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From the Oscar-winning director of The Big Short, Adam McKay, comes this exceptionally entertaining biopic of Dick Cheney’s appointment as George W Bush’s presidential running mate.
With masterclass performances by Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jim Rockwell and Steve Carell, this is a thought-provoking and funny watch.
Dir: Adam McKay
Cert: 15
132m
Tickets: £6 / £3 under 18s – available on the door.
Refreshments available by donation to the AIA
The AIA’s AGM will take place at Dreel Halls at 7pm on Thursday 19th October 2023, before October’s Anster Nicht.
All are welcome.
If you have ever walked from the Scottish Fisheries Museum along Shore Street, you will have been on a space walk, following the trail of the Anstruther Model Solar System. Starting at the Sun Tavern you quickly run into Mercury, Venus and Earth, but space is big: it’s a good 10-minute walk to the edge of the Solar System at High Street West. Along your way you will find the eight planets that make up our Solar System, as well as the asteroid, Ceres, and the dwarf planet, Pluto.
What do the planets and other objects in our solar system look like, what do we know about them, and what do we not know yet? How do we collect information from these far-away worlds? And will we ever be able to visit? In this talk Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans, Reader in Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, will take a voyage through the Solar System, and find out how astronomical research is shaping our understanding of the different worlds that make up our Solar System. Time permitting, we will also travel a bit further into space and will have a look at some of the other solar systems out there in the Universe.
Please note this event will start not before 7.30pm and follow on from the AIA’s AGM, which will begin at 7pm.
Join us to enjoy tea, coffee and cakes from beautiful vintage china and peruse a selection of vintage stalls.
Keep an eye on here and our Facebook page for more details nearer the time.
If you would like to volunteer on the day, help us with homebaking or take a stall at Vintage Day, please get in touch julia@anstrutherimprovements.org
PLEASE NOTE THIS FILM IS ON THE SECOND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH DUE TO ANSTRUTHER FIREWORKS DISPLAY!
It is difficult to know how to describe this beautiful, heart-warming little film.
A mockumentary made with stop-motion animation, starring a shell with shoes on, who accidentally goes viral.
Marcel’s search for his lost family takes him from a Californian hilltop to primetime American TV.
Dir: Dean Fleischer Camp
Cert: PG
90m
Tickets: £6 / £3 under 18s – available on the door.
Refreshments available by donation to the AIA
When you step outside your home, do you appreciate the trees around you? From Rowan and Oak to Birch and Holly, here in East Neuk we are surrounded by a large variety of beautiful native trees. Trees are fascinating and pretty, but they offer our planet more than beauty. Trees are vital for the survival of many living creatures and play an important part in combatting the climate emergency. Team Footprint will talk about the importance of trees, their remarkable lifecycle and immense value to planet Earth. They hope it will inspire you to stand up for trees and help us bring back woodland to the East Neuk. At the end of the interactive presentation, Team Footprint will give away free trees for your garden or balcony.
£3 entry or free for AIA members.
You can join the AIA here.
Dreel Friends is our community get-together for all ages. Join us for a cup of tea or coffee, some home-baking, book swap and stories, craft table and a good blether at our community café for all the generations to gather.
We’re ending this season with a classic!
Released in 1944, Meet Me in St Louis is a Christmas musical full of the hope and anxiety that characterised the last years of WWII.
What more could you ask for than Judy Garland singing ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ to get you in the festive spirit!
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cert: U
113m
Tickets: £6 / £3 under 18s – available on the door.
Refreshments available by donation to the AIA
The ‘Beggar’s Mantle Fring’d with Gold’ that is the East Neuk and its string of coastal burghs enjoyed a period of prosperity in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – and this is reflected in what survives of its carved oak furniture.What does remain is very distinctive in its vocabulary of motifs and carving style.
This talk is a detective story, in which David Jones puts together evidence for a furniture-making workshop that flourished between 1590 and 1630, examining pieces that have been found in places as far apart as Anstruther and Anglesey.
The industrial landscape of the East Neuk has changed significantly in the last 150 years. All physical evidence seems to have gone of boatbuilder, John Alexander Millar’s yards. He built at least 60 large fishing vessels in Cellardyke, before moving to Anstruther Esplanade.
Richard Wemyss will tell of his discovery of this highly regarded and innovative boatbuilder and some of the vessels he built during the largest period of growth in our fishing industry, the 1860s to 1903.