Stage set for music and comedy
WITH a strong commitment to bring high quality performances to the area, Pontio will be welcoming many exciting performers to Bangor over the summer.
The summer programme includes Shakespeare’s Globe, the actress Carys Eleri and her award-winning show Lovecraft and supremely talented musicians including Lleuwen, Georgia Ruth, Gareth Bonello and Rhys Meirion, Ballet Cymru, Welsh National Opera, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, the comedian Seann Walsh and the circus company from Ethiopia Circus Abyssinia.
The centre will also prove its ongoing commitment to the local community by giving a platform to a range of concerts by local dance schools, Friars School and their musical Legally Blonde, the fifth birthday of the Sistema CymruCodi’r To project, and a concert by Gwynedd and Anglesey Music in Schools.
There will also be a very special sharing of ‘Street Voices,’ a project between Friars School pupils and the service users at St Mary’s homelessness hostel run through Pontio’s youth participation programme BLAS, which will be a powerful verbatim play based on the true life stories of individuals.
The centre’s popular monthly comedy nights continue and the 200-seater cinema will be showing all kinds of films seven days a week as well as NT Live, Royal Opera House Live and Glyndebourne satellite screenings.
As a centre that’s part of Bangor University, Pontio is delighted once again to stage Bangor Dance societies’ annual Summer Showcase, and present two End of Year events featuring Bangor University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus amongst others at Prichard-Jones Hall.
You can purchase tickets from www.pontio.co.uk or 01248 38 28 28 or by calling by at the centre.