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Ditchling Film Society: Tonight, Thursday 2 March, Sunset Song is being screened in Ditchling Village Hall. Adapted from a novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon of the same name about an Aberdeenshire girl, Chris Guthrie, growing to womanhood seven years before World War One. Chris is one of the numerous children of a tyrannical farmer, John Guthrie, and a whimpering mother, Jean, growing up in a rural Scottish community. The drama spans six years of Chris’s life as she searches for her independence with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change. The film finally ends with the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land. Beautifully shot, the film is an intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. Director: Terence Davies. English. 2015. 135 mins. 15 Cert. On Thursday 16 March, Suffragette is being shown. Director: Sarah Gavron. English. 2015. 106 mins. 12a Cert. On Thursday 6 April Dheepan is being shown. Director: Jacques Audiard. English, French, Tamil. 2015. 115 mins. 15 Cert. Films are shown in Ditchling Village Hall, starting at 8pm. Doors open at 7.30pm. Free coffee and biscuits beforehand and wine can be purchased by the glass. There is ample free parking behind the hall. Guests and temporary members are welcome for the sum of £5 payable at the door.
Lennox Cato, BBC 1 Antiques Roadshow Furniture Specialist: Is coming to give a talk on Friday 7 April in Ditchling Village Hall, 7 for 7.30pm. Lennox has built up a reputation for finding the unusual and is a member of the Associations of Antique Dealers BADA and LAPADA. He specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth century English furniture and related items. Admission is £10 and includes a glass of wine. Tickets available from Ditchling Village Post Office or [email protected].
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