Name: Neil Charles - Dark Days ‘The Baldwin Project’ (NFOJAiM 2025)
Start: 2025-10-04T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-04T14:30:00+01:00
Location: The Lit & Phil

$Neil Charles - Dark Days \u2018The Baldwin Project\u2019 (NFOJAiM 2025)$

Neil Charles - Dark Days ‘The Baldwin Project’
The Literary and Philosophical Society (The Loftus Room)
Saturday 4th October October 2025
Doors: 12.30pm (Music Starts 1.00pm - 2.00pm and will be followed by a post concert talk until around 2.30pm)
Tickets are priced at £10 with an optional £2 festival donation available (+ Booking Fee)
Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
This concert is presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with The Literary and Philosophical Society, Jazz North East and Andy Hamilton / British Society of Aesthetics

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Neil Charles - Dark Days ‘The Baldwin Project’
Cleveland Watkiss (Vocals)
Neil Charles (Compositions and Bass)
Pat Thomas (Piano)
Mark Sanders (Drums)
Neil Charles ‘Dark Days’ responds to the uncompromising clarity and poetic force of James Baldwin’s reflections on psychic survival, resistance and the emotional toll of racial injustice. Scored for acoustic jazz quartet, the piece features four of the UK’s most revered improvisers — Neil Charles on bass, Pat Thomas on piano, Mark Sanders on drums, and Cleveland Watkiss on voice.

The Literary and Philosophical Society
The Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE
0191 232 0192 / [email protected]
www.litandphil.org.uk

The Literary and Philosophical Society
Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.
Accessibility: The Loftus Room and Joseph Swan Room at The Lit and Phil are partly accessible. There is a lift at the venue entrance for wheelchair users to access the building and performance space, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building.
The festival has permissions for visiting wheelchair users to access toilets located on the ground floor in Sleeperz Hotel which is just a few doors down (16 ft) to the right of the Lit and Phil as you exit the building.
Accessible toilets are also available at 5 Quarter Cafe Bar to the left as you exit the building.
The Private Members Library is not a wheelchair accessible space and is preceded by a small number of stairs.
Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Central Station which is located less than 300 ft from the venue (approximately 2 minutes walk).
There is limited street parking, the closest car park is at Central Station
(Charges may apply).