School’s out and the Minions are back! at Pontio in Bangor with other cinema highlights including ‘THOR: Love and Thunder’ ‘Joyride’ ‘DC Super League of Pets’ and another chance to watch Top Gun Maverick.

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

The National Youth Brass Band of Wales perform at Theatr Bryn Terfel on Thursday (4 August) and if you fancy trying something different a ‘Vertical Dance’ session will be held on Monday (1 August).

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

 

Cinema:

THOR: Love and Thunder (12A)

Taika Waititi, 2022, 119m

Cast – Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Matt Damon

Friday 22 July – Thursday 4 August

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

We catch up with Thor as he embarks on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. However, his retirement gets interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.

Joyride (15)

Emer Reynolds, 2022, 90m

Cast – Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid

Friday 29 July – Thursday 4 August

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

Oscar winner Olivia Colman i Joy, a train-wreck personality on an adventure who is ready to give away her new-born baby. Joined by a cheeky street urchin, they are two diamonds in the rough on the run.

Minions: The Rise of Gru (U)

Kyle Balda, 2022, 88m

Cast – Steve Carell, Alan Alda, Michelle Yeoh

15 July – 1 September

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

School’s out and the Minions are back! In the 1970s, a 12Yr old Gru (Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain group known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. When the Vicious 6 fire their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin), Gru interviews to become their newest member. It does not go well, and Gru and the minions find themselves the mortal enemy of the apex of evil and go on the run.

DC Super League of Pets (PG)

Jared Stern/Sam Levine, 2022, 106m Cast – Kevin Hart,Dwayne Johnson,Diego Luna

Friday 5 – Saturday 13 August

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

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle, and Chip the squirrel—to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the Super Heroes.

Top Gun Maverick (12A)

Kosinski, 2022, 137m

Cast – Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller

5 – 11 August

£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.

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Theatr Bryn Terfel

National Youth Brass Band of Wales

Thursday 4 August 7.30pm

Theatr Bryn Terfel

£12 standard / £10 over 60 / £5 student and under 26

Conductor Philip Harper

Ian Stephens Colston Falls (World Premiere)

Percy Fletcher An Epic Symphony

Edward Gregson Of Distant Memories

Philip Sparke Orient Express

Liz Lane Diamond Fanfare

Happy 40th birthday National Youth Brass Band of Wales! Wales’s most exceptional young brass musicians have had access to first-class training and performance opportunities since 1982. Members are drawn from across Wales, through an annual audition process, and approximately 50 musicians are assembled to form a double-sized band. We’re thrilled that our relationship with Philip Harper, conductor of the World-famous Cory Brass Band, continues this year.

NYBBW celebrate this milestone with a performance of two of the genre’s most iconic pieces nestled in a broad programme of brass brand repertoire and a new commission by Ian Stephens. Percy Fletcher’s landmark of musical sophistication and expression, An Epic Symphony, was used as the test piece for the Championship Section of the National Championships of 1926 (he composed the first original test-piece for brass band in 1913). In tribute to those early test-pieces and their composers is NYBWW Founder Conductor Edward Gregson’s Of Distant Memories. It pays homage to the musical languages, styles and forms used by early test composers like Percy Fletcher, in one continuous movement until the triumphant coda.

Commissioned by NYAW and Philip Harper in 2020, Ian Stephens’s Colston Falls was inspired by one of the most enduring scenes of lockdown: the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol. The piece is framed by a tutti morse code rendition of the date of the protest, 07/06/2020, and features a chant of “bring it down, bring it down” on flugel, horns, baritones and timpani.

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Community Events

Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly

Monday 1 August

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