This week’s cinema highlights at Pontio in Bangor include Fisherman’s Friend One and All, Queen of Glory, Fall and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial at 40!

Special offer: £5 tickets for all 2pm showings Monday-Wednesday.

On Saturday 10 September Gŵyl Goncrit is back for a day of events for the whole family! Come and enjoy dance, live music, comedy, circus and film!

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

Cinema:

Fisherman’s Friend One and All (12A)

Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, 2022, 111m

Cast – James Purefoy, Fiona Button, Richard Harrington

Friday 2 – Thursday 8 September

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

This sequel to the hit film based on the true story of a group of singing fishermen finds them struggling with their second album after the highs of performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury. During a divisive tour of South Australia, they will trace their ancestors and embrace a new community and discover their musical DNA. Featuring new recruit Richard Harrington (Hinterland’s DCI Mathias)

Queen of Glory (15)

Nana Mensah, 2022, 79m

Cast -Nana Mensah, Meeko Gattuso, Madeline Weinstein

Wednesday 7 September, 8.15pm

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

Set in the Bronx, New York City. Nana Mensah directs and stars in this film about a brilliant Ghanaian-American scientist who inherits a Christan bookstore from her deceased mother and the ex-con who works there. It’s a love letter to the first-generation immigrant experience and a funny and heartfelt coming of age story as Sarah explores her ties to her family’s culture and African identity after this tragic event. Add this to your list of favourite New York movies.

Fall (15)

Scott Mann, 2022, 107M

Cast – Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Friday 9 – Thursday 15 September

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

This ‘word of mouth’ indie hit film of the Summer is beating the Blockbusters at their own game, a real physical film sensation. A fast drop and a sudden stop awaits Becky and Hunter as they find themselves trapped 2,000 feet up an abandoned radio tower in the desert. Experience a big screen heart-pounding tale of survival in the clouds.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (40th Anniversary)

Steven Spielberg,1982,114m

Cast – Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace

Saturday 10 – Thursday 15 September

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

Unbelievably forty years have passed since E.T , the friendly alien was left behind on Earth and saved by a young boy, Elliot and his siblings. While the government task force hunts for ET, Elliot and his siblings form an emotional bond with their new friend. The tale of ET is one of the greatest family films ever made and guaranteed to bring awe and magic back to the big screen. One for the child in all of us.

NT LIVE: Much Ado About Nothing (12)

William Shakespeare/Simon Godwin, 2022, 180m

Cast – Katherine Parkinson, John Heffernan

Thursday 8 September, 7pm

£13/£11/£10

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Women in Music Unbroken Threads

Monday 5 September

7.30pm

Powis Hall, Prifysgol Bangor

TICKETS

£12 / £5 students and under 18s

DIGITAL TICKET

Buy a digital link to watch from home, we will send a link via email by 5 September

£5 / £4 students and under 18s

Mary Hofman (vioin) and Richard Ormrod (piano) perform music by Rhian Samuel, Hilary Tann, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Steph Power and Eleanor Alberga. This live concert marks the launch of Tŷ Cerdd Records CD Unbroken Threads, which will feature all the pieces that will be performed by the duo in their recital.

Richard Ormrod and Mary Hofman

Richard Ormrod and Mary Hofman have performed duos together for ten years in venues across the UK as well as touring the Mediterranean, Malaysia and Cambodia. They are Selected Artists with Making Music 2020-2022 and were nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society award for their project Beethoven in Wales. When not making music, they love to spend their time exploring the mountains around their home in north Wales with their daughters.

Richard is also an acclaimed soloist. He has twice performed concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry at the Barbican centre, London; toured the Pacific rim as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia Virtuosi; made four international tours with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and performed with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, broadcast live to 38 countries. His CD recording of Schubert and Schumann has recently been released with Austrian Gramophone and he has just completed a recording on a Clavicytherium made by Sir Curtis Price.He was a semi-finalist in the Leeds International Piano Competition at the age of 19 and went on to win prizes at other international competitions including the Rubenstein and Tchaikovsky competitions. Richard serves on the piano faculty at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Mary pursues a varied career as an orchestral and chamber musician and teacher. She has worked as guest leader of the Edinburgh Quartet, as well as performing with the Endellion quartet and plays regularly with Ensemble Cymru. She has worked with most of Britain’s leading chamber orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata and Britten Sinfonia as well as period orchestras OAE and ORR. Mary also teaches violin at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music and Bangor University.

Pre-concert talk – 6.30pm

Ahead of the concert, Dr Rhiannon Mathias of Bangor University’s Music Department will be joined for a pre-concert talk (18:30) by Deborah Keyser, Director of Tŷ Cerdd, and composers Rhian Samuel, Hilary Tann, Sarah Lianne Lewis and Steph Power. Your concert ticket will allow entry to the pre-concert talk.

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Community Events

Saturday 10 September

Gŵyl Goncrit is back this September for a day of events for the whole family! Come and enjoy dance, live music, comedy, circus and film! Free events and ticketed events will be held across all our spaces, so come and relax and have a fun day out with all the family!

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Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly

Monday 5 September

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.

No experience necessary