SVSACS 2016 Events Listing
Southeast Vancouver Seniors' Arts & Cultural Society is a group of dedicated individuals working to have a seniors' centre built in southeast Vancouver. The centre would house various arts and cultural activities for seniors, serving as a meeting and gathering place for older adults of all ethnic backgrounds. There is currently no seniors' centre in all of Southeast Van!
One of the ways we promote arts and culture for seniors is by holding events, such as the 2008 Gala of International Music & Dance.
Join us every month for our FREE Feature Movie!
SVSACS also promotes arts and culture for seniors by helping organize bus trips to local attractions and hosting monthly coffee houses featuring free movies.
On the 1st Wednesday of each month, join us for a free movie! Make new friends over an afternoon of film with coffee, tea, nibbles and — most importantly — Good Company! Bring your friends.
Becoming Jane (2007)
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy & Julie Walters
Wednesday, January 6, 12:20 p.m. [CANCELLED]
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
In 1795, Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable — marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire — then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters — family, friends and fortune…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2495152409/
Woman in Gold (2015)
Directed by: Simon Curtis
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds & Daniel Brühl
Wednesday, February 3, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
Maria Altman is an octogenarian Jewish refugee when she takes on the Austrian government. She sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi278572569/
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams & Michael Fassbender
Wednesday, March 2, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom, adapted from a 1853 memoir. Won three Oscars. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life.…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi302032921/
The Grand Seduction (2013)
Directed by: Don McKellar
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson & Liane Balaban
Wednesday, April 6, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary. The small harbor of Tickle Cove is in dire need of a doctor so that the town can land a contract to secure a factory which will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Gleeson) leads the search, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) he employs — along with the whole town — tactics to seduce the doctor to stay permanently…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi568831257
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Directed by: Peter Webber
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth & Tom Wilkinson
Wednesday, May 4, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
This is a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting, it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house of the painter along with his family and other servants, though there is no historical evidence. This masterful film attempts to recreate the mysterious girl's life. Griet, played by Scarlett Johansson, is a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer, played by British actor Colin Firth. Vermeer's wealthy patron and sole means of support, Van Ruijven, commissions him to paint Griet with the intent that he will have her for himself before it is finished. She must somehow secretly pose for the crucial painting without the knowledge of Vermeer's wife, avoid Van Ruijven's grasp, and protect herself from the cruel gossip of the world of a 17th-century servant…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3265593625
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Directed by: Michael Radford
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer & Marcia Gay Harden
Wednesday,June 1, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
The story of two people who at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true. Elsa has lived for the past 60 years dreaming of the scene in La Dolce Vita at the Fontana di Trevi. After losing his wife, Fred feels disturbed and confused and his daughter decides that it would be best if he moves into a smaller apartment where he ends meeting Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live — be it more or less — is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases. Fred surrenders to Elsa's frenzy, to her youth, to her boldness, to her beautiful madness. And this is how Fred learns how to live. When he learns about Elsa's terminal illness, he decides to make her dream come true…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1989586713
Becoming Jane (2007)
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy & Julie Walters
Wednesday, September 7, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
In 1795, Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable — marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire — then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters — family, friends and fortune…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2495152409/
The Lady in the Van (2015)
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Starring: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, & Jim Broadbent
Wednesday, October 5, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years. As the story develops Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of the pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi816362009/
Pirate Radio (2009)
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, & Nick Frost
Wednesday, November 2, 12:20 p.m.
Champlain Heights Community Centre (Upstairs Lounge)
"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock — a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation…
Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1266090521/
