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BBC News
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Abbeygate Cinema to celebrate East Anglia with film festival
An independent cinema is to run a film festival dedicated to celebrating the East of Cinema, based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has announced it will run a Made in East Anglia Film Festival from 22 August to 10 will shine a spotlight of films made in, inspired by, or those that celebrate the manager Gareth Boggis said it would be a "real celebration of the region" and hopefully would both entertain and help people learn about East Anglia. Highlights of the festival including a showing of Netflix's The Dig, which follows the story of the Sutton Hoo archaeological dig and was filmed in the will also be a talk by dialect coach Charlie Haylock, who worked on this film, offering behind the scenes insight. Suffolk-based independent filmmaker Tim Curtis will be among the other guests giving talks as part of the own Alan Partridge will also feature, with the Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa film being shown. Other films on the line up include Yesterday, with scenes filmed across Norfolk and Suffolk, The Rainbow Jacket, partly filmed at Newmarket racecourse, and A Cock and Bull Story filmed in Norfolk's Felbrigg Hall. Mr Boggis said the cinema had been inspired to hold the festival after previous showings with local connections had been positively received by audiences."When we've done local films or films with a very local connection they've always done really well and I think there's that sort of interest and intrigue in seeing the place that you live featured in film," he said."It's not about making money for us, it's about that hopefully people can come and do a couple of films or a couple of events and speakers to learn something but more than anything be entertained and enjoy themselves."Tickets will cost £10 for an adult, £8 for concessions, £8 for a young adult (aged 15 to 24), £5 for a child and £5 for members. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
The Age
26-06-2025
- General
- The Age
From battle to Bunnings: How an ex-SAS soldier and City Beach dad builds resilience
In this series, WAtoday reaches out to the Perth community to discover three things people love most about our coastal capital. Today we feature City Beach's Tim Curtis, MBA, former Special Forces officer, crisis management executive, co-author of 2021's The Resilience Shield, co-host of The Unforgiving60 podcast, and father of three. He has led businesses and cross-cultural teams in some of the world's most challenging and austere environments. His new book, Building Resilient Kids, published July 1 by Macmillan, focuses on helping children become happy, healthy and confident adults. I love Innaloo Bunnings. I'm ex-SAS, and I call Bunnings a family mission. You have never been tested as until you've taken three kids to Bunnings, it's the SAS survival course meets a close-quarters battle. Have you heard of the four Ds of time management? Well this is another four Ds: the Danger of the paint aisle, the Distraction of the sausage sizzle and the Delusion – of thinking you'd get out in five minutes, or you just needed one thing. Cue the kids loading up the trolley with a pile of things you don't need. And the fourth D, of course, is the family dog. The Innaloo Bunnings is mainly good for its proximity to me, but it's also got a really good plant section; I'm geeking out about all things gardening, I'm now spending more time in the garden section than the warehouse. I love City Beach. It's where I've taught my kids to get through the turbulence of the waves, providing a bit of a metaphor for life; when it comes to building resilient kids you have to be a bit like a lifeguard, and not prevent the swimming – just the drowning. All my kids have learnt their surfing skills with the Floreat Nippers and it is resilience training disguised as fun; watching them get knocked over and back up was inspiring. We always go to City Beach on Christmas morning and meet the extended group of friends we met through the kids' schooling. Every year, it's a special few hours we spend together and embodies the philosophy that it takes a village to make a resilient kid. Those adults all have great relationships with my kids, and they can change the angle and the prism on things that their parents would have, which has a big impact, especially in the teen years. I love running the two bridges at sunrise. The one thing we know adults must do to build resilient kids is to build it in themselves – to model resilience, to be the best version of themselves. A precious time to do that is running the two bridges in the city at dawn, where effort and exhalation meets stillness. The calm river, the rising sun over the hills, the rowers on the water – it's all quite meditative, and you feel you're ahead in life whatever else happens that day. You've experienced all these moments, no matter what might hit you for six later on that day. People might say they have to exercise, but it's important to recognise that it's a privilege to exercise. And it doesn't have to be effort, effort, more effort, or a heroic distance or time. It's just being able to do small things, in such a special time and place. Loading
Sydney Morning Herald
26-06-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
From battle to Bunnings: How an ex-SAS soldier and City Beach dad builds resilience
In this series, WAtoday reaches out to the Perth community to discover three things people love most about our coastal capital. Today we feature City Beach's Tim Curtis, MBA, former Special Forces officer, crisis management executive, co-author of 2021's The Resilience Shield, co-host of The Unforgiving60 podcast, and father of three. He has led businesses and cross-cultural teams in some of the world's most challenging and austere environments. His new book, Building Resilient Kids, published July 1 by Macmillan, focuses on helping children become happy, healthy and confident adults. I love Innaloo Bunnings. I'm ex-SAS, and I call Bunnings a family mission. You have never been tested as until you've taken three kids to Bunnings, it's the SAS survival course meets a close-quarters battle. Have you heard of the four Ds of time management? Well this is another four Ds: the Danger of the paint aisle, the Distraction of the sausage sizzle and the Delusion – of thinking you'd get out in five minutes, or you just needed one thing. Cue the kids loading up the trolley with a pile of things you don't need. And the fourth D, of course, is the family dog. The Innaloo Bunnings is mainly good for its proximity to me, but it's also got a really good plant section; I'm geeking out about all things gardening, I'm now spending more time in the garden section than the warehouse. I love City Beach. It's where I've taught my kids to get through the turbulence of the waves, providing a bit of a metaphor for life; when it comes to building resilient kids you have to be a bit like a lifeguard, and not prevent the swimming – just the drowning. All my kids have learnt their surfing skills with the Floreat Nippers and it is resilience training disguised as fun; watching them get knocked over and back up was inspiring. We always go to City Beach on Christmas morning and meet the extended group of friends we met through the kids' schooling. Every year, it's a special few hours we spend together and embodies the philosophy that it takes a village to make a resilient kid. Those adults all have great relationships with my kids, and they can change the angle and the prism on things that their parents would have, which has a big impact, especially in the teen years. I love running the two bridges at sunrise. The one thing we know adults must do to build resilient kids is to build it in themselves – to model resilience, to be the best version of themselves. A precious time to do that is running the two bridges in the city at dawn, where effort and exhalation meets stillness. The calm river, the rising sun over the hills, the rowers on the water – it's all quite meditative, and you feel you're ahead in life whatever else happens that day. You've experienced all these moments, no matter what might hit you for six later on that day. People might say they have to exercise, but it's important to recognise that it's a privilege to exercise. And it doesn't have to be effort, effort, more effort, or a heroic distance or time. It's just being able to do small things, in such a special time and place. Loading
Mint
03-06-2025
- General
- Mint
Inclusivity in AI foundational, not optional: UNESCOs Tim Curtis
New Delhi, Jun 3 (PTI) Inclusivity in AI is not optional but foundational for a country as vast and diverse as India, where systems must be designed from the start to reflect the nation's immense social, economic, and linguistic diversity, UNESCO South Asia Regional Office Director Tim Curtis said on Tuesday. Curtis, speaking at the 5th and final Stakeholder Consultation on the AI Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) in the national capital, warned that if AI tools are not intentionally built to serve the full spectrum of users, including marginalized communities, they risk leaving millions behind. "In a country as vast and complex as India, (with) not only 1.4 billion people, but with thousands of languages and immense social, economic and regional diversity, inclusivity in AI is not optional, it is foundational," Curtis said. He pointed out that AI systems trained primarily on English or urban data can struggle with local languages, dialects, and contexts, leading to the exclusion of vast populations from digital services. These are not just technical bugs, he explained, but symptoms of deeper structural exclusions in data collection and prioritization. He stressed that inclusivity in AI means making deliberate choices about who is represented in datasets, who participates in development, and whose needs drive deployment. Curtis highlighted the importance of "ethics by design," arguing that responsible AI must be built on values as much as on functionality. "If we want AI systems to be inclusive, we must design them that way from the start, encompassing not just functionality, but essential values. And when we don't, we begin to see consequences, not as abstract risks, but as real-world limitations," Curtis said. Risks such as privacy violations, disinformation, and bias can arise from algorithmic decisions made without transparency or oversight, he said.
