Free Screening

The Screen at Hay and Hay2Timbuktu are getting together to put on a film at the Parish Hall on 23rd August. It will start at 7pm, and it is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from the Addyman Annexe on Castle Street.
The film is called Bamako, and it is set in the capital of Mali, where the World Bank, the IMF and Western corporations are put 'on trial' by the people whose lives they affect. It's in French and Bambara, with English subtitles, which all sounds very worthy and hard work, but the reviews are promising:
"The film enchants and engages, offering a moving account of a usually silent majority" - it says on the poster.
As well as the film, there'll be a chance to meet Mamadou Kone of Jeunesse de Developpement, a Malian NGO which works with Comic Relief and The Malian Development Fund in Southern Mali.
There will also be Fairtrade tea, coffee and snacks - but you're invited to bring your own bottle!