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WELCOME Whether it is Film, Music, Art or Theatre this is your guide to Shetland Arts and its venues.

CONTENTS

03 > Film - September at a Glance 04 > Art - Berenice Carrington: Unearthed 05 > Café Bar Events 06 > Comedy Films 07 > Art - Danish Diaspora 08 > Action Films 09 > Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers & Hjaltibonhoga 10 > Film 11 > Roger Waters / Othello 12 > Film Wednesdays 13 > Seckou Keita 14 > Screenplay 20 > Scottish Ensemble 21 > KidO 22 > Hirda (NOISE Opera) / Skerryvore 23 > Michael Janisch / International Guitar Night 24 > Session A9 25 > Shetland Noir 26 > ‘It won’t be pretty...’

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Please note: We like to keep our scheduling flexible to make sure we can show the films you want to see. For this reason films may be added or removed at any time subject to demand.

Film Wednesdays

Babes In Arms

Subtitled Screenings

Senior Screenings

Autism Friendly Screenings

ASN Friendly Screenings

FILM

SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE

28 August - 6 September (Tickets on sale: now)

SCREEN 2015

70 Film Screenings 10 Q&As

7 Education Screenings 4 Workshops

2 Quizzes 1 Live Pianist

& a lot of cats...

(See Page 14) 7 - 10 September (Tickets on sale: 27 August)

Hitman: Agent 47 (15)

The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) 

Absolutely Anything (12A)   Maggie (15)

Gemma Bovery (15)

That Sugar Film (12A)  11 - 17 September (Tickets on sale: 3 September)

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (Cert TBC)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (12A)

Ricki and the Flash (12A)   

RSC: Othello (12A)

Strange Magic (U)   Timbuktu (12A)  18 - 24 September (Tickets on sale: 10 September) Everest (12A)   

Straight Outta Compton (15)

The Wolfpack (15) 

25 September - 1 October (Tickets on sale: 17 September) Legend (Cert TBC) 

Irrational Man (12A)   Vacation (15) Bill (PG) 

Roger Waters The Wall (12A)

45 Years (15) Marshland (15) 

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ART

Berenice Carrington

Unearthed Ethnography, art and skran from Shetland’s oil era Saturday 25 July - Sunday 6 September Over 35 years ago the construction of the Sullom Voe oil terminal transformed the lives of many Shetlanders.

Berenice Carrington presents drawings, lino prints and collages describing how the skran from the accommodation camps at Firth and Toft was saved and incorporated into a more traditional living style.

Resulting from her long term research project in Shetland, the work brings together art and ethnography;

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“I am motivated by stories about the things that we do that enable us to make a place for ourselves. In so doing we discover our selves�.

The exhibition includes artworks by the Yell Arts and Crafts Group, with whom Berenice has been working to explore the similarities between what is happening in Shetland today and the oil era of the late 1970s.

Lino printing Sun 23 August, 1 - 4pm Unearthed includes a suite of six lino prints that each depict the moment when a person showed their oil era skran to the artist. In comparison to putting pencil to paper, lino prints offer a completely different way to develop a drawing. A lino image is primarily created by juxtaposing areas of ink with areas where the plain paper is exposed. Moreover, because the drawing is made by cutting into the lino and then printing it onto paper, more than one drawing can be made. This workshop involves the use of sharp hand tools and inks; participants are advised to wear covered shoes, and an old shirt to protect their clothing from staining.

Mixology @ Mareel

Cocktails every Friday, DJs - Fri 4, 18 Sep (PIRATE-THEMED MUSIC, DRESS-UP & COCKTAILS ON FRI 28 AUG)

CAFE BAR EVENTS OPENING HOURS

Sun - Thu 10am - 11pm Fri - Sat 10am - 1am

Every Friday night in Mareel Café Bar our staff mix up a selection of delicious cocktails and mocktails for you to sample. Come on down and enjoy while listening to some great chilled-out mixes from our house DJs John Collins & DJ Lyall.  FREE

Open Mic Night

Café Bar, Mareel, Sunday 6 September, 7pm

Fun and informal open mic session in the cafe bar. Sing a song, play an instrument, recite a poem, tell a joke or even do a dance! No instrument?

Don’t worry! You can play on our house guitar. Keep an eye on the Open Mic Café website and Facebook page for details of ‘One Time Only’ collaborative songs.  FREE

Shetland Singers & Songwriters Mareel Auditorium, Sun 20 Sep, 7pm

Formed in 2011, Shetland Singers & Songwriters group hold monthly nights in the Auditorium, featuring some of the best of Shetland’s Singing & Songwriting talent.

As well as sets from established acts, there is also an Open Mic spot. To find out more visit the Shetland Singers & Songwriters page on Facebook.  FREE

SHOWCASE CONCERT, SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER, 7pm  £10

ScreenPlay Quiz

Mareel Auditorium, Thu 3 Sep, 7pm

Mareel’s monthly film quiz gets the special Screenplay treatment with Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams in the quizmasters’ seats, ably supported by your faithful quizmaster team. Amongst various fun and fiendish rounds will be, by popular demand, the return of the Film Quiz Kazoo Orchestra.... prepare to be swept away on an ocean of musical rapture. We’re hoping to see all our regular teams plus some new contenders. But book your table ticket quickly, as this will be a guaranteed sell-out. Teams of no more than six, bring your cinema know-how and your creativity!

Max team size: 6 people.  £8 per team

Young Film Quiz

Mareel Auditorium, Sun 6 Sep, 3.30pm

Mareel’s monthly film quiz, adapted for young people aged between 12 - 16.

The usual rules apply - teams of no more than six to a table, book your table in advance and NO cheating! Take our advice and make sure your team includes a wide range of interests and obsessions, if you want to be in with a chance of winning any of the crazy and utterly desirable prizes. This event was huge fun last year - why not drum up a team from your school, youth club or neighbours?  FREE

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COMEDY FILMS Absolutely Anything (12A) In order to test the Earth, a group of aliens (voiced by the Monty Python team) give one human the power to do Absolutely Anything. If he uses it for evil, the Earth will be destroyed.

Neil Clarke (Simon Pegg) wakes up one morning with these unexplained godlike powers, and despite his best intentions, he uses them exactly as responsibly as you’d expect: to spy on his attractive neighbour (Kate Beckinsale) and give his dog Dennis (the late Robin Williams) the ability to speak.

The Legend of Barney Thompson (15) Directoral debut from Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later). Barney (Carlyle) is a hapless barber, devoid of charm and ‘patter’.

Barney’s mediocre, mundane life is about to be transformed when he inadvertently stumbles into serial murder, and with it headlong into the trail of a grotesque series of killings gripping Glasgow.

Attempting to cover his tracks, he finds himself on the run from the bearish Detective Inspector Holdall (Ray Winstone) and a testosteronedriven local Police task force at each other’s throats over the ongoing crimes. With his sanity threatening to unravel, Barney turns to his domineering mother, Cemolina (Emma Thomson) for help. There’s no turning back now and the path that lies ahead for Barney may yet be littered with more murderous consequences than he could have ever anticipated.

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Ricki and the Flash (12A) Meryl Streep stars as Ricki, a singer and guitarist who gave up her family life to become a rock star and form the band Ricki and the Flash. Hoping to make things right with her family, her ex-husband Pete (Kevin Kline) gives her a chance to do just that when he asks her to visit their estranged daughter Julie (Streep’s real life daughter Mamie Gummer) in Chicago, who is divorced and going through difficult times.

Vacation (15) Remembering fond childhood memories of his trip to Walley World, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) surprises his wife (Christina Applegate) and two sons with a cross-country excursion to America’s favourite fun park. Following in his father’s (Chevy Chase) footsteps, Rusty and the gang pack up the car and hit the road for some much-needed family bonding. Soon, the promise of fun turns into one misadventure after another for the next generation of Griswolds and anyone who encounters them.

Strange Magic (U) A madcap fairy tale musical inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bog King (Alan Cumming), leader of the Dark Forest, hates the notion of love and has ordered the destruction of all primroses, which are an essential ingredient of love potions. However, when he meets Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood), a feisty fairy princess whose heart was broken by a philandering fiance, he begins to change his mind. Meanwhile, an elf named Sunny (Elijah Kelley) makes his way to the Dark Forest to collect enough primrose petals for a potion of his own.

Bill (PG) From the team that brought you Horrible Histories. What really happened during Shakespeare’s ‘Lost Years’? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.

ART

Danish Diaspora Scotland Seen With Danish Eyes Lotte Glob, Lise Bech, Mette Fruergaard, Lilian Busch, Nickolai Globe

12 September - 25 October 2015 Public opening

Lower Gallery

Friday 24 July

Shipping Forecast

6.00pm - 7.30pm Everyone welcome

Events to accompany the exhibition Gallery Talk

@ Bonhoga Gallery Sunday 13 September 3pm - 5pm all welcome FREE Booking not required

Susan Wilkinson Stained Glass

Lise Bech Basket Making

Meeting Room @ Mareel @ Bonhoga Gallery Sunday 6 September Wednesday 16 September 11am - 3pm  £45 5.30pm - 8.30pm  £15 Both workshops: Materials provided, no experience required

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EVEREST

Hitman: Agent 47 (15) Rupert Friend (The Young Victoria) plays an elite assassin, genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and known only by the last two digits of the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research - and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.

Maze Runner:

The Scorch Trials (tbc) In this next chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (12A) Director Guy Ritchie’s fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series, set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. CIA agent Napolon Solo (Henry Cavill Man of Steel) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer The Social Network). are forced to put aside longstanding hostilities and team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology.

The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

Everest (12A) Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

HJALTIBONHOGA in conjunction with SHETLAND ARTS presents

THE MELBOURNE SCOTTISH FIDDLERS - WITH -

HJALTIBONHOGA Hjaltibonhoga, in conjunction with Shetland Arts are pleased to host the Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers in Shetland as part of their Scottish tour. The fiddlers will collaborate all weekend in workshops under the tutelage of Ross Couper and Chris Stout, culminating in two public concerts in Voe and Mareel. The Voe concert will be headlined by Ross & Ryan Couper, whilst Chris Stout will headline the Featuring event at Mareel on Saturday.

VOE HALL ROSS & RYAN COUPER Friday 25 September, 7.30pm  £14 / £12

MAREEL Featuring CHRIS STOUT & CATRIONA McKAY Saturday 26 September, 7.30pm  £16 / £14 (EARLY BIRD)

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FILMS Simmonds. Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng) move to the very same Norman village where Madame Bovery was written.

Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn’t take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the literary and real life woman, as he insinuates himself into her life. She soon finds herself at a crossroads that seems to be fulfilling Joubert’s worst fears that her destiny is mirroring that of Flaubert’s doomed heroine.

Maggie (15) Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this emotional tale of a father whose daughter has been infected by a zombie virus. A zombie epidemic has spread across the whole of the United States, turning everyone into brain-eating monsters. Farmer Wade Vogel (Schwarzenegger) is on a mission: to bring back his runaway 16-year-old daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin Little Miss Sunshine), who has been classed as infected and placed into quarantine. She is still human, but faces a slow decline, until the day she ‘turns’. As Wade waits for his daughter to become a cannibalistic zombie, he faces the most impossible choice of his life.

Once her turn comes, he must either save her, cure her or kill her.

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In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country.

When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.

Legend (TBC) Ronnie and Reggie Kray were identical twin gangsters whose exploits became a criminal legend, and controlled the organised crime scene in London during the 1960s.

Starting out by owning nightclubs, they eventually became celebrities in their own right. Ronnie, unfortunately, was an unbalanced paranoid schizophrenic who was very prone to violence, and with Americans keen to invest in the Krays’ businesses, Reggie had to try and keep him under control. Starring Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road) in a double performance as both twins, Legend is a thrilling gangster drama directed by Brian Helgeland.

45 Years (15) There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s (Charlotte Rampling) fortyfifth wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well.

But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtney). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

Irrational Man (12A) When a burned-out, brilliant professor who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

IRRATIONAL MAN

Gemma Bovery (15) Straight Outta Based on the graphic novel by Posy Compton (15)

Roger Waters The Wall (12A) Roger Waters, co-founder and primary songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a concert film that goes well beyond the stage. Based on the groundbreaking concept album, Roger Waters The Wall could be called a concept film: it’s a state-of-the-art show that dazzles the senses, combined with an intensely personal road trip that deals with the loss Roger has felt throughout his life due to war.

Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies.

But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride.

After more than a decade working in film and television on projects from Star Wars to Holby City, Hugh Quarshie returns to the RSC to play Shakespeare’s Othello. He was last seen with us in Faust and Julius Caesar (1996). Hugh will play opposite Lucian Msamati in the role of Iago, returning to the RSC following his role as Pericles in 2006. The production is directed by Iqbal Khan (Much Ado About Nothing, 2012).

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FILM WEDNESDAYS

The best of independent & world cinema, classic films & documentaries, for film lovers.

One man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. That Sugar Film will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food.

Timbuktu (12A) Subtitled. Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter,

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cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity.

Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes abruptly in this stunningly rendered film from a master of world cinema.

The Wolfpack (15) Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. With no friends and living on welfare, they feed their curiosity, creativity, and imagination with film, which allows them to escape from their feelings of isolation and loneliness. Everything changes when one of the brothers escapes, and the power dynamics in the house are transformed. The Wolfpack must learn how to integrate into society without disbanding the brotherhood.

Marshland (15) Subtitled: Award-winning Spanish thriller about two policemen investigating disappearances in a small town. Detectives Pedro (Raúl Arévalo) and Juan (Javier Gutiérrez) are sent to the southern marshland town of Villafranco del Guadalquivir to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two teenage sisters. With the bodies piling up, they must overcome their differences in order to bring the murderer to justice, before any more young women lose their lives.

THE WOLFPACK

That Sugar Film (12A)

MUSIC

SECKOU KEITA Mareel Saturday 31 October, 7.30pm Following the critical acclaim of his award-winning collaborative project with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, the extraordinary Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita comes to Mareel as part of his 2015 UK tour.

Variously described as a ‘griot (praise singer), composer, djembe master, virtuoso and pioneer’, Seckou is a rare type of musician, seated in tradition whilst constantly pushing the boundaries of his art.

A true master of the kora - a 22 stringed West African harp - Seckou,

from the Casamance area of Southern Senegal, was a childhood prodigy, born of a line of griots and kings. Cissokho, his mother’s family name, gave life to his talent; Keita, his father’s, gave him royal blood.

Seckou has graced the international stage since 1996, earning worldwide acclaim for his kora playing and appearing with a host of fellow artists including Salif Keita, Yossou N’Dour, Miriam Makeba and Neil Finn.

His last two albums Miro and The Silimbo Passage hit No.1 in the

European world music charts, and Clychau Dibon, the fruit of his collaboration with Finch, won fRoots Critics Poll Album of The Year 2013, Songlines Magazine Best Cross Cultural Collaboration 2014, and two BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominations.

Seckou is joined by Gwyneth Glyn as support artist. Poet, writer and singer of songs, Gwyneth comes from Cricieth in North Wales and explores her own folk heritage in her mother-tongue.

 £16 / £14

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SCREEN Shetland’s annual film festival is curated by celebrated film historian Linda Ruth Williams and film critic Mark Kermode alongside our own Kathy Hubbard. It features a feast of film screenings, lectures and panel discussions

involving national and international film industry professionals and film academics.

Screenplay also has a strong local flavour, provided by the work of local film makers of all ages and an outreach programme taking in community

Slow West

Lord The Look of the Rings of Silence

(15) The tale of a young Scottish man who travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to act as a guide.

Tell Wiz

(Suitable for all) A chance to catch the recent sell out All-Shetland Musical on the big screen!

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(PG) A rare chance to see Ralph Bakshi’s classic 1978 animated adaptation of J.R.R Tokien’s fantasy masterpiece on the big screen.

Belle & Sebastien

(PG) Feature length adaptation of the much loved 1960s French TV series about a boy and his dog.

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halls and education.

This year’s festival includes 70 film screenings, 10 Q&A sessions, 7 education screenings, 4 workshops, 2 film quizzes, 2 community halls, 2 care centres, 1 live pianist and a whole lot of cats…

(15) Documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer. An optician confronts the men who killed the brother that he never knew during the 1960s Indonesian genocide.

SCREEN ACADEMY

10thAnniversary Shorts (Suitable for all) A celebration screening of the highlights from the first ten years of Screen Academy Scotland.

SHETLANDARTS.ORG/SCREENPLAY

Silent Running

The Falling

(15) Curator’s choice! It’s 1969 at a strict English girl’s school, where Abbie and Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

Internet Cat Video Festival

(Suitable for all) The Walker Art Centre brings you a compilation of the best internet cat videos for your viewing pleasure. What more could you ask for?

The Black Pirate

(PG) One of Mark Kermode’s favourite films – 1970’s sci-fi classic set on a space station. After the order is given to jettison all flora and fauna in favour of cargo botanist Freeman Lowell and his robot companions take drastic action to save the forest and its creatures.

(U) Swashbuckling adventure starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr, accompanied live on piano by Phillip Taylor!

Fiddlesticks (Suitable 5+) German comedy follows The Coati Gang on a mission to liberate their grandparents from a care centre.

Live dubbed by Kathy Hubbard, John Haswell & Izzy Swanson.

Jaws

(12A) Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s classic.

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and a grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

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SCREEN Film Poems & Portraits

BY ROSEANNE WATT Le Week-End

(Suitable for all) A selection of film poems and portraits by Shetland born filmmaker, poet and founding Maddrim Media member Rosanne Watt, produced as part of her Masters and Doctoral theses.

(15) Jim Broadbent and Linsday Duncan play long-married couple Meg & Nick, who revisit Paris for a long weekend for the first time since their honeymoom, in the hope of either reviving their relationship or ending it.

Pulp: A FILM ABOUT LIFE, DEATH AND SUPERMARKETS

(12A) Light-hearted and affectionate documentary tells the story of PULP through the eyes of band members, family, fans and friends.

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Shooting The Past

(15) All three episodes of Stephen Poliakoff’s extraordinary play for television about a US property developer who realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection.

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Song of the Sea

(PG) After Ben and his little sister Saorise lose their mother, a selkie, when she returns to the sea, they must embark on a journey to free the faeries, save the spirit world and rescue their family from grief.

SHETLANDARTS.ORG/SCREENPLAY

Keeping It Short

(Suitable 12+) An exploration of the beauty of short film, featuring 90 minutes of short films compiled by film maker Mark Jenkins.

Alive Inside

(Suitable 12+) A joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity, Alive Inside chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals who have been revitalised by the simple experience of listening to music.

Shorts for Middle Ones

(Suitable 7+) A selection of short animations for children from the 2014 Discovery Children’s Film Festival in Dundee.

Village at the End of the World

(12A) Documentary. A village with 59 residents and 100 sledge dogs survives against the odds.

Home Made Flankers 4 MINUTE WONDERS & 5 TO 20 & The Alpha Invention DOUBLE BILL (Suitable for all) Always the highlight of the festival, this years Home Made features the usual 4 minute short films, as well as an additional 5-20 category showcasing the work of Shetland’s film-making talent.

(Suitable +14) A short film double bill featuring British and Canadian films.

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SCREEN Under Milk Wood

(15) Dylan Thomas’ classic as you’ve never seen it before. Starring Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church.

Shorts for Wee Ones

(Suitable 4+) A selection of short animations for children from the 2014 Discovery Children’s Film Festival in Dundee.

Bear Island (BJØRNØYA)

(Suitable 12+) A documentary about three brothers who finally realise their long-held ambition of travelling to the uninhabited Bear Island in the Svalbard archipelago to surf the freezing waters of the Barents Sea.

Raspberry Boat Refugee (HALLONBÅTSFLYKTINGEN) (Suitable 12+) Bitersweet comedy about a Finnish man who feels he was born into the wrong nationality.

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Dreams of a Life

(12A) Carol Morley chronicles the life of Joyce Vincent, a woman who died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London and lay undiscovered for three years, surrounded by the Christmas presents she was wrapping, and with the TV still on.

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An Adventure IN SPACE AND TIME AND THE TRACTATE MIDDOTH

(PG) One off drama which travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen.

WORKSHOPS, TALKS & QUIZZES Frame by Frame

The Craft of Editing with Mark Jenkins

Bridging the Gap

Screenplay Quiz

Documentary Workshop

Film Start Development Getting in Shetland Animated a conversation with Graeme Howell

Workshop leader: Elizabeth Hobbs

Young Film Quiz Oculus Rift Experience

Get unlimited access to all films during SCREEN with a Screen Card! £90 For fu details ll SCRE of all events EN & sc pick up reenings progra your mm today! e Screen Card members will get priority booking to screenplay events, as well as money off purchases of popcorn, tea and filter coffee in Mareel Café Bar. In addition to this, Screen Card members will be given exclusive access to the Screenplay guest reception, held on Saturday 5th September; a rare chance to see behind the scenes at Screenplay, and meet with the festival’s visiting artistes.

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MUSIC

Supported by Inksters Solicitors. In partnership with Shetland Arts.

Tuesday 29 September 2015

MOZART, MADRIGALS & MAVERICKS

RE-DEFINING THE STRING ORCHESTRA

Mareel, 7.30pm  £15 / £13 SE Artistic Director Jonathan Morton is joined by SE Director Emeritus and current leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Clio Gould, for a handpicked selection of violin and viola duos from Mozart to Martin.

BACH....................3 Preludes from The Well Tempered Clavier

[trans. Frederic Neumann]

PLEYEL...............Duo in G, Op. 30 No. 1 GLIÈRE................8 Pieces, Op. 39 BARTÓK..............Hungarian Folk Melodies [trans. Karl Kraeuter] BEETHOVEN.....Duo for Clarinet and Bassoon in C, WoO27, No.1 HALVORSEN......Passacaglia for Violin and Viola

SEASON PASS Get access to all three concerts for just £30.

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Scottish Ensemble, the UK’s only professional string orchestra, give their first ever concert series in Shetland with three contrasting chamber music concerts. Events include a performance on violin and viola from talented husband-and-wife team Jonathan Morton and Clio Gould, two magnificent quintets from Mozart and Brahms and an evening of cello and violin duos.

Friday 26 February 2016

Thursday 21 April 2016

Mareel, 7.30pm  £15 / £13

Mareel, 7.30pm  £15 / £13

QUINTETS

A treat of two halves – five SE musicians perform Mozart’s Quintet in G minor and Brahms’ harmony-rich Quintet in G Major.

CELLO & VIOLIN DUOS Cellist Alison Lawrance and violinist Cheryl Crockett perform this arrangement of Halvorsen’s Passacaglia for Violin and Viola.

Mareel Saturday 3 October, 11am & 2pm A neat and tidy man who likes everything in its place meets a nesting magpie who brings chaos in her wake.

Can these two ever learn to live together? It looks unlikely, until a friend scoots in to help the pair live in perfect harmony.

This fantastic show for 3-4 year olds shows that you can make music out of anything – as long as you have a bit of imagination. KidO uses vocal and body percussion tobuild up words, tunes and

beats that kids love to join in with. A bowl of fruit, tinkling teacups and a plain old brown cardboard box… KidO takes a load of household objects, adds a healthy dose of fun and a giggle or two, and makes the everyday extraordinary.  £7 / £5

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MUSIC

HIRDA

NEW OPERA IN SCOTLAND EVENTS

‘’Hirda. Shetlandic. n.chaos, confusion, extreme untidiness.’’

Mareel, Thursday 26 November - 7.30pm  £15 / £12 Haroldswick Hall, Friday 27 November - 7.30pm  £12 / £10 Vidlin Hall, Saturday 28 November - 7.30pm  £12 / £10 Carnegie Hall, Sunday 29 November - 3pm  £12 / £10

www.noiseopera.com/hirda

A new opera telling the story of Alastair, a once successful actor who returns to his island home for the wedding of his brother Iain to Mureal, a young archivist working in the local museum. Everyone’s world is turned upside down when Alastair and his sister-in-law find that they have a strong attraction to each other. This contemporary story is woven together with another story about a 19th century woman and her sailor fiancée which is told through the letters they write to each other.

Hirda was commissioned by NOISE, (New Opera In Scotland Events) and is a collaboration between Chris Stout, Shetland fiddler and composer, with Gareth Williams, a contemporary classical composer based in Scotland.

The librettist is Siân Evans, a Welsh playwright and linguist. It will be directed by James Robert Carson.

SKERRYVORE “The best musical ambassadors Scotland could wish for... a living, breathing, l2 legged party waiting to happen”

MAREEL 23 OCTOBER VENUE TBC 24 OCTOBER  TBC

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Formed on the tiny island of Tiree in 2005, Skerryvore are renowned for their signature sound, blending everything from rock to jazz. Since their early days the band have released several albums, toured the globe, and won a number of awards, including SNMA Record of the Year 2011 and STMA Live Act of the Year 2011. Now in their 10th year, Skerryvore have just released their new album Decades featuring a collection of live recordings and previously unreleased songs, many of which will feature in their live sets.

MICHAEL JANISCH Mareel Sunday 4 October, 7.30pm American bassist, composer, producer and record label owner Michael Janisch is one of the preeminent artists of his generation working in jazz and experimental music. This October he releases his second solo recording Paradigm Shift, recorded live by his acoustic quintet after a two-week European tour and produced by Janisch and electronics wizard Alex Bonney. For the live shows Bonney will join Janish and the quintet, pairing accoustic performances with real“Awesomely time electronic manipulation, presenting an virtuosic engaging sonic program of music that mixes contemporary jazz, electronica, funk, rock, double bass” punk and free improv alongside anthemic - The Guardian themes, otherworldly sounds and infectious grooves.

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RETURNS TO MAREEL FOR A DYNAMIC EVENING OF CONTEMPORARY GUITAR MUSIC

MAREEL TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER, 7.30pm International Guitar Night founder Brian Gore will be joined by three of Europe’s finest acoustic guitarists: Gypsy Jazz legend Lulo Reinhardt, contemporary fingerstyle innovator Mike Dawes and multi-genre showman Andre Krengel. Lulo has expanded on the legacy of his grand-uncle Django with Latin-flavoured

rhythms and melodies. Mike’s lightning-speed and deft tapping and percussion were among the highlights of the 2014 IGN tour. Andre is a master of many styles from flamenco to swing to modern ballads and he is a frequent collaborator with Lulo in Germany.

 £18

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MUSIC

SessionA9 MAREEL, TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2015 7.30pm

Session A9 come to Mareel as part of their one and only tour of 2015! Hailed by Dougie MacLean as ‘The best band to come out of Scotland in 100 years!’ and

by The Proclaimers as ‘tighter than James Brown’ as previous winners of Best Live Act at the Scottish Trad awards, you are guaranteed an evening of

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“The best band to come out of Scotland in 100 years!”

outstanding musicianship and entertainment.

Featuring members of Capercallie, Treacherous Orchestra, Fiddlers’ Bid and many more - including Shetland’s own Kevin Henderson!

 £18

- Dougie MacLean

Best Live Act

- Scottish Trad Awards 2012

“Tighter than James Brown” - The Proclaimers

Shetland Arts in association with Iceland Noir & Promote Shetland present

ARNE DAHL HÅKAN NESSER YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR STUART MACBRIDE DENISE MINA ALEX GRAY SHETLAND’S FIRST CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL

13–15 NOVEMBER 2015 Shetland’s first ever crime writing festival, on loan for one year from Iceland Noir, aims to celebrate crime writing by bringing writers and readers together for 3 days in Shetland from 13th to 15th November 2015.

Confirmed visiting authors include Yrsa Sigurdadottir, Hakan Nesser, Arne Dahl, Stuart MacBride, Denise Mina and Alex Gray. More information and a provisional schedule available at:

Day tickets, providing access to author panel sessions, plus special guest author reading head to head + Q&A now on sale!  £45 / £35

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‘It won’t be pretty…’

A Shetland Arts Case Study AN EXHIBITION BY THE SPACE2FACE GIRLS’ GROUP 2 - 4 JULY 2015

For three days at the beginning of July, there was an unusual exhibition of artwork entitled ‘It won’t be pretty’. The exhibition was shown in the tiny Lodberrie Traders venue in Lerwick, and all the work was created by a small group of girls from the Anderson High School.

For the last two years, between the ages of 13-15, the girls have been working with space2face, a restorative arts project, run jointly by the Community Mediation Team and Shetland Arts.

The girls’ group meets weekly for an hour with the support of the school (half an hour during school time and half an hour in the girls’ own time) and works with two artists.

The girls developed the structure for the group as well as their own guidelines as to how they would like everyone to behave (including staff) in each session. The exhibition was a selection of some of their work based around the themes they have been exploring together.

‘It’s been a privilege to have worked with the girls and to see them change and mature into young women. Some of their achievements within the group have been remarkable and we are proud to be showing their work in this exhibition and sharing it with others’, said Ana Arnett, a space2face project artist.

‘I like coming to the girls’ group ‘cos I get to make a mess and I’ve learned a lot of things, even though I found it difficult speaking at first. It’s been helpful ‘cos we’ve talked about the difficult things that the school doesn’t talk about,’ said a member of the group.

Clair Aldington, of Shetland Arts, commented, ‘Shetland Arts is proud to be a founding partner, alongside the Community Mediation Team, of space2face which is a unique project in Scotland. The girls’ work is a testament to their creativity and willingness to tackle difficult issues in their lives and within society.’

59 people visited the exhibition over the three open afternoons. A total of £500 was raised from the sale of artwork and the proceeds, at the girls’ request, will go towards continuing the girls’ group and the space2face project.

The space2face project uses the arts alongside restorative approaches to work with people of all ages who are involved in conflict or harm in their lives. It provides an opportunity for participants to look at what has happened, how it has affected them and others, and what they need to be able to move on with their lives in a safer way.

GET INVOLVED! Shetland Youth Theatre has been accepted as part of NT Connections (the festival of youth theatre run by the National Theatre). Between now and the end of September the group are holding workshops/skill sessions.

After the October break there will

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be a series of initial rehearsals for a brand new production. These will continue more intensively after Christmas with performances in Shetland during Feb/March and Inverness in April.

We are always keen to welcome new young people into the company. If you are between the ages of 12 & 21 and would like to be part of this exciting project then please contact John Haswell at Shetland Arts on 01595 743843 or john.haswell@shetlandarts.org

Cinema Tickets Matinees:

before 5pm Ticket price

Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance, and the type of screening. When booking you will be asked to choose between two different ticket types: adult or concession. Concessions include children under the age of 16 years old (those aged 16 and above must buy adult tickets), students (must produce valid ID), seniors (aged 60+), and people with disabilities.

Monday to Friday

£5.50 / £4.50

Saturday, Sunday, Holidays*

£7 / £5

Evenings:

from 5pm onwards Monday £7 / £5 Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£8 / £6

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased. Customers are responsible for checking that they have booked the correct tickets at time of purchase as mistakes cannot be rectified at a later date. Only in the event of a screening being cancelled will your ticket be refunded.

Friday, Saturday, Holidays*

£9 / £7

Opening Hours:

* Holidays include Bank Holidays, Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, & New Year’s Eve. • 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of ticket prices.

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 and are reusable.

Sun - Thu: 10am - 11pm Fri - Sat: 10am - 1am

Special Screenings: Senior Screening (includes refreshment )

£6

Shetland Arts Development Agency manages Bonhoga Gallery, the Garrison Theatre & Mareel. We also develop and promote a year round programme of film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, & dance events.

We do this because we want to see Shetland celebrated as a place where inspiration & innovation are valued; where people want to live, work & study; and we want the full social & economic potential of the islands to be achieved.

Shetland Arts is supported by Creative Scotland and core funded by the Shetland Charitable Trust.

Shetland Arts is a registered charity (SCO37082).

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WHAT’S ON...

ON NOW >

TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER >

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER >

Eye Can Draw

Session A9

Skerryvore

SUNDAY AFTERNOONS >

12 SEP - 25 OCT >

SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER >

Gutters Gaet Sessions

Danish Diaspora

Skerryvore

25 JULY - 6 SEPTEMBER >

FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER >

SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER >

Berenice Carrington: Unearthed

Country Jamboree 2015

Seckou Keita

SUNDAY 23 AUGUST >

25 & 26 SEPTEMBER >

Lino printing

Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers & Hjaltibonhoga

Upper Café Bar, Mareel

Mareel, 1.30pm

Bonhoga

Mareel Green Room, 1 - 4pm THU 27 AUGUST >

Mareel, 7.30pm

Bonhoga

The Garrison, 8pm

Voe Hall & Mareel, 7.30pm

Knitting Group

TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER >

Mareel, 2pm - 4.30pm

Pirate Mixology

Scottish Ensemble: Mozart, Madrigals and Mavericks

28 AUG - 6 SEP >

SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER >

ScreenPlay

KidO

THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER >

SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER >

Screenplay Film Quiz

Michael Janisch

SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER >

TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER >

Screenplay Young Film Quiz

International Guitar Night

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST > Café Bar, Mareel

Mareel, 7.30pm

Mareel

Mareel, 11am & 2pm

Mareel, 7pm

Mareel, 3.30pm

Mareel, 7.30pm

Mareel, 7.30pm

For tickets and more info about events in this booklet visit: MAREEL & ISLESBURGH COMMUNITY CENTRE

www.shetlandboxoffice.org T: 01595 745555

Mareel, 8pm

Venue TBC, Time TBC

Mareel, 7.30pm

13 - 15 NOVEMBER >

Shetland Noir Mareel

26 - 29 NOVEMBER >

Hirda (NOISE Opera)

26th Mareel, 7.30pm 27th Haroldswick Hall, 7.30pm 28th Vidlin Hall, 7.30pm 29th Carnegie Hall, 7.30pm FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2016 >

Scottish Ensemble: Quintets Mareel, 7.30pm

THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016 >

Scottish Ensemble: Cello & Violin Duos Mareel, 7.30pm