The must-see film this week is Six times BAFTA nominated Belfast and it’s showing at Pontio in Bangor until 25 February.
Other highlights include a Live Satellite Screening of Royal Opera House’s Romeo And Juliet Ballet and Sing 2 arrives on Saturday 19 Feb.
Theatr Bryn Terfel welcomes Steffan Hughes and his West End super-group perform musical theatre favourites from shows such as Les Misérables, Rent and Phantom of the Opera – Last few tickets available!
Find out more & Book here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Belfast (12A)
Kenneth Branagh, 2021, 98m
Cast – Jamie Dornan, Catriona Balfe, Jude Hill, Judy Dench
Friday 11 – Friday 25 February
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
A semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working class family and their young son during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital. Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood. The film introduces 10-year-old Jude Hill as the young boy Buddy. Dornan and Balfe play a passionate working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as sharp-witted grandparents. Already recognised to be one of the very best films of the year. Branagh’s masterpiece is a definite crowd pleaser.
ROH Live: ROMEO AND JULIET (12A)
Live Satellite Screening
Prokofiev, 2022, 3hr 25 (+ 2 intervals)
Cast – Marcelino Sambé, Anna-Rose O’Sullivan
£15 / £12.50 / £10
Monday 14 February, 7.15pm
Romeo and Juliet has become a great modern ballet classic of the ballet repertory since its creation by Royal Ballet Director Kenneth MacMillan and its premiere in 1965. In this special screening on Valentine’s Day, the doomed lovers attempt to find their way through the colour and action of Renaissance Verona, where a busy market all too quickly bursts into sword fighting and a family feud leads to tragedy for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
NT Live: The Book of Dust (La Belle Sauvage) (12A)
Philip Pullman/Nicholas Hytner, 2022, 180m
Cast – Julie Atherton, Holly Atkins, Wendy Mae-Brown
Thursday 17 February, 7pm
Sunday 20 February, 5.30pm (Encore)
Live Satellite Screening
£13 / £11 / £10
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Eighteen years after his ground-breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. Broadcast live from London’s Bridge Theatre.
Sing 2 (U)
Garth Jennings. 2022. 110m
Cast – Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton
Saturday 19 – Saturday 26 February
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Buster Moon and his all-star cast of animal performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet… in the glittering entertainment capital of the world. There’s just one hitch: They first have to persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star—played by legendary music icon Bono, making his animated film debut—to join them. Sing 2 combines dozens of classic rock and pop hit songs, electrifying performances, and breathtaking animation to create a feel-good half term treat
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
Welsh of the West End (limited places available)
Friday 18 February
7.30pm
£15 / £13
Suitable for all ages
Steffan Hughes and his West End super-group perform musical theatre favourites from shows such as Les Misérables, Rent and Phantom of the Opera. With Jade Davies, Tom Hier and Siwan Henderson. With over 12 million views online, Welsh of the West End have become a viral sensation, and have been featured by Official London Theatre, What’s on Stage, BBC, ITV and S4C. Prepare to be dazzled by Wales’ finest musical theatre voices, direct from the West End.
This event will be in Welsh and English
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Events:
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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Vertical Dance: Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly
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!
Try it for 1 session or pay for the 4 for a lower price!
Wear comfortable clothing with snug layers around waist and top of legs.
Age: 16+
Limited capacity – space for 12 people only.
No experience necessary
Monday 14 February – Sold Out
Monday 28 February – Limited places
Monday 7 March – Limited places
Monday 28 March – Limited places
Monday 11 April – Limited places
Monday 25 April – Limited places
12pm Stiwdio
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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
ONLINE: 1 / 8 / 15 February
IN THE STUDIO: 1 / 8 / 15 / 22 / 29 March
