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Penda's Fen + Performance by Hyem
27 Jun 2026
6:10pm
Quick summary
- Price
- £5.00
- Audience type
- 12+
- Running time
- 90 mins (Film starts at 6:42pm)
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
Additional information
Event description
Sunderland Film Club presents The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Join us at Arts Centre Washington this June for a screening of Alan Clarke and David Rudkin’s visionary coming-of-age tale – Penda’s Fen.
In the pastoral landscape of Three Choirs England, a clergyman’s son, in his last days of school, has his idealistic value-system and the precious tokens of his self-image all broken away – his parentage, his nationality, his sexuality, his conventional patriotism and faith. Below the slopes of the Malvern Hills he has encounters with an angel, and with a demon, with the ghost of Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and with Penda, England’s last pagan king.
Before the screening, we will be joined for a performance by Newcastle-based fiddle trio Hyem.
About Hyem:
Hyem are a fiddle trio, though sometimes adding in a splash of vocals and clogs, who formed whilst studying music in Newcastle. They blend North East influences with their love for European bal music in mostly very upbeat arrangements, (despite their love of minor keys!). They have been described as “fresh, intricate and full of energy” following gigs at Saltburn folk festival this summer.
Timings:
5:52pm – Doors open
6:12pm – Hyem performance
6:42pm – Penda’s Fen screening
8:12pm – Film ends
The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion
This screening is part of The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
