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May-AugustMay-August 20162016 1 Welcome to Pontio Opening hours Ffynnon Bar Register for the latest news Monday to Saturday Monday to Saturday on www.pontio.co.uk 8.30am - 11.00pm 8.30am - 11.00pm @PontioTweets Sunday Sunday PontioBangor 12.00pm - 8.00pm 12.00pm - 8.00pm Pontio_Bangor Gorad Restaurant Tickets PontioBangor Monday to Saturday Online www.pontio.co.uk 8.30am – last food 01248 38 28 28 If you would like a orders 9pm Phone lines open large print version or Sunday Monday to Saturday 12.00pm – 6pm audio copy of the text 10.00am - 8.30pm of this programme, Copa Kiosk Sunday Monday to Friday 9.00am – 12.00pm - 6.00pm please contact us on 5.30pm (term time only) 01248 388 421 Information is correct at time of going to print Registered Charity Number: 1141565 Coming to Pontio soon? Not quite sure where things are? Download the Pontio App for iOS or Android today and you’ll have a handy map of the building in your pocket with search facilities to help you find any of the spaces in the building. Or just search for Pontio in the app store or scan the QR code below 2 Welcome to May-August 2016 at Pontio Here are some of the productions in this summer’s programme our staff and volunteers are looking forward to… Eleri Davies Lan Anh Quan Dic Ben Pontio Operations Manager Volunteer at Pontio Senior Theatre Technician What was your first What’s your first What was your first experience of the arts? memory of the arts? experience of the arts? I remember seeing The first artistic experience I was at my primary 'Joseph and the Amazing I had might be in drawing school Ysgol Cefn Coch, Technicolor Dreamcoat' in class. The emotional Penrhyndeudraeth when Manchester and loving it. memory about mixing the drama company Hwyl colors and abstract shapes a Fflag came to visit. I What are you looking inspired me later to visit don’t remember the show forward to in this and join in art gallery and art itself or any of the actors season’s programme? events as much as possible. except Alun ‘Sbardun’ Huws The new production of During the time I’ve been who was from Penrhyn! Cyfri’r Geirie - I was in in Wales and travelled Musically, my first memory is the original cast which around, I've had amazing Edward H. Dafis at Neuadd performed at Theatr opportunities to visit Goffa Penrhyn in 1975, as Gwynedd! many art museums. These part of the celebrations occasions have given me around Eisteddfod the chance to see famous Genedlaethol Cricieth. I was paintings and pictures that I eleven years old and had had read about before. climbed in through the side window with friends! What are you looking forward to in this What are you looking season’s programme? forward to in this season’s programme? Bedtime Stories looks like a really different experience! I’m looking forward to the I KA CHING 5th birthday gig – they're all great bands and it’ll be another chance to test out the speakers! 1 Music Saturday 7 May 7.30pm Bangor University Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Prichard-Jones Hall £12/£10/£5 (Under 18s and students) BRAHMS: EIN The massed forces of the the circular nature of life, DEUTSCHES REQUIEM University Symphony death, and renewal. The Orchestra and Chorus Requiem is counterpointed Liszt: Les Préludes are joined by professional by Liszt’s symphonic poem Chris Collins and Matthias soloists in a performance Les Préludes, the score of Wurz (conductors) of Johannes Brahms’s which is prefaced with words choral masterpiece, written carrying a similar thought: as an intensely personal ‘What else is our life but a response to the death of series of preludes to that his mother in 1865. It is a unknown Hymn, the first work of beauty, poise and and solemn note of which vigour, which reflects on is intoned by Death? 2 Comedy Tuesday 10 May 8pm Comedy Central Live presents Danny McLoughlin George Lewis Nathan Caton Studio £10/£8 students and concessions Join us for a night of laughs Age 16+ featuring three comedians Drinks are permitted in the studio on the UK touring circuit. at Comedy Central Live events. Pontio Gift voucher The perfect gift for any occasion With a wide range of events You can order gift being held at Pontio, from vouchers from our website drama and contemporary www.pontio.co.uk, by circus to world music, calling the Box Office gigs, ballet, panto, film on 01248 38 28 28 or and much more – why not visiting in person. consider a gift voucher for We’re sure you’ll find £10, £20 or £50. something to3 suit everyone. Music © GN Productions Wednesday, 11 May 7.30pm Allegri String Quartet Theatr Bryn Terfel Friday, 13 May, 1-2pm £14/£10/£5 Lunchtime concert Pontio Studio The Allegri Quartet In association with £12/£8/£5 students and under 18s returns to Bangor to play The Radcliffe Trust Mozart's ground-breaking This concert will feature a single Dissonance Quartet - the movement from Schubert's beginning of which could Quarttetsatz - of which only have been written one this movement plus a fragment hundred and fifty years later, exist, Puccini's short operatic Janacek’s Intimate Letters quartet piece written for the - a musical exposition of funeral of the Duke of Savoy, the obsession he had for followed by Mendelssohn's early muse Kamilla Stosslova, Quartet in A minor, modelled on and finishes with Brahms’ Beethoven's celebrated valedictory 3rd Quartet. Quartet op 132 in A Minor. 4 Music Friday, 13 May “Nothing short of a masterpiece." 8pm THE SUNDAY TIMES Cabaret Pontio presents THE FINANCIAL TIMES Bella Hardy THE GUARDIAN “... a credit to her Theatr Bryn Terfel and the genre" Q MAGAZINE £14/£12 students and concessions 2015 was a breathless year Folk Festival and from Bring your friends along for Bella Hardy which saw there followed a for an enjoyable laid back the release of her seventh fantastic headlining cabaret-style event. solo album, With The Dawn, tour in the autumn. Drinks are permitted in the to great critical acclaim. In May 2016 Bella heads out theatre for this event. A summer of opening for a small selection of very appearances across the UK special, final,With The Dawn and Ireland with Grammy shows, performing with her Award winning Mary Chapin five piece band, formed Carpenter was topped off by specifically to capture a main stage performance at this stunning album in the prestigious Cambridge a live setting. 5 Family Saturday, 14 May 11am (in Welsh) & 2pm (in English) Theatr Iolo presents teulu Boxy & Sticky family Bocsi a Ffoni “A charming and Studio mischievous treat not to be missed out on!" £6/£20 Family & Friends Ticket CHILDRENS THEATRE REVIEWS (4 people, at least one under 18) Theatr Iolo presents I’ve found a box. 12.15 - 13.15 Boxy & Sticky I’ve found a stick. PL2, Level 2 This box can be whatever 15.15 - 16.15 Created and Directed by I want it to be. PL2, Level 2 Sarah Argent I can be - A FREE making A mischievous theatrical Inside it. Outside it. workshop with boxes adventure to entrance and Under it. for all the family. Bring delight 3-5 year olds (and On top of it. your empty boxes to their families). This stick was the first toy in create whatever your the world. mind can dream up… I can tap with it a costume, a house, throw it and catch it. vehicles – the I can balance it on my head! possibilities are endless! 6 Meet the BLAS crew! BLAS is Pontio’s arts Sessions: “I like Pontio participation programme because it’s CRAZY!!” 5-6pm for young people and CIAN, 9 Years 3 and 4 meets every Monday during term time. 6.15-7.15pm “I like drama, Years 5 and 6 it’s amazing” Since the sessions have FFLUR, 10 been up and running, we’ve 7.30-8.30pm had loads of fun playing, Years 7, 8 and 9 “I like going to BLAS to act. creating and learning. The best thing about BLAS is We've started a waiting list learning a lot about acting” for young people that would SASKIA, 11 like to join BLAS. For more info please contact Mared Huws, Pontio BLAS and Arts Remember to use Development Coordinator on [email protected] or the #BLAS Box Office on 01248 38 28 28 when tweeting! Class 1 / Yrs 3&4 Class 3 / Yrs 7, 8 & 9 Class 2 /Yrs 5&6 7 Pontio Cinema After a long wait, the dream is finally a reality and we have films 7 days a week in Bangor. We checked in with Emyr Glyn Williams, Pontio’s Cinema Co-ordinator to find out how the first season has gone…and what we can expect this season. “Although it’s still early days, to see some of the more certainly the thrill of being alternative films and turning able to offer the latest films individual nights in the on the big screen once again company of Brigitte Bardot in Bangor hasn’t faded for and Jean Luc Godard and me yet, at least! I hope that the quiet film genius from the opening of a brand new Iran, Jafar Panahi, into digital cinema in Bangor successful evenings. has made our audience "The feedback asking feel part of the wider for more live satellite cinematic community. screenings, arthouse films, “I know from talking to local and international people that the chance to political content and more Pontio’s Cinema see films on their doorstep than anything, more films programme is published has been welcomed, with for children and young online and through a many coming to see the people, is certainly being monthly programme big commercial titles such listened to, and we look which is distributed as Spectre, Star Wars: The forward to developing locally and within Force Awakens , The Lady the programme over the the centre.