| |  | ESCAPE THE WORLD FOR A MOMENT AT COWRA CIVIC CENTREDear <<First Name>>,
Life has certainly been challenging of late. We are pleased to see some of relaxed rules around COVID but continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our patrons. So although you don’t have to QR Code in anymore and masks won’t be compulsory from Friday 25 February, we will still encourage patrons to wear masks when not eating or drinking and to maintain a social distance where possible.
Last weekend we sadly experienced some technical issues with our cinema system that prevented us from screening most of our films. The replacement part has finally arrived this morning and we are back up and running! Phew! We are now working with the distributors to arrange for 1 or 2 rescheduled sessions for those that missed out because of the problems. We have already managed this for Leopoldstadt - see below.
One of the highlights for this weekend is the first screening of Here Out West, a new Australian film which is receiving a lot of critical acclaim. We are lucky enough to welcome one of the writers from the film to join us on Saturday night for a Q&A about the film and unearthing new Australian stories including those from regional Australia. We hope you will join us for this special event.
PLUS we have just announced a single screening of The Beatles Get Back - The Rooftop Concert. This title has been released for only a few days in cinemas and we are pleased to be showing this on Thursday 24 February at 7pm.
Jonathan
Manager
Cowra Civic Centre | | WHAT’S ON AT THE MOVIES
THIS WEEKEND |  | KING RICHARD
★★★★½ "The Williams sisters' saga is so improbably inspirational that watching their ascent, coupled with Smith's crackerjack performance, had me grinning the entire time. It's the most sheerly pleasurable movie I've seen so far this year." FILM WEEK
★★★★ "an extraordinary story" TIME OUT
Based on the true story that will inspire the world, Warner Bros. Pictures’ King Richard follows the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, who will end up changing the sport of tennis forever. Two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith (Ali, The Pursuit of Happyness, Bad Boys for Life) stars as Richard, under the direction of Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men). Driven by a clear vision of their future and using unconventional methods, Richard has a plan that will take Venus and Serena Williams from the streets of Compton, California to the global stage as legendary icons. The profoundly moving film shows the power of family, perseverance and unwavering belief as a means to achieve the impossible and impact the world.
M - Mature themes, violence and coarse language
Friday 18 February at 7pm
Saturday 19 February at 3:30pm
Sunday 20 February at 4:30pm
Wednesday 23 February at 10am | |  | HERE OUT WEST
"Here Out West is re-defining the Australian story" Junkee
Nancy visits her daughter in the hospital who has just given birth. Tagging along is her 8-year-old Lebanese neighbour, Amirah. It is a bittersweet meeting for Nancy, as her new grandchild is about to be taken by the Department of Community Services. While holding the baby to say her farewell, Nancy makes the spontaneous decision to bolt from the hospital with the baby, Amirah as her accomplice. Not long after their audacious escape, a pedestrian is involved in a hit and run. Three young boys step in to help, unsure if he'll survive the night. Across eight distinct yet interconnected stories, Nancy's desperate flight sets off a chain of events that brings together complete strangers over the course of one dramatic day.
M - Mature themes, violence and coarse language
Saturday 19 February at 6:30pm
Friday 25 February at 7pm
Saturday 26 February at 2pm |
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Find out about the film industry, writing for screen, finding the story to tell and more about the film. |
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★★★★★ ‘Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. Magnificent’ Independent
★★★★ ‘Tom Stoppard delivers an unforgettable play from the heart’ Telegraph
★★★★ ‘Devastatingly moving’ Jewish Chronicle
Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (Times), Tony and Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter in Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world.
We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
Filmed live on stage in London’s West End, this live performance on screen should not be missed.
E - Exempt from classification
Sunday 20 February at 1pm
Additional Screening - Wednesday 23 February at 1pm | | | SPECIAL EVENT NEXT WEEK |  | THE BEATLES GET BACK - THE ROOFTOP CONCERT
Directed by three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), The Beatles: Get Back: The Rooftop Concert takes audiences back in time to the famous last live show, which they performed on the rooftop of Apple Corps' Savile Row headquarters on 30th January 1969, screening in a special one hour feature utilising footage restored for the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back that has now been optimised for the big screen in one 64 minute concert film.
The docuseries The Beatles: Get Back is compiled from nearly 60 hours of unseen footage shot over 21 days, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969, and from more than 150 hours of unheard audio, most of which has been locked in a vault for over half a century. Jackson is the only person in 50 years to have been given access to this Beatles treasure trove, all of which has now been brilliantly restored. What emerges is an unbelievably intimate portrait of The Beatles, showing how, with their backs against the wall, they could still rely on their friendship, good humour, and creative genius. While plans derail and relationships are put to the test, some of the world’s most iconic songs are composed and performed. The docuseries, and now this special Big Screen version features – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles’ last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London’s Savile Row.
M - Occasional Coarse Language
Thursday 24 February at 7pm | | | |  | BELFAST
★★★★★ Times UK ★★★★★ Guardian ★★★★★ Age of the Greek
★★★★★ Daily Mail UK ★★★★ London Evening Standard ★★★★ Cinevue
Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and winner of more Audience Awards than any film this year - go with your heart and don’t miss this!
From lauded director Kenneth Branagh, and starring an acclaimed ensemble cast, Belfast is a personal and joyful story about the power of memory, set in late 1960s Northern Ireland. At the centre of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
M - Mature themes and coarse language
Friday 25 February at 10am
Saturday 26 February at 4pm
Sunday 27 February at 4pm | |  | NIGHTMARE ALLEY
★★★★★ "Guillermo del Toro proves he doesn't need monsters to thrill his audience" CINEMABLEND
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist who might be his most formidable opponent yet. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Richard Jenkins and Toni Collette.
MA15+ Strong violence and injury detail
Saturday 26 February at 6:20pm
Sunday 27 February at 1pm
Wednesday 2 March at 10am | |  | WYRMWOOD APOCALYPSE
★★★★ 'A hellish, blood-soaked thrill ride!' Cinema Australia
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a post-apocalyptic zombie film set in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland. Rhys is on an arc of redemption as he turns against his evil bosses and joins forces with a group of rebel survivors to help rescue a girl who holds the cure to the virus. The film which has been hailed as ‘Mad Max Meets Dawn of the Dead’ - has picked up an audience award at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival for Best Feature Film.
MA15+ Strong horror violence, blood and gore and coarse language
SPECIAL LATE-NIGHT SCREENING:
Saturday 26 February at 9:30pm – Zombie Dress Code is encouraged
Sunday 27 February at 6pm | | | SPECIAL EVENTS |  | SPECIAL FUNDRAISING SCREENING
2040
2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important now! Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.
This special screening is a fundraiser for Pennie Scott (aka The Bush Goddess), Independent candidate for Riverina at the next federal election.
G - General
All tickets $25 plus transaction fee and include local food and a drink.
Wednesday 2 March at 6:30pm | |  | WESTERN WARFARE 5: THE EMMA BUTLER MEMORIAL SHOW
Presented by ICW Central West
Local wrestler and show promoter James "High Octane" Lanham brings his crew of wrestlers back to Cowra for this charity event. They will be stepping into the ring for a very special cause raising money for a tongue cancer research charity formed in the name of Lanham's late girlfriend Emma Butler who sadly passed away last February from tongue cancer.
This is a fun, family friendly, all ages show featuring a diverse group of wrestlers from all around the country, from the high flyers jumping from the top rope, hard hitting strikers, heavyweights throwing their opponents around the ring and skilled technicians going hold for hold! Featuring a mix of sports, entertainment, drama and stunt work from a variety of well-defined characters this show is highly fan interactive with performers all playing to the crowd throughout and inviting plenty of cheers and boos.
Saturday 5 March at 5:30pm | | | MORE GREAT CINEMA TO COME | | | | DON’T MISS |  | ACACIA QUARTET
An evening of classical music from the Acacia Quartet playing Mozart, Chance and Borodin.
Founded in 2010, Acacia Quartet has won great respect for their versatile and inventive programs which couple established repertoire with the unorthodox. Acacia has recorded nine albums – three of which earned nominations for an ARIA Award for ‘Best Classical Album’ and an APRA-AMCOS Art Music ‘Award for Excellence’. Their CD recordings Blue Silence, the complete works for string quartet by Elena Kats-Chernin, and An AIDS Activist’s Memoir in Music, by Lyle Chan, have both received ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Limelight Magazine.
Friday 11 March at 7:30pm
All tickets $30 plus transaction fee | |  | Our first ever
COFFEE CONCERT
LANDSCAPES & KITCHEN TABLES
With Nerida Cuddy and Genni Kane
Join us at Cowra Civic Centre for a cuppa, a scone and great live music.
Landscapes & Kitchen Tables is a musical celebration of home, of the vast landscape that surrounds us, of our lives and the moments shared around the kitchen table.
Nerida Cuddy’s stories-in-song are a well-balanced mix of bittersweet tales of life with tasty lashings of humour, generous and fun. Detailed guitar accompany her warm and passionate voice. She has been described as “a Central West Mary Black”; a “prolific songwriter”, and “a composer and musician with not only an ear for music, but a social conscience and a sense of humour” - ABC Central West. Nerida will perform original songs including those from her 2021 album Woven.
Genni Kane’s happy place is her kitchen table - welcoming family and friends to the heart of her home. It’s the place to share food, wine and great coffee; to laugh and cry and play music and tell stories. And it’s the place she writes most of her music. Genni will perform songs from her new album Songs from the Kitchen Table, a collection of originals about life, loss, chickens…all the good things! Performing with Genni are Jon Wilby (guitar, mandolin and vocals) and Christian Prusiak (bass and vocals).
Both a hit at many folk music festivals, we invite you to join Nerida and Genni as they traverse the landscape and welcome you for a cuppa round the kitchen table.
Friday 25 March at 11am
All tickets $20 – includes tea/coffee, scones and music
A transaction fee may apply
Morning Tea from 10am
90 minute concert at 11am
Both a hit at many folk music festivals, we invite you to join Nerida and Genni as they traverse the landscape and welcome you for a cuppa round the kitchen table. | | | BOX OFFICEOnline Box Office 24/7 cowraciviccentre.com
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