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Eight of the Most Memorable Book-To-Film Releases. P4-5 YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! Community invites you to send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]. Select images will appear in both the print edition as well as Community Instagram page @communitygt. — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Thursday, December 26, 2019 Rabia II 29, 1441 AH Doha today: 180 - 240 COVER TORY Best of 2019 S Eight of the most memorable book-to-film releases. P4-5 SHOWBIZ BACKPAGE Hollywood surviving on superhero Classical Arabic music attracts movies, says fi lmmaker Gupta. visitors at Souq Waqif Spring Festival. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, December 26, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.55am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.19am Zuhr (noon) 11.35am Asr (afternoon) 2.33pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.53pm Isha (night) 6.23pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Legend of the Christmas Witch One night, Paola disappears, kidnapped by Mr Johnny, a cruel DIRECTION: Michele Soavi Toymaker who got his childhood ruined by the Witch and is CAST: Paola Cortellesi, Stefano Fresi, Fausto Maria now seeking revenge. A group of six brave pupils who found Sciarappa out their teacher’s secret, will live an extraordinary adventure SYNOPSIS: During the day Paola is an ordinary primary to rescue her. Will they be able to save Paola and Christmas? school teacher, but at night, she turns into…The Christmas Witch, a magical creature who brings gifts to the good kids. THEATRE: Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 I See You of a young boy. When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead Qatar Airways 40253374 DIRECTION: Adam Randall investigator Greg Harper (Jon Tenney) struggles to balance the CAST: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie SYNOPSIS: Strange occurrences plague a small town (Helen Hunt). detective and his family as he investigates the disappearance THEATRE: Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Thursday, December 26, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY WHEN: January 15 – July 1 TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. Smedley Toastmasters is conducting a six-month speech-craft programme that teaches new members to speak confi dently and develop leadership skills. For more information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit www.SmedleyToastmasters.org Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre The Colour Run 2020 water sports, Winter Dragon Boat Festival WHEN: Saturday – Friday WHERE: QNCC is back to show us their fast rowing skills. Mamangam is an art and performance WHEN: January 25 Dragon boating is a canoe-sport and was centre started with a vision of spreading TIME: 7am – 10pm originally a traditional festival game dating our knowledge, interests and experience in Your Health First is a fi ve-kilometre, back 2,000 years throughout Southern various disciplines in arts across diff erent untimed event. At each kilometre mark, China. It has now become a popular sport countries for children and adults. Colour Runners are doused from head to toe with competitions held around the world. Mamangam has become the favourite in a diff erent coloured powder. Participants centre for learning. We off er regular classes wear white at the starting line and fi nish the in the following disciplines like traditional race plastered in colour. Once the 5k is over, classical and folk dance forms, art and the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a craft, drawing and painting, personality larger-than-life party equipped with music, development and public speaking, Bollywood dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music and more massive colour throws., which both vocals and instrumentals. To develop create millions of vivid colour combinations. health consciousness, we train them karate, yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. Gems and Jewels Exhibition Mamangam has also come up with chess and WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art robotics in regular batches in an attempt to WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 give a better learning experience, as they TIME: 9am onwards sharpen their minds and brains too. The exhibition comes in celebration of For those who wish to register for more the Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture and details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in presents a look at magnifi cent gems and jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and NYE – Countdown in the desert Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases WHERE: Al Bahar Camp, Inland Sea more than 100 pieces from across Qatar Al Wakalat Car Market 2019 After School Activities WHEN: December 31 Museums’ (QM) collections, including many WHERE: Parking opposite to Khalifa WHERE: Atelier An exclusive getaway this New Year’s Eve to masterpieces that have never been displayed International Stadium WHEN: Ongoing avoid the crowd. Join us in the Qatari Desert before. WHEN: Ongoing till December 28 Music and arts activities for students and camp under the starry sky by the beach at TIME: 4pm – 11:59pm taking place after they fi nish their day in the most beautiful waterfront camp. Wake up Al Wakalat Car Market aims to congregate school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- to the most stunning sunrise over the dunes car enthusiasts, prospective buyers, and hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama and make your New Year’s resolutions. For automotive retailers with the best deals of Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 further information, call 3339 3323 or visit the year in a single location. Al Wakalat Car years old after school hours. www.365adventures.me Market will enable visitors to have access to cars at their best off ers of the year, which Winter School gor Grade IX-XII Secret Santa Village ensure to clear out stocks of approved cars. Students WHERE: Al Bahar Camp, Inland Sea WHERE: Inspire Training Academy, WHEN: Tomorrow Najma St. Join and spread the amazing night WHEN: Ongoing till December 29 with your loved ones in the middle of the TIME: 8:30am – 1:30pm desert, as Santa awaits for everybody with Developing the leader within every teen lots of smiles, dance, music and gifts. For today — for a better world tomorrow. further information, call 3339 3323 or visit Each student deserves to discover their www.365adventures.me potential and acquire the skills, confi dence and motivation to make things happen and bring about change. The fi ve-day leadership and innovation programme is an exciting series of interactive workshops, energetic activities and fun-fi lled challenges specifi cally designed to inspire and enable each and every student to uncover their unique abilities, develop greater confi dence and master strategies for success in the classroom and beyond. Programme leader, Dr Ram B. Ramchandran is Vice Dean and Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 Professor of Strategy and Planning at the WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art O.P. Jindal Global School, India. The event is WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults organised by Right Track Consultants. Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C Ring Road For registration details, contact 55448835. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, December 26, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Book-to-film: Combo to contend with Chris Barton gives the lowdown on a combination of holiday reading list and viewing guide for the Oscar season ith Oscar season in full swing, a new batch of classic and memorable books makes the Wleap from page to screen. Although there are no rules for adaptation, the process at its best recalls the way a musician covers a song. The core of what made the original story special remains, but the results should unearth something new through the interpreter’s voice.Here are eight noteworthy, literary-inspired fi lms either on their way or recent arrivals. Think of it as a combination of holiday reading list and viewing guide. Just Mercy The book: Written by Bryan Stevenson, this memoir looks at the civil rights attorney’s work in opposition to inequities in the American criminal justice system. Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, a New York University law professor and a McArthur Foundation “Genius” grant recipient who has mounted legal challenges to free wrongly convicted prisoners. He published Just Mercy: A Story of Redemption and Justice in 2014. “I just want people to see what I’ve seen for 35 years,” Stevenson says. The movie: Much like the book, the bulk of the adaptation directed by Destin Daniel Cretton mob bosses and gangland killings retelling, however, could be seen has been interpreted by director dialogue as well as moments taken (Short Term 12) centres on Alabama collide with the mythology of as a less measured account than Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and from her life to find new wrinkles inmate Walter McMillian (Jamie 20th century America.
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