KINO-TEATR

Refugee Week: Limbo 
UK 2020, PG, 103 mins, drama, comedy

A BAFTA nominee for Outstanding British film, Limbo is a 2020 comedy/drama that centres on four asylum seekers who are staying on a remote island in Scotland, and taking cultural awareness classes, while awaiting the processing of their refugee claims.

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‘A gorgeous tragicomic take on the refugee experience’ ★★★★★ The Guardian

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Ben Sharrock expertly juxtaposes the limitless landscape of the Scottish islands with the curtailed options of oud-playing new arrival Omar, a Syrian migrant. It is a masterpiece of atmospheric film-making, with a superb original soundtrack created by the St Leonards based composer Hutch Demouilpied who will present a short introduction to the 7.30pm screening.

Saturday June 25th at 3pm & 7.30pm

Tickets £10/ £9 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s 

Coffee Concert: Jane Gordon (violin) & Anna Smith (viola)

The concert features exquisite rare Italian music by Antonio Bruni and Alessandro Rolla ‘the teacher of Paganini’, alongside masterworks by Mozart.

Jane Gordon 

Described as playing with ‘glowing conviction’ (Financial Times) and a ‘ravishing tone and depth of timbre’ (The Independent), Jane’s expressive and refined performances have won critical acclaim. As a wonderfully versatile musician, her musical activities span classical concerti, solo recitals, a wide variety of chamber music and play/directing orchestras from the violin. Jane has performed at major European concert halls such as Vienna Konzerthaus, Paris Philharmonie, Milan La Scala and Amsterdam Conzertgebouw, further afield at the Lincoln Centre New York, Sydney Opera House and at venues in Hong Kong and South Korea. She is artistic director of Hastings Early Music Festival. 

Anna Smith 

Versatile English/Dutch violist Anna Smith studied modern languages at Cambridge University and viola at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Since moving to the Netherlands in 2012 she has performed regularly with orchestras including Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra and Dutch Philharmonic. Previously a member of the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester, she also played regularly with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic.

Sunday June 26th  at 11am

Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant

Refugee Week: Flee 
Denmark 2021,15, 89 mins, animation, documentary, drama

A 2021 critically acclaimed adult animated documentary which follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his country for the first time. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) serve as executive producers and narrators for the English-language version.

Flee received unanimous  critical praise for animation, story, thematic content, subject matter, and LGBT presentation. The film also incorporates archival film footage of events in Afghanistan from the time Amin fled.

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The film was selected as the Danish entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Sunday June 26th at 2pm

Tickets £10 / £9 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Benediction 
UK 2021, 12A, 137 mins, war drama, biography

A 2021 biographical drama written and directed by the BAFA winning British director Terence Davies, starring Jack Lowden (England Is Mine, Mary Queen of Scots, Dunkirk) and the Academy Award Winner and Bafta nominee Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, Paddington 2).

The film chronicles the story of Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967), the famed British poet who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance during WWI, had affairs with several men while being closeted, and developed a crisis of faith when he converted to Catholicism.

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★★★★  The Guardian 

Wednesday June 29th at 3pm & 7.30pm & Thursday June 30th at 3pm & 7.30pm

Tickets £10/ £9 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Top Gun: Maverick
US 2022, 12A, 130mins, action, drama

An action drama directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, a sequel to Top Gun (1986). The film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, reprising his role from Top Gun, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer who also reprises his role from the original film.

The story follows Maverick's return to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program , where he must confront his past as he trains a group of younger fighter pilots, among them the son of Maverick's deceased best friend Goose.

Friday July 1st at 7.30pm, Saturday July 2nd at 3pm & 7.30pm & Sunday July 3rd at 2pm

Tickets £12/ £10 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Coffee Concert: Tomás Matos (piano)

Tomás Matos was born in Matosinhos, Portugal. He first started learning the piano with his father and at the age of twelve he had his first public concert with a large ensemble playing Gershwin´s Rhapsody in Blue. He  finished his degree in Piano For Chamber Music and Accompaniment in the class of Artur Pizarro in ANSO (National Higher Academy of Orchestra) in 2018. Currently, besides doing his masters at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, Tomás is also giving a series of masterclasses there.

Sunday July 3rd at 11am

Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant

'Sound Bath' Session with Julia Scott-Russell

Join Crystal Sound Therapy practitioner Julia Scott-Russell in discovering the benefits of crystal sound for your health and wellbeing. Experience the calming sounds of Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. Sit or lie back on chair or mat with a blanket, whilst Julia gently eases you into experiencing a ‘sound bath’. Starting with a few minutes of guided focus, Julia will help you to ‘just be’ without the need to ‘do’ anything.

The remainder of Julia’s ‘Halcyon Sounds’ experience will be filled with different tonal frequencies from some of Julia’s personal collection of Alchemy bowls. We want you to have the best possible experience, please do bring a blanket to feel warm and snug. There are a limited number of yoga mats and pillows available, so feel free to bring your own. 

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Please note - by attending this event you automatically agree to the medical disclaimer: you do not have/never had epilepsy at any point in your life, you do not have an artificial pacemaker or cochlear implant(s) or are less than 12 weeks pregnant.  

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Also to note, the sound vibrations may be felt more in replacement joint(s), metal plate(s) or metal implant(s) - you are welcome to discuss this with Julia Scott-Russell, but ultimately it is your decision as to whether you attend.

Wednesday July 6th at 4.30pm

Tickets £14

Everything Everywhere All at Once 
US 2022,15, 139 mins, fantasy, black comedy

A 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. It stars Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese-American woman being audited by the Internal Revenue Service who discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from causing the destruction of the multiverse.

Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong and Jamie Lee Curtis appear in supporting roles. The film features elements of black comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts film and animation.

‘Rich performances collide with big ideas, wrapped in a nuanced understanding of how we treat each other’ ★★★★★ The Independent
 

Wednesday July 6th at 7.30pm & Sunday July 10th at 2pm

Tickets £12/ £10 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Xuefei Yang (China)
An Evening of Classical Guitar: The music from China, Spain, Brazil, UK & Argentina

Xuefei Yang is an outstanding classical guitarist from China. Born in Beijing, she became the first guitarist to enter a music school in China, and obtain a Bachelor of Arts from the Central Conservatory of Music. She was the first guitarist from China to study in the United Kingdom and the first guitarist to receive an international scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for her postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Xuefei  tours extensively in the UK, USA, Europe and China, performing the traditional and modern guitar repertoire (Falla, Barrios, Albéniz, Dyens, York), and a wide range of other classical composers (Debussy, Elgar, Schubert, Paganini, Britten, Mussorgsky), as well as  Chinese music. 

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‘In Xiaoyong Chen’s Static and Rotation she turned sweet, chiming overtones into a wild sound like a hailstorm on a window. And, playing with similar brilliance in Robert Saxton’s Night Dance, Timothy Salter’s Equipoise premiere and Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland, Yang’s easeful virtuosity won the day.' 

Matthew Connolly, The Times

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Xuefei has made many acclaimed recordings for major labels. Her first received a gold disc & her second was selected as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone magazine. Her recent releases include a solo album “Colours of Brazil,” (Decca Classics) and “Songs from our Ancestors”.

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She has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and the BBC Proms

Classic FM named Xuefei Yang as one of the 100 top classical musicians of our time.

Thursday July 7th at 7.30pm

Tickets £16/ £14 Concessions

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Amelia White / Robbie Cavanagh

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO TOUR CANCELLATION

Amelia White: The East Nashville legend returns to the UK with stunning songs from her new Kim Richey-produced record Love I Swore. A critically acclaimed favourite of Bob Harris, BBC, NPR, Rolling Stone and others, White’s previous honours include a year-end Top 10 record pick by the Daily Telegraph. 

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‘There's some great songwriting on this. Check it out, you will NOT be disappointed’ Ralph McLean, BBC Radio Ulster  

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‘This is the real deal, full of juicy tunes – the woman just oozes cool. With an album as good as this, it's truly an appointment not to be missed, a chance to see East Nashville's finest at the top of her game. Take it’ Americana UK

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Robbie Cavanagh: Though his latest record To Leave/To Be Left has received high praise, it's Robbie's live performance that has really turned heads and attracted much deserved attention. Stepping out on stage with a guitar over his shoulder and a well-earned confidence in his chest, Robbie can hardly open his mouth without also opening his heart.

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‘Sincere and wonderful’ Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2

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‘Timeless, stunning, and it should be in your record collection’ House in the Sand

Friday July 8th at 7.30pm

Tickets £15 EVENT CANCELLED

Coffee Concert: Nataly Ganina (Latvia)
 

Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Franck, Medtner

A distinguished Latvian pianist, Nataly won First Prize at the Riga Piano Competition “Talent of Latvia”  and later graduated from the Royal College of Music. She toured the Baltic countries and performed extensively in London where she now resides.

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Besides having a very expressive, moving and sincere style in music, Nataly also  excelled in sports, having won multiple times the All Latvia swimming competition. We are delighted to welcome her first performance in St. Leonards on Sea!

Sunday July 10th at 11am

Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant

The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) 
Ireland 2022, 12A, 95 mins (in English & Irish Gaelic)

Directed by Colm Bairéad and set in 1980s Ireland, this is a compassionate, beautiful  film inspired by the  novella by Claire Keegan. The Quiet Girl premiered at the Berlinale on 11 February 2022 and won  a Crystal Bear from the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film.  It won seven of the Irish Film and Television Awards — Best film, Director, Leading Actress (Clinch), music, editing, production design and cinematography.

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‘Exquisite debut drama’★★★★★ The Guardian

‘A quietly confident film, that's breathtaking’★★★★★ Irish Daily Mail

 ‘Colm Bairéad paces this soulful drama beautifully’★★★★★ Irish Independent

Wednesday July 13th at 3pm & 7.30pm & Thursday July 14th at 7.30pm

Tickets £12/ £10 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Henry Normal - The Escape Plan

An evening of pure escape with stories, jokes and poems from writer, poet and TV and film producer Henry Normal. Featuring all your favourite poems from his BBC Radio 4 series and his seven poetry collections.

Henry Normal is a writer, poet and TV and Film producer and founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival

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He co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. He also co-wrote the Mrs Merton Show , Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, Tony Ferrino, Doctor Terrible and the film The Parole Officer. Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1999 Henry Executive Produced all, and script edited many of the shows of its seventeen and a half year output during his tenure as MD.

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'Not heard anything that jumps from hilarious to moving in such an intelligent, subtle way as Henry Normal's show' Radio Times

'The Alan Bennett of poetry' The Scotsman

'Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit...The poetry itself is stuff of proper substance, marrying the suburban beauty of Beatles ballads with the blunt candour of the kitchen sink' The Guardian 

Friday July 15th at 7.45pm

Tickets £18

The Harder They Come 
Jamaica 1972, 15, 103 mins, drama, crime, music 

A 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and starring Jimmy Cliff. The film is most famous for its reggae soundtrack that is said to have "brought reggae to the world". Enormously successful in Jamaica, the film also reached the international market and has been described as "possibly the most influential of Jamaican films and one of the most important films from the Caribbean.

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'My character, Ivanhoe Martin, was based on a 1940s Jamaican gangster, Rhyging, whose name struck terror into everybody. To play him, I drew on my experiences of living in Kingston and people I knew. And I loved the bad guys in the movies, which helped, too. The musical part of the storyline was based on me. In those days, producers were really rough guys who controlled the music industry and paid artists very little' Jimmy Cliff, songwriter and actor.

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‘The film has a sharp and racy rhythm, in keeping with the syncopated music of the isle, plus an underlying social theme in the guise of a familiar tale’ Variety

Sunday July 17th at 2pm

Tickets £12/ £10 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Simon&thePope & More - 'Avant Bavard'

Free Live Music in the Gallery

Simon&thePope will play some of their trademark hypnotic drum, bass and spoken word grooves, accompanied by Anthony Moore & Hutch Demouilpied, to help while away that anticipatory hour before The Bavard Bar.

Wednesday July 20th at 6.30pm

Free Event

The Bavard Bar  

The Bavard Bar. "A delightful blend of TED, comedy and Radio 4. Sort of."

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Three passionate speakers. Three distinct passions. From meteorites to crop circles, circuit-bending to the James Bond theme on Kazoo, you never know what you're going to hear as passions are kept secret until the night.

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Interspersed with nonsense including the KP Lite, Oojah Kappivvy and Bohemia Road, plus brand new feature 'Make it Stop’. With music from Piano Man Dan playing songs themed around the night's passions, bav-artistry from Maria O’Neill, and all hosted by MC Tim B'vard.

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The Bavard Bar. "Avoiding life’s questions to give you the answers."

Wednesday July 20th at 7.30pm

Tickets £12

NT Live: Prima Facie 

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live from the intimate Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.

A production from Empire Street Productions. 

Thursday July 21st at 7pm

Tickets £18/ £16 Concessions

A Knight of Romantic Ballad:
Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti’s life and times in song and story 

An evening of Sir Paolo Tosti's romantic ballads interwoven with narrated reminiscences of life in the late-Victorian society he charmed and the royal circles in which he became so popular.

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Featuring Emma Dogliani (soprano), John Upperton (tenor), Victoria Hay (piano), Frances Jones (violin) with Joanne Whalley (narrator).

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Written and produced by Paul Blundell this event carries the kind patronage of Istituto Nazionale Tostiano in Ortona, Italy.

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Friday July 22nd at 7.30pm

Tickets £16/ £14 Concessions

A Night of Flamenco 

Fiery dancing, cante, live flamenco guitar & percussion featuring Jesus Olmedo & friends.

Saturday July 23rd at 7.30pm

Tickets £24/ £22 Concessions

Coffee Concert: Alexander Metcalfe (piano)

The welcome return of Alexander Metcalfe with a programme of Classical Connections; from Mozart to Schumann to Brahms.

Sunday July 24th at 11am

Tickets £12 include coffee and croissant

Elvis 
US 2022 PG-12 159 mins, musical 

A 2022 biographical musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner, the film follows the life and career of musician and actor Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) as well as his complex relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).
 
Elvis premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2022  and was praised  for its direction and Butler's performance.

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‘The most impeccably styled and blaringly gaudy thing you'll see all year' The Telegraph

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‘Luhrmann's best film since Romeo + Juliet ... The power in the musical numbers is drawn from Butler's turn but also from Luhrmann, who edits with the kind of frenetic rhythms that are almost impossible to resist (feet will tap) ... They are the spine-tingling highlights that make the entire project a must-see movie’ The Times

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‘He (Butler) had channeled and embodied my father's heart and soul beautifully. In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully’ Lisa Marie Presley

Sunday July 24th at 2pm, Wednesday July 27th at 3pm & 7.30pm & Saturday July 30th at 3pm & 7.30pm

Tickets £12/ £10 Concessions/ £8 Under 16s

Steve Furst 'In Character' 

Actor, comedian, musician Steve Furst (Matilda - West End, Little Britain, Holby City, The Wright Stuff, Lenny Beige) presents 10 darkly comic creations in this 2 act/2 hour show which is unlike anything you will have seen.

There is a huge diversity of character from a Royal butler to a waltzer owner, to an inner-city Mayor to a former stuntman, to a modern day druid. Steve doesn't leave the stage at all during the show allowing the audience a glimpse into the process of 'getting into character'.

 ‘Furst’s attention to writing and acting is truly astounding’ The Stage

Thursday July 28th at 7.30pm

Tickets £20/ £18 Concessions

ROH/Royal Ballet Live Cinema Season 2022/23

The Royal Opera: Madama Butterfly  

Conductor:  Nicola Luisotti

Cast:  Maria Agresta (Cio-Cio-San), Joshua Guerrero (Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton), Carlos Álvarez (Sharpless), Christine Rice (Suzuki), Carlo Bosi (Goro) 

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With a score that includes Butterfly’s aria, ‘Un bel di, vedremo’ (‘One fine day’) and Humming Chorus, Giacoma Puccini’s opera is entrancing and ultimately heart-breaking

Thursday September 27th at 7.15pm

Tickets £20/ £18 Concessions (tickets on sale from July 1st)

Tiny Magnetic Pets + Tin Gun

Tiny Magnetic Pets are an Irish 3-piece New Wave Synth band who have collaborated with Wolfgang Flur, supported Michael Rother & The Killers’ Dave Keuning. They have toured extensively with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark –  UK & German tours, and have recently toured with Midge Ure on his European tour as well as 2 successful headline tours of their own in the UK.

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The band have just recently released their album Blue Wave. Vince Clarke has remixed their forthcoming new single Automation as well as Nick Reach-Up and this is available now to order.

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 ‘It’s The Velvet Underground meets Laurie Anderson but it all leads back to Kraftwerk’ Boy George 

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‘I love the whole album but there were tracks that blew me away – so beautifully crafted, so emotional,  such clever writing with perfect emotion so we offered them the whole UK tour…’ Andy McCluskey (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

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‘Paula Gilmer’s voice reminds me of a young Debbie Harry. Wonderful music’ Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk)

Thursday October 13th at 7.30pm

Tickets £15