The Youth Counselling Project

Cinema gala for TYCP

Seaford Community Cinema and The Youth Counselling Project (TYCP) have a new date for the postponed gala benefit evening. So get those tickets booked before they sell out for what promises to be a really fun-filled night at the Barn Theatre on Saturday 2nd April.

The main event is a showing of the critically acclaimed musical In the Heights (U) at 7.30pm, but before that a Clubby’s burger, meat or vegan option, available from 6.30pm, is included in your ticket price. To put you in the Noo Yawk vibe the film will be preceded by a dance performance by up and coming local group Streetfunk.

All profits are going to TYCP, the Seaford-schools-based charity which provides counselling for young people suffering mental health problems. In this academic year TYCP is paying for 80-plus students from Seaford Head and the town’s four primary schools to have blocks of 10 individual sessions of one-to-one therapy from appropriately trained counsellors which TYCP employs. In addition some group sessions are held if it is felt those pupils would benefit more from this approach.

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About the Film

Directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins and Leslie Grace, with a screenplay by Quiara Alegria and music and lyrics co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights is a powerhouse of Latino vitality and promises pure joy. A film version of the Broadway musical, it centres on characters living in Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan where the good life is tantalisingly close yet far away and where seemingly impossible dreams are chased. There are plenty of singalong songs, so get in good voice.

Tickets, including burger, cost £15 (£12 for 18s and under) from the Tourist Information Centre or from www.seafordcinema.org. Dress code: fancy as you like! Andrea Hargreaves