There’s not just one but two blockbusters showing at Pontio Cinema in Bangor this week.
Jurassic World Dominion sees the epic conclusion to the Jurassic movie era as two generations unite for the first time and Top Gun Maverick starts on Friday, long-awaited sequel has finally taken off!
Folk band The Unthanks perform at Theatr Bryn Terfel on Friday while the already sold out Ysgol Glanaethwy present Hunllefau! On Friday and Saturday.
There’s another chance to try ‘Vertical Dance’ on Monday, no experience required. The Dance for Parkinson’s class will be held on Tuesday 21 June.
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
Jurassic World Dominion (12A)
Trevorrow, 2022, 146m
Cast – Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt
Friday 10 – Saturday 25 June
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Come and experience the epic conclusion to the Jurassic movie era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by original stars Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill in a bold, timely, and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to survive on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures. Incredible action sequences, ground breaking special effects and unparalleled big screen thrills are definitely back.
Top Gun Maverick (12A)
Kosinski, 2022, 137m
Cast – Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller
Friday 24 – Thursday 30 June
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel has finally taken off. The first Top Gun released way back in 1986 was a massive world wide hit that defined the eighties for many and made Cruise a superstar. This time around Tom is back as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, older but still in his element as a courageous test pilot training new graduates for a special flight mission. Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears in order to succeed.
Swan Song (12A)
Todd Stephens, 2021, 105m
Cast – Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans
Saturday 25 June, 5.30pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Director Todd Stephens says ‘As it has become more acceptable to be queer, what used to be a thriving community is rapidly melting back into society, ’Swan Song’ is dedicated to all the forgotten trailblazers to fought for the rights many of us cling to today. In this comical and bittersweet film Udo Kier is sensational as a retired hairdresser who escapes the nursing home to create one last hairdo. Playing as part of Pontio Pride Month 2022.
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
The Unthanks
2015 BBC Folk Album of the Year Winner
Friday 24 June 7.30pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel £24 / £22
The Unthanks return to live touring after two years off the road, showcasing forthcoming new album, Sorrows Away, their first non-project based record since 2015 BBC Folk Album Of The Year, Mount The Air.
The intervening seven years of projects has been colourful. The Unthanks have both scaled up to symphonic levels with Charles Hazelwood and the BBC Proms, scaled down to the unaccompanied singing they grew up with for Diversions Vol 5, written six scarecrow soundtracks for Mackenzie Crook’s beautiful adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, and interpreted the work of female writers including Emily Bronte, Molly Drake and Maxine Peake.
Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Miles Davis, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band’s 14 records to date, earning them a Mercury Music Prize nomination and international acclaim along the way. The Unthanks will play songs from across this repertoire, in addition to tracks from new album, Sorrows Away, with a 5-piece line-up.
At the nucleus of a constantly evolving unit is the traditional upbringing of Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank and the arrangements and writing of composer, pianist, producer and Yorkshireman, Adrian McNally. Descriptions of The Unthanks range variously from “music that asks you to consider everything you know and unthink it”, to “a take on tradition that flips so effortlessly between jazz, classical, ambient and post-rock, it makes any attempt to put a label on them a waste of time”.
Folk music can commonly and affectionately be defined as low culture, but The Unthanks aspire to prove that the beauty and truth present in the oral history of the people, is anything but common. Their approach to storytelling makes easy bedfellows of tradition and adventure, direct social commentary and sophisticated harmony, heart-breaking empathy and glacial minimalism, earning them an army of writer and performer admirers including Mackenzie Crook, Maxine Peake, Nick Hornby, Martin Freeman, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Rosanne Cash, Dawn French, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Mangan, Colin Firth, Martin Hayes and members of Portishead and Radiohead.
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Events for the community
Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly
Monday 20 June
Monday 4 July
Monday 18 July
Monday 1 August
Monday 15 August
12pm
TICKETS £6 for 1 session
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
Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Bangor
Tuesday 21 June 2022 10:00
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.
Ysgol Glanaethwy Hunllefau! Sold Out
Friday 24 June
Saturday 25 June 7.30pm
Studio £10
A man once went to a party, and endangered the lives of the people he was responsible for by getting very drunk. In the midst of his indulgence and selfishness he forgot that he had an important role to fulfil. He could easily have protected all the residents had he not gone to a party and ignored his work. Who do you think of when you hear about such a man, I wonder? You might think of someone completely different to Seithenyn; the drunkard who forgot to close the gate in Cantre’r Gwaelod and let the tide which subsequently drowned all the people. Glanaethwy casts a light on ancient stories to see if there is anything we can learn from our centuries old legends and histories.
In a colourful package of various shows, come and see how Glanaethwy pupils will slowly step back into the limelight after a period of being in the shadows for far too long. These three lively shows will be heart-warming and uplifting whilst also giving you food for thought. Join us as we step back into the light
