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The Space is a unique, regular and intimate arts, culture and media event with guest interviewees Presenter and promoter, Wayne Imms can be contacted at wayne@the-space.uk Southern Performance And Creative Energies
Jonathan Glendening We're very grateful to this filmmaker, who is multi-skilled in the medium, including being an award-winning feature film director, an acclaimed screenwriter and an excellent editor. More on Jonathan can be seen at www.glendening.co.uk
"I cannot recommend an appearance at The Space highly enough. Nothing was too much trouble, from the delightful dinner beforehand to my fellow guest and the wonderfully informal and fun interview that followed. A lovely evening and I'd be back like a shot." ACTOR AND WRITER MARK GATISS
The Claremont We appreciate the support of The Claremont. Based in Hove, the lovely hotel has eleven generously-sized guest rooms, including three deluxe, two with luxury four-poster beds, two superior doubles, three classic doubles and three stylish singles. Further details are at www.theclaremont.eu
"The Space is a wonderful and an interesting set-up, both in terms of an interviewee or an audience member." DJ FATBOY SLIM
Reserve places online here now for the Jason Watkins and Barry Ackroyd event Only £23 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thurday June 4th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:30pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY JUNE 4TH HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH JASON WATKINS & BARRY ACKROYD (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk JASON WATKINS Jason Watkins is a highly renowned actor, particularly known for a wide range of television dramas. His first television appearance was in EastEnders for eleven episodes in 1987. A year later came his first film role, as Wayne in Mike Leigh’s High Hopes. On the small screen, notable roles were in ITV’s McDonald & Dodds, from 2020 to 2024, the Channel 5 thriller Coma, Around the World in 80 Days, Taboo, Des, BBC comedies W1A and Trollied, and The Crown, as prime minister Harold Wilson. Jason memorably starred in the 2021 series of Line of Duty and was in two episodes of The Hollow Crown and Inside No.9. He played the villainous Herrick in Being Human and Plornish in Little Dorritt. Other film appearances included the Nativity trilogy and Wicked Little Letters. For the lead in ITV’s The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He is a notable theatre actor, too, and received a Best Supporting Actor Olivier Award nomination in 2001 for Servant for Two Masters. BARRY ACKROYD Barry Ackroyd is a leading prolific five-time BAFTA-nominated cinematographer, known for collaborating with the directors Paul Greengrass, Kathyrn Bigelow and Ken Loach. After beginning in television, he worked on the latter’s Riff-Raff, released in 1991, before more of Loach’s films, such as Land and Freedom and The Wind that Shakes the Barley. He continued working for television, including on the acclaimed dramas Hillsborough and The Lost Prince. With Paul Greengrass, Barry’s cinematography includes United 93, Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, and Jason Bourne. And The Hurt Locker and A House of Dynamite saw him collaborating with Kathyrn Bigelow. He also worked on Netflix’s The Old Guard films, which starred Charlize Theron, and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. For more on him, visit www.barryackroyd.com As with some former ones, the guests’ appearances are subject to work commitments, which might possibly arise.