Have-a-go Shakespeare Workshop
Next Showing: 24th May 13 @ 10:30
Final Showing: 24th May 13 @ 10:30
Have-a-go Shakespeare meet in Wyeside's Gallery on alternate Friday mornings from 10.30 till 1.00, to explore Shakespeare text in reading and performance.
Please come along and join in, or if you’d like to speak to someone first call Phil or Sue on 01597 811 487. read more
Star Trek Into Darkness 3D
Next Showing: 24th May 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 30th May 13 @ 19:00
Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang return for a spot of alien-bothering, planet-saving action. After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own ranks, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. With a personal score to settle, Kirk and the rest of our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
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These screenings are for 3D only. For information on our 2D screenings please hover over the "What's On" tab at the top of the screen and select Films from the drop down menu. read more
Alistair McGowan
Next Showing: 25th May 13 @ 20:00
Final Showing: 25th May 13 @ 20:00
NOT JUST A PRETTY VOICE
The Nation’s favourite impressionist, Alistair McGowan, goes back to his stand-up roots for a new two-hour show. Asking the big questions like: would the world be a happier place if Ed Miliband was Prime Minister? What are we really thinking while watching Shakespeare? And is Hilary Devey Jessie J’s mum? Expect to hear everyone from Andy Murray to Colin Murray, riffs on everything from Jeff Stelling to bad spelling and at least one song about butter.
Warning: May contain puns!
Age Guide 16 years read more
Star Trek Into Darkness 2D
Next Showing: 26th May 13 @ 15:00
Final Showing: 26th May 13 @ 19:00
Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang return for a spot of alien-bothering, planet-saving action. After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own ranks, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. With a personal score to settle, Kirk and the rest of our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
PLEASE NOTE
These screenings are for 2D only. For information on our 3D screenings please hover over the "What's On" tab at the top of the screen and select Films from the drop down menu. read more
The Look of Love
Next Showing: 24th May 13 @ 19:30
Final Showing: 28th May 13 @ 19:30
The story of Paul Raymond, the UK’s most successful purveyor of ‘glamour’ magazines is a thoroughly entertaining romp through the ‘swinging sixties’. With acres of naked flesh on display, the drugs, the parties, and the obligatory ‘swinging vicar’, this perfectly captures the look and feel of those heady times. But it is also the tragic tale of his daughter Debbie who followed in his footsteps, a victim of the lifestyle naff, narcissistic, pretentious Paul personified. With a fine, funny script and a well-judged lead performance from Steve Coogan, this is definitely not for men only but will be enjoyed by anyone with an open mind and a sense of humour.
“funny and touching” Daily Telegraph
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La Donna del Lago - The Royal Opera House
Next Showing: 27th May 13 @ 18:45
Final Showing: 27th May 13 @ 18:45
A BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IN LONDON
by Gioachino Rossini
Opera in two acts Sung in Italian (with subtitles)
This rarely performed masterpiece, based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, is the most fully Romantic of Rossini’s Italian operas.
In Renaissance Scotland, King James V travels to the tribal Highlands, where he falls in love with Elena – the Lady of the Lake. But her father, fighting with the clans against the King, has promised her hand in marriage to the clan leader Rodrigo – and Elena herself is in love with the young romantic hero Malcolm……… Some truly galvanizing scenes ensue, most memorably the stunning confrontation between the tenors Uberto (James V in disguise) and Rodrigo.
John Fulljames has assembled the ultimate bel canto cast, including Joyce DiDonato (Elena), Colin Lee (Rodrigo) and Juan Diego Flórez (Uberto/James V). His staging evokes the exotic mystery of Rossini’s Romantic landscape, and opens up this rich but under-explored seam of operatic gold. La donna del Lago promises to be a musical revelation. Conductor: Michelle Mariotti.
Est. running time: 3 hrs. 20 mins. (inc. one interval) read more
Side Effects
Next Showing: 29th May 13 @ 19:30
Final Showing: 30th May 13 @ 19:30
In this taut, twisted thriller Emily and Martin are a successful New York couple whose lives unravel when a new prescription drug intended to treat her anxiety has unexpected side effects. A succession of twists, bluffs and unexpected turns take us into pure cat-and-mouse territory. It’s set in a coolly observed world of careerism, materialism and one-upmanship that is layered with need, greed and deception at every level. Soderbergh has said this is his last film in which case, this suspenseful, smart, Hitchcock-like thriller is a great note to go out on.
“ . . . gripping and disturbing thriller . . . “ The Guardian
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Pam Berridge
Next Showing: 24th May 13 @ 17:30
Final Showing: 31st May 13 @ 17:30
Pam Berridge – Artist’s Statement
While researching the associations between photography, death and memory for my PhD in Fine Art Practice, I came across the cemeteries of Paris.
These cemeteries contain juxtaposed sepulchres and graves stretching as far as the eye can see and appearing like shanty towns; cities of the dead which are surrounded by the city of the living; cities which are a place apart, linking the world of the living and the dead and inhabited by memories and ghosts.
I resolved to return and take photographs in these cemeteries which I found related very much to the ideas I had about photography
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The sepulchres contain artefacts which serve as memento mori, both beautiful and symbolic in their decay, much in the same way as a photograph does. Photography since its inception has been closely linked with death and memory and has often been used as a metaphor for both in much the same way as these artefacts are. Central to this is the hypothesis that photography has a close association with death and memory, and since its inception it has often been linked to, or used as a metaphor for, them both. This is at least in part due to its ability to portray that which no longer exists. Metaphor is frequently used in correlation with death, as it is often utilised to deal with that which we do not fully comprehend or which we cannot easily accept. All photographs become history from the moment they are taken. A photograph is an image which is about to become a memory; a capturing of the present in the instant that it becomes the past.
The images I produce, consisting of mixed media and archival photographs on wood, shine like icons evocative and meaningful in their use of photography.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Next Showing: 31st May 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 02nd Jun 13 @ 19:00
Sumptuous photography, juicy supporting turns, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad makes for an intense adaption of the bestselling novel. Riz Ahmed is superb as Changez, the middle-class kid from Lahore whose identity pivots between a glittering stockbroker career in New York and his home culture thousands of miles away in Pakistan. But when “the war on terror” starts Changez finds his adopted home turning against him as doubts about his personal sympathies growing.
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I'm So Excited
Next Showing: 31st May 13 @ 19:30
Final Showing: 02nd Jun 13 @ 19:30
This films has English Subtitles.
Starring a bevy of internationally famous Spanish stars, Almodóvar’s latest is a gloriously camp comedy littered with hilariously over-the-top moments. Set on a long-haul flight suffering from a technical failure that endangers everyone’s lives this features a trio of wildly camp flight attendants who wouldn’t go amiss in Airplane. Almodóvar himself described the film as a ‘very light’ comedy, so expect farcical goings-on and saucy misunderstandings aplenty as passengers confess their innermost secrets and the crew do their best to satisfy their fantasies!
“Camp, kitsch and deliciously entertaining” Screen International
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Dance Classes for Under 4 Year Olds
Next Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 14:00
Final Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 14:00
Dance, learn & have fun together - EVERY MONDAY!
Brought to you by Dawns Powys Dance
2.00pm - 3.00pm Children Under 4 Years, With Parents / Carers
For more information contact Powys Dance on 01597 824370, or email powys.dance@powys.gov.uk
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Dance Classes for 5-7 Year Olds
Next Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 16:00
Final Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 16:00
Dance, learn & have fun together - EVERY MONDAY!
Brought to you by Dawns Powys Dance
4.00pm - 4.30pm: 5 - 7 Year Olds
For more information contact Powys Dance on 01597 824370, or email powys.dance@powys.gov.uk read more
Dance Classes for 8-10 Year Olds
Next Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 16:45
Final Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 16:45
Dance, learn & have fun together - EVERY MONDAY!
Brought to you by Dawns Powys Dance
4.45pm - 5.45pm: 8 - 10 Year Olds
All Experiences Welcome!
For more information contact Powys Dance on 01597 824370, or email powys.dance@powys.gov.uk read more
Dance Classes for 11 Plus
Next Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 17:45
Final Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 17:45
Dance, learn & have fun together - EVERY MONDAY!
Brought to you by Dawns Powys Dance
5.45 - 6.45: 11's and Older
All Experiences Welcome!
For more information contact Powys Dance on 01597 824370, or email powys.dance@powys.gov.uk read more
Dance Classes for Adults
Next Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 03rd Jun 13 @ 19:00
Dance, learn & have fun together - EVERY MONDAY!
Brought to you by Dawns Powys Dance
7.00pm - 8.00pm: Adults
Try out different kinds of dance, for fun and fitness!
All Experiences Welcome!
For more information contact Powys Dance on 01597 824370, or email powys.dance@powys.gov.uk read more
The Audience - National Theatre
Next Showing: 13th Jun 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 16th Jun 13 @ 15:00
The first screening is a live broadcast event in HD screened via satellite from the National Theatre in London. The encore screening is a delayed live recording of the Thursday performance.
The Audience
A new play by Peter Morgan
Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast live from London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of National Theatre Live.
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace – a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.
The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.
The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries. read more
British Museum - Life and Death in Pompeii
Next Showing: 18th Jun 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 18th Jun 13 @ 19:00
The British Museum’s first ever live broadcast from their new exhibition Life & Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This is the first exhibition ever to be held on the subject of Pompeii at the museum and the first in London for over 20 years. It will focus on the homes and lives of the inhabitants of the thriving industrial hub of Pompeii and the small seaside town of Herculaneum nearly 2,000 years ago.
Viewers will be taken along a Roman street and into a house with atrium entrance, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, sitting room and garden. Exhibition curator Paul Roberts, alongside Mary Beard and Giorgio Locatelli amongst others will accompany the viewers as they are taken up close to the famous casts of those caught in the explosive heat of the volcano.
They will gain insight into the daily lives of the Romans through a unique selection of objects: Jewellery, clothes, sculptures, mosaics, a jar for growing dormice (a rare Roman delicacy) and even an intact loaf of bread with the baker’s stamp still visible. read more
Wyeside Comedy Club
Next Showing: 22nd Jun 13 @ 20:00
Final Showing: 22nd Jun 13 @ 20:00
LINE-UP:
Tash Bartlett
Geraint Evans
Lewis Bowman
Headliner: Wil Hodgson
Wil Hodgson doing an Edinburgh preview of his new show Leave The Landing Light On.
Wil won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer in 2004 and is a brilliant storyteller.
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Gloriana - The Royal Opera House
Next Showing: 24th Jun 13 @ 18:45
Final Showing: 24th Jun 13 @ 18:45
A BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IN LONDON
Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart. read more
Cara Luft Songwriting Workshop
Next Showing: 29th Jun 13 @ 14:00
Final Showing: 29th Jun 13 @ 14:00
A songwriting workshop hosted by singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire Cara Luft.
Cara is performing at Wyeside the same evening, 8pm read more
Cara Luft
Next Showing: 29th Jun 13 @ 20:00
Final Showing: 29th Jun 13 @ 20:00
Cara Luft likes to laugh. She does it a lot. It’s one of the first things you notice when meeting her, that and her engaging smile. It’s endearing and infectious. Nothing pretentious about her, Cara’s the real deal. What you see is what you get from the former founding member of Juno award winning folk music trio The Wailin’ Jennys. And that sense of honesty, integrity, personality and spontaneity permeates and resonates throughout both her music and her live performances. After all, what other folk-based artist unabashedly cites Buddy Holly, prog-rockers Yes, and even Led Zeppelin among their inspirations and influences?
Canadian born folk singer/songwriter Cara, has recently released a stunning new collection of songs, Darlingford, the much anticipated third album.
Cara has earned a solid reputation as one of Canada’s finest live performers and acoustic guitar players whose engaging, down-home style is wrapped in a delicious sense of humour.
Cara is also running a song-writing workshop in the afternoon, starting at 2pm. Tickets are now on sale. To find out more, click on the workshop tab. read more
Steven Flaherty, Waiting Game - A Photographic Study of British Wildlife
Next Showing: 08th Jun 13 @ 17:50
Final Showing: 31st Aug 13 @ 17:30
As a professional wildlife photographer, one of very few based in Wales, I am on a journey to photograph and capture the essence of British wildlife through my eyes. I have travelled many miles throughout Wales and England in my search for subjects to photograph. I have yet to venture to Scotland in my quest for wildlife it is on my list of places to visit.
I have found patience has been a virtue whilst trying to do this and I have spent many hours, days, weeks, months sometimes in extreme conditions just for that one shot that captures what I think shows how beautiful and wonderful the wildlife which Britain has to offer.
In this exhibition is some of my best work, showing the best of our wildlife that I have managed to capture. From mad March hares to stunning kingfishers and the elusive otters, who says you need to go to Africa to see great wildlife?
About me:
I am a based in Builth Wells, specialising in British wildlife. My main area of photography is bird (ornithology) photography in particular capturing them in flight or performing in front of the camera. I have found that I have a natural flare for it. With my photography I like capturing the essence of the bird, mammal or animal that I am photographing, be it a close up or within its environment.
I have been very fortunate with some of the wildlife I have been in the presence of and been able to photograph since turning professional. From an otter at my feet, kingfishers within touching distance and hares running right by me, and not forgetting the stunning red kites that we are so lucky to have here in Wales read more
Othello - The National Theatre
Next Showing: 26th Sep 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 26th Sep 13 @ 19:00
A LIVE BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE IN LONDON
The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.
Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
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