Cinema highlights at Pontio in Bangor this week include Operation Mincemeat and Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse of Madness.

Students from Coleg Menai bring Broadway to Bangor (Thursday 5 May) with Leading Ladies of Broadway, paying tribute to the most iconic musicals of all time. Bangor University Dance present their Summer Showcase of choreography created throughout the past year

Events for the community include Dance for Parkinson’s and Caffi Babis, the monthly meetup for new parents and their babies.

For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/

Cinema:

Operation Mincemeat (12A)

John Madden, 2021, 128m

Cast Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald

Friday 29 April – Thursday 5 May

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

Operation Mincemeat is a cinematic blend of high-level espionage and ingenious fiction. Tense, romantic, thrilling, unexpectedly funny, and endlessly surprising. It tells a richly human story of the WWII soldiers we seldom see, who fight a different kind of war in the shadows. A British intelligence team plans an elaborate deception to hide the Allied invasion of Sicily from Hitler.

Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse of Madness (12A)

Sam Raimi, 2022, 126m

Cast – Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Friday 6 – Saturday 21 May

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

In Marvel’s latest epic Benedict Cumberbatch’s character unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS contains several sequences with flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photo sensitivities.

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Theatr

Coleg Menai Leading Ladies of Broadway

Thursday 5 May, 7pm Studio

£10 / £8 students

Bringing Broadway to Bangor with local up and coming stars of tomorrow. The professional diploma in Musical Theatre learners 2021-22 will be paying tribute to the most iconic musicals of all time; from CHICAGO to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Come and meet the leading ladies of Broadway in this special one-off performance.

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Bangor University Dance Summer Showcase

Saturday 7 May 1.30pm & 7pm

Theatr Bryn Terfel £7

£5 students, under 18 and over 65s

The BU Dance Summer Show exhibits all the choreography created throughout the past year. With dances from Semester 1 that we took to competitions as well as all the dances from Semester 2! Join us for an amazing performance & celebration of all our members hard work.

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Events for the community

Dawnsio ar gyfer Parkinson’s/Dance for Parkinson’s

Starts Tuesday 26 April 2022 10:00

Studio Theatre – £3.50

Caffi Babis

Siwan Llynor and Angharad Harrop

First Friday of the month 10am £3

Caffi Babis is a new session that we offer for new parents and their babies. This last year has been challenging for all, but for new parents, it’s been particurlary challenging without the support of family and friends. Bringing a generation of lockdown babies.

This is a creatvie hour with Siwan Llynor and Angharad Harrop that gives new parents the opportunity to meet other parents, as well as to relax with your baby for a while. An hour to bring parents together, in a safe space. Every session will last around half an hour, with the opportunity to have a panad and a chat afterwards.

The session is most suitable fro children up to 24 months, however, older children are welcome to join.

Only one ticket required for adult and child

Friday 6 May – Studio

Friday 10 June – Studio

Friday 1 July – Studio