Nottingham Cinema Meetup

Tickets and trailer: https://mammothcinema.co.uk/Event/247499 (Pay what you feel - £2 to £10)
Film website: https://adairystory.com/
Everything you always wanted to know about Mammoth: https://www.greenmeadowsknowledgebank.uk/mammoth

Meet outside Mammoth (opposite the Lord Roberts pub) at 6.45pm, or inside in the small bar area down the alley and up the stairs once the gate is open. The usual Mammoth format is that there is a short introduction before the film, and a discussion of the film after the screening. There are only 22 seats in this cinema, so early booking is recommended if you are interested.

UPDATE: For the discussion after the film, the audience and hosts will be joined by Debra and Tom Willoughby from Grange Farm, who have swapped their organic dairy farm for an agroforestry project - planting thousands of fruit and nut trees. alongside food and fodder crops.

'Twelve-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram wrestle to hold onto their friendship, in the wake of a traumatic police stop & search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming.'
Tickets: https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/ish-qa

Meet in the Broadway Café Bar from 5.30pm to say hello, before taking our seats in Screen 2 for the 6pm showing, which will be followed by a Q&A session with director Imran Perretta and producer Dhiraj Mahey. Afterwards, we’ll gather together again in the Café Bar to discuss the film.

Tickets: https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-screen-james-mcneill-whistler

Meet in the Broadway Café Bar from 5pm to say hello, before taking our seats in Screen 2 for the 5.30pm showing. Afterwards, we’ll gather together again in the Café Bar to discuss the film.

'In an era of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th century art, he was a contemporary of the Impressionists, much admired by Van Gogh and Manet. Boldly experimental and famously witty, Whistler disrupted the strict conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of a new cult of beauty, creating “art for art’s sake” and earning himself a place in the history of great art. He found a parallel between painting and music, and entitled many of his paintings "arrangements", "harmonies" and "nocturnes", emphasizing the importance of tonal harmony in his work. His most famous painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), commonly known as Whistler's Mother, is a revered and often parodied portrait of motherhood. It is arguably one of the most famous paintings in history and this film will unveil the artist behind the art.

Tate Britain is now holding the first major retrospective of Whistler in three decades. This blockbuster exhibition promises to reawaken the world to just how important Whistler is to art history, uniting world-famous masterpieces with rarely seen works. Exhibition on Screen will bring these stunning works and the incredible story behind them to cinemas around the world while the exhibition is still running, bringing this truly global artist to a global audience. This will be an unmissable chance to get to know this visually spectacular artist and the influence he has had on those who followed.'