Flix & Pix

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Hawkhurst

With a season of specially-selected movies, two concerts and a photographic exhibition, Hawkhurst's first film and arts festival will offer something for everybody when it launches this week.

Kino Cinema, in Rye Road, will be the hub of the event, showing 15 films chosen by a cross section of the community. The season, for which ticket prices are subsidised, ranges from Hollywood greats including Gone With The Wind and North By Northwest to modern day hits like The Simpsons Movie, Titanic and Mamma Mia!

Sure to be of interest to local primary school pupils are four screenings of 2003 cult classic Holes, to tie in with their study of author Louis Sachar's novel. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight, the film tells the story of a young juvenile offender who is sent to a desert detention camp run by a ruthless warden who forces the inmates to dig holes for no apparent reason.

St Lawrence's Church, in The Moor, will host two concerts with a very different flavour on the next two Saturday evenings.

On June 20 the Cranbrook Town Brass Band play a concert titled Everyone's Brassed Off (tickets £6), which is followed by a performance from the Cranbrook Symphony Orchestra on June 27. Entitled Summer Evening Music (tickets £10), the show will feature pieces by Mozart, Handel and Johann Strauss. Both concerts begin at 7.30pm with tickets available from two Hawkhurst butcher's shops: Woods and Clark's.

For one week from Saturday June 20, an exhibition of nearly 200 photographs will demonstrate the snapping skills of residents and school pupils from Hawkhurst and its surrounding villages. The images will be displayed at the Royal British Legion Hall in High Street until Saturday June 27 when prizes will be awarded to those judged to be the best.

Partly funded by SEEDA via Kent Rural Towns, the festival is one of the projects resulting from the Hawkhurst Healthcheck exercise carried out between 2006 and 2008 and it aims to involve residents from all villages surrounding Hawkhurst on both sides of the County boundary.

Friday June 19 to Tuesday June 30

Visit www.hawkhurst-happens.org.uk for full event listings

To book movie tickets phone Kino Box Office on 01580 754321 or visit www.kinodigital.co.uk

FULL FILM LISTINGS:

Friday June 19

8.15pm Titanic (PG) £5

Saturday June 20

2.30pm Inkheart (PG) £2.50

Sunday June 21

2.30pm Breakfast At Tiffany's (PG) £5

6.30 pm Dr Strangelove (PG) £5

Monday June 22

9.45am Gone With The Wind (PG) £2.50

2pm Holes (PG) £2

Tuesday June 23

2pm Pride And Prejudice (U) £5

6pm North By Northwest (PG) £5

Wednesday June 24

10am Mamma Mia! (PG) £2.50

2pm Holes (PG) £2

8.15pm Barry Lyndon (PG) £5

Thursday June 25

8pm Lawrence Of Arabia (PG) £5

Friday June 26

2pm Holes (PG) £2

8.45pm Psycho (15) £5

Saturday June 27

2.30pm The Simpsons Movie (PG) £2.50

Sunday June 28

2pm Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (PG) £5

6.15pm Fargo (18) £5

Tuesday June 30

10.15am Holes (PG) £2