Pontio in Bangor offers a fantastic mix of entertainment seven days a week, from the latest film releases and independent films to music and drama, gigs, contemporary circus and aerial theatre, cabaret shows and more.
Cinema:
Azor (12A)
Andreas Fontana, 2021,100m
Cast – Fabrizio Rongione, Elli Medeiros, Stéphanie Cléau
Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 November
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Argentina, 1980. Private banker Yvan arrives from Geneva with his wife Ines to replace a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared in military-ruled Buenos Aires. Moving through the smoke-filled lounges and lush gardens of a society under intense surveillance, he finds himself untangling a sinister web of money, and dirty politics. AZOR is a riveting film that tells a tale worthy of John le Carré or Graham Green
Book Here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/online/article/ffilm
Quant (12A)
Sadie Frost, 2021, 86m
Cast – Kate Moss, Pete Townshend, Vivienne Westwood
Friday 12 – Monday 15 November
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
QUANT provides an inside look at one of Britain’s most renowned cultural figures, fashion legend Mary Quant. Her innovative, affordable, and accessible designs perfectly embodied women’s new-found freedom during the ‘swinging sixties’, helping to shape the new generation. Within a decade, her revolutionary designs such as the mini skirt made her a global sensation and household name. Blending striking re-enactments with extensive archive footage and interviews, QUANT tells the incredible story of how Mary built an empire.
Book Here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/online/article/ffilm
Japanese Film Festival 2021
Pontio Japan
Akira Kurosawa Classics
13 – 18 November
Sinema Pontio
£5.50 – £7.50
Men Who Sing (12A)
Dylan Williams, 2021, 90m
Cast – Cor Meibion Trelawnyd
Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 November
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
MEN WHO SING looks at the very uncertain future facing one of North Wales’ best-known choirs. Trelawnyd Male Voice Choir was established in the small village five miles from the seaside town of Rhyl in 1933. The Male Voice Choir is a Welsh institution, and one of the most indelible symbols of the country all over the World. But as an institution it is also one in crisis, as a result of a rapid decline in numbers combined with ageing membership. This is the story of one choir who refuse to go gently into that good night. They must act or face extinction. So the hunt begins to find ‘brown haired men’ in their 40s and 50s who can take the choir forward.
Spencer (12A)
Pablo Larrain, 2021, 111m
Cast – Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 November
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be a whole lot different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days. Come and see Kristen Stewart channeling Diana in the film that everyone is talking about.
PARENT AND BABY SCREENING
Saturday 20 November, 11am
£5
Join us for our first Parent and Baby Screening in Sinema Pontio.
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Theatre
Possible by Shon Dale-Jones
Saturday 20 November 7.30pm
Studio £14
National Theatre Wales
Shôn Dale-Jones’ new show was going to be all about love. But what do you do when you’re writing a show all about love, and everything goes dark? You find a new story. A story with scones after midnight, family WhatsApp groups, and Grandmaster Flash.
Possible is a playful, honest and heartfelt piece of storytelling that blurs reality with a kaleidoscopic dreamscape of animation and film (by Bear Thompson), underscored with original music performed live by John Biddle. It’s a show about love, creativity and finding the courage to explore the past, in order to shape the future.
“Perfectly judged, unabashedly authentic and vulnerably autobiographical” ★★★★ The Guardian
“Dale-Jones is an exceptional storyteller, delicately weaving together multiple narratives… charming, relatable and authentic” Exeunt Magazine
“experimental, layered and what Welsh fringe theatre is really about” Get the Chance
“In using his storytelling skills to tell us what it has been like for him, Dale-Jones makes us consider more deeply what the last year has been like for us.” Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
Possible was first created as a digital experience streamed live into audiences’ homes while we couldn’t be together. Now, as venues across Wales reopen their doors, Possible is coming to Pontio, welcoming you back to live theatre, in person… like a big theatrical welcome home hug.
Please note, this play contains strong language and references to childhood sexual abuse that some audience members may find triggering
Created and performed by Shôn Dale-Jones
Co-directed and designed by Stefanie Mueller
Composer and Collaborator John Biddle
Filmmaker Bear Thompson
Lighting Designer Katy Morison
Sound Designer Sam Jones
One Man, Two Guvnors
Student Production
BEDS (Bangor English Drama Society)
What do love, meatballs and Australia all have in common? They’re all part of the fun in this slapstick comedy as Francis tries to keep his two rival bosses apart and everyone else tries to keep their own secrets hush-hush.
Come and enjoy an evening at the theatre with Bangor University’s English Drama Society.
16 + 17 November
Theatr Bryn Terfel
£8 / £6
£25 Family Ticket
Age Guidance: 12+
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Events
Blas – Limited Places
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.
