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Caldmore Garden Cinema – Monsoon Wedding – Indian Film Night

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – Monsoon Wedding

When: Sunday 25th June 2017 at 9.15-11pm

MONSOON WEDDING

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Directed by Mira Nair
India, 1hour 54 minutes, Comedy/Drama/Romance
English / Hindi with English subtitles

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. Evenings can get cold, so please bring warm clothes and a blanket.

 

Caldmore Garden Cinema – The Dupes – Palestinian Film Night

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – The Dupes – Palestinian Film Night

When: Sunday 4th June 2017 at 9.30-11.15pm

The Dupes (The Deceived)

The first Palestinian feature film – 1972 directed by Tewfik Saleh, based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1962 classic novel Men in the Sun.

Set in 1958, 10 years after the Nakba, it gives an insight into an earlier time of Palestinian oppression. The film follows the journey of three Palestinian from a refugee camp in Iraq, across the desert hoping to find work in the oil boom in Kuwait. Ill treatment, humiliation, heat and checkpoints. Ghassan Kanafani was a writer, political activist and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The film was released the same year Kanafani was assassinated by a car bomb, he was age 36.

Black and White with English subtitles, 1 hour 46 minutes.

Remembering the Nakba – Walsall Kobar Friendship Association

FREE ENTRY

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. If the weather is good, it will be an outdoor screening – please wear layers and bring a blanket, it can get cool in the evening.

Caldmore Children’s Cinema – Angry Birds

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Caldmore Children’s Cinema – Angry Birds

When: Sunday 28th May 2017 at 2-4pm

Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts – Red, Chuck and Bomb – to figure out what the pigs are up to.

US 2016, PG, 97 minutes

Come and join us for indoor screening of Angry Birds – The Movie at Caldmore Children’s Cinema.

FREE ENTRY.

Seats are limited, so don’t be late. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Caldmore Garden Cinema – Land and Freedom

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – Land and Freedom

When: Sunday 9th April 2017 at 7.30-9.30pm

LAND AND FREEDOM

Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters.

Directed by Ken Loach, 1996.

109 minutes.

Entry: free for cinema club members (membership card valid one year: £10 per family, £5/person)

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. Evenings are still cold, so we will be watching the film inside.

Caldmore Children’s Cinema – The BFG

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Caldmore Children’s Cinema – The BFG

When: Sunday 9th April 2017 at 2-4pm

From the imaginations of two of the world’s greatest storytellers, Roald Dahl and Steven Spielberg, THE BFG tells the extraordinary tale of a young girl named Sophie (played by Ruby Barnhill) and the Big Friendly Giant (played by Mark Rylance) who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. Together they embark on a marvellous and buckswhashling adventure filled with snozzcumbers, dream jars, frobscottle and even the Queen! The mismatched pair form an unlikely friendship that will inspire enormous bravery in the BFG and give Sophie a taste of the family she dreams of.

US 2016, PG, 117 mins

FREE ENTRY.

Seats are limited, so don’t be late. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Contact: CALDMOREGARDEN@GMAIL.COM, 07871813252

Caldmore Cinema – Empties / Vratne lahve – Czech Film Night

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Caldmore Cinema – Empties / Vratne lahve – Czech Film Night

When: Sunday 16th October 2016 at 7-9pm

Czech Film Night showing Empties (Vratné lahve), a 2007 comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.

Josef Talon is a middle-aged lit teacher who grows exhausted from instructing his demanding, occasionally obnoxious students, and opts to take a hike – into an early retirement. Though his wife, Eliska, continues to tolerate his insensitivity, Josef quickly recognises his own need.

100 minutes, PG-15, Czech with English subtitles.

Entry: free for film club members
(annual membership card: £6/family, £3/individual)

The screening will take place in the Community House in the Garden. Hot drinks will be served, but you can bring your own drinks and snacks.

Caldmore Children’s Cinema – ‘Inside Out’

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Caldmore Children’s Cinema – ‘Inside Out’

When: Sunday 18th September 2016 at 2-4pm

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

USA 2015, PG, 95 mins

Come and join us for indoor screening of Inside Out at Caldmore Children’s Cinema.

FREE ENTRY.

Seats are limited, so don’t be late. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Caldmore Outdoor Cinema – Polish Film Night

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Caldmore Outdoor Cinema – Polish Film Night

When: Sunday 18th September 2016 at 8-10pm

Polish Film Night with widely acclaimed 2014 film “Bogowie”.

The film shows early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite harsh reality of the 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country’s first human heart transplantation.

120 minutes, suitable for viewers over 15.

Entry: free for cinema club members
(family membership £6/year, individual membership £3/year)

Bring your own food and drinks, wear warm clothing (layers!) and don’t forget a blanket – it gets quite cold after dark in September! If it rains, we will move inside to the Community House.

 

Caldmore Outdoor Cinema – Afghan Film Night

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Caldmore Outdoor Cinema – Afghan Film Night

When: Sunday 14th August 2016 at 8-11pm

We start with a pizza at 8pm and at 8:30pm begin watching the famous Kite Runner based on Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling book.

The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes, and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever.

128 minutes, PG-13.

Entry: free for cinema club members
(family membership £6/year, individual membership £3/year)
Caldmore Cinema screenings every second weekend of the month.

Bring your own snacks and drinks, and don’t forget a blanket – it gets cold after dark. If it rains, we will move inside to the Community House.

Near Neighbours funding for the garden

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We are really happy to announce that we have received Near Neighbours’ funding for our project Grow-Cook-Make (A Difference Together!)!

Starting from February 2015 we will be working hard to bring various faiths and cultures together around growing, cooking, sharing cultural traditions and doing things together.

Caldmore is a wonderfully multicultural place and we want to celebrate with:

  • sharing diverse cooking traditions – COOKING WORKSHOPS
  • growing food from all around the world – GROWING PROJECT
  • enjoying cultural heritage – OUTDOOR CINEMA IN THE GARDEN
  • learning with and from each other – BUILDING A TANDOORI OVEN AND A BARBECUE
  • making things together, for all ages – ARTS AND CRAFTS AND GRAFFITI WORKSHOPS

So stay tuned, get involved and join us in the garden!