MAY 2008

FILM SOCIETY

Friday 2nd May
Start: 8:00pm End: 10:20pm

THE LIVES OF OTHERS (15)

Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Germany, 2006, subtitles, 137 mins

Martina Gedeck
Ulrich Mühe
Sebastian Koch

This Oscar-winning film (Best Foreign Film) focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny, system of observation by the Stasi in the former East Germany in the 1980s.
 

Guest Tickets £5.00, SAC Members £4.00
 

THEATRE

Saturday 3rd May at 7:30pm

SHIFTING SANDS THEATRE

presents

THE DEADLINE

Clown Noir:
A Comic Fantasy of Deceit,
Double Cross and Murder.

Be prepared for a dynamic celebration of Film Noir, thrillers, hard-boiled characters and femmes fatales. Raymond Chandler meets Buster Keaton with Laurel and Hardy as hitmen.
A postman delivers a parcel and discovers a dead body. From the cellar, he hears frenzied knocking and calls for help. He finds a woman, beautiful and beguiling. He is a clown, wide eyed and stupid. Seduced by her lies, he becomes lost in a maze-like plot only to emerge the prime suspect.
Irreverent, moving, comic and heart breaking, THE DEADLINE is clown theatre with an edge, conjuring a world that is both funny and deadly serious – where nothing is quite what it seems.

Tickets £9.50, SAC Members £7.50,

Under 18s £5.00
 

Saturday 10th May

11:00am to 2:00pm

SOUPER SATURDAY...

More goodies from the Team.

Don’t miss out!
 

FOOD

1st to 5th May
Have your fill at the 4th annual

SHAFTESBURY

LOCAL FOOD FESTIVAL

Take part in the Shop Window competition (voting slips from Swans Yard and the TIC), visit the range of tasting sessions on Friday 2nd May, and don't miss The Big Eat-Out on Saturday 3rd May (Park Walk, plus music in the High Street). On Sunday 4th May the action moves to Bell Street, centred on the Arts Centre, the TIC and the barbecue in the street outside the Bell Street Cafe, with a food and craft market round the corner in Swans Yard. Don't miss the SAC Street Theatre performances! Full details are on the festival website at

www.shaftesburylocalfoodfestival.co.uk

and in the April issue of Shaftesbury Contact.
Shaftesbury Local Food Festival
is a Swans Trust event.
 

SHAFTESBURY LOCAL FOOD FESTIVAL

Sunday 4th May
10:30am to 1:00pm

CHILDREN’S COOKERY WORKSHOP

Jane Luxmoore is back with her popular cookery workshop for children aged 7 - 11. Aprons and all ingredients provided. Cook local, cook fun, cook healthy.

Book early as places are limited.
Tickets £6.00 per child.

12:00 noon and 2:00pm

SHAFTESBURY ARTS CENTRE’S
OUTDOOR STREET THEATRE

in Bell Street
with

ST. GEORGE
AND THE DRAGON

as performed by a group of Rude Mechanicals or mummers who will process and then set up on the pavement opposite SAC and perform an amusing (hopefully) and irreverent (assuredly) version of the old tale.
 

DANCE

Wednesday 7th May
7:00pm to 8:30pm

EXPRESSIVE DANCE WORKSHOP

An opportunity to have some fun, let go and to remember the beauty of being alive. This unstructured dance form allows you the freedom to explore and dance how ever the mood takes you. There is no right or wrong!

All welcome.

For more information and tickets at £5.00 please contact Kate on 07828 160414.
 

Sunday 11th May

Start: 2:00pm End: 7:05pm
 

FILM SOCIETY SPECIAL

COEN BROTHERS

(Ethan and Joel)

FILM DAY

(NB Postponed from Feb 24th)
£9.00, SAC members £8.00
(to include tea and cake)

2:00pm Introduction by Ralph Willett

2:15pm Blood Simple (12)

Dir: Joel Coen, USA, 1985, 99 mins
Frances McDormand, M. Emmett Walsh
Brilliant first feature from the Coen brothers. In this homage to the films noirs of the 1940s and ¹50s a nightclub owner hires a sleazy private eye to kill his wife and lover, but things do not go as simply as planned.

4:00pm Tea and cakes.

5:00pm No Country for Old Men (15)

Dirs: Ethan and Joel Coen
USA, 2007, 122 mins
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem,
Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson,
Kelly MacDonald

Oscar winning latest feature. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
 

WILDLIFE EVENING

POLAR EXPOSURE

Wednesday 14th May at 8.00pm

Wildlife enthusiasts are invited to a special evening viewing of an outstanding film showing the wildlife and spectacular scenery of the vast polar regions of our planet ‘Polar Exposure’ – is to be shown at Shaftesbury Arts Centre on Wed 14th May at 8.00pm and will be presented by Joe and Sharon Jones a Salisbury couple who recall their travels in Antarctica and the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago in addition to their voyage through the notorious North West passage which very few ships have navigated.

This film trilogy will take the audience through dramatic panoramas of mountains, blue glaciers and seas to discover penguin rookeries, Minkie and Humpback whales in the south to Polar bears in the north. ‘Polar Exposure’ has delighted audiences in Blandford and Salisbury already and advance purchase of tickets is strongly recommended.

The proceeds from the evening aptly will go to Wildlife Rescue and there will be a short film to round off the evening to illustrate their valuable work. Phil Groombridge who founded Wildlife Rescue over 17 years ago has a small group of volunteers based in Salisbury. They run a 24 hour rescue service with a care centre with the sole aim of rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing birds and animals back into the wild.

Wildlife Rescue has no financial backing or funding and relies purely on donations from kind members of the public so they are indebted to Joe and Sharon for their support and fund raising from their extraordinary film.

Tickets £7.50 / SAC Members £6

 

FILM SOCIETY

Friday 16th May

Annual General Meeting

at 8:00pm

Film Starts at 8:20pm Ends at 9:45pm

Saturday 17th May

Start 8pm End 9.30pm

ONCE (15)

Dir: John Carney, Ireland, 2007, 85mins
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova

Multi award winning inspirational musical tale of two kindred spirits who find each other on the bustling streets of Dublin.
 

Guest Tickets £5.00

SAC Members £4.00
 

THEATRE

Friday 23th May at 7:30pm

THE BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL

presents

CIDER WITH ROSIE

by
Laurie Lee
Adapted by Nick Darke
with additional material by John Hartoch.
Directed by
Christopher Scott

Laurie Lee’s evergreen tale of life between the wars in the Gloucestershire countryside, is the story of a young boy awakening to the sights and sounds of a world that is bursting with life, love and self discovery. In an extract from his last radio interview , Laurie Lee says: "When I wrote it, I was writing it in order to set down things I remembered with pleasure about our small, local life in Slad. But I remember towards the end thinking ‘why am I writing this in a world which is so threatened by the dark clouds and threats of cosmic destruction?’ This is only a small story, it can only interest my family and a few neighbours. What happened was unpredictable but it also reminded many readers of their beginnings and their family recollections.”
 

In fact, the story of how, in the summer of 1918, the young Laurie Lee removes to a new home in a Cotswold village has been read by millions worldwide. The story evokes a life that is peaceful, slow and governed by the seasons. It is a child’s paradise, until that is, our hero meets Cabbage Stump Charlie, Jones’ Goat and the tantalizing temptation of supping cider with Rosie Burdockick Darke’s dramatic and humorous stage adaptation, brings to life this heart warming tale, in a “not to be missed” ensemble production of Laurie Lee’s “Cider with Rosie.”

Tickets £9.50. SAC Members £7.50, Under 18s £5.00
 

FILM SPECIAL

Saturday & Sunday 24th & 25th May
at 8:00pm

LA VIE EN ROSE (12A)

Dir: Olivier Dahan
France, 2007, subtitles, 140 mins

Marion Cotillard
Sylie Testud
Pascal Greggory

The unnervingly accurate, and Oscar winning, performance by Marion Cotillard portraying the celebrated chanteuse Edith Piaf must be seen to be believed in this multi garlanded biopic.

Guest Tickets £6, SAC Members £5.
 

FILM SPECIAL

Saturday 31st May
afternoon screening

CHILDREN’S CINEMA

Start: 2:30pm End: 4:30pm
Evening screening:
Start: 8:00pm End: 9:40pm

EARTH (PG)

Dirs: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield,
UK, Germany, 2007, 98 mins

The cinema companion to the BBC’s TV series, Planet Earth charts with fantastic photography a number of mother-and-young journeys across different parts of the globe.

2:30pm Children £3.00, Adults £5.00
8:00pm £6, SAC Members £5.00