As promised at our last meeting, which was very successful in numbers and levels of interest, we are having meeting number two!

  The venue is the same - you found it once, so no excuses the second time.

• Date: Tuesday 11th January 2011
• Start: 7pm
• Venue: The Quakerhouse, in Darlington (QuakerHouse Pub, 2-4 Mechanics Yard, Darlington)

  The pub is situated in the old yard (Mechanics Yard) which runs from High Row (this is the main shopping street in town) entrance is between Binns/House of Frazer and The Card Shop.  At the Skinnergate end there is vehicular access to Binns staff car park which should be empty by 7pm and further onto the pub (with care!) by an alleyway beside the Retro (formerly Flares pub).  Anyone travelling in a larger vehicle can park on Skinnergate itself, but the road is narrow so pop your wing mirrors in - Darlington is CCTV monitored so should be reasonably safe there.  Skinnergate is a one way system and can only be accessed from Duke Street.

  There will be a bring and buy "table", however before you all dash to get your twin 18" bins to sell I will warn as last time on two points: 

• Firstly there are stairs! Whilst not very long or high they do originate from the 400 year old cottages the pub was made from and are quite narrow. 
• Secondly the Quakerhouse is also in one of Darlingtons oldest yards and whilst competent drivers can quite easily manoeuvre a car or small/med van to the door, a Sprinter size van is a definite no no. 

  Space is limited so if anyone wishing to bring something could contact me with a list and we'll endeavour to organise this sensibly!

"Special Attractions" 

• Acme Cougar Vs NJD Datamoon Showdown
• DMX programming demonstration (I hasten to add not by Andy and Paul!!!)
• Short talk/demonstration on bespoke gobo projection services
• Bose L1 with Pioneer MEP-7000 demo - surely something for most to drool over 

  Presentation offers are always welcome, we intend to do this every other month so please forward any demo presentation offers to the small team of people who are organising the events and we'll fit you in.  Remember: no one is perfect, Paul and Andy proved that (thanks again Mike for the technical support!) so there’s no need to be shy in coming forward.

  I look forward to seeing as many there as possible and I have a big favour that I must ask: please tell anyone you know that it's happening - despite complaints from some quarters that they had been told multiple times there were still some we missed last time, some were quite disappointed I'm sad to say - so please spread the word and if you get told umpteen times please forgive us we are only trying to catch all!

  Apologies again for the late notice on this, illness and the workload over the Christmas and New Year period is to blame.

    For more information, please contact Chris Dye on 07861 688 388 or via e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

  Chris Dye (& The North East NADJ Team) 

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