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AV Festival


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