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welcome Chapter is an international arts venue known for making things happen. We’re about arts and audiences and creating artistic and social spaces that make a difference to how we think, who we are and what we want to become. We relish change and risk. We love space just to enjoy. We’re a meeting place for ideas, for inspiration, for innovation. We’re also a place where you can sit and chat, feel at home and feel welcome. Christmas and New Year Opening Times Mon 24 Dec Building open as usual Café open 9am–6pm, special brunch menu 10am–4pm Box Office open 10am–4pm Bar open 12–10pm
Elaina Gray Head of Development This month we’re excited to launch our new relationship with Funky Monkey Feet who are sponsoring our Family Features on page 31… pop along to their shop in Castle Arcade - you’ll get a warm welcome from Heidi and the team who will gladly help if you’re looking for shoes for your little ones!
Tue 25 + Wed 26 Dec Chapter closed — Happy Christmas!
Thu 27 – Sun 30 Dec Business as usual
Mon 31 Dec + Tue 1 Jan Chapter closed - Happy New Year!
From Wed 2 Jan Business as usual
Abigail Lawrence Front of House Operations Manager I adore Christmas with all its sparkly decorations and warming mulled wine. This year I’m really looking forward to our Christmas weekend of delights with Oh So Crafty and the Festive Food Fair (see pages 8-9). I’m definitely going to be stocking up on speciality cheeses and homemade chutney! Chapter Market Road Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2030 4400 minicom 029 2031 3430 www.chapter.org enquiry@chapter.org
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Info page 37 Cover image: A Curious Zoo, p10. Image by Sabin & Tyler.
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Top: The indirect exchange of uncertain value 2011 Two constructions sited at Fettes College in Edinburgh, 5th — 28th August 2011 and housing works by Chris Evans and Elizabeth Price. Cat structure: Plywood/ timber/ paint; 590 x 710 x 150 cm Installation view The indirect exchange of uncertain value, a Collective off-site project at Fettes College, Edinburgh, 2011 Left: Rhetoric Works & Vanity Works & Other Works (substitution at GoMA, Glasgow, 2011) 2011 Bronze, paint, wood, MDF, porcelain, American walnut veneer, polished plywood, beeswax 469 x 582.5 x 480 cm (painted triangular wooden ‘structure’: 280 x 480 x 582.5 x 330 cm) Installation view You, Me, Something Else, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2011 Photos: Ruth Clark, courtesy of the Artists and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
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Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan: A Tool For The Making Of Signs
Biography
Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan have worked collaboratively since 1995 and currently live and work in Newcastle upon Tyne. Recent projects and exhibitions include Art Across The City 2012, Swansea and Studio Voltaire, London (both 2012); Collective Gallery (offsite), Edinburgh and Tramway, Glasgow (both 2011); CCA, Glasgow (2010); La Salle de Bains (2009). They are represented by The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster, Glasgow; Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.
Gallery open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 12-6pm; Thursday & Friday 12-8pm; closed Monday
Fri 7 Dec — Sun 24 Feb The collaborative duo Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, create provocative and interrogative works that are often concerned with the mythic potential of art. Utilising sculpture, painting, architecture, found imagery, performance, literature, institutional critique and curation, the artists use carefully crafted paths, displacements and diversions to re-stage and re-present a vocabulary of images, phrases and forms that are part of a common history; tools to explore the world of art — with its collective mysticism of forms, objects and histories. This exhibition features a number of elements, intended to challenge and confound interpretation, including the cartoon motif that appears on the lightbox and exhibition leaflet, as well as the title of the work: A tool for the making of signs. In the Gallery, a large-scale construction positions itself awkwardly between two rooms. Reading the sculpture in its entirety is almost impossible requiring the viewer to search for clues and so to become complicit in the construction of its meaning. The structure itself utilises the symbol of the ‘dragon’ which, presented as it is in Tatham and O’Sullivan’s trademark style, explores some of the particular resonances for Welsh national identity and yet nevertheless retains the potential for more primal and multiple meanings. The structure operates as both analogy and counterpoint to the inclusion in the exhibition of twodimensional and audio works by painter and modernist poet David Jones. By integrating his works into the structure itself, the artists ask us to consider the relationship between contemporary art and art produced in the mid 20th Century, in particular how contemporary artists look back to previous artistic practices and incorporate this interest as part of a current discourse.
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Phil Collins This Unfortunate Thing Between Us Lightbox Commission Until Tue 4 Dec Chapter is delighted to announce a new lightbox artwork by Artes Mundi shortlisted artist Phil Collins. Commissioned by Chapter as part of Experimentica 2012, the lightbox features a vibrant montage of the characters from Collins’ critically acclaimed video installation — This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (TUTBU TV) — showing at Chapter until 13 January 2013. A vast collage has been assembled from images that take us behind the scenes and into the world of Collins’ theatrical TV production. Featuring a cast of largerthan-life characters, including Wales’ own pop hero Gruff Rhys, the artwork provides a riotous backdrop against which to experience the videos, screening in parallel in the TUTBU TV caravans that nestle below on the forecourt. These two second–hand caravans host the UK premiere of This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (2011). First performed in September 2011 and broadcast live on German digital television, TUTBU TV is an alternative home shopping channel selling real life experiences at promotional prices, in place of mass-produced commodities. Hosted by a crew of actors and porn workers, and soundtracked live by Gruff Rhys and Y Niwl, TUTBU TV adopts the format of teleshopping, with pitches, demonstrations and live phone-ins, providing a tantalising glimpse into what could be the future of consumer television. This Unfortunate Thing Between Us, 2011 is open Tuesday — Sunday 12-6pm and admission is free. The lightbox can be viewed 24 hours. TUTBU TV is presented at Chapter as part of Artes Mundi www.artesmundi.org The Phil Collins lightbox commission has received financial support from Cardiff Contemporary, a Cardiff Council initiative developed in partnership with Cardiff’s visual art, design and architecture communities.
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Gruff Rhys and Y Niwl Sun 16 Dec 8pm Gruff Rhys will be joined by North Wales surf band Y Niwl for a special intimate gig to coincide with Phil Collins’ contribution to Artes Mundi 5. They will recreate the soundtrack from the performance and installation This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (TUTBU TV) in which they starred as the in-house band. £15 www.gruffrhys.com
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Art In The Bar Gordon Dalton: We Care A Lot Fri 30 Nov – Sun 6 Jan Gordon Dalton’s paintings have a melancholic humour that questions their seriousness and intentions. His seemingly offhand approach denies any superficial finesse to reveal a love of awkward imagery. The paintings have an adolescent quality about them, vulnerable, embarrassed and yet full of bravado. An anxious contradiction is on show, with the work being self conscious of what it is, its possible failings, yet disregarding any angst by replacing it with a certain nonchalance and arrogance. Paintings jostle against each other for dominance whilst others battle against a blood red wall painting. The works both attract and repel, daring you to like them, to share in their stuttering, bad grammar. As an artist Dalton shifts positions with ease, from Dr Frankenstein, to his monster, to the baying mob with pitchforks and flaming torches. You almost feel he is teasing you, calling you names behind your back, which he probably is. References spill out like an overstuffed wardrobe in an American teenager’s bedroom. Whoopee cushions, heavy metal, footballs, rubber chickens, cartoons, horror movies, bad jokes, with the odd art history book stolen from the library — Dalton paints them as if he is cramming it all in just to let it all spill out again. These ongoing battles dare the viewer to look longer and harder, driven by an addictive inquiry into what painting is, and why it continues to fascinate. For full biography see www.chapter.org www.gordondalton.co.uk
Image: Gordon Dalton, Trojan Curfew, 42 x 30cm, Giclee Print on Siriol Fine Art Textured Paper, 2012. Ed. of 25. £125.00 Printed by www.siriol-lifestyle.co.uk
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Art In The Bar: Thomas Goddard
Fairtrade Late Night Christmas Shopping
Fri 11 Jan — Sun 10 Mar
Tue 4 Dec 5pm–8pm
Thomas Goddard works in a wide range of media including drawing, animation, print, performance, and socially engaged work. His recent practice explores the relationship between the individual and society, the role of misinformation through the media and its effects on contemporary culture through the power of suggestibility and attribution. Works detailing apathy, disaffection, paradoxical beliefs, power, resistance, history, future, excess and anxiety are created in relation to the obsessive repetition in a modern world where possibilities and choices are seemingly endless. For full biography see www.chapter.org www.ohmygodtom.com www.cerbyd.org www.beatenblackblueredgreengold.tumblr.com www.beastofbala.com
Image: Thomas Goddard, From Ape to Adam to Apocalypse 1983, Ink on paper, 2011
Chapter and Fair Do’s will be uniting for a late night fairtrade shopping evening. You’ll be able to pick up some ethical Christmas presents in Fair Do’s (10 Llandaff Road, Canton) and then pop over to Chapter’s caffi bar for homemade fairtrade mince pies, fairtrade mulled wine and fairtrade mulled orange juice. www.fairdos.com
Oh So Crafty Sat 15 Dec 11am–6pm Join us for a rummage through the best in local craft, from handmade jewellery and homeware to beautifully crafted textiles and ceramics. Featuring Cool4Cats, Ellymental, Kate Dumbleton, Daizee Made, Mayfifth, Emma Passey, Helen O’Leary, Catrin Peart, The Pocket Pirate, Clare Waller, Printmarket Project, Natalia Dias and Natalie Ollis, and also including some of Chapter Shop’s old favourites and best sellers in a one-off stall - so snap up some gems for Christmas and be the best Secret Santa around!
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Festive Food Fair 2012
Gifts at Chapter
Sun 16 Dec 11am–6pm
In the run up to Christmas, we will be selling a small selection of gifts and cards at our Box Office, from gorgeous Welsh blanket inspired tree decorations to ultra-cool 1960’s replica telephones. There will be classic stocking filler goodies and a stylish new range of Chapter mugs and bags. Don’t forget our customary Chapter Gift Vouchers, which can be used to buy tickets for Cinema and Theatre performances and the Chapter Card, which entitle the lucky recipient to a whole year of discounted tickets. Perfect presents for friends and family (or simply treats just for you!).
Brought to you by Chapter and Green City Events. Following the hugely successful Festive Food Fair last Christmas we’re doing it all again! We’ll be showcasing local Welsh food and drink producers at their sumptuous best. It’s the perfect opportunity to stock up on hamper-fillers and find some inspiration for Christmas treats, from tasty speciality cheeses, mouth-watering cakes and freshly baked bread to preserves, delicious meats and charcuterie and Chapter’s special selection of Christmas foodie pleasures. A full list of stall holders can be found on the Chapter website. Green City Events will also be hosting family friendly workshops and activities including recycled pottery making, basket making and rural skills, recycled crafts, paper potting with Transition and festive facepainting with the SAFE Foundation. Why not come and help the Pedal Cafe light up our Christmas tree by pedalling some power into the fairy lights? www.facebook.com/GreenCityEvents
Eat and Drink at Chapter
Keep an eye out for some mouth-watering Christmas specials in our café and warming festive tipples in our bar. There will be mince pies and mulled wine aplenty and, after it proved so popular last year, you can join us on Christmas Eve for a special brunch menu from 10am-4pm.
Free wireless internet is available in Caffi Bar Chapter.
Hire We have a number of spaces and facilities for hire at Chapter, and cafe manager Lex is also able to supply a variety of catering options for your event. If you have any hires queries or would like more information, give our Hires Manager Nicky a ring on 029 2031 1050/58 or email nicky.keeping@chapter.org
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‘’ An exquisite haiku Sabin’s approach is gentle, subtle and rather gorgeous on the eye.’’ The Guardian on LifeDeathLife
A Curious Zoo. Image by Sabin & Tyler.
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Caroline Sabin presents A Curious Zoo Wed 12 – Sat 15 Dec + Wed 19 – Sat 22 Dec 7pm + 9pm It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s cold and dark but we’re lighting candles and baking pies — laughing in the face of winter but secretly scared that the summer will never come again. Is there enough food? Is there enough firewood and what’s that sound outside like a wolf breathing through the letterbox? Does the wolf have enough to eat...? An extraordinary multi-award winning band of performers, dancers, writers and composers is squeezing itself into a small terraced house in Canton to delight you this Yuletide with an hour of theatrical entertainment. Jon Gower, Deborah Light, Gerald Tyler and James Williams will transform into strange and fantastical creatures for your pleasure and delectation. Hosted by Dance/Visual Artist Caroline Sabin with lavish costumes by Neil Davies you will enter a rich and magical snow filled environment with quiet beauty, stark and bloody imagery, warm tales, an angel, music, icicles and mince pies. Be Merry. Be afraid. Eat the pie. £12/£10/£8
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This performance takes place in an ordinary terraced house in Canton. Please see www.chapter.org for location details.
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Sarah Argent & Theatr Iolo Out of the Blue Thu 13 – Thu 20 Dec See calendar for times He’s waiting. Waiting for something to arrive. Ding, dong, doorbell. “Package for you.” A parcel. Unwrap it … “What’s inside?” And there’s paper to play with — scrunch, crunch, tear, rip, rustle. Hiding … “Peekaboo!” And then, one day, out of the blue, a wonderful surprise — the most special delivery of all… An enchanting intimate performance for babies / toddlers aged 6 –18 months (and their grown-ups). A perfect introduction to live theatre — full of captivating images and intriguing sounds — followed by an opportunity for the children to play too! £7.50 for an adult and baby combo ticket/£5 per extra adult or child Created with the support of Small Size (the European Network for the diffusion of performing arts for early years) and Culture 2000
“My son (10 months) was spellbound from start to finish! His face was full of amazement for the whole 25 minutes, as were the faces of his friends.” Audience feedback
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Clwyd Theatr Cymru Theatre For Young People HUMBUG!
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Richard Burton Company Picnic by William Inge
Wed 19 Dec 7pm “Merry Christmas! What right have you got to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?” said Scrooge. Starting with Dickens’ famous “A Christmas Carol”, writer/director Tim Baker has turned this timeless story into a fantastic family show. Expect fun, live music, a bit of skullduggery and theatrical magic! An exciting festive treat, Humbug! represents a perfect introduction to Dickens for children and heralds a year of celebrations for the bi-centenary of his birth in 1812. Don’t be a humbug this Christmas. Come and join us for some festive fun.
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Fri 30 Nov – Sat 8 Dec 7.30pm Handsome stranger Hal Carter arrives in a small Kansas town, attracting all the women and disrupting Flo Owens and Helen Potts’s perfect neighbourhood of white picket fences. Passionate, sensual and funny, this 1953 Pulitzer Prizewinning play is a timeless American classic revealing a world of desire hidden beneath the facade. £10/£8 Book tickets from RWCMD by calling 029 2039 1391 or visiting www.rwcmd.ac.uk Age guidance: 14 plus Drama at the Royal Welsh College is supported by the Richard Carne Trust. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited.
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Likely Story A Monster Christmas Adventure
Kitsch N Sync Collective Private Eye Detective Sat 1 + Sun 2 Dec 8pm This curiously quirky dance theatre production parodies the classic detective genre, inspired by vintage and retro fashion trends, film noir and electro swing music. Come dressed as a dapper dan or femme fatale and grab yourself a drink from the bar for this unique cabaret-esque performance.
Thu 27 Dec 1.30pm & 5pm Fri 28 + Sat 29 Dec 11am & 4pm All children make a wish for Christmas, but this year Amy wished for something terrible. She wished that her stepdad would disappear. And what’s worse, her wish has come true. Now, with the help of her pet sock-monster Sebastian, she has to leave the safety of her bedroom and battle her way through strange and magical worlds in order to bring him back before Christmas Day. This modern day fairy tale will have an energetic blend of good story telling, physical theatre, humour, playful visual style, puppetry, original music, monsters under the bed and lots and lots of fun. Suitable for little monsters and ancient beasts alike.
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Theatre Ffynnon Pieces of Hate Tue 4 + Wed 5 Dec 7.30pm Directed by John Norton. Theatr Ffynnon is a unique community arts theatre company working with adults and young people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health issues. In this stark yet challenging production, 14 performers dramatise five real life stories that that they themselves have experienced or have been witness to in a raw, honest and brave performance.
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Tickets: £8/£6.50/£5 carers
A Monster Christmas Adventure
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Beyond the Border Sarah Rundle: Gawain & The Green Knight
New Sound Wales Henry’s Funeral Shoe, The Boy Royals & Big Colours
Wed 5 Dec 8pm
Sat 8 Dec 7.30pm
An ancient Celtic story that became a literary masterpiece in the 14th century is now retold with intelligent irreverence by storyteller Sarah Rundle. Gorgeous Gawain, the King’s nephew, rides out in golden armour on his white horse. His mission is suicidal, his journey long and cold. He is constantly ambushed, but the greatest danger comes from his own heart....Themes of magic, honour and heroism tinged with absurdity combine in this classic winter’s tale from King Arthur’s Court.
Newsoundwales return to Chapter with three of Wales’ most exciting live bands. Influenced by blues and 60s bands, Henry’s Funeral Shoe’s debut album ‘Donkey Jacket’ has pushed them into the first division of Welsh bands. The Boy Royals (previously named Town) are heavily influenced by bands such as The Jam, The Who and Britpop and their single ‘Teenage Sky’ received airplay from DJs such as Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens. Big Colours are a young three piece who released an ep ‘Farewell to Forever’ in 2012. Influenced by the likes of The Clash and the Dead Kennedys they are a definite prospect for 2013.
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“…full of beer cellar swagger. Uproarious!” London Storytelling Newsletter
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Swn & Arc Vertiac presents Trifle Gathering Productions Fist Of The First Man A Curious Evening of album launch Trance and Rap with the Fri 14 Dec 8pm After winning the Warp Records Filtered competition Ogden Sisters and securing a record deal earlier in the year, local Thu 6 Dec 8pm
From L to R: A Curious Evening of Trance and Rap with the Ogden Sisters, Fist of the First Man
Travel back in time on a trip into the world of Victorian mediums. Lettie Ogden has a gift. Born in 1867, the youngest of four girls, Lettie begins to experience ‘raps’ from the other side following the tragic deaths of her father and her twin sister Vivienne. Desperate to escape the brutal upbringing inflicted on them by the hated housekeeper Mrs Skunt, her two older sisters Adeline and Constant take to the road to share Lettie’s gift with anyone who will listen. A testament to the power of storytelling and an intimate theatrical experience unravelling the stories of three women who made believe in other, kinder worlds. £12/£10/£8
“We are in the territory of Spike Milligan, a bit of Python and a fair smattering of the Goons.” Fringe Review
musician Tom Raybould (Zwolf) has written an album of new music under the guise Fist Of The First Man. The theatre will host an evening of special guest live bands; interactive visuals by Nic Finch/Casey Raymond and reassuringly expensive limited edition merchandise to celebrate the launch of the new album. www.fistofthefirstman.tumblr.com www.soundcloud.com/fistofthefirstman www.bleep.com/artist/25755 £7/£5
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Marega Palser: Sometimes We Look
Hong Kong Season Peter Suart Melencolia
Wed 16 – Sat 19 Jan 8pm This site specific combination of dance, drawing, animation and printmaking investigates how the simple use of mark-making can affect the way movement can be created, and how dance, in turn, can affect the impulse to draw. Marega Palser combines her training in dance and fine art to provide this performing exhibition of her work in collaboration with three of Wales’s finest movement artists — Catherine Bennett, Belinda Neave and Rosalind Brooks. The dancers and choreographer use their individual styles and experience to provide a subtle and intimate take on the art work and the exhibition space. £10/£8/£6
“[Marega’s performance and drawing work is] engaging, skilful, serious, funny, personal and generous all at once” Caroline Sabin, Artist and Dancer
andGo presents Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn Thu 31 Jan – Sat 2 Feb 8pm (+ Sat 2 Feb 3pm) A mother spends so much time home alone with her kids that she treats everyone like children… her salesman husband sits in a hotel bar looking for more than a drink… a waiter eavesdrops on the deteriorating relationships of diners… a local councillor is invited to open a village fete… five strangers sit alone and talk — but will anyone listen? Ayckbourn’s ingenious suite of comic vignettes peeks behind the twitching curtains of suburbia to find desire, obsession and loneliness.
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Fri 25 Jan 8pm Suart is co-founder (1987) of the Hong Kong theatrico-musical ensemble ‘the box’, author and illustrator of the Tik and Tok books, and illustrator for the Folio Society. He premiered in the UK with Fragile, at Chapter in 2011, which dealt with disease of the body. Melencolia — based upon three famous prints of Albrecht Dürer — deals with disease of the mind. Through image, movement, original music (recorded and live), and spoken and projected text (English, Cantonese, German, Latin), Melencolia looks at the life and times of Dürer, enquiring into the idea of melancholy, the Iconoclastic Fury, the decline of Christianity in Britain, translation, black dogs, the Hong Kong riots of 1967, and sixteenth century photographs of Hong Kong. It is at once serious, melancholic, and comic. £12/£10/£8 Presented in association with the Intangible Studio
Coming soon in February Between Text & Performance (Hong Kong-Wales) presents Who Killed the Elephant? / A Dialogue An evening of video, sound, text and performance from Hong Kong and Wales that presents parallel investigations of place and translation. Artists include: Matt Cook, Valmai Jones, Rebecca Knowles, Vee Leong, Mathilde Lopez, Remus, Jennie Savage, James Tyson and Rico Wu. + See page 25 for Hong Kong film Big Blue Lake, introduced by Vee Leong and James Tyson
From L to R: Sometimes We Look, Melencolia
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COMEDY Jo Caulfield Fri 7 Dec 8pm The minute Jo Caulfield hits the stage you know you’re in for a good time. Expect razor-sharp observations and scandalous one-liners as Jo discusses irritating girlfriends, saying the ’wrong’ thing, celebrity perfumes, reality TV, moving house and humiliating herself in public. The celebration of anger continues with acerbic stories about dating, relationships, drunken friends, bad service and wrestling with the self-scanner in Tesco. Come and share your anger. £14
“Sharp-witted, urban comedy that goes down a treat. Like a sociology textbook, but with jokes” — The Times
Josie Long: Romance & Adventure
Tue 18 Dec 7.30pm As seen on Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Russell Howard’s Good News and Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, Tony Law returns to Chapter to record the DVD of his five-star, elephant-infused, Edinburgh Festival sell-out show Maximum Nonsense. The creator of Viz, Simon Donald will also be performing his show School of Swearing. Pass your ‘coarse’ with flying colourful language. £10
“Law’s genius for the random makes Salvador Dali look about as abstract as Constable” — Metro
John Robins
Sat 15 Dec 8pm
Sat 26 Jan 8pm
This is Josie’s sixth solo show and she’s going to try and make it the best one. Just writing the title made her super excited so that’s got to be a good thing, right? Come along, it’ll be silly and fun and Josie’s promised to try and swear less this time. Twice Best Comedy Award Nominee. Best Newcomer Award Winner. Novice Climber. Ranter.
In 2011, John was replaced on a TV panel show by ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ star Amy Childs; according to the producer, she had a better ‘back story’. John has scoured his past for anecdotes and stories to prove them wrong! Come and see what he’s discovered in his hilarious new solo show. £8/£7/£6
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“An hour in his charming, honest and generous company is so effortlessly entertaining.” - Chortle
www.josielong.com twitter.com/JosieLong
“Josie Long’s show is her finest yet — heartfelt, passionate, intelligent comedy and it’s very best. Brilliant.” — Time Out
From L to R: Josie Long, Tony Law
Go Faster Stripe Tony Law and Simon Donald DVD Recording Double Bill
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CHAPTER MIX Music Geek Monthly
The Drones Comedy Club
Thu 29 Nov 8pm + Sat 8 Dec 3.30pm Thu 24 Jan 8pm + Sat 9 Feb 3.30pm
Fri 7 + Fri 21 Dec + Fri 18 Jan 8.30pm
FREE www.musicgeekmonthly.tumblr.com
Cardiff Storytelling Circle Sun 2 Dec + Sun 6 Jan 8pm Share and listen to a lovely collection of stories, real or imagined, all of them true. £4 (on the door)
Chapter MovieMaker Mon 7 Jan Chapter Moviemaker will be replaced in December by a short film Programme from NBCQ. Please see p20. FREE
Clonc yn y Cwtch Every Monday 6.30-8pm Are you learning Cymraeg? Come and join us for a great chance to practice your Welsh with other learners. Croeso i bawb! FREE In partnership with Menter Caerdydd.
First Thursday Thu 6 Dec 7.30pm Seren and Literature Wales’ series of literary events celebrating fiction, non-fiction and poetry continues. Come along and meet some great writers and hear them read from their works; or get involved in the ‘open mic’ section where new authors read a poem or page of prose. £2.50
Clint Edwards presents the very best in new stand-up comedy. £3.50 (on the door)
Boardgaming Sunday Sun 9 Dec + Sun 13 Jan 5.30pm Join Cardiff’s friendly games shop Rules of Play in our Caffi Bar for this monthly games night. Bring your favourite board games, or just bring yourself and borrow a game from the demo library. FREE
On The Edge I am Angela Brazil by Lucinda Coxon Tues 11 Dec 8pm A one woman play! - with Boyd Clack An examination of the unforgiving hold of the past over the present and the contradictions that co-exist within ordinary human kindness. The illusion of theatre is both broken and confirmed at the very outset, thereby objectifying the shame unfolded in the various aspects of the life of this particular Angela Brazil. Boyd Daniel Clack is a Welsh writer, actor, and musician. He was born in Vancouver, Canada but grew up in Tonyrefail in Wales. His acting credits include Twin Town, High Hopes, and Satellite City, the latter two of which he also co-wrote. He was recently seen in BBC Wales’ Baker Boys. The latest of Michael Kelligan’s script-in-hand readings. Directed by Hugh Thomas. £4
The Third Uncles
One classic and one brand new album are chosen and discussed in Media Point on the last Thursday of the month, with the associated listening event taking place in the plush surroundings of Cinema 2 on a Saturday.
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SWDFAS Lecture The Punch and Judy Show by Bertie Pearce Punch is descended from the Italian clown Pulcinella, of the fifteenth century Commedia Del’Arte tradition. Even today, this Lord of Misrule uses his slapstick to dispense his oppressive authority, proclaiming his notorious refrain, “That’s the way we do it!” £6 (on the door, space permitting) www.swdfas.org.uk
The Forge Thu 17 Jan 7.30pm The Forge is a place where artists across different disciplines come together with audiences to explore creative ideas and test out work-in-progress. Some showings will be rough, some will be ready and all want audience feedback, if you wish to give it. Come and discover the next big thing and be part of developing the future of theatre and performance in Wales. If you’re an artist interested in showing work at the The Forge or an audience member with any questions, email contacttheforge@gmail.com £3 Presented with the kind support of Chapter.
Sunday Jazz From L to R: Spring Awakening, Private Eye Detective
Sun 27 Jan 9pm An evening of melodic acoustic jazz in the Caffi Bar with the Glen Manby Quartet. FREE
The Magistrate
Thu 10 Jan 2pm
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: World-Class Theatre Productions broadcast live from London. If you’d like to pre-order an intermission drink, please do so at our café/bar before the performance.
The Magistrate Thu 17 Jan Doors 6.30pm, live screening starts 7pm prompt Dir: Arthur Wing Pinero. With John Lithgow, Nancy Carroll
With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it’s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that’s because he isn’t. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable Posket. “Well, when I heard the new dad was a police magistrate, I was scared. Said I to myself, ‘If I don’t mind my Ps and Qs, the Guv’nor — from force of habit — will fine me all my pocket-money.’” The imminent arrival of Cis’ godfather sends Agatha incognito to the Hôtel des Princes to warn him of her deception. But it’s also where her son has cajoled his otherwise staid stepfather into joining him for a binge. High-spirited carousing leads to a police raid and a night of outrageous mishap as the trapped guests make desperate attempts to conceal themselves from the law and from each other. Indignities escalate at court the next day where Posket, the police magistrate, must preside.
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“ The themes may be contentious, but the handling is perfect. If there were ever a movie to cause the lame to walk and the blind to see, The Master may just be it.� The Guardian
The Master
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Amour
Fri 7 Dec — Thu 3 Jan
Fri 30 Nov — Sun 30 Dec
USA/2012/137mins/15 Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams.
Austria/2012/127mins/12A/subtitled. Dir: Michael Haneke. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert.
In the years after WWII, a charismatic American intellectual publishes his book The Cause, creating a new religion which promises to end war, poverty and cure cancer. When he meets a troubled drifter, he invites the man to help him spread the new faith. As their congregation increases, the drifter begins to question the religion he once accepted and the mentor who gave his life direction.
Georges and Anne are cultivated, retired music teachers in their eighties living in a beautiful Parisian apartment. When one day Anne has an attack, the couple’s bond of love is severely tested. While Haneke is known for his confrontational past, this poignantly acted and uncommonly tender twohander relates the tragic final months in a relationship with at least six decades’ worth of history, as a concerned French husband cares for his increasingly irritable wife in the wake of two debilitating strokes.
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+ SciSCREEN returns with a post screening panel on Mon 10 Dec. Please reserve a free place through the Box Office. Tickets for the film must be purchased separately. www.cardiffsciscreen.blogspot.com
The Alps Fri 30 Nov — Thu 6 Dec Greece/2012/93mins/15/subtitles. Dir: Giorgos Lanthimos. With Aggeliki Papoulia, Ariane Labed, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Stavros Psyllakis.
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach have formed a service for hire. They stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by the relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased. The company is called Alps. Their leader, the paramedic, calls himself Mont Blanc. Although Alps members operate under a discipline regime demanded by their leader, the nurse does not.
The Hunt Fri 30 Nov — Thu 3 Dec Denmark/2012/111mins/15. Dir: Thomas Vinterberg. With: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkop.
Lucas, a pillar of the local community and a teacher at the local kindergarten cheerfully participates with the local traditions of the village, including the annual deer hunt. But things go horribly wrong for Lucas when an accusation is made against him and the situation escalates out of control.
Claire Vaughan Programme Officer, Film & Cinema It’s Christmas, I’m 7 years old and I can’t sleep in our new house. Creeping downstairs alone I start watching Hitchcock’s Vertigo on TV. Hitchcock’s visualisation of obsession set me on the slippery slope to cinephilia. I am excited to see so many of his films of the big screen (see pages 26-27). It’s also a great time for new voices in cinema with vibrant films from Romania, Greece and the UK, including a special shorts programme from NBCQ (see page 20). Cinema am byth!
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The Joy Of Six: A Programme of New British Crafted Short Films
Canada/2012/159mins/15/subtitles Dir: Xavier Dolan. With Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clement.
Laurence is a writer and teacher, and together with his girlfriend Fred, they live in a cozy two-person cocoon. They are contemptuous and defiant and actively reject social norms. However, when Laurence announces that he is a woman trapped in a man’s body, their relationship changes and the film follows the pair as Fred tries to figure out if she can accept Laurence as a woman and if she can be that defiant in the face of family and social pressures.
Bad Film Club Double Bill: Rats! & You Better Watch Out Sun 2 Dec The Bad Film Club are back in Chapter for their last outing of 2012, and you know what that means... The Bad Film Club Christmas Party Extravaganza! A double bill of bad movie goodness along with games, prizes, mince pies, crackers and a good heap of mayhem. First on the agenda is Rats! It’s 2230 and a nuclear war has destroyed the world. A group of motorcyclist scavengers are searching for food when they are set upon by thousands of flesh-eating, mutant rats. Armed with various assault weapons they are going to have to fight the furry creatures for survival… Next comes You Better Watch Out where a psychopath in a Santa suit decides to tackle the kids on the naughty list in his own special way.
New British Cinema Quarterly Mon 3 Dec UK/2012/73mins/ctba.
NBCQ presents a perfect package of short films, showcasing the best of British screen and directing talent. This may be the only time you get to encounter Dame Judi Dench on Facebook, as a woman attempting to woo her local choirmaster through social media, and Peter Mullan giving a screen masterclass on how to smoke a cigarette (without the ash falling), or maybe watch the rather handsome Luke Treadaway run — a lot.
Valtari Film Experiment — Sigur Ros Event Fri 7 Dec Iceland/2012/120mins/adv15.
Upon the release of their album Valtari, Sigur Rós gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the album. The idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Among the filmmakers are Alma Har’el, Andrea Arnold, Floria Sigismondi, Ramin Bahrani, and John Cameron Mitchell. At the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their own personal creations. Together with some bonus material, join us and viewers on all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica) for this very special screening event. Contains nudity.
From L to R: Joy of Six, Valtari Film Experiment
Fri 30 Nov — Thu 6 Dec
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KOTATSU: From Up on Poppy Hill
JAPANESE ANIMATION Festival
Sat 1 Dec
The only festival in Wales to specialise in Japanese Animation, this fun-filled one day event features a whole host of special screenings including two Welsh premieres, a Skype Q&A session from Japan, a Manga workshop and a Japanese market place throughout the day. www.kotatsufestival.com Supported by Japan Foundation.
Japanese Marketplace 11am-5pm
We will have a selection of stalls, an authentic Japanese bento box, original comics by Asuka Tanaka, art and crafts by local artist, comic store and anime goods. Raffle tickets at 50p are available from the Box Office with prizes including Stop-motion Pro animation software and a framed Japanese art print. Raffle Prize draw at 5.45pm.
Manga/Anime character design Workshop. 3pm-4pm
Let’s draw your character! With Asuka Tanaka. Age 15+
Arrietty Japan/2010/94mins/U. Dir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi. With Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler.
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Komaneko / Komaneko’s Christmas Japan/2006&2009/80mins/U. Dir: Tsuneo Goda
Komaneko is a female kitten who lives with her grandfather in their mountain home, where Komaneko loves to make handicraft. Komaneko is looking forward to Christmas. + Followed by a live Q&A session with the director Tsuneo Goda and stop-motion animator Hirokazu Minegishi, via skype from Japan.
£5 Bookings via email to info@kotatsufestival.com
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
WELSH PREMIERE
Japan/2011/116mins/ctba/ subtitles. Dir: Makoto Shinkai. With Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino.
From Up On Poppy Hill Japan/2012/91mins/adv PG. Dir: Goro Miyazaki.
In 1960s Japan, just before the Olympics, Umi is a hard-working young girl looking after her family whilst her mother is in America. One day she comes across a poem in the school newspaper, apparently directed at her. Not long after she meets Shun, a daring young lad who is part of a school movement to help save the local clubhouse from demolition. The movement is mostly led by lively boys from the school, but Umi agrees to help. She and Shun grow closer together but are suddenly torn apart by a shocking secret.
When Asuma is one day attacked by a fearsome creature, she is saved by a mysterious boy called Shun who leads her into an incredible adventure. This Welsh premiere is sponsored by KAZE, www.kaze.fr and will be released in January 2013.
Part 1 of Berserk: Egg Of The King Japan/2012/80mins/Advised 15/subtitles. Dir: Toshiyuki Kubooka.
Lone mercenary Guts travels the land, cutting down his opponents with unrivalled swordsmanship. Guts is soon recruited to the mercenary group ‘The Band of the Hawk’, but despite their success, Guts begins to question his reasons for fighting. This Welsh premiere is sponsored by KAZE, www.kaze.fr and will be released in December 2012.
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BAFTA Cymru presents: Under Milk Wood with director Andrew Sinclair Wed 12 Dec UK/1972/88mins/15. Dir: Andrew Sinclair. With Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton
Argo Fri 7 Dec – Wed 2 Jan USA/2012/121mins/15. Dir: Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman.
Ben Affleck again justifies his directorial stripes with this riveting feature based on the true story of CIA ‘exfiltration’ agent Tony Mendez (Affleck). It’s the end of 1979 and the Iranian revolution has reached a critical breaking point. When the American Embassy is seized by revolutionaries, Mendez devises a risky plan to free six Americans who escaped and are being sheltered by the Canadian ambassador. Masquerading as the producer of a new sci-fi movie, he enters Tehran on the pretext of location scouting, but not before he has fool-proofed his backstory by setting up a fake production office in Hollywood.
Darkened Rooms at THE ANGEL HOTEL
It’s a Wonderful Life Sun 9 Dec 3.30pm + 7pm
USA/1946/130mins/U. Dir: Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Where’s more appropriate than The Angel Hotel to enjoy Capra’s beautiful classic tale of a guardian angel helping despondent George Bailey understand the value of his life by seeing what the world would have been like without him. Who knows, maybe we’ll help a few angels get their wings at this special Darkened Rooms screening. £10/£6
In this first-ever screen adaptation of the Dylan Thomas classic play, Under Milk Wood, Richard Burton fulfilled a life-long ambition to appear in a part which his friend Thomas wrote specially for him. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world and on celluloid, it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of all human life. + We will be joined at this screening by the film’s director, Andrew Sinclair, who will be happy to answer your questions about working with Richard Burton. + Also, check our website for a special event with BAFTA on Wed 16 Jan.
Sightseers Fri 14 – Thu 20 Dec UK/2012/89mins/15. Dir: Ben Wheatley. With Steve Ram, Alice Lowe
When Chris and Tina set off on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan he wants to do it his way. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade - litterbugs, noisy teenagers and prebooked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge. This dark comedy revolves around the Midlands’ answer to Bonnie and Clyde and reveals Ben Wheatley (Kill List) to be one of Britain’s most distinctive new directors.
“Spring-loaded with shocks and scares and ghoulish black comedy” Xan Brooks, The Guardian
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Seven Psychopaths Fri 21 – Thu 10 Jan UK/2012/110mins/15 Dir: Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko
Great Expectations Fri 14 Dec – Thu 10 Jan
UK/2012/129mins/12A. Dir: Mike Newell. With Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins
Frightened into aiding an escaped convict, young orphan Pip incurs the wrath of his abusive sister and guardian and is sent to satisfy the mysterious whims of the immensely rich and grim Miss Havisham and her captivatingly beautiful adopted daughter Estella. With a wealth of British acting talent and accomplished gothic costume creations by Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Drugstore Cowboy; The Fisher King), this is a visually ravishing and enjoyable adaptation of the classic novel and provides a fitting end to the bicentenary celebrations of the life and work of Charles Dickens. + Audio description is available and there will be soft subtitled screenings on Tue 18 Dec and Wed 9 Jan.
Gremlins Sat 15 + Sun 16 Dec USA/1984/106min/12A. Dir: Joe Dante. With Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke
Sure, he’s cute. Of course you can keep him. But heed these three warnings: Don’t ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs . . . never, never feed him after midnight. With these mysterious instructions, young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet and he gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.
Marty is a struggling LA writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, ‘Seven Psychopaths’ and all he needs is a little focus and inspiration. However, when Marty’s best friend inadvertently steals the beloved Shih-Tzu of Charlie, an unpredictable and extremely violent gangster, they suddenly find themselves entrenched in the LA criminal underworld and have to pull all their focus and inspiration together to keep from being killed. Oscar-winning Writer and Director Martin McDonagh has followed up his earlier success, In Bruges with a star studded, blood-drenched, black comedy.
Aurora Fri 4 – Thu 10 Jan Romania/2012/181mins/12A. Dir: Cristi Puiu
This is the story of the fall of an ordinary man. Recent divorcee and father Viorel is an engineer. At work, he has an altercation with one of his co-workers who owes him money and he drops in on another employee who hands over two hand-made firing pins for a hunting rifle. As Viorel wanders the streets of Bucharest he feels a sense of strange nervousness, a muffled anxiety and the urge to end the instability that rules his life. He buys a rifle and ammunition, then goes back home to test his weapon. This is the long awaited follow-up to The Death of Mr Lazarescu and is the second in Puiu’s projected series of 6 films dealing with life in Romania.
“One of the most uncompromising, rigorous films of the year” Sight & Sound
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Chasing Ice
Gambit
Fri 4 – Thu 10 Jan
Fri 11 – Wed 16 Jan
USA/2012/76mins/no cert. Dir: Jeff Orlowski. With James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson
USA/2012/89mins/12A. Dir: Michael Hoffman. With Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci
In the spring of 2005, photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment - to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed to capture a multi-year record of the world’s glaciers. That first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk. Balog’s hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. This is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
Harry Dean is a British art curator who decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet with the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen. However, he soon discovers that no plan is infallible when, despite his pretty accomplice bearing an uncanny resemblance to his affluent target’s late wife, things quickly spin out of control. With a screenplay by the Coen brothers directed by Hoffman [The Last Station] and a great cast, this remake of the 1966 crime caper promises to be a genuine work of art. + Soft subtitles on Wed 16, audio description available
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“If there ever was a film that needed to be seen on a big screen this is it” David Courier, Sundance Senior Programmer
Bad Film Club: Bats Sun 6 Jan The Bad Film Club is back and celebrating its 8th year at Chapter! To mark this special occasion they will be showing you the classic bad movie Bats. The result of a government experiment gone wrong, the mutant, killer bats have suddenly become intelligent and vicious and keep biting people in the face. Luckily bat specialist Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy are brought in but the military can’t resist the temptation to get involved. Lucky for us Lou Diamond Phillips is on the case.
Love Crime Fri 11 – Tue 15 Jan France/2010/106mins/15/subtitles. Dir: Alain Corneau. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludvine Sagnier
When Christine, a powerful executive, brings on a naive young ingenue, Isabelle as her assistant, she delights in toying with her naivete and teaching her hard lessons in a ruthless professional philosophy. But when the protege’s ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle’s ambition and cunning and the ground is set for all out war. This psychological suspense thriller is the last film directed by Corneau [Fear and Trembling] and is a twisted tale of office politics that turn, literally, cut-throat.
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Silver Linings Playbook Fri 11 – Thu 17 Jan USA/2012/122mins/15. Dir: David O Russell. With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Elena Fri 11 – Wed 16 Jan Russia/2012/109mins/12A/subtitles. Dir: Andrei Zvyagintsev. With Aleksey Rozin, Andrey Smirnov.
Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment—he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman and she’s his dowdy former nurse who has clearly married up. Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife’s freeloading son and family but when a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan. With music from Philip Glass, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller and a subtly stylish exploration of crime, punishment and human nature.
“The subtlety and stealth of this movie is a marvel” The Guardian
Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Pat Solitano has lost everything - his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother and father after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet - and to share their family’s obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles football team. When Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated and she offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he’ll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.
Big Blue Lake Thu 17 Jan Hong Kong/2011/98mins/PG/subtitles. Dir: Jessey Tsang. With Leila Tong, Lawrence Chou, Amy Chun
This is the deceptively simple tale of an actress, Laiyee, who returns to her home village in an attempt to reconnect with her past. Whilst there, she becomes close to an ex-classmate, Chun, and together they search for the mythical Blue Lake. Set in the village of Ho Chung in Hong Kong’s New Territories, Tsang’s film is a beautifully shot meditation on the past, memory and the encroachment of an almost unstoppable modernisation. Big Blue Lake won its director a very worthy Best Newcomer award at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards. + Introduced by Vee Leong and James Tyson
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HITCHCOCK: THE REAL MASTER What better way to bring in the new year and prepare ourselves for Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, than with a fine selection, from over 50 features, of homicide, mariticide, uxoricide, avicide, menticide, faked suicide and a little psychoanalysis, voyeurism, surrealism and Nazi espionage thrown in for good measure?
The Ring
Spellbound
UK/1927/116mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Carl Brisson. Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter
USA/1945/111mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
Beautifully evoking London in the 1920s, Hitchcock’s boxing melodrama tells the story of two boxers whose love rivalry plays out between the ropes. Suffused with expressionist touches, using symbolism and heavily stylised shots to convey mood and meaning which was probably influenced by Hitchcock’s time spent in Germany, this restoration includes the premiere performance of a new jazz score for the film by Soweto Kinch.
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature—or so she thinks. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love. A transcendent love story replete with taut excitement and startling imagery featuring a captivating dream sequence by Surrealist icon Salvador Dalí.
Sun 2, Tue 4 + Thu 6 Dec
Downhill
Sun 9, Tue 11 + Thu 13 Dec UK/ 1927/80min/U. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Robin Irvine
Novello, here performing his own stage play, plays (somewhat implausibly at 34) model school student Roddy, falsely accused of getting a young woman pregnant. Expelled and disgraced, Roddy is reduced to renting himself out as a companion to lonely, wealthy women before winding up destitute and ill in Marseilles. Unusually dark for its day, Downhill is the first pure example of Hitchcock’s much-revisited ‘wrong man’ plot and is a most unfairly neglected work.
Rebecca
Sun 16, Tue 18 + Thu 20 Dec USA/1940/130mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Bringing the Daphne Du Maurier novel to the screen, this much loved film tells of a naive ladies’ companion who meets and falls in love with the wealthy but haunted Maxim de Winter. Married, they return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall but Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. Clashing with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, the new Mrs De Winter discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.
Fri 21 – Sun 23 Dec
Notorious
Sun 30 Dec, Wed 2 + Thu 3 Jan USA/1946/102mins/U. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claud Rains
In this brilliant allegory of love and betrayal, Hitchcock fuses two of his favourite elements: suspense and romance. A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he’s loved her all along.
Rear Window
Sun 6, Tue 8 + Thu 10 Jan USA/1954/112mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
It’s a sweltering New York summer and magazine photographer LB Jeff Jeffries is confined to a wheelchair laid up with a broken leg he got in active service. Every day mundane and domestic dramas unfold in the box like living spaces across the courtyard until one night he thinks he sees a neighbour disposing of the body of his murdered wife. Aided by his devoted Park Avenue socialite girlfriend, Lisa and his curmudgeonly nurse, LB sets out to prove the guilt of this ‘everyday Joe’ neighbour of his.
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Vertigo
Sat 12, Sun 13 + Thu 17 Jan USA/1958/125mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past in this timeless examination of male desire and obsession.
The Paradine Case Mon 14 + Tue 15 Jan
UK/1947/131mins/PG. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
When Keane, a married barrister is employed to defend Mrs Paradine in a murder trial, he falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful and enigmatic young foreign woman. Accused of poisoning her older, blind husband, a retired military man, is she the grateful and devoted wife who has been falsely accused, or is she in fact a calculating and ruthless femme fatale?
Psycho
Sat 19, Sun 20 + Thu 24 Jan USA/1960/109mins/15. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Every boy should have a hobby, and when Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her employer’s client and runs away with the cash, stopping overnight at the Bates Motel, she encounters Norman - and unfortunately discovers first-hand what his hobby is.
Marnie
Mon 21 + Tue 22 Jan USA/1964/130mins/15. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery
Habitual liar and thief, Marnie Edgar makes a living from embezzling from her employers and moving on. When she is finally caught in the act by one of her employers, he blackmails her into marriage. Realising that her actions are as a result of childhood traumas, together with her mistrust of men, thunderstorms and the colour red, he arranges a confrontation with her mother in an attempt to bring out repressed memories as the only way to save her.
The Birds From top: Hitchcock, The Ring, Notorious, Vertigo
Sat 26, Sun 27 + Tue 29 Jan USA/1963/119mins/15. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. With Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren
When wealthy Melanie Daniels delivers a pair of love birds to a home in Bodega Bay on the Californian coast, she is attacked by a lone seagull and is persuaded to stay overnight to recover. However, with increasing incidents of bird attacks the following day, Daniels does all she can to defend herself and others against the inexplicable and savage attacks by flocks of wild birds.
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Outside Satan Fri 18 – Thu 24 Jan
France/2011/110mins/ctba. Dir: Bruno Dumont. With David Dewaele, Alexandra Lematre
“ Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure” — Variety
Outside Satan
By the Channel, along the Cote d’Opale, near a hamlet with a river and a marshland, lives an oddball poacher who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide and stunning scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling. A miracle reveals an unseen side of this loner when the bucolic landscape is disturbed with a string of violent deaths.
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Midnight’s Children Fri 18 – Thu 24 Jan
From top: End of Watch, Quartet
Canada/2012/148mins/12A/subtitles. Dir: Deepa Mehta. With Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami
Quartet Fri 18 – Thu 31 Jan UK/2012/97mins/12A. Dir: Dustin Hoffman. With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins
Lifelong friends Wilf and Reggie live in a residential home for retired opera singers, together with former colleague Cissy. Every year on Verdi’s birthday, the residents unite to give a concert to raise funds for their home. But when Jean Horton, a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie’s ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home to everyone’s surprise, the plans for this year’s concert start to unravel. This directorial debut from Dustin Hoffman is an entertaining and uplifting story about redefining old age and growing old with hope, showing how the human spirit remains undimmed even as the brightest stars start to fade. + Audio description is available and there will be soft subtitled screenings on Tue 22 and Wed 30 Jan.
In his first feature film screenplay, Salman Rushdie adapts his own Booker Prize-winning novel — an allegorical saga that parallels the dramatic upheavals in one family’s history with the events that would define contemporary India, from the end of colonialism to the partitioning of Pakistan. Born on the cusp of India’s independence from Britain and switched at birth by a maternity nurse in a secret act of protest, Saleem Sinai’s fate is not only inextricably bound to the future of his country, but also to that of Shiva, the boy whose place of privilege he takes. When Saleem discovers he has special powers and is able to communicate with other children who share his auspicious birthday, we are able to navigate the tumultuous course of history from a host of perspectives.
End Of Watch Fri 18 – Thu 24 Jan USA/2012/109mins/15. Dir: David Ayer. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Natalie Martines
Officers Taylor and Zavala are risk-takers, working around the edge of regulations to get results. When they discover and confiscate guns and a stash of money during a routine procedure, their subsequent investigation takes them into much darker territory and soon they are marked for death by a local south central LA drug cartel, pursued by the acid-tongued, machine gun-wielding, driving force behind the gang. This follows director Ayer’s (Training Day) ongoing preoccupation with the visceral and cracklingly violent underbelly of Los Angeles.
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Living In The Future
Skyfall
Tue 22 Jan
Fri 25 – Thu 31 Jan
Wales/2012/48mins/ctba. Dir: Helen Iles
UK/2012/143mins/12A. Dir: Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench.
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Started in 2009, Lammas is the UK’s first planned ecovillage. This is the inside story of how nine families create their own beautiful natural homes and plentiful gardens from sheep-grazed Pembrokeshire farmland. The essence of their story is an urgent need to build their own affordable housing and to renew their relationship with the land. In the face of legal battles and local hostility, these families struggle not only to create a new way of living sustainably but also to cope with the ongoing pressure to make Lammas a successful community that might provide an example of how to live in the future. + We will be joined by a guest Q&A at this event, please check our website for details nearer the time.
Les Miserables Fri 25 Jan – Thu 7 Feb UK/2012/152mins/ctba. Dir: Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, has broken his parole and must flee from police Inspector Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and after two decades on the run, Valjean finds himself as the mayor of a small French town in the midst of the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris. Hooper [The King’s Speech, The Damned United] has brought this well-loved musical and novel to the screen with a star studded ensemble cast. + Our Adaptations film and literature group will meet after the screening on Mon 28 Jan to discuss the film. Please book tickets from the box office.
Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat no matter how personal the cost.
Happy Happy Fri 25 – Thu 31 Jan Norway/2010/85mins/15/subtitles. Dir: Anne Sewitsky. With Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen
Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys and isn’t interested in having sex with her anymore because she “isn’t particularly attractive”. But when the perfect couple moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir, they have also adopted a child - from Ethiopia. These new neighbors open a whole new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before - even if Kaja tries her very best.
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FAMILY FEATURES
A selection of fabulous, family-friendly films every Saturday at 11am amd 3pm. Children under 12-years-old must be accompanied by an adult. Please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Arrietty
Frankenweenie [2D]
Japan/2010/94mins/U Dir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi. With Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler
USA/2012/87mins/PG. Dir: Tim Burton. With Martin Landau, Winona Ryder
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered. Part of the Kotatsu Festival — see page 21
Victor’s beloved dog Sparky meets with a tragic end and the young inventor decides to bring him back to life in Burton’s whimsical stop-motion response to the Frankenstein myth.
Sat 1 Dec
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted [2D] Sat 8 Dec + Fri 4 – Sun 6 Jan
USA/2012/93mins/PG. Dir: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon. With Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer.
Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent Madagascar style.
Rise Of The Guardians [2D] Sat 15 – Thu 20 Dec
USA/2012/PG. Dir Peter Ramsey. With Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine
This is an epic and magical adventure telling the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost — legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children everywhere.
From L to R: Madagascar 3, Frankenweenie
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Fri 21 Dec – Thu 3 Jan + Sat 19 Jan
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Sat 12 Jan
USA/2012/88mins/U. Dir: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier. With Ray Romano, Denis Leary
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
The Penguin King [2D] Sat 26 Jan
UK/2012/78mins/U Written and Narrated by David Attenborough
This is a stunning documentary about life for one penguin and what he must do to keep his family safe from harm in a sometime harsh but beautiful habitat.
Carry On Screaming!
Every Friday at 11am, Carry on Screaming allows parents or carers to see a film without having to worry about their baby causing a disturbance. Check out the calendar for details of these special screenings, exclusively for people with babies under one-year-old. Free entry for babies. Please note that tickets for these screenings are not available online. Sorry, strictly no admittance unless accompanied by a baby!
For more information or to make a donation visit the ‘Support Us’ section at www.chapter.org. Donations can also be made over the phone, 029 2035 5662 or send a cheque, made payable to ‘Chapter (Cardiff) Ltd’ to Elaina Gray in the Fundraising office.
Don’t forget to Gift Aid your donation — we can reclaim the tax, adding an extra 25%.
Legacies Leaving a legacy helps to ensure a healthy future for Chapter. Please contact your solicitor for advice and keep us informed so we can recognise your donation appropriately.
Regular Donations We welcome regular monthly or annual donations which are put towards your chosen area of the artistic programme. Forms are available on our website or from the fundraising office 029 2035 5662.
Gall rhoddion gael eu rhoi dros y ffôn hefyd, 029 2035 5662 neu gallwch anfon siec, yn daladwy i ‘Chapter (Caerdydd) Cyf’, at Elaina Gray yn y Swyddfa Codi Arian.
Peidiwch ag anghofio Cymorth Rhodd — gallwn hawlio’r dreth ar eich rhodd yn ôl, gan ychwanegu 25% at ei werth. I gael mwy o wybodaeth neu i wneud cyfraniad, ewch i adran ‘Cefnogi Chapter’ ein gwe-fan, www.chapter.org.
Cymynroddion Mae gadael cymynrodd i Chapter yn eich ewyllys yn fodd o sicrhau dyfodol iach i’r ganolfan. Dylech gysylltu â’ch cyfreithiwr i gael cyngor — a rhowch wybod i ni hefyd fel y gallwn gydnabod eich rhodd yn y modd priodol.
Rhoddion Rheolaidd Rydym yn croesawu rhoddion misol neu flynyddol rheolaidd a gaiff eu defnyddio i gefnogi’r rhaglen artistig yn eich dewis faes chi. Mae ffurflenni ar gael ar ein gwefan neu o’r swyddfa codi arian 029 2035 5662.
£250 — Mabwysiadu Sedd Gallwch fabwysiadu sedd yn y sinema neu’r theatr i chi eich hun neu ar ran ffrind. Bydd eich plac arbennig i’w weld ar sedd o’ch dewis chi am 10 mlynedd.
Y llynedd, croesawyd 800,000 o ymwelwyr i 12 o arddangosfeydd, bron i 2,000 o ddangosiadau ffilm, dros 600 o berfformiadau theatr a mwy na 1,000 o weithdai a dosbarthiadau, sgyrsiau a digwyddiadau eraill. Rydym hefyd yn cefnogi cannoedd o brosiectau trwy ddarparu gofod a chyngor. Rydym yn falch o’r ffaith ein bod yn ennill dros 70% o’r incwm sydd ei angen arnom i ariannu hyn oll ein hunain, drwy gyfrwng ein swyddfa docynnau, y caffi-bar a llogi gofod a gwasanaethau. Mae cefnogaeth gan gyllidwyr, ymddiriedolaethau, sefydliadau a noddwyr yn ein helpu i lenwi’r bwlch ond, fel elusen gofrestredig, rydym hefyd yn dibynnu ar gefnogaeth cannoedd o unigolion sy’n cyfrannu rhoddion bychain. Dyma rai ffyrdd y gallwch chi helpu.
Last year we welcomed 800,000 visitors to 12 exhibitions, almost 2,000 cinema screenings, over 600 theatre performances and 1,000s more to workshops and classes, talks and other events. Behind the scenes we also supported 100s of projects by providing space and advice. We are proud that we earn over 70% of the money we need to make this happen ourselves through our box office, café-bar sales and space hires. Support from funders, trusts, foundations and sponsors helps us meet the gap but as a registered charity we also rely on the support of 100s of individuals making small donations. Here are some ways you can help.
£250 Adopt a Seat Adopt a cinema or theatre seat for yourself or a friend. Your engraved plaque will adorn a seat of your choice for 10 years.
Cefnogwch ni...
Support us…
Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust The Ernest Cook Trust Lloyds TSB Morgan Signs Garrick Charitable Trust Barclays Arts & Business Cymru Singapore International Foundation Puma Hotels Collection: Cardiff Angel Hotel Cardiff Airport Wales Arts International Gibbs Charitable Trust Ceredigion Community Scheme The Steel Charitable Trust The Boshier-Hinton Foundation Oakdale Trust Nelmes Design The Coutts Charitable Trust Bruce Wake Charity Finnis Scott Foundation
Unity Trust Bank Hugh James Contemporary Art Society for Wales The Dot Foundry JVH Gidden & Rees Western Power Distribution HARMAN technology Limited Laguna Health & Spa Follett Trust Arts & Kids Cymru Canton High School Girl’s Reunion Co-operative Group IKEA Renault Cardiff GB-Sol Ltd City Satellites Embassy of Belgium Queensland Government
Registered Charity No. 500813* Rhif Elusen 500813
And all those individuals who have generously supported us through the redevelopment and beyond A’r holl unigolion hynny sydd wedi’n cefnogi ni’n hael drwy gydol cyfnod yr ailddatblygu ac ar ôl hynny
Landfill Community Fund Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Baring Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Foyle Foundation Biffaward Colwinston Charitable Trust Admiral Group plc Moondance Foundation Foundation for Sport and the Arts Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Community Foundation in Wales The Welsh Broadcasting Trust Richer Sounds Momentum The Henry Moore Foundation Google Jane Hodge Foundation Simon Gibson Charitable Trust People’s Postcode Trust Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V
Chapter gratefully acknowledges the support it receives from the following Mae Chapter yn gwerthfawrogi’r gefnogaeth a dderbynia gan y canlynol:
DECEMBER RHAGFYR Sat/Sad 1
Cinema/Sinema 1 Arrietty (U) p31 11.00+3.00 / The Hunt (15) p19 5.15 / From Up On Poppy Hill (adv PG) p21 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Komaneko p21 1.00 / Children Who Chase Lost Voices (no cert) p21 3.30 / Berserk: Egg of the King (no cert) p21 6.00 / Amour (12A) p19 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Sun/Sul 2
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Alps (15) p19 3.00 / The Ring (PG) p26 5.00 / The Hunt (15) p19 7.30
RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / Kitsch & Sync p12 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Amour (12A) p19 3.30 / Bad Film Club: Rats! p20 6.30 / Bad Film Club: You Better Watch Out p20 8.45
Theatre/Theatr
Mon/Llun 3
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Hunt (15) p19 6.00 / Amour (12A) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 NBCQ: The Joy of Six (no cert) p20 6.00 / The Alps (15) p19 8.00
Events
Kitsch & Sync p12 8.00 / Cardiff Storytelling Circle p16 8.00
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Tue/Maw 4
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Ring (PG) p26 2.30 / Amour (12A) p19 5.45 / The Hunt (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Alps (15) p19 6.00 / Laurence Anyways (15) p20 8.00
Theatre/Theatr
Events
RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / Pieces of Hate p12 7.30 Fairtrade Late Night Christmas Shopping p8 5.00-8.00
Wed/Mer 5
Cinema/Sinema 1 Amour (12A) p19 2.30+8.15 / The Hunt (15) p19 5.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Laurence Anyways (15) p20 5.15 / The Alps (15) p19 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / Pieces of Hate p12 7.30 / Sarah Rundle p13 8.00
Events
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Thu/Iau 6
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Ring (PG) p26 2.30 / Amour (12A) p19 5.45 / The Hunt (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Alps (15) p19 6.00 / Laurence Anyways (15) p20 8.00
Theatre/Theatr RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / First Thursday p16 7.30 / Trifle Gathering Productions p13 8.00
Fri/Gwe 7
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Amour (12A) p19 11.00 / The Hunt (15) p19 2.30 / Valtari Film Experiment (no Cert) p20 6.00 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Argo (15) p22 5.45 / Amour (12A) p19 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Sat/Sad 8
Cinema/Sinema 1 Madagascar 3 [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Argo (15) p22 8.30
RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / Jo Caulfield p15 8.00 / Drones Comedy Club p16 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Music Geek Monthly p16 3.30 / Amour (12A) p19 5.45 / The Hunt (15) p19 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Sun/Sul 9
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Hunt (15) p19 3.00 / Argo (15) p22 5.30 / The Master (15) p19 8.00
RWCMD: Picnic p12 7.30 / Henry’s Funeral Shoe p13 7.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Downhill (U) p26 5.00 / Amour (12A) p19 7.30
Events
Mon/Llun 10
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Master (15) + SciSCREEN p19 5.45 / Argo (15) p22 8.30
Boardgaming Sunday p16 5.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Hunt (15) p19 6.00 / Amour (12A) p19 8.30
Events
Tue/Maw 11
Cinema/Sinema 1 Downhill (U) p26 2.30 / The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Argo (15) p22 8.30
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Amour (12A) p19 5.45 / The Hunt (15) p19 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Wed/Mer 12
Cinema/Sinema 1 Amour (12A) p19 2.30 / BAFTA: Under Milk Wood + Q&A p22 6.00 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Hunt (15) p19 5.45 / Argo (15) p22 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00
Events
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Thu/Iau 13
Cinema/Sinema 1 Argo (15) p22 6.00 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Downhill (U) p26 2.30 / The Hunt (15) p19 5.45 / Amour (12A) p19 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Fri/Gwe 14
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Great Expectations (12A) p23 11.00 / Sightseers (15) p22 2.30 The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Sightseers (15) p22 6.15 / Argo (15) p22 8.15
On The Edge p16 8.00
Out of the Blue p11 11.00+1.00 / A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00
Theatre/Theatr Out of the Blue p11 10.00+2.00 / A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00 / Fist of the First Man p13 8.00
Sat/Sad 15
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rise of the Guardians [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.45 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Gremlins (15) p23 6.00 / Sightseers (15) p22 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Out of the Blue p11 11.00+1.00 / A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00 / Josie Long p15 8.00
Events
Oh So Crafty p8 11.00–6.00
Sun/Sul 16
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rise of the Guardians [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / The Master (15) p19 5.15 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Gremlins (15) p23 2.30 / Rebecca (PG) p26 5.00 / Sightseers (15) p22 7.45
Theatre/Theatr
Gruff Rhys + Y Niwl p6 8.00
Events
Festive Food Fair p9 11.00–6.00
Mon/Llun 17
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Sightseers (15) p22 6.00 / Argo (15) p22 8.00
Theatre/Theatr
Out of the Blue p11 11.00+1.00
Events
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Tue/Maw 18
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rise of the Guardians [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Rebecca (PG) p26 2.30 / Great Expectations (12A) (soft subtitles) p23 5.45 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Argo (15) p22 6.00 / Sightseers (15) p22 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Wed/Mer 19
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rise of the Guardians [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Argo (15) p22 2.30 / The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Out of the Blue p11 12.00+2.00 / Go Faster Stripe p15 7.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Sightseers (15) p22 6.00 / Argo (15) p22 8.00
Theatre/Theatr
Out of the Blue p11 11.00+1.00 / Humbug p12 7.00 / A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00
Events
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Thu/Iau 20
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rise of the Guardians [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Rebecca (PG) p26 2.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.45 / The Master (15) p19 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Argo (15) p22 6.00 / Sightseers (15) p22 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Fri/Gwe 21
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Spellbound (PG) p26 11.00 / Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Spellbound (PG) p26 2.30 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 5.45 / Argo (15) p22 8.15
Out of the Blue p11 11.00+1.00 / A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00
Theatre/Theatr
Sat/Sad 22
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.30 / The Master (15) p19 8.15
A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00 / Drones Comedy Club p16 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 5.45 / Spellbound (PG) p26 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Sun/Sul 23
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / The Master (15) p19 5.15 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.15
A Curious Zoo p11 7.00+9.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Spellbound (PG) p26 5.00 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 7.30
Mon/Llun 24
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 2.30
Tue/Maw 25
CHAPTER CLOSED
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wed/Mer 26
CHAPTER CLOSED
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thu/Iau 27
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 2.30 / The Master (15) p19 6.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 6.30
Theatre/Theatr
Fri/Gwe 28
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Notorious (U) p26 11.00 / The Master (15) p19 2.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 6.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / The Hunt (15) p19 5.15 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 7.45
Theatre/Theatr
Sat / Sad 29
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.15 / The Master (15) p19 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 6.00 / Argo (15) p22 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Sun / Sul 30
Cinema/Sinema 1 Amour (12A) p19 2.15 / The Master (15) p19 5.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.00
A Monster Christmas Adventure p12 1.30+5.00
A Monster Christmas Adventure p12 11.00+4.00
A Monster Christmas Adventure p12 11.00+4.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Notorious (U) p26 5.00 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 7.15
Mon /Llun 31
CHAPTER CLOSED
Cinema Sinema Full Llawn Concs Cons Card + Conc Cerdyn + Cons
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Before 5pm Cyn 5pm £4.50 (£4.00) £3.50 (£3.00) £3.00 (£2.50)
From 5pm O 5pm ymlaen £7.90 (£7.20) £5.80 (£5.10) £5.00 (£4.50)
Bargain Tuesday! All main screening tickets £4.40 DISGOWNT DYDD MAWRTH Tocynnau’r holl brif ddangosiadau - £4.40 Advanced/online prices in brackets. Prisiau ymlaen llaw/ar-lein mewn cromfachau. NB: Advanced = any time before the day of the screening.
JANUARY IONAWR Tue / Maw 1
CHAPTER CLOSED
Wed / Mer 2
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Argo (15) p22 2.30 / The Master (15) p19 5.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Notorious (U) p26 6.00 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 8.15
Thu / Iau 3
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00 / Notorious (U) p26 2.30 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.30 / The Master (15) p19 8.15
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Cinema/Sinema 2 Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 5.45 / The Hunt (15) p19 8.15
Fri / Gwe 4
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 11.00 / Aurora (12A) p23 2.30 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 6.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 M adagascar 3 [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 5.45 / Aurora (12A) p23 7.30
Sat /Sad 5
Cinema/Sinema 1 Madagascar 3 [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.45 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Aurora (12A) p23 5.00 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 8.30
Sun / Sul 6
Cinema/Sinema 1 Great Expectations (12A) p23 2.15 / Rear Window (PG) p26 5.00 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 7.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 M adagascar 3 [2D] (PG) p31 3.00 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 5.30 / Bad Film Club: Bats p24 7.45
Theatre/Theatr
Mon / Llun 7
Cinema/Sinema 1 Great Expectations (12A) p23 5.45 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 8.30
Cardiff Storytelling Circle p16 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Chapter MovieMaker p16 6.00 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 8.15
Events
Tue / Maw 8
Cinema/Sinema 1 Rear Window (PG) p26 2.30 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 6.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 5.45 / Aurora (12A) p23 7.30
Wed /Mer 9
Cinema/Sinema 1 Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 2.30 / Great Expectations (12A) (soft subtitles) p23 6.15 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 5.45 / Aurora (12A) p23 7.30
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Events
Thu / Iau 10
Cinema/Sinema 1 S WDFAS Lecture p17 2.00 / Seven Psychopaths (15) p23 6.00 / Great Expectations (12A) p23 8.15
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Aurora (12A) p23 2.30 / Rear Window (PG) p26 6.00 / Chasing Ice (no cert) p24 8.30
Fri / Gwe 11
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Gambit (12A) p24 11.00 / Elena (12A) p25 2.30 / Gambit (12A) p24 6.00 / Love Crime (15) p24 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Elena (12A) p25 6.15 / Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 8.30
Sat / Sad 12
Cinema/Sinema 1 Ice Age: Continental Drift (U) p31 11.00+3.00 / Love Crime (15) p24 6.00 / Gambit (12A) p24 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Vertigo (PG) p27 5.45 / Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 8.15
Sun / Sun 13
Cinema/Sinema 1 Love Crime (15) p24 2.45 / Vertigo (PG) p27 5.00 / Gambit (12A) p24 7.45
Cinema/Sinema 2 Elena (12A) p25 5.30 / Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 8.00
Events
Boardgaming Sunday p16 5.30
Mon / Llun 14 Cinema/Sinema 1 Love Crime (15) p24 6.00 / Gambit (12A) p24 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Paradine Case (U) p27 5.45 / Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 8.15
Events
Tue / Maw 15
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Paradine Case (U) p27 2.30 / Gambit (12A) p24 6.00 / Love Crime (15) p24 8.00
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 6.00 / Elena (12A) p25 8.30
Wed /Mer 16
Cinema/Sinema 1 Gambit (12A) p24 2.30+8.30 / BAFTA Screening 6.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 6.00 / Elena (12A) p25 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Marega Palser p14 8.00
Events
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Thu / Iau 17
Cinema/Sinema 1 NT Live: The Magistrate p17 7.00
Theatre/Theatr
Fri /Gwe 18
Cinema/Sinema 1 Carry On Screaming: Quartet (12A) p29 11.00 / Quartet (12A) p29 2.30+8.30 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 5.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Outside Satan (ctba) p28 6.00 / End of Watch (15) p28 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Vertigo (PG) p27 2.30 / Big Blue Lake (PG) p25 6.00 / Silver Linings Playbook (15) p25 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
The Forge p17 7.30 / Marega Palser p14 8.00
Marega Palser p14 8.00 / Drones Comedy Club p16 8.30
Sat / Sad 19
Cinema/Sinema 1 Frankenweenie [2D] (PG) p31 11.00+3.00 / Quartet (12A) p29 6.00 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Psycho (15) p27 6.15 / End of Watch (15) p29 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Sun / Sun 20
Cinema/Sinema 1 End of Watch (15) p29 2.45 / Psycho (15) p27 5.00 / Quartet (12A) p29 7.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Outside Satan (ctba) p29 5.30 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 8.00
Marega Palser p14 8.00
Mon / Llun 21 Cinema/Sinema 1 Quartet (12A) p29 6.00 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Marnie (15) p27 5.45 / End of Watch (15) p29 8.30
Events
Tue / Maw 22
Cinema/Sinema 1 Marnie (15) p27 2.30 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 5.30 / Quartet (12A) p29 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 End of Watch (15) p29 5.45 / Living in the Future + Q&A p30 8.15
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Wed / Mer 23 Cinema/Sinema 1 Quartet (12A) p29 2.30+6.00 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 End of Watch (15) p29 6.00 / Outside Satan (ctba) p28 8.30
Events
Thu / Iau 24
Cinema/Sinema 1 P sycho (15) p27 2.30 / Midnight’s Children (12A) p29 5.30 / Quartet (12A) p29 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Outside Satan (ctba) p28 6.00 / End of Watch (15) p29 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Fri / Gwe 25
Cinema/Sinema 1 C arry On Screaming: Skyfall (12A) p30 11.00 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 2.30+8.00 / Quartet (12A) p29 5.45
Cinema/Sinema 2 Skyfall (12A) p30 5.30 / Happy Happy (15) p30 8.30
Sat / Sad 26
Cinema/Sinema 1 P enguin King [2D] (U) p31 11.00+3.00 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 5.15 / Quartet (12A) p29 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Music Geek Monthly p16 8.00
Peter Suart p14 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 The Birds (15) p27 5.45 / Skyfall (12A) p30 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Sun / Sul 27
Cinema/Sinema 1 Quartet (12A) p29 2.30 / The Birds (15) p27 5.00 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 7.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Skyfall (12A) p30 5.30 / Happy Happy (15) p30 8.30
Events
John Robins p15 8.00
Sunday Jazz p17 9.00
Mon / Llun 28 Cinema/Sinema 1 Les Miserables (ctba) + Adaptations p30 5.30 / Quartet (12A) p29 8.30 Cinema/Sinema 2 Happy Happy (15) p30 6.00 / Skyfall (12A) p30 8.00
Events
Clonc yn y Cwtch p16 6.30-8.00
Tue / Maw 29
Cinema/Sinema 1 The Birds (15) p27 2.30 / Quartet (12A) p29 5.45 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 8.00
Cinema/Sinema 2 Skyfall (12A) p30 5.30 / Happy Happy (15) p30 8.30
Wed / Mer 30 Cinema/Sinema 1 Happy Happy (15) p30 2.30 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 5.15 / Quartet (12A) (soft subtitles) p29 8.30
Cinema/Sinema 2 Happy Happy (15) p30 6.00 / Skyfall (12A) p30 8.15
Theatre/Theatr
Confusions p14 8.00
Events
Pop Up Produce 4.00-7.00
Thu / Iau 31
Cinema/Sinema 1 Skyfall (12A) p30 2.30 / Quartet (12A) p29 6.00 / Les Miserables (ctba) p30 8.15
Cinema/Sinema 2 Skyfall (12A) p30 5.30 / Happy Happy (15) p30 8.30
Theatre/Theatr
Confusions p14 8.00
How to Book
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By phone call us on 029 2030 4400. We accept all major credit cards. In person our Box Office is open Mon-Sat 11.00am — 8.30pm; Sun 3.00 — 8.30pm. Online: 24/7 booking at www.chapter.org Concessions: The concessionary rate applies to students, over 60s, children, unemployed, disabled people, MAX card, Chapter Members and Card holders. Proof of concession will be required. Group bookings: Buy 8 tickets and get the 9th free. Please Note • only one discount will be given at any one time • we are happy to take advance bookings but cannot reserve tickets • latecomers may be refused entry
Ar y ffôn galwch ar 029 2030 4400. Rydym yn derbyn y prif gardiau credyd. Galwch heibio mae’n Swyddfa Docynnau ar agor Llun-Sad 11.00am — 8.30pm; Sul 3.00 — 8.30pm Ar-lein: www.chapter.org Consesiynau: Fyfyrwyr, pobl dros 60 oed, plant, pobl ddi‑waith, pobl anabl, Aelodau a deiliaid Cardiau Chapter. Bydd angen prawf eich bod yn gymwys. Archebion grŵp: prynwch 8 tocyn a chael y 9fed am ddim. Noder • dim ond un gostyngiad a ganiateir ar yr un achlysur • rydym yn croesawu archebu o flaen llaw ond ni allwn gadw tocynnau • mae’n bosib y gwrthodir mynediad i hwyrddyfodiaid
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Access for all Chapter welcomes disabled visitors. If you have any specific access requirements or questions please contact our box office on 029 2030 4400, minicom 029 2031 3430.
Mynediad i bawb Mae Chapter yn croesawu ymwelwyr anabl. Os oes gennych unrhyw anghenion mynediad penodol ffoniwch ein swyddfa docynnau ar 029 2030 4400, minicom 029 2031 3430.
P — free car parks meysydd / parcio rhad ac am ddim — bus stop / safle bws — cycle rack / rac feics
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Gweithdai a Dosbarthiadau Rydym yn cynnal amrywiaeth eang o weithdai dyddiol a dosbarthiadau gydag ymarferwyr annibynnol, gan gynnwys bale, zumba, ioga, crefft ymladd, massage i fabanod, cerddoriaeth i blant, pilates, tango, fflamenco, ysgrifennu creadigol, gwersi cerddoriaeth a mwy. Ewch i www.chapter.org am fwy o fanylion.
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Workshops and Classes We host a wide variety of daily workshops and classes run by independent practitioners including ballet, zumba, yoga, martial arts, baby massage, children’s music, pilates, tango, flamenco, creative writing, music lessons and more. Head to www.chapter.org for more details.
Cwmnïau ac Artistiaid Cysylltiedig Mae Chapter yn gartref i gwmnïau theatr, cwmnïau dawns, stiwdios animeiddio, gwneuthurwyr printiau, crochenwyr, dylunwyr graffeg, dylunwyr deunydd symudol, cyfansoddwyr, gwneuthurwyr ffilmiau, cyhoeddwyr cylchgronau, artistiaid annibynnol a llawer iawn mwy. Ewch i www.chapter.org am fwy o fanylion.
Associated Companies and Artists Chapter is home to theatre companies, dance companies, animation studios, printmakers, potters, graphic designers, motion designers, composers, filmmakers, magazine publishers, many individual, independent artists and more. Head to www.chapter.org for more details.
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Parcio Mae gennym faes parcio yng nghefn yr adeilad ac mae meysydd parcio lleol eraill wedi eu nodi ar y map uchod. Gofynnwn i chi barchu ein cymdogion os gwelwch yn dda drwy osgoi parcio mewn strydoedd cyfagos.
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Parking We have a car park to the rear of the building and local car parks are marked on the map above. Please respect our neighbours and avoid parking on nearby streets.
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By Bike There are plenty to bike racks at the front of the building.
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By Bus Bus numbers 17, 18 and 33 stop close by and leave every five minutes from the city centre.
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Ar Droed Mae hi’n daith gerdded hamddenol o ryw 20 munud o ganol y ddinas.
Sut i gyrraedd Chapter Fe ddewch chi o hyd i ni yn Nhreganna, i’r gorllewin o ganol y ddinas. Heol y Farchnad, Treganna, Caerdydd CF5 1QE
How to get to Chapter You’ll find us in Canton to the west of the city centre. Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE
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By Foot We’re just a 20 minute slowish walk from the city centre.
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