festival will include an impressive range of energetic and
challenging new work which has never been seen in the UK before
(including several ambitious new commissions), from renowned
international artists, filmmakers and musicians from countries as
far a field as Japan, Australia, USA, France, Norway and Germany.
It will feature over 90 concerts, performances, film screenings,
exhibitions and installations, club events and parties, and outdoor
projections. It will also include an international symposium (10-11
March), and a dynamic education programme.
The theme of the 2006 festival is LIFE. The AV Festival 06 will
examine the relationship between digital and biological life as
explored by audiovisual practitioners from all disciplines.
Link:
http://www.avfest.co.uk/
Contact:
Honor Harger
Email:
honor (at) avfest (dot) co (dot) uk
Telephone:
+44 (0)191 232 8289, ext 112
Address:
c/o Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 6QG, UK