Films for festive holiday
While the festive season is a time for families to gather at home, for some a trip to the cinema is a great escape from tinsel and wrapping paper.
The Macrobert Arts Centre at Stirling University is showing a number of films over the holiday period with something to suit everyone.
One of the best Christmas movies of all times will be showing from Friday, December 22 through to Tuesday, December 26 with a break for Christmas Day.
made in 1946, has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born.
Running from Friday, December 29 to Sunday, January 7 with a day off on January 1, is an animated heartwarming story of a giant bull with a big heart who is mistaken for a dangerous beast and torn away from his home. Determined to get back to his family, he rallies a misfit team for the ultimate adventure that proves you can’t judge a bull by its cover.
based on the New York Times bestseller about the inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with a facial deformity, is on at the Macrobert from Friday, December 29-Thursday, January 4. “Auggie” enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time and starting at a new school, he’s determined to fit in and show everyone there that he’s just an ordinary kid.
also runs at the Macrobert from December 29-January 4. Scottish Opera’s hugely popular Opera Highlights tour will visit McLaren High School in Callander in February 2018.
Having already journeyed to 17 venues across the country in the autumn, the spring tour begins on February in Livingston and will be in Callander on Saturday, February 10 before heading to places such as Kirkwall, Tain, Montrose, Castle Douglas, Ballachulish and Rutherglen.
Head of music Derek Clark has curated a varied programme including favourites from Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, as well as lesser known gems rarely performed on the Scottish stage.
Opera Highlights, which tells the story of Henrietta and Leon, two stage managers who have to cope with the demands of opera stars Sophia and Petrach every night on tour, also features a new work entitled Wings, created especially for the tour by Scottish Opera’s Emerging Artist Composer in Residence Samuel Bordoli.