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Hello and welcome to your guide to all that’s in store this December. With the festive season upon us, we’ve put together a handy little guide to Christmas at Chapter. Turn to pages 4-5 for ideas on the hearty Christmas menu on offer at our Caffi Bar, the films and theatre productions that’ll absolutely get you into the Christmas spirit and not forgetting our fabulous New Year’s Eve party to welcome in 2016! Elsewhere this month we’re shining a spotlight on home grown talent — in every sense of the word — with screenings of the lavish Under Milk Wood (p22), the revealing documentary Mr Calzaghe (p22), and a staging of Macbeth by Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s Richard Burton Company (p12). We’ll be welcoming the return of Dirty Protest, who’re back to present their Christmas Songbook (p13), following their recently critically acclaimed run of Parallel Lines. And we’ll be escaping to the glamorous world of Bond with screenings of latest film Spectre (p17). Thanks for reading and see you soon.
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Use this QR code to download a digital copy of the Chapter magazine Christmas and New Year Opening Times: Thu 24 Dec Closing at 5pm (Box Office closes at 2pm and Kitchen closes at 4pm) Fri 25 + Sat 26 Dec Chapter closed — Merry Christmas! Sun 27 — Wed 30 Dec Business as usual Thu 31 Dec Closed until 7pm: Chapter New Year’s Eve 2015 7pm–2am (see p5 for details) Fri 1 Jan Chapter closed — Happy New Year! From Sat 2 Jan Business as usual!
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Christmas at Chapter pages 4-5
Gallery pages 6–9
Theatre pages 10–13
Chapter Mix page 14
Hire page 15
CL1C Card Chapter’s own reward card. Collect points when you visit the cinema or theatre and you’ll be surprised at how quickly you can claim a free ticket. Pick up a form next time you’re in or download from www.chapter.org. Watch out for this symbol to double your points!
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Become one of Chapter’s Friends and enjoy a variety of benefits ranging from discounts on tickets and in our Caffi Bar to invitations to special events such as gallery previews and film premieres. Also doubles as a CL1C card. Bronze Friend: £25/£20 Silver Friend: £35/£30 Gold Friend: £45/£40
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Christmas at Chapter
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Have yourself a Merry Chapter Christmas It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We enjoy Christmas as much as the next person, but for us, it’s the trimmings — those fun nights out and get togethers over mulled wine — that we really enjoy. So here’s our definitive guide to the festive season here at Chapter. Not so much your 12 days of Christmas as your 12 reasons to spend it here with us. Nadolig Llawen!
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Christmas Shopping at Chapter
Festive Food Fair
Pick up a lovely gift from our cabinets. We stock handmade jewellery by EllyMental, Kate Dumbleton and Layla Amber, retro inspired enamelware by Mini Moderns, quirky animal themed ceramics by Quail and a vast choice of fun stocking-fillers. Or why not buy a gift voucher to spend in the Cinema, Theatre, Shop or Caffi Bar. Everything you need for a very Merry Christmas! There will also be a couple of festive book fairs during the month brought to you by Parthian Books and Seren, for full details see page 14.
Christmas wouldn’t be the same without a visit to Chapter’s Festive Food Fair. We’ve teamed up with Green City Events once again to showcase the best from local Welsh food producers as well as from further afield. Stock up on foodie treats, gorgeous chocolates and cakes, delicious meats and craft beers. Green City Events will be hosting family friendly workshops and activities throughout the day and you can even come and join in with a festive singalong under the Christmas tree.
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Throughout December
Sun 13 Dec 11am–6pm
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Oh So Crafty
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Join us for a rummage and root through the best in local craft. From handmade jewellery and homeware to beautifully crafted textiles and ceramics, plus some wonderful vintage treats!
Looking for a gift for friends or family? If you know someone who is a fan of Chapter, or if you’d like to introduce someone to our lovely place, why not buy a Chapter Friend membership? Our Friends receive year-round discounts throughout our venue and, with memberships starting from as little as £20 per year, it makes for an affordable and popular gift.
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ChapterLive
Go all out and catch a festive production or film this month
Fri 4 Dec + Fri 18 Dec 9pm ChapterLive is a live music series curated by seasoned promoters Jealous Lovers Club, bringing the music they love from around the UK, Europe and other distant lands to Chapter. ChapterLive takes place in the Caffi Bar on the first and third Friday of the month, and it’s a chance for you to discover brilliant new artists. To find out about acts as they’re confirmed please see our website. FREE @JealousLovers1 #ChapterLive
Theatre:
The Wonderful World Of Christmas Sun 13 Dec 7pm See page 13 for details.
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Dirty Protest Presents Christmas Songbook
Christmas Clwb Social
Wed 16 — Sat 19 Dec 8pm See page 13 for details.
We’re hosting a free Christmas social for our Clwb Members and local businesses. If you or anyone from your business would like to attend please RSVP to amy.sears@chapter.org by Tuesday 1 December.
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Creative Cardiff Christmas Party
The Polar Express Sat 12 — Tue 22 Dec See page 27 for details.
It’s A Wonderful Life Sun 20 — Thu 24 Dec
Wed 16 Dec 7.30–11.30pm
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Creative Cardiff and Chapter host a Christmas party for Cardiff’s creative community. For more information please see page 14.
Muppets Christmas Carol
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Chapter Friends Christmas Social Thu 17 Dec 5–7pm
If you’re a Chapter Friend we’d like to invite you to our Christmas Friends Social, to toast the festive season with a glass of mulled wine. If you would like to join us please RSVP to jennifer.kirkham@chapter.org by Monday 7 December.
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Bring your Christmas Party to Chapter! We have spaces to hire year-round, and we take pride in offering a friendly, professional service and technical know-how, to make your events shine. Throwing a work party or a family get together this December? Why not hire a space from us? See page 15 for full details.
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Bespoke Christmas menu A sumptuous two-course Christmas meal is available Monday to Friday till 6pm until Friday 18 December. Perfect for a work do or get together. For details see www.chapter.org/festive-menu.
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Fri 18 — Wed 30 Dec See page 27 for details.
Bad Film Club: Christmas Double Bill Sun 6 Dec See page 23 for details.
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Chapter New Year’s Eve 2015 Thu 31 Dec 7pm–2am (Last admission 10pm)
We’re seeing in the New Year in style with a huge party curated by Cardiff’s amazing Vinyl Vendettas. Previous NYE parties hosted by Mel Fung and Shape Records have been absolutely brilliant, and this year will be no exception. Join us for an evening of live music from Keith TOTP, The Blood Arm, Face + Heel and Jemma Roper, and a DJ set from the Vinyl Vendettas themselves. Early bird ticket (available until Mon 30 Nov) £20 Tickets from Tue 1 Dec £25 Includes a glass of prosecco Strictly 18+ Please note: Our kitchen will not be open, but we’ll have a plentiful supply of snacks on offer at the bar!
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Exhibition open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 12–6pm; Thursday & Friday 12–8pm; closed Monday
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Gallery Opening Times, Christmas: Christmas Eve 12-4pm; Christmas Day CLOSED; Boxing Day CLOSED; Sun 27 Dec CLOSED; Mon 28 Dec CLOSED as normal; Tue 29 Dec 12-6pm; Wed 30 Dec 12-6pm; Thu 31 Dec CLOSED; Fri 1 Jan CLOSED; Sat 2 Jan 12-6pm
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GEORGE BARBER AKULA DREAM Until Sun 10 Jan 2016
Dream Myself Outside: On George Barber One could be forgiven for thinking that there are several video artists named George Barber. Is the maker of Absence of Satan (1985), which arranges sampled fragments of trashy American TV and cinema into an illogical but ominous montage, really the same G. Barber who filmed I Was Once Involved in a Shit Show (2003), a comic, first-person account of a dismal exhibition experience sponsored by a cementworks owner? Can the Barber who made the wordless Automotive Action Painting (2007), a single-take aerial view of cars slaloming creatively through bucketfuls of coloured paint, also be the creator of the CGI-laden, fully scripted Akula Dream (2015)? Well, yes, and the unorthodox attitude is surely no accident, given that Barber’s art itself has, underneath the variation, regularly taken aim at toxic orthodoxies. Akula Dream, for example, feels formally as distant from the Scratch Video approach that Barber pioneered in the 1980s as its characters are from dry land. At the bottom of the ocean, in 1988, in a Soviet nuclear submarine, one Captain Pavel has gone rogue, preoccupied with shamanic drumming and astral travels. The crew are mostly mutinous, and unwilling to join him in thinking beyond their metal box. There are clear suggestions meanwhile that this story has dark metaphorical contours. The crew are informed by their commander, for example, that “humankind is the real nuclear weapon”. One might not subsequently expect a vintage garage number to erupt amid flashing lights, the first of several miniature pop videos, signalling a crewmember’s burgeoning ecological awareness. But that’s what happens. In The Very Very End (2013), Barber again points to his medium’s plastic possibility by somehow travelling into the future and the past, nodding to Neville Shute’s apocalyptic 1957 novel On the Beach (and, again, historical paranoia about nuclear war) while setting an end-of-days story in a 21st-century holiday resort. (continues…)
Clockwise from top: George Barber, Akula Dream, HD video 2015. Image: Adam Chard; Shouting Match, video, 2010, The Freestone Drone, HD video, 2013. Images: Aga Hosking
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George Barber, Beyond Language Selected Video Works 1983-2008. Courtesy of George Barber and Lux, London
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The Freestone Drone (2013), the companion piece to The Very Very End, substitutes a historical anxiety for a contemporary one concerning remote warfare. Here, Barber aims to think past a reflex response while analysing a problematic, not entirely rational hive-mind reaction: drones engender fear today because they represent a mindless, futuristic mode of warfare. Barber, emphasising this, reverses the terms and humanises the drone. He compares it to Thomas the Tank Engine (complete with burst of theme tune), gives it a silly sped-up voice, some humorous lines about how the drone “just happened to blow you up”. Drones, Barber suggests, may not constitute worse weaponry than older examples but they somehow frighten us more, which deserves thinking about. In Fences Make Senses (2014), the artist lays out the blunt realities of migration. Pointed comparisons are made between beans in a lorry (well cared for, because they are consumer products) and people in a lorry (not well cared for at all), and the fact that biscuits are packed so as not to be smashed whereas emigrants, as we know, often die in transit. The reality principle that divides affluent citizens in the West from their sense of responsibility to the poor — on which their affluence rests — is exposed, as are the easy get-out clauses, voiced by Barber’s actors: “Nobody can solve a fifty-million people problem.” In the four Shouting Match films shot in London, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and New Orleans, Barber sets up a situation whose simplicity recalls the pure products of early video art. Two people sit on chairs, on tracks, and yell at each other: assistants assess which one is shouting loudest, and accordingly push them forward or pull them back, in or out of the camera frame. Each locale produces a different kind of preverbal joust, implicitly suggesting that not only are human beings in perpetual conflict that looks ridiculous from a distance; but also, scaling up, nations produce their own kind of aggression. People have been disagreeing since time immemorial, of course. But Barber seems, here, particularly interested in how this might function as allegorical for a consumerist era, a marketplace of attention. An extract from a longer text by Martin Herbert. Available free of charge from the Gallery or download from our website.
George Barber, Beyond Language Selected Video Works 1983–2008 Running time: 120min
With an introduction from and discussion with George Barber and Louisa Fairclough Sat 5 Dec 2pm To coincide with our exhibition, we are delighted to present this LUX programme of films produced by the artist between 1983 and 2008. Amongst others, the screening features many of Barber’s most celebrated works including Absence of Satan (1985), Yes Frank No Smoke (1985), 1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of (1989), Schweppes Ad (1993), I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show (2003), Walking Off Court (2003), Automotive Action Painting (2007) and Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things (2008). FREE BUT TICKETED
Talk at 2
Sat 19 Dec 2pm Our ‘Talks at 2’ are exhibition tours hosted by our Gallery Assistants, artists Richard Higlett and Thomas Williams. They provide an opportunity to discover more about the current exhibition and the artist’s approach to his work. No two talks are the same, while we hope they’re always insightful and open. ‘Talks at 2’ are free of charge and there’s no need to book in advance — just turn up at the Gallery and join in! FREE
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Magda Archer, I Hate Art, acrylic on paper, 2009
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ART IN THE BAR
Magda Archer #givemeeverythingandnothingbaby Until Sun 24 Jan 2016 Magda Archer’s #givemeeverythingandnothingbaby is an assault upon the peepers in our public spaces via saccharine-soaked, candy coloured scenarios, statements and speech-bubble philosophy that draws upon vintage packaging, greeting card design, retro graphics and a lemonsharp sweetness that belies the bitter truth beneath. Emblazoning the walls of our Caffi Bar Magda Archer showers the viewer with rainbow shards as she explores junk emotions and online validation. “In my show #givemeeverythingandnothingbaby, the internet is the modern day funfair: exciting, attractive, fast and flashy, but disappointing and upsetting too. Your heart can be broken in the time it takes to ride the dodgems. Your self-esteem can be shattered with a stray Facebook comment from a
‘friend’. Your ego smashed to smithereens when someone tags you into an unflattering photo… you don’t REALLY look like that — do you? Don’t tell me, cos #ireallydontwannaknow. These emotions can lead to a sense of despondency, upset or heartbreak. We can empty our pockets out trying to win something we never really wanted in the first place. We vow never to go back and know in our hearts that ‘this shit will bring you down’. But you do go back, the lights are bright, the music’s loud and enticing, everyone else is there. You recognise a friend of a friend and now they’re you’re friend too, right?” — Magda Archer, April 2015 #givemeeverythingandnothingbaby is curated by Bren O’Callaghan and was first commissioned by HOME Arts Centre, Manchester.
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Touch Blue Touch Yellow. Image: J H Andersen
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Touch Blue Touch Yellow By Tim Rhys Tue 1 — Sat 5 Dec 8pm Matinee performances Wed 2 + Sat 5 Dec 2.30pm “I am autism. I know where you live. I will bankrupt you. I will take away your hope. I don’t sleep, so I make sure you don’t either... I will fight to take away your hope. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams.” (Autism Speaks) Carl understands stars, galaxies and other planets but the mysteries of the non-autistic world all around him are far more bewildering and dangerous. This new play explores some of the misleading myths about autism. It follows one young man’s journey, searching for friendship and meaning on what could turn out to be his last night on Earth. “Sometimes being autistic in this world means walking through a crowd of silently miserable people and holding your happiness like a secret or a baby, letting it warm you as your mind runs on the familiar tracks of an obsession and lights your way through the day.” (Julia Bascom, The Obsessive Joy of Autism).
This specially commissioned play by Tim Rhys is based on first hand testimony of young people on the autism spectrum and parents and carers. It follows Winterlight’s 2013 production of Matthews Passion by Mike James which premiered at Sherman Cymru. Special thanks to the pupils and staff of Ashgrove School Penarth. Directed by Chris Durnall. Poetry by Tracey Rhys. Designed by Georgina Miles. Post show discussion Tue 1 Dec. £12/£10 Supported by the Arts Council of Wales Winterlight is the sister company of Company of Sirens www.companyofsirens.com
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From L to R: Sean Hughes, Bina and Robin Williamson. Photo: Kevin Garland
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Sean Hughes Mumbo Jumbo Tue 8 Dec 8pm Throughout his life Sean Hughes has been battling to stay on the right side of sanity. In middle age he has realised that the two sides of his brain are in constant conflict. There is common sense against mumbo jumbo and mumbo jumbo seems to have the upper hand. The show consists of stories including being serenaded at the break of dawn by Robert Smith, trekking mountain gorillas in Rwanda and coming to the conclusion that he will never have a proper conversation with his dear mum. There will be a few poems and a 3-minute musical about ageing too. £10/£8 Age 14+ Please note this performance will be filmed for a DVD of Mumbo Jumbo.
‘At his funniest and most profound’ The Sunday Herald Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s Richard Burton Company presents
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Fri 4 — Sat 12 Dec 7.30pm Matinee performance Wed 9 Dec 2.30pm (No Performances Sunday & Monday) It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood. Returning from a gruelling war, Macbeth is yet to face his biggest battle. Confronted with fame and adulation, strange premonitions and the deep longing of his wife, he continues his merciless pursuits. This reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, asks what war does to men and women and how it is made manifest inside the head and the home. Directed by Caroline Byrne. For tickets please contact the RWCMD Box Office by calling 029 2039 1391 or go to www.rwcmd.ac.uk. £12/£10/25 years and under £6
Songs, Stories And Music Robin and Bina Williamson Thu 10 Dec 8pm Robin and Bina create a perfect balance of voices, drawing on a wide variety of Celtic, Indian, English and Old Timey, original, traditional, magical and mystical folk roots. Robin is an internationally recognised musician, storyteller and writer. He has fore-fronted many genres over his 50-year career. Bina is an inspired and gifted singer songwriter multi instrumentalist in her own right. She has a hauntingly sweet melodious voice. Their soulful performances feature their East West harmonies, with harp, bowed psaltery and diverse other instruments. £12
“Pure beauty through simplicity” Robert Plant
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Aberystwyth Arts Centre & Joio Present
Dirty Protest Present
Saturday Night Forever
Christmas Songbook
By Roger Williams Fri 11 Dec 7.30pm + Sat 12 Dec 5pm (accessible performance) + 8.30pm
Wed 16 — Sat 19 Dec 8pm
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A roller-coaster ride through Cardiff’s nightlife as gay man Lee breaks up with one lover and resolves never to fall in love again. All around him people are drinking too much, dancing until the early hours and getting it while they can. But when Lee receives an invitation to a friend’s house-warming everything seems ripe for change, and it only takes seven hours, a bottle of vodka, and the devil on his shoulder for him to break his promise and fall back into the arms of a new admirer. Saturday Night Forever follows him on a journey through the wreckage of past relationships and the early stages of a promising new love affair. For a short while life is sweet, but after every Saturday night comes the cold reality of Sunday morning, and as Lee cruelly discovers, nothing lasts forever. £12/£10/£8 Advised Age 14+ Touring with support from Arts Council Wales
Abandon ye your Christmas parties, overpriced set menus and awkward chit chat with the boss. Dirty Protest are taking over the festive season with new work from some of Wales’ most exciting playwrights, actors and directors. Come see a sleigh-full of new plays inspired by your favourite Christmas musical hits. With musical accompaniment, plenty of chances to join in plus mulled wine and post play partying, this will be the bash of the season! £10/£8
The Wonderful World Of Christmas Sun 13 Dec 7pm Affinity Female Voice Choir present an evening of joyful music to celebrate the Christmas season. The forty-strong community choir continues to thrive and their enjoyment of singing shines. This year they have created a balanced mix of traditional seasonal music and modern classics to inspire you and your family to enter into the festive spirit. There will even be opportunities to lift the roof with your own singing should you want to, so come along and share in the Wonderful World of Christmas! £8/£6
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CHAPTER MIX The Festive Book Fair Sat 12 + Sun 13 Dec
Selling their range of contemporary and classic titles Parthian Books brings you a weekend of books, gift ideas, signings, readings and tinsel. Firefly Press will also be joining in with their exciting range of children’s books and events for primary school-age children: ‘Drawing Dragons’ with author and illustrator Shoo Rayner (Saturday 11am) and ‘Grumpy Ghosts and Singing Pirates’ with Dan Anthony, Laura Sheldon and Huw Aaron (Saturday 2pm). Plus Parthian’s Festive Party (Saturday 6pm). For full details go to www.parthianbooks.com and www.fireflypress.co.uk. @parthianbooks Ticket info: For advance tickets with buffet, please contact Susie — susieparthian@gmail.com, more tickets will be available on the door. Firefly Press events are £5 per family, (redeemable against the price of a book) in advance via fireflypress@yahoo.co.uk or on the door.
Seren Pop-Up Bookshop Fri 18 - Mon 21 Dec
Creative Cardiff Christmas Party Wed 16 Dec 7.30–11.30pm
First Thursday Of The Month New Fiction and Poetry Thu 3 Dec 7.30pm
Featuring David Foster-Morgan, Masculine Happiness (Seren Poetry); Stephen Payne Pattern Beyond Chance (Happenstance Poetry); Jasmine Donahaye’s memoir: Losing Israel (Seren) £2.50 (on the door) + receive £2.50 off the price of books
The Drones Comedy Club Fri 4 + Fri 18 Dec Doors: 8.30pm Start: 9pm
Clint Edwards brings you the best from up–andcoming stand–ups, as seen on Rob Brydon’s ‘Identity Crisis’, every first and third Friday of the month. One of The Big Issue’s ‘Top Ten Things to Do in Cardiff.’ £3.50 (on the door)
Cardiff Storytelling Circle Sun 6 Dec 8pm
Share and listen to a lovely collection of stories — all storytellers and listeners welcome! £4 (on the door)
Creative Cardiff & Chapter host a Christmas party for Cardiff’s creative community. For more information please see our website www.chapter.org. £10 (Ticket price includes a glass of mulled wine and a hot buffet)
Sunday Jazz Sun 13 Dec 9pm
Our monthly evening of melodic acoustic jazz in the Caffi Bar with the Chapter Four Jazz Quartet, featuring Glen Manby, Jim Barber, Don Sweeney and Greg Evans. FREE www.glenmanby.com
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 and Cardiff University
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Hire We have a number of spaces and facilities for hire at Chapter, many of which are booked regularly by an eclectic mix of day and evening classes. Check out our website or pick up a leaflet at the box office to see what’s on offer. And if you’re looking for a room for a party, meeting, conference, video shoot, rehearsal or team building extravaganza, then our great facilities, technical know–how and friendly staff will help you to create a comfortable, distinctive and memorable event. We’re 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 1058 or email nicky.keeping@chapter.org. United Welsh recently hired spaces at Chapter for their conference, and here’s what David Williams, their Partnership Manager had to say: “Chapter was flexible, accommodating and supportive in our planning stages and ably managed our 140 delegates throughout the day, leaving my team free to focus on the conference itself. Catering was superb (the cakes are still being talked about) and Cinema 1 as a main session venue was a crowning glory. Definitely a conference venue we’ll return to.”
Elaina Gray Development Director #GivingTuesday is the global day of giving at the start of the festive season, and this year Chapter will be getting involved. We want to take the opportunity to put a spotlight on the fantastic charitable work that we do here as a result of the support we receive through donations, grants and all of our fundraising activity. So keep your eyes peeled on Tuesday 1 December for how you can get involved and help us spread the word!
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The Lady In The Van
NT Live: Jane Eyre
Fri 27 Nov — Thu 10 Dec
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UK/2015/104mins/12A. Dir: Nicholas Hytner. With: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, James Corden.
UK/2015/210mins/12A. Dir: Sally Cookson. With: Joannah Tincey, Richard Hurst.
This film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited eponymous heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart. This acclaimed re-imagining of Brontë’s masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Old Vic last year, when the story was performed over two evenings. Director Sally Cookson now brings her celebrated production to the National, presented as a single, exhilarating performance.
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Audio descriptions and soft subtitles available, please see the calendar for details.
Adventure Film Festival Tue 17 Nov, Tue 24 Nov, Tue 1 Dec Celebrating its fifth year and featuring the best in extreme sports and adventure films, come and experience an evening of adrenaline-pumping action through a selection of films that celebrate pushing mind and body to the limits. From mountain biking to skiing, kayaking to BASE-jumping, arduous expeditions and world-firsts, each of our three exciting film programmes includes something for everyone. For a full list of films and more information, please visit www. adventurefest.co.uk. * Not included in Bargain Tuesday. Regular ticket prices apply.
Spectre Fri 20 Nov — Thu 10 Dec / Sun 27 — Wed 30 Dec UK/2015/148mins/12A. Dir: Sam Mendes. With: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes.
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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He Named Me Malala
RealtoReel
Sometimes real life is as peculiar and captivating as a Hollywood film. Real to reel is our regular documentary strand featuring films that take fascinating real events and people to the big screen.
He Named Me Malala
Star Men
USA/2015/87mins/subtitles/PG. Dir: Davis Guggenheim.
Canada/2015/88mins/PG. Dir: Alison E Rose.
An inspiring look at the events leading up to the Taliban’s attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls’ education and the aftermath, including her powerful speech to the United Nations. This is an intimate portrait of the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Four of the world’s leading astronomers celebrate 50 years of friendship and exploration on a reunion road trip through the American Southwest.
Audio descriptions and soft subtitles available, please see the calendar for details.
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Fri 27 — Thu 3 Dec
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WOW Women’s Film Club These much loved women-only screenings offer an opportunity to see a film and discuss it with old and new friends. For more details, please contact the Film Club Coordinator, Rabab Ghazoul, on 07759 933311 or email wowfilmclub@gmail.com.
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From top: Dressed As A Girl, Death Of A Gentleman
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Dressed As A Girl Tue 15 Dec
UK/2015/101mins/18. Dir: Colin Rothbart.
Rip off the wigs and wipe away the mascara as we get ready to discover the real people behind the figureheads of East London’s much-hyped alternative drag scene. Following six cult stars — Jonny Woo, Holestar, Scottee, Amber, Pia Abert and John Sizzle — we see personal struggles and literal highs of these heroines and witness how individualism is a group activity. + Join us after the screening for the Lavender Screen Christmas party with Hell’s Bent DJs, plus an appearance by drag queen Lucy Fur. * Not included in Bargain Tuesday. Regular ticket prices apply.
Brand: A Second Coming Fri 18 + Sat 19 Dec
UK/2015/100mins/15. Dir: Ondi Timoner. With: Russell Brand, Simon Amstell, Andrew Antonio.
Ondi Timoner’s documentary charts comedian/ activist Russell Brand’s story of drug addiction, sex, fame, celebrity marriage, media controversy, repentance, political activism and self-diagnosed messiah complex. Between clips of scandal and the anarchic birth and near-death of his career are glimpses of personality beneath the manic veneer of his media image.
Death Of A Gentleman Fri 18 — Wed 23 Dec
UK/2015/99mins/12A. Dir: Johnny Blank, Sam Collins, Jarrod Kimber.
Two cricket journalists set off on a journey to the heart of the game they love, only to stumble upon one of the biggest sporting scandals ever. A film about passion, greed, power — and standing up for what you care about.
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ART AND FILM Clockwise from top left: Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain, Hand Gestures, Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain
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Hand Gestures Mon 7 + Wed 9 Dec
Italy/2015/77mins/subtitles/ctba. Dir: Francesco Clerici.
This beautiful documentary takes us into the heart of an historic bronze foundry in Milan that still uses techniques dating back to 4thcentury BC. A place where the past and present share the same gestures, this visually poetic film shows how integral both artist and artisan are to the act of creation. + Join us for a Q&A with director Francesco Clerici on Monday 7 December. Winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at Berlinale 2015
George Barber, Beyond Language Selected Video Works 1983–2008 Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain Fri 4 — Thu 10 Dec
UK/2015/85mins/ctba. Dir: Paul Sng, Nathan Hannawin.
This is the story of how the most relevant British band in years stuck two fingers up to the zeitgeist and gave voice to the pent up rage at ineffectual politicians. Following a tour of the neglected parts of the UK, what follows is a portrait made up of raw footage, interviews and a look at what individuals and communities are doing to resist despair. + Q&A with directors Paul and Nathan on Fri 4 Dec.
With an introduction from and discussion with George Barber and Louisa Fairclough Sat 5 Dec To coincide with our exhibition of recent and new works by George Barber, we are delighted to present this LUX programme of films produced by the artist between 1983 and 2008. Amongst others, the screening features many of Barber’s most celebrated works including Absence of Satan (1985), Yes Frank No Smoke (1985), 1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of (1989), Schweppes Ad (1993), I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show (2003), Walking Off Court (2003), Automotive Action Painting (2007) and Following Your Heart Can Leadto Wonderful Things (2008). FREE
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Hector
Bridge Of Spies
Fri 11 — Thu 17 Dec
Fri 18 — Wed 30 Dec
UK/2015/87mins/15. Dir: Jake Gavin. With: Peter Mullan, Keith Allen, Natalie Gavin.
USA/2015/141mins/12A. Dir: Steven Spielberg. With: Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan.
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. Over the course of his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London, his previous life catches up with him. A gentle and sympathetic study of human frailty.
Jim Donovan is an insurance lawyer called upon by his government to take on the defence of Soviet spy Rudolph Abel at the height of the Cold War. Courtroom theatre and a secret prisoner exchange swiftly turns into a disarming cat-and-mouse game, in which Donovan must outwit both sides in the name of democratic value.
Clockwise from top: Hector, Hard To Be A God, Bridge Of Spies
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Black Mass Fri 11 — Thu 17 Dec USA/2015/122mins/15. Dir: Scott Cooper. With: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson.
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. A big, brash gangster picture acted and directed with confidence and verve, with a true return to form for Johnny Depp. Audio descriptions and soft subtitles available, please see the calendar for details.
Hard To Be A God Sun 27 + Wed 30 Dec Russia/2013/177mins/subtitles/18. Dir: Aleksey German. With: Gali Abaydulov, Yuriy Ashikhmin, Remigijus Bilinskas.
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilisation, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is hampered however by an ethical desire not to intervene. Fifteen years in the making and completed by Alesky German’s son after his death in 2013, this is both a slo-mo kaleidoscope of pandemonium and a relentless prose poem of fear.
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Under Milk Wood
Homegrown
Under Milk Wood
Chapter Moviemaker
Wales/2014/86mins/15. Dir: Kevin Allen. With: Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church, Sharon Morgan.
A regular showcase for short films by independent filmmakers. To enquire about screening your film or for any other information email moviemaker@chapter. org. Occasionally films with adult content will be shown, therefore Chapter Moviemaker is advised 18.
Fri 27 Nov — Thu 3 Dec
A lavish, star-studded update of Dylan Thomas’ play for voices Under Milk Wood. The inner lives of the residents of Llareggub are revealed as they pine for old loves and relive old triumphs. UK nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language at the Academy Awards 2016
Mr Calzaghe Fri 4 — Thu 10 Dec
Wales/2015/time TBC/15. Dir: Vaughan Sivell. With Joe Calzaghe, Enzo Calzaghe.
From Joe’s childhood of gruelling training and horrendous bullying to taking on the best fighters in the world, we take a look at the extraordinary life and career of Welsh-Italian Boxer, Joe Calzaghe, and his father and trainer, Enzo.
Mon 7 Dec
BAFTA
Wed 9 Dec A selection of new Welsh short films, with some very special guest attending for a post screening Q&A. See www.bafta.org/wales for details.
From L to R: Cruel Summer, Saving Christmas, Cruel Summer
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Bad Film Club Double Bill Sun 6 Dec
Saving Christmas USA/2014/80mins/12. Dir Darren Doan.
CIFF Presents: Cruel Summer Sat 12 Dec
UK/2015/78mins/adv15. Dir: Craig Newman, Phil Escott. With: Danny Miller, Richard Pawulski, Natalie Martins
Danny, a teenager with autism, escapes the inner city for the beautiful countryside for his Duke of Edinburgh Award. Little does he know that bitter Nicholas is hunting him, stemming from a lie created by the enamoured and envious Julia. + Special premiere presentation by Cardiff Independent Film Festival (CIFF) of this locally shot film. Meet the filmmakers for a wine reception in the foyer after the film.
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New Year’s Evil USA/1980/90mins/15. Dir Emmett Alston.
It’s time for the Bad Film Club Christmas Party Double Bill. This year we have a duo of treats scraped from the bottom of Santa’s Sack. First up is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, a film with all the preachy qualities of right wing Christian conservatism mixed with all the horror of a 0% positive review score from Rotten Tomatoes. Brace yourself people, here comes another War on Christmas. Next up is New Year’s Evil. When a show host is called by a man, who sounds like a robot under water, informing her that he is going to kill a person in every time zone on New Year’s Eve, the chase is on to catch him before the stroke of midnight. A bit like Cinderella, but with knives and a lot more blood. It’s campy, cheesy horror at its best and worst. Come for the murder, stay for the punk rock music. Note: The will be a live commentary throughout the films and film titles can be subject to last minute change. Watch both films for a special price of £12/£10, or buy tickets to individual films at usual price.
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Love
Clockwise from top: A Matter Of Life And Death, Sunset Song, Doctor Zhivago, Carol
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This winter we’re bringing you films to fall in love with and films to break your heart. The magic of people falling in love can move mountains, but when things go wrong dizzying emotions can tear the world apart. Part of the UK wide BFI LOVE season, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.
Doctor Zhivago
Sunset Song
USA/1965/188mins/PG. Dir: David Lean. With: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness.
UK/2015/135mins/ctba. Dir: Terence Davies. With: Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn, Jack Greenlees.
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Lean’s adaptation is a sweeping epic spanning the Russian Revolution and beyond. Poet and physician Yevgraf Zhivago attempts to track down the long-lost daughter of his half-brother Yuri and his lover Lara. A tale of desire, infidelity and reignited love in the grand tradition of the Russian novel.
A stern and windswept adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic Scottish novel, which follows Chris Guthrie, the teenage daughter of a farming family living under the repression of their violent dad. Chris finds a strange liberty in the dissolution of her family as a tragedy wrought from her dad’s temper tears their dysfunctional lives apart. Her glacial beauty attracts the attention of puckish farmhand Ewan, sparking a romance against the backdrop of the rumbling guns of the imminent Great War.
Sun 29 Nov + Tue 1 Dec
A Matter Of Life And Death Sun 6 + Tue 8 Dec
UK/1946/104mins/U. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With: David Niven, Kim Hunter.
Squadron Leader Peter Carter prepares himself for death, confiding his innermost secrets to a radio operator. He miraculously survives, meets the operator he spoke to and they fall in love. Although he appears unhurt, his concussion is accompanied by hallucinations. In these hallucinations he meets characters from another world and his spirit is put on trial: the verdict will decide whether he will live or die. Powell and Pressburger are at their most imaginative in this tale of redemption.
Carol
Fri 11 — Wed 30 Dec
Fri 11 — Tue 29 Dec
Audio descriptions and soft subtitles available, please see the calendar for details.
The Apartment Sun 13 + Tue 15 Dec
USA/1960/125mins/PG. Dir: Billy Wilder. With: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine.
C.C. Baxter is an office clerk who loans his apartment to his colleagues for their extra-marital dalliances. Baxter’s love life is quieter than neighbors’ protests would imply, in love from afar with the sweet elevator operator Miss Kubelik. However, the adventures of his boss Mr Sheldrake will have a huge impact on the humble home. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career defining performances and Fred MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake Sheldrake.
UK/2015/118mins/15. Dir: Todd Haynes. With: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson.
In 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love. Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience. An exquisitely drawn, deeply felt love story that teases out the characters’ inner lives with supreme intelligence. + Join us after the screening on Wed 16 Dec for Lavender Screen, Chapter’s LGBTQ film discussion group.
Chapter is proud to be the Film Hub Lead Organisation for Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, supporting film exhibition across Wales. For more information about activity happening at Chapter and with our members, please visit www.filmhubwales.org @filmhubwales.
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It’s A Wonderful Life
My Beautiful Laundrette
Sun 20 — Thu 24 Dec
Sat 19 Dec
USA/1947/130mins/U. Dir: Frank Capra. With: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore.
UK/1986/97mins/15. Dir: Stephen Frears. With: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis.
As local boy George Bailey teeters on the edge of sanity one snowy Christmas Eve, Clarence, his Guardian Angel, reveals to him a parallel universe in which he doesn’t exist, leaving a hole in the community. Frank Capra’s masterpiece is a call for a kinder, gentler world and a real festive treat.
Young Londoner Omar isn’t sure what he wants out of life, but his uncle Nasser provides a corrupt path for him, putting him in charge of his laundrette; a front for illegal deals. After a chance meeting with school friend Johnny the pair begin an illicit romantic relationship whilst Omar wrestles with an attraction to Nasser’s daughter. This vivid snapshot by Hanif Kureishi of Thatcher’s Britain proves to be as powerful and relevant today as it was 30 years ago.
From L to R: It’s A Wonderful Life, My Beautiful Laundrette
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All That Heaven Allows Sun 27 — Wed 30 Dec USA/1955/87mins/U. Dir: Douglas Sirk. With: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead.
Cary Scott is a well-to-do widow re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. When Cary meets a handsome younger man, Ron, who owns a small landscaping business, their romance causes clashes and tensions between Cary, her children, and the country club.
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A selection of fabulous, family–friendly films every Saturday and Sunday at 11am and 3pm. Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Please contact us for details of our Supportive Environment Screenings for families.
Maya The Bee
Sat 5 + Sun 6 Dec Supportive Environment screening: Sun 6 Dec Australia/2014/89mins/U. Dir: Alexs Stadermann. With: Kodi SmitMcPhee, Noah Taylor.
Maya is a little bee with a big heart who won’t follow the rules of the hive. Join her and her friend Willy on an epic adventure as they try to find out who has stolen the Royal Jelly. * see below for details of our Supportive Environment Screenings.
The Polar Express
Sat 12 + Sun 13 / Sun 20 + Tue 22 Dec USA/2004/100mins/U. Dir: Robert Zemeckis. With: Tom Hanks, Leslie Demeckis, Eddie Deezen.
Young Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it difficult to do so, what with his family’s dogged insistence that it’s all a myth. This all changes when a mysterious train arrives in the middle of the night to take him and other lucky children to the North Pole.
The Muppet Christmas Carol Fri 18 — Wed 30 Dec
USA/1992/85mins/U. Dir: Brian Henson. With: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire.
Scrooge is a bitter, miserly old moneylender who shoos away charity collectors and thinks Christmas is nothing but humbug. He’s forced to reconsider his attitude to the world when he’s visited by a procession of ghosts on Christmas Eve in this Muppets re-telling of Dickens’ timeless tale.
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Beauty And The Beast Sun 27 — Wed 30 Dec
USA/1991/88mins/U. Dir: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. With: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson.
The spirited village girl Belle enters the Beast’s castle after he imprisons her father Maurice. With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation.
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.
Supportive Environment Screenings are for children and adults on the autism spectrum or with learning disabilities, and their families, friends and carers. During these screenings low level lights are left on in the auditorium and the volume of the soundtrack is reduced. There are no adverts or trailers before the film and visitors are free to get up and move around the cinema.
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Learning
Matt Beere, our learning and participation officer is here to tell us a little of what we’ve been up to lately, and ways you can get involved!
Chapter Learning as a Creative Agent
Chapter Learning as a Creative Partner In partnership with Live Music Now, Chapter learning are currently involved in the Vision and Voice project, creating music videos with pupils from Headlands School in Penarth. Live Music Now works with a very diverse range of people that rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to experience live music. Following a series of live musical performances and interactive music workshops pupils are collaborating with two professional musicians in order to compose their own songs. Filmmaking tutors from Chapter’s learning team will then work alongside the pupils to introduce basic filmmaking skills and to facilitate the creation of supporting music videos.
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The ACW and WAG funded Lead Creative Schools Scheme is a 5 year national programme aimed at promoting new ways of working, with innovative and bespoke programmes designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the whole curriculum. Schools who are successful in applying to become a Lead Creative School are designated their own creative agent. As an ACW designated creative agent the Chapter learning team will draw on our practical experience of ‘creativity’, and will act as a catalyst able to respond to a school’s individual development priorities and needs, utilising our skills and experience in order to challenge, support and sustain new practice in the field of creative learning.
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Chapter Learning in Schools
Coming Soon!
Chapter’s learning team are currently delivering an 8-week intervention with a group of students from Willows High School (of Educating Cardiff fame) consisting of weekly stop-motion animation sessions. As well as teaching the fundamentals of stop-motion animation, our learning team will support the students to achieve the Bronze Level Arts Award, developing skills such as skill-sharing, research, active participation and critical reflection.
Chapter Learning in the Community Families Achieving Change Together (FACT), a service within the Vale of Glamorgan provided by Children and Young People Services, identifies and co-ordinates support enabling families to make positive changes, reducing the numbers of families developing more complex and challenging needs. Using the model developed for our BBC Children in Need funded Animation and Autism courses, we are currently delivering a 10-week programme of animation classes to offer young people a weekly skill-based creative activity.
Chapter Learning across Wales As regional facilitator for the BFI and Welcome Trust funded Cinelive Project ‘What’s the Grey Matter with Gregory?’, the Chapter learning team are leading drama workshops and rehearsals in partnership with Gower College Swansea, The Torch Youth Theatre, Milford Haven and Clwyd Theatre Cymru Theatre for Young People, Mold. These workshops and rehearsals will culminate in three separate day-long immersive theatre events at the end of January for over 300 secondary school pupils. Woven in to the fabric of these performances will be educational workshops, with each day-long event culminating in the screening of the 1980s classic film Gregory’s Girl.
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Young Person’s Film Academy 2016
Sat 27 Feb, Sat 5 Mar, Sat 12 Mar, Sat 19 Mar 10.30am–2.30pm February sees the return of our successful and popular programme for wannabe filmmakers — the YPFA. If you’re aged between 9 and 12 and would like to learn more about how films are made then contact us as soon as possible, as places are limited. Each week participants will learn about a particular aspect of filmmaking, then watch a film that demonstrates that aspect of film language.
Sat 27 Feb: How films are made Sat 5 Mar: The story of cinema Sat 12 Mar: So you want to be a director? Sat 19 Mar: How to edit a film By the end of the four weeks participants will have all the knowledge they need to make their own movie. Although the YPFA is designed as a complete package, each session also stands alone, so participants do not need to attend all sessions. Please note that packed lunches are needed for each day. Participation is limited to 16 children, so book early to avoid disappointment. £12 per session (includes ticket for film) £40 for all 4 sessions (includes ticket for film)
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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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Tue 1 He Named Me Malala (PG) p18 10.30 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 6.15 Touch Blue Touch Yellow p11 8.00 Maw Doctor Zhivago (PG) p25 2.00 He Named Me Malala (PG) p18 8.30 Adventure Film Festival p17 6.00 Spectre (12A) p17 8.15 6.00 Touch Blue Touch Yellow p11 2.30 + 8.00 Wed 2 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 10.30 + 2.20 + 8.45 He Named Me Malala (PG) p18 Mer Spectre (12A) p17 5.45 Under Milk Wood (15) p22 8.15 Thu 3 Under Milk Wood (15) p22 10.30 Under Milk Wood (15) p22 6.00 Touch Blue Touch Yellow p11 8.00 2.30 He Named Me Malala (PG) p18 8.20 Iau He Named Me Malala (PG) p18 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 5.45 Spectre (12A) p17 8.10 Fri 4 Carry On Screaming: Spectre (12A) p17 11.00 Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain (ctba) +Q&A p20 6.00 Macbeth p12 7.30 Gwe Star Men (PG) p18 2.30 Spectre (12A) p17 8.30 Touch Blue Touch Yellow p11 8.00 Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 6.20 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 8.25 Sat 5 Maya The Bee (U) p27 11.00 + 3.00 George Barber, Beyond….+ Q&A p20 2.00 Touch Blue Touch Yellow p11 2.30 + 8.00 6.00 Spectre (12A) p17 5.30 Macbeth p12 7.30 Sad The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 Spectre (12A) p17 8.15 Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 8.30 Sun 6 Maya The Bee (U) p27 11.00 + 3.00 SE Screening: Maya The Bee (U) p27 10.30 Sul A Matter Of Life And Death (U) p25 5.00 Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 2.30 8.20 Bad Film Club Christmas Double Bill (12+15) p23 6.00 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 6.10 Chapter Moviemaker (adv18) p22 6.00 Mon 7 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 Llun Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 8.30 Hand Gestures (ctba)+Q&A p20 8.15 Macbeth p12 7.30 Tue 8 WOW Film Club p18 10.00 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 10.30 + 6.00 Maw A Matter Of Life And Death (U) p25 2.30 Star Men (PG) p18 3.00 Sean Hughes: Mumbo Jumbo p12 8.00 NT Live: Jane Eyre (12A) p17 7.00 Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain (ctba) p20 8.20 Wed 9 Hand Gestures (ctba) p20 2.30 Spectre (12A) p17 10.30 Macbeth p12 2.30 + 7.30 Mer Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 6.00 Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain (ctba) p20 3.00 8.20 BAFTA: Welsh Shorts p22 6.00 The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 Star Men (PG) p18 8.30 Thu 10 Spectre (12A) p17 5.30 Sleaford Mods — Invisible Britain (ctba) p20 10.30 + 6.00 Macbeth p12 7.30 8.30 Mr Calzaghe (15) p22 2.30 Robin and Bina Williamson p12 8.00 Iau The Lady In The Van (12A) p17 Star Men (PG) p18 8.20 Fri 11 Carry On Screaming: The Apartment (PG) p25 11.00 Hector (15) p21 6.10 Macbeth p12 7.30 8.10 Saturday Night Forever p13 7.30 Gwe Carol (15) p25 2.30 + 8.40 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 Black Mass (15) p21 6.00 Sat 12 The Polar Express (U) p27 11.00 + 3.00 CIFF: Cruel Summer (adv15) +intro p23 6.00 Saturday Night Forever 5.00 8.00 (accessible performance) p13 Sad Carol (15) p25 5.45 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 8.15 Macbeth p12 7.30 Black Mass (15) p21 Saturday Night Forever p13 8.30 Sun 13 The Polar Express (U) p27 11.00 + 3.00 Hector (15) p21 1.15 The Wonderful World 7.00 5.30 The Apartment (PG) p25 5.00 Of Christmas p13 Sul Black Mass (15) p21 Carol (15) p25 8.10 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 7.40 6.10 Mon14 Carol (15) p25 6.00 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 8.30 Hector (15) p21 9.00 Llun Black Mass (15) p21 Dressed As A Girl (18) + Lavender Screen Party p19 6.00 Tue 15 Black Mass (15) p21 10.30 + 6.00 Maw The Apartment (PG) p25 2.30 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 8.15 Carol (15) p25 8.35 5.50 Christmas Songbook p13 8.00 Wed 16 Carol (15) p25 10.30 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 + 8.30 Hector (15) p21 8.45 Mer Black Mass (15) p21 2.30 Carol (15) + Lavender Screen p25 6.00
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The Festive Book Fair p14 Festive Food Fair p4
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Chapter Clwb Christmas Social p5 6.00-8.00
Clonc Yn Y Cwtch p15
Cardiff Storytelling Circle p14
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The Drones Comedy Club ChapterLive p4 Oh So Crafty p4
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First Thursday Of The Month p14
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Art in the Bar: Magda Archer #givemeeverythingandnothingbaby (p9) Until Sun 24 Jan 2016 / Tan Sul 24 Ionawr 2016
GEORGE BARBER: AKULA DREAM (p6–8) Until Sun 10 Jan 2016 / Tan Sul 10 Ionawr 2016
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Beauty And The Beast (U) p27 The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Spectre (12A) p17 Carol (15) p25
Carol (15) p25 Spectre (12A) p17
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Beauty And The Beast (U) p27 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 Carol (15) p25
Beauty And The Beast (U) p27 The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Spectre (12A) p17 Carol (15) p25
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Spectre (12A) p17 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 Hard To Be A God (18) p21
All That Heaven Allows (U) p26 Hard To Be A God (18) p21 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21
Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 All That Heaven Allows (U) p26
Hard To Be A God (18) p21 All That Heaven Allows (U) p26 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21
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Disgrifiadau Sain
Is–deitlau meddal
We ask all our audience members to refrain from eating and drinking in the cinema auditoria, except for bottles of water. Gofynnir i aelodau’r gynulleidfa beidio â bwyta nac yfed yn y sinema. Gallwch fynd â photeli o ddŵr i’r sinema gyda chi. AUDIO DESCRIPTION / Soft SubtitleS /
11.00 2.00 5.30 8.30
11.00 3.00 5.45 8.30
5.45 8.15
11.00 2.00 4.30 7.40
10.30 1.00
Chapter New Year’s Eve 2015 p5
Seren Pop Up Book Shop p14
Seren Pop Up Book Shop p14
Talk At 2 p8 Seren Pop Up Book Shop p14
Seren Pop Up Book Shop p14 The Drones Comedy Club p14 ChapterLive p4
Chapter Friends Christmas Social p5
7.00-2.00
5.00-7.00
5.00-7.00
2.00 5.00-7.00
5.00-7.00 8.30 9.00
5.00-7.00
Nodwch os gwelwch yn dda y gall y ddarpariaeth o Ddisgrifiadau Sain neu Is-deitlau Meddal newid ar y fynud olaf. Ffoniwch ein Swyddfa Docynnau neu ewch i’n gwe-fan i gadarnhau yn ystod yr wythnos y caiff y ffilm ei rhyddhau.
Please note Audio Descriptions and Soft Subtitles with film titles are subject to change. Please call our Box Office or visit our website to confirm on week of release.
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26
Thu 24 Iau
11.00 2.30 5.45 8.35
5.45 8.00
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 Carol (15) p25
Wed 23 Mer
Death Of A Gentleman (12A) p19 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26
Death Of A Gentleman (12A) p19 10.30 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26 2.30 + 5.45 Sunset Song (ctba) p25 8.25
11.00 3.00 5.30 8.00
3.00 6.00 8.10
Death Of A Gentleman (12A) p19 2.30 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26 5.00 7.40 Sunset Song (ctba) p25
6.15 Christmas Songbook p13 8.00 8.30
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 The Polar Express (U) p27 Carol (15) p25 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21
11.00 3.00 5.15 7.45
My Beautiful Laundrette (15) p26 Brand: A Second Coming (15) p19
2.30 Christmas Songbook p13 8.00 6.10 8.20
6.10 Christmas Songbook p13 8.00 8.10
Tue 22 Maw
The Polar Express (U) p27 The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Carol (15) p25 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21
Sun 20 Sul
11.00 + 3.00 6.00 8.50
Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 Death Of A Gentleman (12A) p19 Brand: A Second Coming (15) p19
Hector (15) p21 Sunset Song (ctba) p25
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Death Of A Gentleman (12A) p19 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) p26
The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 Carol (15) p25
Sat 19 Sad
11.00 3.00 6.00 8.30
+ 2.30 6.00 8.35
Mon 21 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 5.45 Llun Carol (15) p25 8.35
Carry On Screaming: Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21 The Muppets Christmas Carol (U) p27 Carol (15) p25 Bridge Of Spies (12A) p21
Fri 18 Gwe
10.30
Sunset Song (ctba) p25 Black Mass (15) p21 Carol (15) p25
Thu 17 Iau