AV Festival Pass

The AV Festival Pass is the best way to get the most out of AV Festival 08.

Costing just £25 it will allow you free access to many one off events, previews, workshops and talks throughout AV Festival 08. You will also receive personal invites to exclusive events and parties.

Call our AV Festival Box Office on 0191 232 8289 to buy your pass and reserve you place at all the Festival events.

You must reserve tickets to all events in advance and tickets are subject to availability and limited to one per passholder. Both ticket and pass must be should to gain admittance to events. Passholder reservations can only be made at AV Festival Box Office.

Events included in the AV Festival Pass:

Performances

War of the Worlds, Middlesbrough Old Town Hall
Chris Watson Live concert, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Music

  • Opening Gala including Variations VII & Yokomono, BALTIC
  • Radiophonia Concert, The Sage Gateshead
  • Autechre (limited number of tickets at £5 for pass-holders), Digital.
  • A Marriage of Shadows, Middlesbrough Central Library
  • National Grid (Disinformation vs Strange Attractor), Life
  • AV:ISION Club events:
    • Lumen & AV:ISION Lounge, Secco
    • AV:ISION & NoName, Bernaccia
    • AV:ISION presents Novak Collective & Guests, Basement
    • AV:ISION Presents 3D Disco, Bar Absolute,
    • AV:ISION Lounge with Ward 10, The White Room

Exhibition Receptions

  • NewcastleGateshead Late & Live exhibition receptions
  • Middlesbrough Late & Live exhibition receptions
  • Sunderland Late & Live exhibition receptions
  • Resonance Fm launch event at mima
  • AV Festival Closing Gala, Baltic Square

Talks & Seminars

  • Music & Machines Two Day Conference, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
  • Radiophonia Talks & Screening, The Sage Gateshead
  • Broadcast Yourself in person and on Screen, Star and Shadow Cinema
  • At the Top of the Game with Jimmy McGovern, Cineworld, Middlesbrough
  • The Television will not be Revolutionised Debate, Media Centre, University of Sunderland
  • Chris Watson Talk, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Screenings

All TV at the Cinema Screenings:

  • Distorted Reality – The War Game & Death of A President, Tyneside Cinema
  • Shooting the Past, Tyneside Cinema
  • Abigail’s Party, Tyneside Cinema
  • Cathy Come Home, Tyneside Cinema
  • The Life of Birds introduced by Chris Watson, Sunderland
  • Museum & Winter Gardens
  • The Prisoner, Tyneside Cinema
  • The Prisoner, Innovation Lecture Theatre, University of Teesside
  • Not the Nine O’Clock News, Innovation Lecture Theatre, University of Teesside

All TV Dinners Screenings at Tyneside Coffee Rooms:

  • Cops & Robbers; The Sweeney & Life on Mars
  • Boys from the Black Stuff
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Brass Eye
  • Desert Island TV, introduced by special guest, Tyneside Cinema

Alternative Top TV Gala, Tyneside Cinema

Community Radio Night: Scattered Frequencies and Radio Favela, Star & Shadow Cinema

An American family Revisited & The Truman Show, Star and Shadow Cinema

 

Due to high demand for tickets any reservations not collected 15 minutes before the event will be released to the waiting list. AV Festival reserves the right to refuse admission.