7 Days in Havana
Tuesday 26th June 7pm
White Cloth Gallery, Leeds
or
2nd July 7.30pm
The Workstation, Sheffield
We’ve got to admit we’re not easily bought, seriously. On the one hand we don’t do that linking thing, or host adverts on the site for $50 a year. But send us a beautiful screen printed poster and a bubble wrapped bottle of Havana Rum and you might find we’ll relax our rather stringent product placement ethics…It’s all about the quality though darling, and the sharing. So whilst toying with drinking mojitos by myself for lunch I wondered why I was more than happy to help spread the word about 7 Days in Havana. After all there’s plenty of independent film without the Saatchi marketing that we love to promote.
Partly it’s because the film features Benicio Del Toro, who I can no longer think of without wondering what did happen in a lift with Scarlet Johansson. That mental image alone is enough to make me hot foot it along to the screening (sorry serious film buffs). Secondly it’s being held at The White Cloth Gallery, which is a new commercial gallery in Leeds, and I want them to stay the distance. Two good reasons to get my bottom off the sofa. Is that enough for you?
So we’ve got 3 pairs of tickets to be won. The screening would only cost a fiver, so it’s not like you couldn’t buy tickets yourself. But you get a free cocktail, and the film isn’t on general release. So what have you got to lose?
To win all you have to do is tell us in the comments box what you where you’d like to spend 7 days and who with! Simple. Then if you could tweet #7DaysInHavana that would be lovely. Closing date 9pm Sunday 24th June
Here’s the dull bit T’s&C’s
I can’t think of a better way to spend 7 days than my impending trip to Budapest for Sziget festival. 7 days, lots of good music, on an island in the middle of the Danube, with some good friends from around Europe, perfect!
I’d love to spend 7 days in Hawaii with my boyfriend (aw, bless). I’ve never been, but I can vividly imagine relaxing in a hammock with a cocktail, going to beach parties and doing the hula… Okay, maybe not *doing* the hula, but rather watch other people do the hula.
Although, I can’t promise I wouldn’t want to stay another 7 days after that…
I would like to spend 7 days in Havana with my good friend Jas because she is soon to become a married lady and this way she gets to relax away from wedding planning and I get to spend more time with her. Jem
I would like to spend 7 days at Jurassic Park in Dubai with my boyfriend and either Martin Freeman or Simon Pegg (they can bring a lady/lad friend if they want). Coz that would be cool.
I would spend 7 days in Argentina with my little sister. We have both grown up surrounded by South American (and Scottish) traditions- the day before I came to University I celebrated Argentinian independence with my family and friends instead of going to a club- but have never been over to the country that we know so much about. I’ve just graduated and she’s just finished her GCSEs, so it would be a great time to go and explore a bit of this big, beautiful world. On top of this, I’ve only recently discovered the joys of red meat, so where better to celebrate this?!
It would have to be 7 days in Havana with Scott, my beautiful boyfriend. I went in 2010 and studied the architecture so spent my time working. This time we’d be together, seeing more of the city and the surrounding countryside by taking our bicycles. A lasting memory is watching thousands of people crowd down to the seafront – the Malecon – for a government concert. As the crowds thinned out I saw, sparkling and glinting, a group of shiny bicycles making circles and then speeding off together. The only cyclists I saw in my 2 weeks on the island. Now I’ve thought about this I’ll tell Scott – if he’s up for it we could make this happen. Cycling around Cuba – sounds amazing doesn’t it?
I’d like to spend seven days in Berlin with my friend Galina Kalla Green. I got to know her in that city just after the wall came down and we were both studying at the Freie Universitat. We spent time working in theatres, dancing in bank vaults, drinking coffee next to the statue of the pacifist Kathe Kollwitz. I haven’t seen Gally for years – she now runs an English cafe in Berlin – serving English afternoon tea. I’d love to re-acquaint myself with that amazing city with her.