Mid Wales International Women's Day Events 2010
5 Mar 2010
Esyllt Harker
@Theatr Harlech
Singer and storyteller Esyllt Harker is one of Wales’ leading bi-lingual performance storytellers.
She tells myths and legends rooted in landscape, history and memories of Wales, interwoven with song and mixed with tales from further afield. Her ability to make her Welsh material easily comprehensible to
non-Welsh speakers means that she is very much in demand wherever the Welsh language is to be celebrated. Ideal event for Welsh learners.
19:30
http://www.theatrharlech.com
Box Office: 01766 780 667
Tickets: £7.50 Concessions available
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Saturday 6 March
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (15)
Starring: Shahanara Begum, Hushnara Begum, Simon Chambers
UK, 2006, 1 hour 2 minutes
This explores the intricacies of Bangladeshi family traditions at first-hand by following his two young East End neighbours, feisty Shanara and her younger, more submissive sister, Hushnara, as they undertake arranged marriages. The result is a funny, intimate, moving portrait of how two British Asian girls cope very differently with the conflicting demands made on them by society.
@Theatr Mwldan
6.30
Welsh premiere
Shahanara Begum & Simon Chambers will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards
http://www.mwldan.co.uk
Box Office: 01239 621 200
Tickets: £5.50 / £4.20
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13 Mar 2010
COMMEMORATING THE 1984 MINER’S STRIKE THROUGH WOMEN’S EYE
@Theatr Mwldan
An evocative and challenging multimedia production commemorating a quarter of a century since the miners’ strike of 1984. Young people of Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company work alongside professional artists to create a vibrant and dynamic performance of conflict and allegiance, pinpointing highs and lows from local women’s perspectives of this controversial time. From distributing food parcels to those most in need, to picketing and marching, women were in the thick of the action standing up for their values and community. This unique production promises to provide a fresh snapshot on a time that has defined modern Britain.
19:30 (opens at 19:20)
http://www.mwldan.co.uk
Box Office: 01239 621 200
Tickets: £5.00 / £7.00
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Monday 15th March
The Maid (PG)
Chile, 2008, Spanish with English subtitles
Funny, tense, and unpredictable, this is the tale of the pig-headed Racquel, the maid-from-hell who has lived with the same family for 20 years. Her increasingly unreliable behaviour leads them to recruit a string of new servants to help her, but Racquel soon sees them off....
@Aberystwyth Arts Centre
8.15pm
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
Box Office: 01970 623232
Tickets: £5.25 Concessions available |
