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Jazz Steps: Yolanda Charles Project PH Instra-Mentals

Scroll down on Yolanda’s website and you see: Mum, bassist, session musician, songwriter, band member, occasional producer, poet, nature lover and novice gardener.  Refreshingly lovely!

Project pH features a diverse range of musical styles, including beautiful ballads, heavy funk-fusion instrumentals, and modern R&B-influenced soulful tunes. Their musical variety has drawn comparisons to Parliament/Funkadelic, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Prince, Yes, and Return to Forever – as well as Don Blackman, John Scofield, and even the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Yolanda is well-known to music fans and industry professionals worldwide. In 2020, she was awarded an MBE for her services to music. She has spent her career performing live with artists such as Hans Zimmer, Squeeze, Robbie Williams, and Paul Weller, as well as recording with BB King, Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, and Queen, to mention a few.

Yolanda’s new band Project pH has the dynamic and versatile Laurie Lowe on drums, known for his work as part of the Preston, Glasgow & Lowe trio as well as a myriad of names in the UK jazz scene. Pianist Hamish Balfour brings a wide range of experience as a composer and arranger. His training in both classical & jazz and as a dance music producer, gives him the perfect mix of skills for the band sound. Guitarist Nick Linnik provides a stunning display of highly compelling soloing as the newest member of the band.

The band presents its music with intricately arranged elements that allow unprepared moments to emerge, with a nod or glance signalling accents or arrangement changes. The interplay and rhythmic possibilities are numerous, which allows the musicians to enjoy a highly creative experience.

Yolanda Charles – bass | Laurie Lowe – drums | Hamish Balfour – keyboard | Nick Linnik – guitar

Presented by Jazz Steps

After Dark Murder Mystery Events: Lights, Camera, Murder!

Beneath the glitz and glamour of 1940’s Hollywood there are secrets and lies to uncover as you become embroiled in a murder at the movies! Could the Starlet be behind the slaying? Did the director have anything to do with the death? Was the leading man involved in the mystery?

It’s time for action as you attempt to uncover the clues on set, separate the lies from the lines and see if you can take home the award for best detective and make the final cut…. before the killer does!

*7pm show includes a two course meal

After Dark Murder Mystery Events’ Interactive Investigations are perfect for adding that extra dimension to your crime solving fun. As you enjoy your meal you will be given the opportunity to question your suspects and examine the evidence that’s been found in order to get to the bottom of this mystery.  With puzzles to solve, evidence to uncover and suspects to interrogate, there’s several ways to crack the case in order to catch your killer, keeping your little grey cells busy as you sleuth your way to victory.

Flying High + NT Connections: Old Times

Flying High Expressive Arts CIC invites you to watch their play ‘Old Times’ by Molly Taylor as part of the National Theatre Connections 2023 Festival. We also have other play excerpts and theatre pieces created by our Senior Youth Theatre and Drama companies and our adult group Phoenix Theatre Company. It will be an exciting evening showcasing some of the best talent in the community.

The evening will start at 7.15pm and ‘Old Times’ by Molly Taylor performed by Flying High Young Company will begin at 8.30pm

Old Times by Molly Taylor

Twins Stefi and Zafer are about to turn 18. However, life is throwing up complications: Zafer is ill and Stefi is scared their past is about to catch up with them.

Five years ago, Stefi, Zafer and their friends were involved in the murder of a policeman. Only one of them was accused and convicted: well-known trouble-maker and ‘bad kid’ Tom Joy.

When Stefi finds out Tom Joy has been released from prison, she fears he will be out for revenge and decides it’s time to get the gang back together. Stefi has a plan to protect them all, but will they ever be able to move on?

Molly Taylor is a writer and theatre-maker from Liverpool. Recent projects include The Key Workers Cycle at the Almeida; Sinder at Dundee Rep; and Me for the World for Young Vic Taking Part. Her plays for young people include The Wave and Cacophony at the Almeida; What Was Left at Southwark Playhouse; and Earthlings at The Yard. Her solo shows include Extinguished Things at Edinburgh Fringe / Adelaide Fringe; and Love Letters to the Public Transport System for National Theatre of Scotland.

Recommended for ages 14+

  • References to cancer.
  • Moderate language and two instances of strong language.
  • Reference to the stabbing of a character (unseen, offstage).
  • A brief reference to substance abuse.

The Fabelmans (12A)

A deeply personal portrait of a 20th century American childhood, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a cinematic memory of the forces, and family, that shaped the filmmaker’s life and career. A universal coming-of-age story about an isolated young man’s pursuit of his dreams, the film is an exploration of love, artistic ambition, sacrifice and the moments of discovery that allow us to see the truth about ourselves, and our parents, with clarity and compassion.

“An emotional crowd-pleaser” BBC ★★★★★

“Spielberg’s beguiling ode to a life made by movies will leave you on a high” Guardian ★★★★★

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Actress (Michelle Williams) and Best Original Screenplay

Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle, Seth Rogen
2hrs 31 mins // US 2022

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (12A)

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody is a powerful and triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston.

From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, audiences are taken on an inspirational, poignant—and so emotional—journey through Houston’s trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon’s most beloved hits as you’ve never heard them before. Don’t you wanna dance?

“Naomi Ackie is sensational” Metro ★★★★ 

Directed by Kasi Lemmons
With Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Tamara Tunie
2hrs 24 mins // US 2022

A Man Called Otto (15)

Otto (Tom Hanks) is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, who gives everyone in his neighbourhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life, an unlikely and reluctant friendship develops with his new neighbours. Little by little, Otto undergoes a subtle transformation…but is he really capable of change?

Directed by Marc Forster
With Tom Hanks
2hrs 6 mins // US 2022

Catch-up Screenings: Matilda the Musical (PG)

A brand-new take on the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical tells the story of an extraordinary girl, with a vivid imagination, who dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

Telegraph ★★★★★  Guardian ★★★★  Independent ★★★★

Directed by Matthew Warchus
With Emma Thompson, Alisha Weir, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham
1hr 57 mins // US/UK 2022

Brian & Roger Eno Live at the Acropolis (U)

Brian Eno and Roger Eno have been recording together since 1983. This unique musical event not only sees the two brothers performing live together for the first time but it’s one of the very rare occasions that Brian Eno has ever performed live in front of an audience.

In front of a sell-out crowd and against a backdrop of spectacular images being projected onto the stones of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre, Brian and Roger perform atmospheric musical landscapes from legendary productions that include ambient records, television soundtracks and film scores.

1hr 20 mins

Nottingham Organ Society: Robert Davies

Popular organist Robert Davies will play a new and varied concert programme featuring music from great musicals, light classics, ballads and stirring marches, along with music from the 60’s and 70’s. An eclectic collection from Bach to the present day.

Presented by the Nottingham Organ Society

Exhibition on Screen: Mary Cassatt- Painting the Modern Woman

Exhibition on Screen, the award-winning pioneer bringing art films to cinemas around the world for over a decade, is proud to announce the release of Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman in cinemas nationwide on International Women’s Day, Wednesday 8th March 2023.

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging. This was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

Directed by Ali Ray (Frida Kahlo) and featuring the world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars (all women), this new feature film Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman reveals how this classically trained American artist came to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the history of art.

Mary Cassatt, born in Pennsylvania in 1844, lived much of her adult life in France, to the extent that she became not an American artist but a French artist. In 1868, her painting A Mandolin Player became her first work to be accepted by the Paris Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Edgar Degas saw Cassatt’s work at the Salon and, in 1877, he asked her to exhibit with a new group called the Impressionists.

1hr 33 mins