THE HERALD FRIDAY JANUARY 27 2017
47 Entertainment Exhibition probes social issues
out alternative psyches of shape. This creative activity probes social issues and the wider political domains, including the complex strata of the realisation of personality. Eli Acheson-Elmassry is interested
in gaining and exploring a dominance over items that appear to proscribe her daily life and which have emotional significance or which, by their usage, are involved in power struggles with her own preferred idea of a personal identity.
Using common household or large
Work by Eli Acheson-Elmassry: On display at Oriel Mwldan
SHORELINES have inspired
a new exhibition coming to Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, this Saturday (Jan 28). With Wales as a coastal nation, consideration of the shoreline as not only a play area but a border have propelled the making of this new work. Eli Acheson-Elmassry works
across a range of sculptural, digital and painted media, including latex, to create coloured flexible ‘Supple-Body’ sculptures and installations which are a kind of meta-object. Using familiar items, she takes
impressions and re-forms them in order to recondition their role, suggest new alignments of meaning and lay
man-made objects, she grasps and re- forms items of significance to her in order to recondition their role, suggest new alignments of meaning and lay out alternative psyches of shape. Her recent work resembles
coloured skins, intensely saturated yet semi-transparent and with an elastic fragility, a kind of socio-psychological epidermis. Her experiences of living in Egypt
and Saudi Arabia, and her Anglo- Egyptian marriage are strong influences for her, as are her experiences of life within both Christian and Muslim households and communities. Issues of territory, geo-political,
domestic, familial, together with recent conflicts of understanding between the secular and the spiritual, are of concern. Through her work, she aims to make connections of feeling and thought between these differing realms, offering challenges to routine assumptions.
Now based in North Wales, Acheson-Elmassry attended Glasgow School of Art (1990) and Leeds Metropolitan University (MFA 2000). She lived for six years in Saudi Arabia (2004-2010), where her artwork received national recognition. Since a major solo exhibition in Jeddah in 2010, she has been exhibiting across Europe and the Middle East as well as in London and in Wales. Admission to the Oriel Mwldan is
free. Oriel Mwldan is a contemporary
visual art exhibition space situated in Cardigan. The gallery is programmed in collaboration with their partners for the visual arts, Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown and shows work by artists based in Wales. The gallery’s aim is to provide the
region (local artists, community groups, students and the general public) with high-quality, experimental, thought- provoking and inspiring visual art. To complement this, they work
with the exhibiting artists to deliver free workshops to students from local schools and colleges and to members of the local community. They can also organise tours around the exhibitions with prior arrangement. For details, please contact
beth@mwldan.co.uk Admission to the gallery is free
and the gallery is open every day from 10am to 8pm; however, it does not open until 5pm on a Monday or 12pm on a Sunday.
Travel films challenge perceptions
Hitching to Cardigan: Get to Small World next weekend
John regularly hitches on the
Cardigan coast road. More recently, he has begun hitching to London down the M4. Now he’s working on a polite flashing sign and a specially designed map that shows all the good hitchhiking pull ins on that stretch of road. Of course, you should never get
in a car or pick someone up that you don’t feel comfortable about. There are also some places where it is illegal to hitch from, like on a motorway. A good website to check out is www.hitchwiki. org, which is full of top tips. The second film of the evening,
‘The Ride’, tells the story of four men who all had cataclysmic accidents when they were young. Three of the men are paraplegic
A DOUBLE bill of fascinating
travel films comes to Cardigan next Saturday, February 4, with the films starting at 7pm. Organised by John Plumb, the film
evening will take place at The Small World Theatre and the doors and bar will be open from 6.30pm. John Plumb is an avid and gregarious
hitchhiker traveller and so it’s with great delight that he has procured the film ‘Hitchtanbul’ to share with the audience. It tells the tale of two men hitching
from Belgium to Istanbul from the point of view of a camera on the dashboard. They have to make their journey in just one week and it is full of the fascination of ordinary – yet poignant – encounters. When we stand by the side of a road
and put out our thumb [or a sign] to get a ride, we spin the wheel of fortune. Hitching used to be a recognised form of travel – now it fills many people with the dread of the unknown and the fear of ‘the stranger’. In practice, John Plumb sees so
much in hitching that speaks of our common humanity. Not only does he get to encounter the individuals who kindly stop and hear of their unique lives, it’s also an environmentally sound way to travel. In a world where glossy media fills
time and space with stories of horror and stupidity, it’s easy to shut down to the general goodness of each other. Being open to helping a stranger lets us feel human again.
and one is quadriplegic. Together as adults, they go on a journey to revisit their crash sites – on specially designed quad bikes of course. This film is about the triumph of the human spirit, survival and reflection. For a special treat, John will
run Lois Pryce’s five minute short, ‘Revolutionary Ride’, about being a woman riding a motorcycle solo to Iran. This coincides with her book launch of the same name. Yet again, adventure travel breaks
down so many of the perceived barriers that are created by biased representations of other cultures. Come along and enjoy a heart-
warming, spirit lifting wonderful evening with fellow armchair travellers for just £5 a ticket, plus £1 membership.
20.30, 21.30
Assassin’s Creed (12A) Fri/Mon/Wed: 12.15
La La Land (12A)
Fri-Sat: 12.30, 15.15, 17.45, 19.45, 22.35 Sun-Mon/Wed: 12.30, 15.15, 17.45, 19.45
Tue/Thu: 15.15, 16.45, 19.45 Lion (PG)
Fri-Mon/Wed: 15.00
Tue/Thu: 12.00, 21.30 Sing 3D (U)
Fri-Mon/Wed: 12.00 Tue/Thu: 11.30
Sing 2D (U)
Fri/Mon/Wed: 13.00, 14.30, 15.30, 17.00, 18.00
Sat-Sun: 10.30, 13.00, 14.30, 15.30, 17.00, 18.00
Tue/Thu: 13.00, 14.00, 15.30, 16.30, 18.00
Split (15)
Fri-Thu: 18.15, 21.15 T2 Trainspotting (18)
Fri-Sat: 13.20, 16.00, 18.45, 20.30, 21.30, 23.10
Sun-Mon/Wed: 13.20, 16.00, 18.45,
The Girl on the Train (15) Tue: 11.00 Thu: 14.00
NT Live: Amadeus (12A) Thu: 19.00
Tue/Thu: 13.20, 16.00, 18.45, 20.30
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (12A) Fri-Sat: 20.45, 23.15 Sun-Mon/Wed: 20.45
Ballerina (U) Sat-Sun: 10.10
Moana (PG) Sat-Sun: 12.20
Storks (U) Sat-Sun: 10.00
Trolls (U) Sat-Sun: 10.30
Inferno (12A) Tue: 14.00 Thu: 11.00
ROH: Il Trovatore Tue: 19.15
Sing 2D (U) Fri: 18.30
Sat: 11.00, 12.20, 18.00 Sun: 11.10, 12.20, 18.00 Mon-Tue: 10.45 Sing 2D (U)
Fri: 11.10, 12.45, 13.30, 16.00, 17.30, 19.20
Sat: 10.30, 13.00, 14.15, 15.30, 17.05 Sun: 09.10, 10.30, 13.00, 14.00, 14.55, 15.30, 17.15
Mon: 12.45, 15.20, 16.00, 17.10, 17.55, 19.20
Tue: 10.45, 13.10, 14.00, 16.05, 17.55, 19.10
Wed: 11.40, 14.05, 15.50, 17.15, 17.50, 19.15
Thu: 12.25, 13.20, 15.55, 17.05, 17.55, 19.15
Lion (PG)
Fri: 11.25, 14.30 Sat: 20.05 Sun: 19.00
Mon: 11.00, 13.15 Tue: 11.00, 13.20, 15.45
Wed: 12.20, 15.05, 17.30, 19.30 Thu: 14.20, 17.15 Split (15)
Fri: 13.35, 16.20, 19.05, 21.00, 23.00 Sat: 15.30, 17.50, 21.25, 23.15 Sun: 19.10, 21.10
Mon: 14.25, 16.50, 18.55, 21.25 Tue: 16.35, 20.00, 21.45 Wed: 21.20
Thu: 15.45, 21.10 Hacksaw Ridge (15)
Fri: 10.30, 15.15, 21.15 Sat: 16.45, 19.35, 22.50 Sun: 15.55, 19.50, 21.45 Mon: 12.55, 20.00, 22.00 Tue: 10.50, 14.00, 21.25 Wed: 14.10, 20.00 Thu: 20.00 Trolls (U)
Sat-Sun: 10.00 Ballerina (U) Fri: 10.30 Sat: 09.35 Sun: 12.10 Mon: 10.40
Collateral Beauty (12A) Fri: 21.50
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (12A) Sat: 23.25
Il Trovatore – Royal Opera Tue: 19.15
T2 Trainspotting (18)
Fri: 10.35, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 23.15
Sat: 11.45, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 22.45
Sun: 10.50, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 22.50
Mon: 11.35, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 22.15
Tue: 11.00, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 22.20
Wed: 11.00, 12.45, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 22.05
Thu: 11.45, 13.45, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30, 21.45
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