What's on in Dundee today http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/ 2010-09-02T20:41:13+01:00 http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/dundeecity/uploaded_images/image_974_tn.jpg text/html 2010-09-02T19:30:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6518 At the same time as Anne Fontaine's biopic Coco Before Chanel went into production, Jan Kounen was developing his own version of the fashion icon's story. Picking up where last year's box office smash left off, Kounen's film concentrates on the affair between two iconoclastic figures of their day - Coco Chanel and the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Although the public rioted at the disastrous premiere of Stravinsky's controversial "The Rite of Spring" in 1913, his work certainly made a positive impression on one person, a young Coco Chanel. A decade later, the now successful Coco (Anna Mouglalis) invites the genius Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen), living in squalid exile with his wife and family, to move into her country estate. The affair which ensued would shape both their lives and careers forever. The screenplay (from Chris Greenhalgh's novel) concentrates almost exclusively on the illicit relationship; music and fashion provide the context. Mouglalis plays Coco as a strong but hardened woman, shaped as much by her personal failures as her business success. Mikkelsen (last seen at DCA in Valhalla Rising), who learnt both French and Russian for the role, is suitably intense. The most poignant performance however is from Yelena Morozova, who plays Stravinsky's ailing wife Catherine, forced to tolerate the affair while living under the same roof. text/html 2010-09-02T19:15:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6516 While all the bookies were favouring The White Ribbon or A Prophet for this year's Foreign Language Academy Award, a little known Argentinean thriller walked away with the prize. The Secret In Their Eyes is a rare breed these days - a perfectly constructed whodunit of which even Hitchcock would have been proud. Brimming with tension, passion and pathosas well, this film will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very final moment. Benjamin Esposito is a criminal-court investigator, tormented by the unsolved rape and murder of a young bride in 1974. Benjamin and Sandoval (the superb Guillermo Francella), his alcoholic partner, work with the victim's husband Ricardo (Pablo Rago) to try and identify the killer. In a thunderously exciting chase scene through a Buenos Aires stadium during a heated soccer match, Benjamin and Sandoval hunt their suspect, only to find him given shelter by the corrupt government of the new Argentina. 25 years later, the retired Benjamin has begun to write a novel about his experience in an effort to resolve his feelings about the case and also for Judge Irene Menendez Hastings (Soledad Villamil). The excellent cast is led by the strongly centred Ricardo Darin, The chemistry between him and Villamil is electric, palpable but never spoken. You won't be able to take your own eyes off them, or easily forget this old fashioned thriller. text/html 2010-09-02T19:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6293 Live music. text/html 2010-09-02T19:00:00+01:00 /events/ Chris Jamieson http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6554 Come along with any instrument, poem, comedy piece or other talent and join us for open mic night every Thursday. text/html 2010-09-02T19:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6561 Live music sessions featuring a superb range of traditional singers and musicians of all ages, from talented teenagers to the seasoned artistes. These 18 sessions in hotels and pubs across Angus provide an opportunity to hear the best of Angus music - open sessions, all welcome to join in with a song or a tune. All events are free. View the full programme at <a href="http://www.tayroots.com/AncestralEvents/TayrootsTradAngus.asp">www.tayroots.com</a>. text/html 2010-09-02T18:30:00+01:00 /events/ Lina Waghorn http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=3607 All singing all dancing Gershwin musical. Not to be missed! text/html 2010-09-02T18:30:00+01:00 /events/ Dundee Rep Box Office http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=1169 Dundee Rep is excited to be bringing back our award-winning musical critically acclaimed Sunshine on Leith. If you haven't seen it yet, this is your chance! This is one show you really can't afford to miss! A superb, fun and deeply moving night's entertainment, Sunshine on Leith follows the highs and lows of Ally and Davy as they return home from the army. Families, relationships and life in Leith are not all plain sailing in this truly exceptional love story about everyday life in Scotland. text/html 2010-09-02T17:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6519 As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. Eclipse, the third instalment, sees Bella grappling with a difficult decision: life or death? But when you are in love with a vampire, which is which? text/html 2010-09-02T17:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6508 Fresh from the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it was the gala opening film, The Illusionist is the new animated film by Sylvain Chomet, based on a never-realised script by Jacques Tati. There is no better man than Chomet to bring Tati's story of the last days of music hall to life. Indeed, his first film, Belleville Rendezvous, paid respectful homage to Tati's Jour de fete, and Chomet's style of caricature is perfectly suited to capturing Tati's subtle humour. Set in the early fifties, The Illusionist tells the story of an ageing magician, Tatischeff, touring through Scotland with his magic show. After a rather disastrous outing in the Hebrides, the magician sets off for Edinburgh, accompanied by a runaway teenage girl he has befriended. Although he struggles to earn a living, this unlikely pair quickly becomes a harmonious but very platonic couple. Sadly, we all know it is inevitable that this happiness cannot last, and that eventually his protege will grow up and move away. Like Tati, Chomet's characters are defined by the way they look and act rather than what they say. Dialogue is virtually non-existent - Tatischeff mumbles in French, the young woman from the Northern Isles speaks Gaelic, and there is a smattering of other accents here and there. The story is developed through situations and dramatic gestures. Ultimately though, as much as the film is a love poem to Tati's style of comedy, it is also a love poem to the city of Edinburgh. Chomet has turned Scotland into a dreamland, bathed in a radiant, beautiful light. Dundonians should be especially proud as a lot of the technical work on the film was done in Dundee, by local animators working for Ink Productions. Anyone involved in the production should be applauded - it is a beautiful gem. text/html 2010-09-02T16:30:00+01:00 /events/ Matthew Jarron http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6485 An incredibly rich series of Thompsonish motifs run through art, architecture and engineering from the 1930s to the present day. Some reflect a direct knowledge of his writings, while others are more indirect. This lecture by Professor Martin Kemp, one of the most renowned art historians, will sample the diversity of these motifs, as part of the ongoing celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of Dundee pioneer of life sciences, Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The people involved range from the notorious dripper Jackson Pollock to the engineer Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup. The lecture will be followed by the opening of Sketching the Universe, a new exhibition in the Lamb Gallery of artistic responses to D'Arcy Thompson. text/html 2010-09-02T16:00:00+01:00 /events/ Give Blood Advice Line http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=2782 We need your donation now, so please come and see us as soon as you can. Our friendly and professional staff look forward to welcoming you. At any time, should you wish to speak to someone to register or to discuss any aspect of blood donation, please call 0845 90 90 999. text/html 2010-09-02T14:30:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6519 As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. Eclipse, the third instalment, sees Bella grappling with a difficult decision: life or death? But when you are in love with a vampire, which is which? text/html 2010-09-02T14:30:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6508 Fresh from the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it was the gala opening film, The Illusionist is the new animated film by Sylvain Chomet, based on a never-realised script by Jacques Tati. There is no better man than Chomet to bring Tati's story of the last days of music hall to life. Indeed, his first film, Belleville Rendezvous, paid respectful homage to Tati's Jour de fete, and Chomet's style of caricature is perfectly suited to capturing Tati's subtle humour. Set in the early fifties, The Illusionist tells the story of an ageing magician, Tatischeff, touring through Scotland with his magic show. After a rather disastrous outing in the Hebrides, the magician sets off for Edinburgh, accompanied by a runaway teenage girl he has befriended. Although he struggles to earn a living, this unlikely pair quickly becomes a harmonious but very platonic couple. Sadly, we all know it is inevitable that this happiness cannot last, and that eventually his protege will grow up and move away. Like Tati, Chomet's characters are defined by the way they look and act rather than what they say. Dialogue is virtually non-existent - Tatischeff mumbles in French, the young woman from the Northern Isles speaks Gaelic, and there is a smattering of other accents here and there. The story is developed through situations and dramatic gestures. Ultimately though, as much as the film is a love poem to Tati's style of comedy, it is also a love poem to the city of Edinburgh. Chomet has turned Scotland into a dreamland, bathed in a radiant, beautiful light. Dundonians should be especially proud as a lot of the technical work on the film was done in Dundee, by local animators working for Ink Productions. Anyone involved in the production should be applauded - it is a beautiful gem. text/html 2010-09-02T13:00:00+01:00 /events/ Broughty Castle Museum http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=4870 A fascinating guided tour looking at the 'Gory Story' behind Broughty Ferry Castle's military past. Tour lasts approximately 1 hour. Admission free, booking essential. text/html 2010-09-02T13:00:00+01:00 /events/ Anthony Cox http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=3204 The guided tour, will take participants on a journey through the turbulent and bloody history of Dundee, from its origins in the so-called dark ages to the computer and digital age of the present day City of Discovery. Tours leave from the Burns Statue outside the McManus Galleries every Monday and Thursday at 2pm and Saturday at 11am. Please contact to check availability. Adults £6, concessions £4, group rates are available. text/html 2010-09-02T12:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6518 At the same time as Anne Fontaine's biopic Coco Before Chanel went into production, Jan Kounen was developing his own version of the fashion icon's story. Picking up where last year's box office smash left off, Kounen's film concentrates on the affair between two iconoclastic figures of their day - Coco Chanel and the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Although the public rioted at the disastrous premiere of Stravinsky's controversial "The Rite of Spring" in 1913, his work certainly made a positive impression on one person, a young Coco Chanel. A decade later, the now successful Coco (Anna Mouglalis) invites the genius Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen), living in squalid exile with his wife and family, to move into her country estate. The affair which ensued would shape both their lives and careers forever. The screenplay (from Chris Greenhalgh's novel) concentrates almost exclusively on the illicit relationship; music and fashion provide the context. Mouglalis plays Coco as a strong but hardened woman, shaped as much by her personal failures as her business success. Mikkelsen (last seen at DCA in Valhalla Rising), who learnt both French and Russian for the role, is suitably intense. The most poignant performance however is from Yelena Morozova, who plays Stravinsky's ailing wife Catherine, forced to tolerate the affair while living under the same roof. text/html 2010-09-02T12:00:00+01:00 /events/ Richard Cullen http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6475 In this illustrated talk Brenda McGilliard of Carolina House Trust will look back at the long and proud history of the Dundee Orphan Institution later known as Carolina House from its beginnings in the years following the Battle of Waterloo to its recent more general child care role. The Orphange is still fondly remembered by many still alive today who spent their formative years in the care and protection of the staff of the Ferry Road building. Their recollections form an important part of this history. text/html 2010-09-02T12:00:00+01:00 /events/ http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6516 While all the bookies were favouring The White Ribbon or A Prophet for this year's Foreign Language Academy Award, a little known Argentinean thriller walked away with the prize. The Secret In Their Eyes is a rare breed these days - a perfectly constructed whodunit of which even Hitchcock would have been proud. Brimming with tension, passion and pathosas well, this film will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very final moment. Benjamin Esposito is a criminal-court investigator, tormented by the unsolved rape and murder of a young bride in 1974. Benjamin and Sandoval (the superb Guillermo Francella), his alcoholic partner, work with the victim's husband Ricardo (Pablo Rago) to try and identify the killer. In a thunderously exciting chase scene through a Buenos Aires stadium during a heated soccer match, Benjamin and Sandoval hunt their suspect, only to find him given shelter by the corrupt government of the new Argentina. 25 years later, the retired Benjamin has begun to write a novel about his experience in an effort to resolve his feelings about the case and also for Judge Irene Menendez Hastings (Soledad Villamil). The excellent cast is led by the strongly centred Ricardo Darin, The chemistry between him and Villamil is electric, palpable but never spoken. You won't be able to take your own eyes off them, or easily forget this old fashioned thriller. text/html 2010-09-02T12:00:00+01:00 /events/ McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event.php?id=6108 Come along to this short in focus session to find out more about Titian's talent as an artist and storyteller. Places are free but must be booked contact 307200.