Another busy week of entertainment at Pontio includes the November Comedy Club and the energetic master musician N’famady Kouyaté.
Sinema Pontio Triangle of Sadness, Black Panther Wakanda Forever and also celebrates S4C’s 4oth birthday with a short season of Welsh Language cinema films.
Events for the community include Yoga, Vertical Dance and Dance for Parkinson’s.
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
Triangle of Sadness (15)
Ruben Östlund, 2022, 150m
Cast – Thomas Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Vicki Berlin, Woody Harrelson
Monday 21 – Thursday 24 November
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
This riotously funny epic by Ruben Östlund (The Square, Force Majeure) won this years Cannes Film Festival top prize, the Palme d’Or. Carl and Yaya are fashion models and influencers whose romantic relationship is increasingly soured by money. Offered free places on a luxury cruise, they find themselves sharing a superyacht with a Russian oligarch and some genteel arms dealers, while a deeply cynical Marxist alcoholic captains an increasingly chaotic ship. What begins as a great upstairs/downstairs set-up quickly turns entirely upside-down. It’s a twisted tour-de-force which asserts that power corrupts absolutely – strap yourself in for a bumpy ride.
S4C@40 – Welsh Language Cinema
Rhosyn a Rhith / Milwr Bychan / Branwen
This short season of Welsh Language cinema films at Pontio is in part a celebration of S4C’s fortieth birthday and an opportunity to remember and celebrate cinematic highlights from the Channel’s early years. Back in 1987 Stephen Bayly’s comedy Coming Up Roses and Karl Francis’ political drama Boy Soldier were about to make history as the first Welsh language films to open in London’s West End. Although they were to be soon joined by Hedd Wyn, Branwen, Gadael Lenin, Un Nos ola Leuad, Y Mapiwr and others in the decade that followed it was clear that the Channel’s lack of will and confidence in making Wales a significant film-making nation would lead to hopes diminishing as infrastructure and support failed to materialise.
The recent success of Gwledd(The Feast) a Welsh language film playing successfully up and down the cinemas of the UK and beyond is raising hopes once again….. what will be the fate of Welsh language cinema over the next 40 years and what will S4C’s role be in its continued development.
Black Panther Wakanda Forever (12A)
Ryan Coogler, 2022, 161m
Cast – Laetitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman
Friday 25 November – Thursday 8 December
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter in this highly anticipated sequel, the heroes must band together with Nakia and Everett Ross to forge a new path for their beloved kingdom.
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
Little Wander in association with Pontio presents NOVEMBER COMEDY CLUB
Thursday 24 November
8pm
Studio
£10.50 / £8.50
16+
Join us for a night of comedy with three comedians from the British comedy circuit! A great night out! Comedians will be announced soon!
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N’Famady Kouyate with band support from Lisa Jên
Friday 25 November 8pm
£15/£13 concessions
N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea (Conakry), who relocated to Cardiff in 2019. A talented multi-instrumentalist who wowed audiences across the UK and Ireland during autumn/winter 2019/20 with his modern interpretations of traditional West African Mandingue songs and rhythms supporting Gruff Rhys on the Pang! album tour.
N’famady’s primary instrument is the balafon – the traditional wooden xylophone, sacred to West African culture and his family heritage of the griot/djeli. In Guinea he founded ‘Les Héritiers du Mandingue’ a tradi-modern group that toured extensively in West Africa.
In the UK N’famady has played both as a solo artist and with a full band line up – where his arrangements are a fusion of Mandingue African with western jazz, pop, indie, and funk influences provided by an ever-evolving collective of musicians. Instrumentation includes balafon, keyboards, drumkit, djembe, guitar, bass, kora, doundoun, congas, saxophone, trumpet, & callabash. N’famady’s performances create amazing atmospheres and vibrations wherever he goes, and audiences are charmed by his infectious enthusiasm and joy.
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Community Events:
Yoga with Ceri Lloyd
Mondays, 8pm
£8.50 / £45 for 6 sessions
Dates
Monday 21 November – STUDIO
Monday 28 November – STUDIO
Monday 5 December – WHITE BOX
Monday 12 December – WHITE BOX
Monday 19 December – WHITE BOX
Yoga session held through the medium of Welsh, with Ceri Lloyd. A perfect opportunity to learn Yoga and Welsh at the same time! Sessions are suitable for beginners and mats will be provided, or you can bring your own equipment.
A new partnership between Menter Iaith Bangor and Pontio
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Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly
Monday 21 November
TICKETS
£6 for 1 session
£40 for 8
This is a fun session in which you can have a go at vertical dance. Starting with an easy warm up, you will then try to stand on and jump off a vertical floor using waist harnesses. You will be guided through some simple positions, and then you will fly!
Wear comfortable clothing with snug layers around waist and top of legs.
Age: 16+
Limited capacity – space for 12 people only
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National Dance Company Wales Dance for Parkinson’s
NDC Wales is excited to launch new Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Bangor!
No experience necessary
Studio £3.50
Tuesdays, 1.30pm – 2.45pm
Dates
22 November
Dance for Parkinson’s classes are fun and informal.
Dance has been proven to develop confidence and strength, whilst temporarily relieving some participants of symptoms in everyday life. Classes are creative and promote feelings of freedom from the physical and social constraints of having Parkinson’s.
We are an Affiliated hub of English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme.
Classes are 90 minutes long, and all you’ll need is a chair.
English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme has been running since 2008. We are proud to be part of the Dance for PD membership, to support Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership and People Dancing and to have an affiliation with Parkinson’s UK. ENB’s national Dance for Parkinson’s programme enjoys close links with Parkinson’s UK and the European Parkinson’s Disease Association EPDA.
