There’s a huge week of film, music and theatre ahead at Pontio in Bangor.
In the cinema there’s still chance to see The Dukes (Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent). Born in Flames and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion are featured as part of the #CitizenPontio season and the week culminates with the long-awaited new Batman film – The Batman.
A student society production of Sweeny Todd is one of several highlights in Theatr Bryn Terfel, Frân Wen presents Ynys Alys and Tudur Owen presents Elin Fflur and BBC National Orchestra of Wales on Saturday 19 March.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales present Owain Arwel Hughes @ 80 at Bangor University’s Prichard-Jones Hall.
Other activities for the community include Pontio’s arts participation project BLAS offering local children and young people various experiences of the arts and the National Dance Company Wales host Dance For Parkinson’s.
Book Here for all other events find out more here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
ROH Live: RIGOLETTO (12A)
Live Satellite Screening
Verdi, 2021, 3hr (+ interval) Italian with English subtitles
Cast – Carlos Alvarez, Liparit Avetisyan, Lisette Oropesa
£15 / £12.50 / £10
Sunday 13 March, 2pm (ENCORE)
The director of The Royal Opera, Oliver Mears sets his work in a pitiless world of luxurious decadence, corruption and social decay. In his first work for his own Company, Mears brings Verdi’s masterpiece into the modern world. Verdi’s thrilling Rigoletto pits power against innocence, beauty against ugliness, under the baton of conductor Sir Antonio Pappano. This special anniversary screening of Verdi’s Rigoletto celebrates 171 years since its premiere in 1851.
Born in Flames (15)
Lizzie Borden, 1983, 80m
Cast – Adfele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Honey
Sunday 13th March 5.30pm + Wednesday 16 March 5.30pm
Tickets: £7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Made over five years with committed, bracing urgency, Lizzie Borden’s low-budget Born in Flames is an electrifying sci-fi lesbian punk intersectional masterwork. It imagines a compromised peaceful socialist revolution in the USA, where sexism and female oppression still pervade. The tide turns when an activist in the fight against patriarchy and the media dies in police custody – and the tinder box of repression and injustice explodes. Come and experience on the big screen a new digital remaster distributed by the feminist film organisation Cinenova.
The Duke (12A)
Roger Michell, 2020, 95m
Cast – Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Matthew Goode
Friday 4 – Thursday 17 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Based on the true story of taxi driver Kempton Bunton, and starring two of the UK’s most popular film stars – Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent, The Duke is a funny, moving and thoughtful crowd-pleasing film that provides a perfect opportunity to savour the communal magic of the shared cinema experience once more. In 1961, Kempton, a 60-year-old taxi driver steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sends ransom notes saying that he will return the painting if the government invests more in care for the elderly.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (18)
Elio Petri, 1971, 109m
Cast – Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan
Wednesday 16th March 2.00pm & 8.15pm
Tickets: £7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
An Oscar winning sensation when it was released, this singular film still packs a punch. A Homicide policeman murders his mistress and litters the apartment with clues to his guilt. His fellow officers either ignore or fail to recognize his guilt leading him to indulge in more and more extreme behaviour as he tests the boundaries of guilt and innocence and the extent of the power and authority of the state over individuals. A chillingly prescient thriller that tells us that very little has changed in the half a century since it first appeared.
The Batman
Matt Reeves, 2022, 176m
Cast – Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano
Friday 18 – Thursday 31 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
The long awaited new Batman film starring Robert Pattinson is finally here. Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman, striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City as he establishes himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens. He encounters underworld criminals such as Catwoman, the Penguin and the Riddler in his quest for justice and an end to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued Gotham City
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ROSTRA Theatre Society presents Sweeny Todd
A student society production
Wednesday 16 March
Thursday 17 March
8pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel
£7 / £6
Join ROSTRA Theatre Society in Theatr Bryn Terfel this Spring!
Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street, has a wicked grudge against the Judge who deported him on a false charge.
He returns to avenge his family, accompanied by a sea captain, Anthony, who saved his life. Anthony falls in love with a young girl, the Judge’s ward, who turns out to be Todd’s daughter. Todd, meanwhile, sets up with Mrs Lovett, the piemaker, and provides her with some very human fillings for her pies. He proceeds with his vengeful plans, but revenge stories have no happy endings.
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Frân Wen presents Ynys Alys
Saturday 19 March, 7.30pm
Studio
TICKETS
£15
£12 (concessions)
Age: 13+
PREVIEW:
Thursday 17 March, 7.30pm
Friday 18 March, 1pm
Friday 18 March, 7.30pm
Theatre, pop music and rap collide in this Welsh language production that follows a young girl as she sets out in search of her independence.
It’s time for Alys to start living her best life. But in the darkness of her dreams, she becomes trapped in an old haunt.
Can she conquer her fears? Can she become the Alys she wants to be?
Ynys Alys explores who we are in times of change and what we truly hope to hold on to in a new world.
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Owain Arwel Hughes @ 80
Andrew Lewis – In Memory (World Premiere)
Elgar – Serenade Op. 2
Fauré – Pavane
Handel – Selection from Water Music Suite (arr. Hamilton Harty)
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Friday 18 March 7.30pm
Prichard-Jones Hall
Age guidance: 7+
TICKETS
£15
£13.50 over 65s
£5 students and under 26
Family Tickets:
£15 (1 adult, 1-2 children under 16)
£20 (2 adult, 2-4 children under 16)
Groups of 10+: 15% off
We’re thrilled to be back on the road again in the spring, and with much-loved Welsh conductor Owain Arwel Hughes, to celebrate his 80th birthday.
In the first half, classical favourites from, Elgar, Faure and Handel. And a world premiere of Andrew Lewis’s In Memory, a commission for Bangor University’s #Music100 celebrations. In the second half its Brahms’s Second Symphony. Brahms’s First Symphony took nearly 20 years to complete. In staggering contrast, his second was written in one summer holiday in Portschach – an alpine area by the Wothersee that also inspired Mahler and Berg.
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Tudur Owen presents Elin Fflur and BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Saturday 19 March 7.30pm Theatr Bryn Terfel
TICKETS
£15
£13.50 over 65s
£5 students and under 26
Family Tickets:
£15 (1 adult, 1-2 children under 16)
£20 (2 adult, 2-4 children under 16)
Groups of 10+: 15% off
BBC Radio Cymru presents an evening with Elin Fflur and Band, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Come and enjoy some of Elin’s most popular songs with a full orchestra; Tudur Owen will also be asking Elin about her music, of two decades of performing and twenty years since ‘Harbwr Diogel’ was chosen as Cân i Gymru (A Song for Wales)
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Bangor Art Foundation 40+1 Exhibition
Location: Public spaces
Date: 21 January – 2 April 2021
This is an exhibition in collaboration with Storiel and Coleg Menai, celebrating 40 years of the Bangor Art Foundation course. We’ll be showing works by past students from the programme, including a sculpture by Angharad Pearce Jones, a commission by Niki Cotton and film screenings by Bethan Huws, Bedwyr Williams and Russell Owen.
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Blas
BLAS is Pontio’s arts participation project offering children and young people various experiences of the arts. There are three aspects to BLAS, firstly, weekly drama workshops for children and young people, from school year 3 to 13. Secondly, health and well-being arts projects with children and young people. Thirdly, youth arts projects in conjunction with professional companies that visit Pontio.
BLAS was launched in January 2013 following a successful bid for funding from Arts Council of Wales, and since then it has gone from strength to strength undertaking a number of projects with inspiring practitioners and Bangor’s enthusiastic children and communities.
The project is run by Pontio Arts Development Co-ordinator, Mared Elliw Huws and is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Widening Access programme at Bangor University
Weekly Drama Workshop
The weekly workshops are returning to Pontio Studio!
Weekly drama and performance workshops to develop confidence, stage presence, performing skills and have fun!
Where: Studio, Pontio
When: Every Monday and Wednesday night – Term Time
Monday: 5:00pm – 6:00pm – Years 3 and 4, 6:15pm – 7:15pm – Years 5 and 6,
Wednesday: 6 :30pm – 7:30pm – Years 7, 8 and 9 – 7:45pm – 8:45pm – Years 10 – 13
Cost: £25 (discount code available for residents of LL57 1 area)
Workshops are held mainly in Welsh. It is not essential to be fluent, and we welcome everyone of all language ability.
For more details email Mared: m.huws@bangor.ac.uk
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National Dance Company Wales host Dance For Parkinson’s
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.
Dates
IN THE STUDIO: 1 / 8 / 15 / 22 / 29 March
