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MacFloyd present All That Is Now
Pay What You Can £20.00 / £18.00
MacFloyd bring us their fresh new All That Is Now tour. Delivering an unforgettable journey through Pink Floyd's legendary discography, this eight-peice rock band span five decades of timeless classics. Featuring great music and a visual light display to give you an experience to remember. Running time: 2h 15m All...
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David Bowie and me: Parallel Lives
Jack Docherty - Pay what you can: £20, £18, £16
Following rave reviews and a sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, Jack Docherty joins us with his critically-acclaimed show David Bowie & Me. The comic, author, actor and writer uses his time spent with Bowie on The Jack Docherty Show in 1997 as a jumping...
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Godfather Death: A Grimm's Musical
The Avison Brothers present - Pay What You Can £15.00 / £12.00 / £10.00
Based on a little-known Grimm's fairy tale, this musical tells the story of one poor boy's journey through life, with Death as his Godfather. Welcome to this darkly comic and gleefully macabre world --- there are no Disney endings here... Running time: 1h 15m Ages 14+ Contains swearing, themes of death (including one reference...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)
Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide
This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of the keys to our transition to a sustainable energy system, and is likely to require a mixture of approaches including batteries and sustainable hydrogen-based fuels. Lithium imide has emerged as a...
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Sands 24: Achilles (15)
Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
In his directorial debut, Farhad Delaram takes us on a journey between cities in contemporary Iran. Farid, nicknamed Achilles, is a Tehran-based filmmaker who gives up on his artistic ambitions and instead, works the night shift in an underfunded hospital, disheartened by a political system entrenched in corruption and abuse. In the psychiatric ward,...
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Sands 24: Wolfwalkers (PG)
Pay What You Can £8.00 / £6.00 / £4.00
Wolfwalkers is the third and final installment of Tomm Moore's Irish Folklore Trilogy of acclaimed animated films, following The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014). Oscar-nominated, Wolfwalkers is a fantastical story of friendship, family, and fighting for what you believe in. Set in Ireland in 1650, we follow Robyn as...
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Sands 24: Maestra (N/C 12A)
Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
Five remarkable conductors from across the globe prepare for and compete in La Maestra --- the world's only competition for female conductors. Maggie Contreras' debut feature documentary delves into the lives of these women through intimate footage capturing their everyday moments --- from studying and rehearsing with families by their side to navigating the...
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Sands 24: This Much I Know... with Karen Gillan
Pay What You Can £20.00 / £18.00 / £16.00
Scottish actress, director, and writer, Karen Gillan joins us to talk about her career in front and behind the camera, and to present two of her shorts, Conventional (2015) and The Hoarding (2020). Gillan is best known for her roles in Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, The Big Short, as well as...
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Sands 24: An Afternoon With... Alan Silvestri
Pay What You Can £20.00 / £18.00 / £16.00
At the Laidlaw Music Centre, Queen's Terrace, St Andrews, KY16 9QF Join Alan Silvestri, Academy Award-nominated American composer and conductor of film and television scores, for this once-in-a-lifetime career discussion and performance at the University of St Andrews' stunning new Laidlaw Music Centre. In his decades-long, award-winning career as a composer, Silvestri has worked...
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Sands 24: Welcome to Collinwood (15)
Pay what you can: £20, £18, £16
The Russo brothers' second feature, Welcome to Collinwood, produced by Steven Soderbergh, is packed with offbeat charm and infectious energy. A motley crew of small-time crooks hatch a hilariously disastrous plan to pull off the ultimate heist in Collinwood, a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio (the Russos' beloved hometown). The ensemble cast featuring George...
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Sands 24: Silent Roar (N/C 15)
Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
Meet Dondo, a teenage surfer on the Isle of Lewis, grappling with the unresolved grief of his father's mysterious disappearance at sea. As he navigates the challenges of school, his crush on Sas, and the arrival of an eccentric new minister, Dondo's world is suddenly rocked by cosmic visions. Louis McCartney's portrayal of Dondo...
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Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Pay what you can: £10, £8, £6
Anna Hints' atmospheric, almost mystical, feature-length documentary debut invites us to become part of a supportive, witty, sweaty female collective who gather in a traditional Estonian smoke sauna, as their mothers and grandmothers have done before them. With an ethereal soundtrack and intimate cinematography, the film is both deeply personal and strikingly universal as...
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Sands 24: This Much I Know... with Debra Zane
FREE but please book
Award-winning US casting director Debra Zane offers a rare insight into how major films and TV shows are really cast, offering behind-the-scenes stories about how actors really land the parts. Zane has worked with some of the most successful directors in the business, including Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Bill Condon,...
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Sands 24: Sometimes I Think About Dying (N/C 12A)
Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
Fran (Daisy Ridley) spends her days in a cubicle of a depressing Oregonian office, committed to avoiding any unnecessary contact with her coworkers. She functions like a ghost, and prefers daydreaming (mostly about her own death!) to small talk. But then a new colleague, Robert, joins the company. He is charming, friendly, and determined...
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Sands 24: Mami Wata (12A)
Award-winning director C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi, imagines a fictional African village, not yet affected by the Western norms shaping the lands around them, but instead reliant upon the water goddess, Mami Wata, for survival. When the authority of the Goddess' intermediary, Mama Efe, is challenged, and the village's synergy is threatened, it is up to...
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Sands 24: Mami Wata (12A)
Award-winning director C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi, imagines a fictional African village, not yet affected by the Western norms shaping the lands around them, but instead reliant upon the water goddess, Mami Wata, for survival. When the authority of the Goddess' intermediary, Mama Efe, is challenged, and the village's synergy is threatened, it is up to...
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Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography
How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?
The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on workshop exploring mediums of still image filmmaking facilitated by Animator, Priit Tender and Anthropologist, Carlo Cubero. Animators and ethnographers each engage in composing rich and complex...
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University Staff Golf Competitions
Free
Organisers of the annual staff golf competitions are looking for participants for 2024. Anyone interested in playing in this year's knock-out competitions should contact Renald Schaub on [email protected] for the four-ball better-ball competition or Graham Miller on [email protected] for the Singles (Boase Quaich) competition by Monday 1 April. Please provide a name, club and...
