Shoreham's Ropetackle Centre hosts arts festival events

Shoreham's new, 200-seater venue will be screening former US vice-president Al Gore's award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, on Saturday, June 2.

It premired last summer and is the third-highest-grossing American documentary at the box office. Five per cent of takings go to green charity The Alliance for Climate Protection.

East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton, chairman of the Ropetackle Trust, which runs the arts and business centre, said: "The screening is a thought-provoking way to open our doors and appropriate, too, considering Shoreham's film heritage.

"Film is to be an important theme of the new centre."

The Ropetackle Trust team, which ran last year's Adur Festival marquee series, is staging 31 events at various venes, including the marquee on Beach Green, Shoreham Beach, Shoreham Airport, Lancing College and the new Ropetackle Centre, during this year's festival, which runs for the first two weeks of June.

There will be a return for The Blockheads, Herbie Flowers and Jack Cryer, as well as appearances from BBC2's Richard Herring from Fist of Fun, top Radio 4 personality Jeremy Hardy, folk legends Waterson and Carthy and by renowned Shoreham guitarist Richard Durrant, who launches the festival on June 1 with a concert at Lancing College Chapel.

Erincaceous, owners of Shoreham Airport, are the main sponsors of the Ropetackle Series, donating 10,000.

For tickets and details of other Ropetackle 2007 series events, phone 01273 441676 or visit the website www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk