# Event Details - **Event Name**: Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 10:30 am – Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Spielberg’s Extraterrestrials and Other Strangers Day School Sat 4 Jul, 10.30- 5.30pm (with a lunch break 13.00-14.00) £45 or £40 for Members and concessions Tutor: Peter Kramer Steven Spielberg is arguably the most important filmmaker of the last six decades, combining huge commercial success with enormous critical acclaim. Almost 80 years old, he presents his latest blockbuster in June 2026: Disclosure Day. It is another tale about humanity’s encounter with extraterrestrials, a theme absolutely central to Spielberg’s work – from his 1963 amateur feature film Firelight onwards, including two of his most influential movies: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Importantly, while Spielberg rarely comes up with the stories for his films, he did do so for Firelight, Close Encounters and Disclosure Day, and also, without being credited for it, for E.T. Spielberg’s films about extraterrestrials (as well as some of the television series about this topic that he produced) also tend to be about more or less dysfunctional families. They therefore can combine a realistic exploration of how people relate to those closest and most familiar to them with a speculative account of how they relate to what is strangest, most alien to them. In fact, something similar can be said about Spielberg’s films (and TV series) about supernatural entities, animals, robots and artificial intelligences, and indeed about people who are treated as if they were somehow less than fully human. There are many commonalities between E.T., Poltergeist (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler’s List (1994) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In very different ways these films address some of the same questions: How do we perceive beings that are (initially) completely alien to us? How do we interact with them? How can such interaction change us and our relationships with those we are closest to? With reference to our past (and also perhaps very recent) experiences with Spielberg’s work, a range of film clips and perhaps some reading, this day school explores what some of the world’s most popular movies (can) mean to us. About the tutor: Peter Krämer is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Media, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is a regular guest lecturer at several other universities in the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic, has written or edited twelve academic books and has also co-authored an illustrated volume about American film for children. He has been involved in adult education for more than thirty-five years. Programmed in partnership with the Sir John Hurt Film Trust. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/norwich/spielbergs-extraterrestrials-and-other-strangers-day-school/200029934471634 - **Event Categories**: Entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Norwich - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Cinema City, St Andrews St, NR24AD Norwich, United Kingdom - **lat**: 52.63059 - **long**: 1.2958 - **full address**: Cinema City, St Andrews St, NR24AD Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/0aa5da3b2b180b53884e54566c4121e52c92e8113495182975e2323216642238-rimg-w1200-h675-dc12128e-gmir?v=1776055892 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School being held? - **A:** Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School takes place on Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 10:30 am to Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm at Cinema City, St Andrews St, NR24AD Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School? - **A:** Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School is organized by Cinema City Norwich. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Spielberg's Extraterrestrials And Other Strangers - Day School", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/0aa5da3b2b180b53884e54566c4121e52c92e8113495182975e2323216642238-rimg-w1200-h675-dc12128e-gmir?v=1776055892", "startDate": "2026-07-04T10:30:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-07-04T17:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/norwich/spielbergs-extraterrestrials-and-other-strangers-day-school/200029934471634", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Cinema City, St Andrews St, NR24AD Norwich, United Kingdom", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "name": "Cinema City, St Andrews St, NR24AD Norwich, United Kingdom, Norwich, United Kingdom", "addressLocality": "Norwich", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "52.63059", "longitude": "1.2958" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Spielberg’s Extraterrestrials and Other Strangers \nDay School\nSat 4 Jul, 10.30- 5.30pm (with a lunch break 13.00-14.00)\n£45 or £40 for Members and concessions\nTutor: Peter Kramer\n\nSteven Spielberg is arguably the most important filmmaker of the last six decades, combining huge commercial success wit", "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Cinema City Norwich", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/cinema-city-norwich/9254358", "description": "Norwich's much-loved three-screen cinema with courtyard and stunning restaurant The Dining Rooms.\n? 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