AUGUST - AT MAITISONG

GABORONE FILM SOCIETY

16th August  , at 7 pm at the Maru a Pula - Maitisong Theatre

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Laone Thekiso, a 2010 Berkshire Symphony Competition winner and soloist, started learning to play the piano in school at the age of seven while his family was living in Sweden. After the family returned to Botswana in 1999, he underwent a two-year period without a piano teacher. In high school, he began taking lessons with Olga Merker, a pianist from the former Yugoslavia. With her he began playing classical music. Over the six years under he tutelage, he performed three piano concerti with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra from South Africa. He now attends Williams College, where he studies with Artist-in-Residence, Doris Stevenson. He is about to complete a major in music and hopes to pursue a career in performance. He is also interested in composition and ethnomusicology, and aims to gain more knowledge and proficiency in these fields.

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GABORONE FILM SOCIETY

Tuesday August 23         A Single Man (2009) USA —Tom Ford
Colin Firth got a BAFTA for his role as a lonely and grieving Stanford University professor in California, who lost the love of his life after sixteen years. He won an Oscar 2011 as “Best Actor” (King’s Speech). A Single Man is an intelligent film, with thoughtful dialogue and brilliant acting by an excellent cast. Tom Ford, in his first cinematic venture, both directed and wrote the script with David Scearce. This is the kind of film Hollywood, with all its resources and talent, should be producing; instead it is left to an independent company to bring it to us. Ford is from Texas and was only three-years old when Christopher Isherwood’s novel, A Single Man, came out. Ford brings to this film the thrill of discovery. 109 minutes. Rated 12+.

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POSTPONED ........

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