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Stolen Standards is a three piece jazz ensemble from Teesside. Fronted by Claire Arbon, the group combines piano, double bass and vocals to peform a mix of loungy jazz standards and Latin rhythms.

The group has a formidable repertoire - covering favourites like I’m in the Mood for Love and I’ve Got You Under My Skin, alongside modern classics such as Moondance and Have I Told You Lately.

With forthcoming gigs at Wynyard Hall, Hartlepool Marina and Hutton Rudby’s ‘Jazz on the Green’, this impressive group’s available for all manner of private bookings.

For further information on Stolen Standards, check out the band’s new website. Studio tracks from their setlist are being uploaded to the site over the next couple of weeks and are well worth a listen.

Prolific Middlesbrough-based filmmaker Joseph Tan releases his latest film next week.

Starring Craig Samson and James Woods, Question of Faith is a ten minute short about a priest who’s in cahoots with the local mob. Samson (who you may recall from Tom Marshall’s Daddy’s Girl) plays likeable Priest Jimmy who’s in it up to his neck. He owes them money and it’s James Woods as hit-man Finn who’s sent in to sort him out. Except Finn makes a deal with Jimmy. If he wins the deal he lives. If he loses, he dies. What the deal is exactly, you’ll have to watch the film to find out.

Question of Faith was shot in the Tollesby area of Middlesbrough last week. While in filmmaker Joseph Tan’s own words it’s ‘twisted’, the script’s regarded as Gore Cartoons’ most serious film since the 2006 feature Time To Kill! It’s been funded by St Mary’s Sixth Form College (who helped with the shoot) and is being used as a live project to teach media students how to edit.

Question of Faith can be viewed on the Gore Cartoons website from next Monday 1st December.

Bay Plastics Limited is a plastic stockist, fabricator and formist that supplies customers all over the world with quality plastic materials and products. While it’s recently developed an online ordering function in response to demand from current customers, it needs to implement a series of web optimisation techniques to increase sales.

These techniques include:
• E-Marketing/Viral Marketing
• Web Optimisation Strategies
• Web architecture analysis
• Web content analysis
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)/Price per Click, Micro site development

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Saltburn based LCM Games is seeking the services of fresh graduates or undergraduates in digital graphic design and programming.

The following opportunities are currently available:
• Innovative and creative website design: £2000 - £4000 budget

• Design of banners, logos and associated clip art for various web projects.
(Regular work, negotiable rates)

One person may be able to support LCM with both of these roles

The ideal candidate(s) will:
• Have a professional and courteous attitude towards business
• Be able to work to tight deadlines
• Be passionate and enthusiastic
• Have a creative edge and a flair for design and functionality


For further information call Iain Flintoff on: 01287 200007 or Email: Lcm.gamesltd@live.co.uk

Monster Productions is one of the UK’s leading producers of music theatre for children. The Newcastle-based organisation is recruiting for eight new positions. It’s currently developing its latest production The Garden of Dreams by Chris Speyer in conjunction with Live Theatre.

The positions are:
Freelance fundraiser
Freelance PR/marketing person

For the Live Theatre co-production:
4x Performers
1x Musician
1x Stage Manager

Further details can be found here

Stokesley-based Better Brand Agency is looking for a web developer to join its expanding team.

The successful person will have a passion for all things web and an understanding and working knowledge of good web site construction. They will see web projects as not just being about design and functionality, but also understand marketing and communication requirements (including SEO).

Essential Software Skills to Include:
• An expert knowledge of building sites in CSS/XHTML,
• An expert knowledge of PHP/MySQL, Javascript and AJAX
• An understanding of Javascript Frameworks such as Prototype or jquery.
• An excellent knowledge of current web standards such as W3C and WAI
• An advanced understanding of Search Engine Optimisation issues

If you are interested in applying for this post, send your CV and examples of your work to:
talk@betterbrandagency.com
For further info call: 01642 715314

This month’s Write Room has a very special guest. World spoon playing champion and raconteur Bert Draycott joins the team for another evening of performance poetry and entertainment.

There’ll be readings from Write Room favourites such as Pete Nolan and Dominic Windram - as well as a line-up of newcomers from around the north east.

The Write Room takes place in Wolviston Village’s Wellington Inn next Tuesday 25th November from 7.45pm - 10.30pm. Entry is £3.00 0n the door.

For further information contact organiser Pete Nolan: pete.nolan@ntlworld.com

Tyneside Cinema and Northern Lights Film Festival are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced filmmaker to help shape and oversee the delivery of the Northern Stars Academy.

The successful person will receive support on production and co-ordination from YIPP films and Tyneside Cinema and on content from a variety of industry professionals. The contract runs until April 2009, with the majority of the delivery taking place between February and April.

Aimed at 15 - 18 year olds, the Northern Stars Filmmakers’ Academy aims to bridge the gap between academic study available in the statutory and FE sectors and the professional film industry. It will offer its members a unique opportunity to learn all aspects of the filmmaking process - from scriptwriting and casting through to directing and editing. The Academy is focused around skills development through production, starting with a training programme and culminating in a residential Film Camp in the Easter school break. During this time the group will shoot their film(s).

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The University of Leeds’ Institute of Communications Studies Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications department is seeking a lecturer in Documentary.

The successful person will have a background in TV documentary film production and a comprehensive grasp of documentary theory. With proven production skills they will teach current professional practice, enabling students to analyse and create documentary output.

The lecturer will be required to contribute to the research strategy of the Institute, and be committed to developing a record of publication appropriate to a department with an international research reputation. They will be expected to initiate income generation and to participate in knowledge transfer activities, teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and be expected to perform managerial and administrative duties associated with the role. Ideally they will possess a PhD and have experience of teaching in Higher Education.

The post is available from 1 January 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Salary: University Grade 7 (£32,458 - £35,496 p.a)
Job Ref: 311005
Closing date: 15th December 2008

To download an application form and job details click here and follow the ‘Jobs’ link. Alternatively they may be obtained by email from: vpaempl@leeds.ac.uk
For further information call: 0113 343 7003 or 0113 343 3731