Number 8 Community Arts Centre

Upcoming highlights

Matt Grimmitt - 'Forgotten Functionality

Thursday 31st July to Wednesday 10th September
Matt makes functional Slipware Pottery using red earthenware clay, decorated with coloured slips and lovely rich glazes in the traditional manner from a small studio at his home in Evesham.Event details »

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Nim's Island (U)

Saturday 16th August to Thursday 21st August
Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin plays Nim, a smart 11-year-old child living a tranquil life on a remote South Pacific island with her oceanographer dad, Jack.  Nim loves to read, especially her favourite fictional book hero Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer. One day, she replies to an email requesting information about a local volcano. She thinks it's from Rover himself but it's actually from the book's author Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster).Event details »

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Wychavon Area Network for Artists' (WANA)

Thursday 21st August to Tuesday 9th September
This is the inaugural exhibition for the newly formed ‘Wychavon Area Network for Artists' (WANA).  The organisation aims to share knowledge, celebrate diversity and encourage and promote visual arts across the whole community.
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The Edge of Love (15)

Friday 22nd August to Thursday 28th August
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is in love with both is wife (Sienna Miller) and his childhood friend (Keira Knightly).  His refusal to commit to one woman threatens to destroy the lives of them all.  Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside.Event details »

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Irina Palm (15)

Friday 29th August to Saturday 30th August
Maggie, a 50-year-old widow, still faithful to her dead husband, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson. After several unfruitful attempts to find a job, Maggie finds herself roaming the streets of London's Soho. Her eye is caught by a small poster in the window of a 'shop' called "Sexy World" which reads: "Hostess Wanted".Event details »

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Housewife's Choice (DVD Screening)

Monday 1st September 2008
Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity, but they did so without the consumer durables that we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewife's Choice is a programme of short films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of British housewives from the 1920s to the 1950s.Event details »

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Happy-Go-Lucky (15)

Tuesday 2nd September to Thursday 4th September
Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is an irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher who won't let anyone or anything get her down. Even when her bicycle, which she so happily rides through the busy streets of London, is stolen her first thought is only: "I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye." Living with her flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman), Poppy has a gift for making the most of life.Event details »

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