CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

Meets monthly on the 4th Monday of the month from 5-8pm in Rm B. 

CONTACT: Sylvia W (u3acapcoast@gmail.com)

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AUGUST 2025: 

The August session has been moved to Tuesday 19 to fit in with Seniors' Week. We'll be showing 'Carry on at your Convenience.'
This session is open to all who would like to attend. So please bring along friends and  neighbours. As usual, please bring a plate to share. We look forward to seeing you there.

FEBRUARY 2025: 

On Monday 24th February we showed the classic black and white film ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’starring Gregory Peck. The film is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. A widowed attorney with two young children accepts the  significant challenge of defending a black man wrongly accused of rape in a racially divided  small southern town. 

OCTOBER 2024:

This month members can enjoy a screening of To Catch A Thief starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
A reformed jewel thief once known as "The Cat" is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting a pampered heiress, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother’s fabulous jewels. His plan backfires but the heiress believing him guilty proves her love by helping him to escape. In a spine-chilling climax, the real criminal is exposed.

JULY 2024: 

On July 22 Cultural Connections featured the film Anna And The King starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat.  The plot involves English school teacher, Anna Leonowens, who arrives in the exotic land of Siam to teach the children of King Mongkut. Her Western sensibilities clash with the ruler's Eastern ways.  Tension builds as Mongkut learns that outside forces are conspiring against his regime.  With the political intrigue set to explode,  Anna and the king must become allies in a daring fight to save Siam from dangerous enemies bent on destruction.  

MAY 2024: 

On Monday 27th May we screened a movie called, The Darjeeling Limited

about three American brothers who had not spoken to each other in a year.  

MARCH 2024: 

This month we enjoyed a light opera, The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. Hallmarks were biting humour and high energy. 

FEBRUARY 2024: 

In our first Cultural Connections for the year we viewed The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023:

Cultural Connections for August featured William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing; one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. There were mixed feelings about this play. However, most of us enjoyed it.

In October we have decided to show Carmen Jones. It is a 1954 American musical film featuring an all-black cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey. It was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1943 stage musical of the same name, set to the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

RECENT SESSIONS:
In July we celebrated 'Christmas in July' where we viewed "A White Christmas." Other recent sessions involved watching the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, The 4th Tenor with Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Davi, a video of the ballet Giselle from La Scala (1996) and finally, Don Quixote.