Posts Tagged ‘Cinema’
Save The Cinema – Deadline 14th Sept!
Want to save Walthamstow’s last cinema? You have until the 14th of September to submit your objections to the UCKG’s planning application. This is the last chance – if the application is accepted the cinema will be lost forever. See below for details from the Save Our Cinema campaign – Visit their website for the [...]
“Gimme Cinema” say Jagger & local kids
We are very late in reporting this but Mick Jagger has given his support to the campaign by Walthamstow residents to save the Granada/EMD Cinema in Hoe Street. Jagger said: “Cinemas and live venues like The Granada in Walthamstow where the Stones played in the early days, learning our craft on the way, are the [...]
Council meet on Willowfield School & EMD Cinema
On the 20th of May the council approved the Willowfield School proposals, as well as reporting back on their progress in pushing through proposals to convert the EMD Cinema into a church (Minutes and details of meeting available here). Amusingly the council reports that the Church have informed them that the building can not be [...]
Community Premiere of The Age of Stupid, 22nd May
Transition Films is showing The Age of Stupid in Waltham Forest on Friday, 22nd May. Communities around the country are also holding screenings of the film at the same time to raise awareness about the effects of climate change. Pete Postlethwaite stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055 and asking [...]
“Bring back the cinema” says Clegg
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visited Walthamstow last week to view the cinema building and arcade site. Clegg said: “The Arcade site has been this great gaping hole in the middle of the community for such a long time.” “This is made worse by the fact that there’s been such a lack of transparency about [...]
600 residents hold vigil to save EMD Cinema
OTHER REPORTS ON THE PROTEST Walthamstow Guardian coverage as “600 residents protest at council plans” McGuffins organised the vigil and took pictures on the night BBC News report on “Fight to save Hitchcock cinema” Telegraph piece on the fight to “save cinema where Alfred Hitchcock saw first films” The Independent tell the story of “Hitchcocks [...]
Cinema plans online
The United Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) are so keen to get residents views on their scheme to turn the EMD cinema into a church they’ve not only had an exhibition for a whole 7 hours but now the plans are online: UCKG PR company sets out plans for EMD Cinema here Obviously [...]
Cinema “exhibition” open for 7 hours
The council asked Walthamstow if it wanted the EMD retained as a cinema and the message loudly came “No to a church yes to a cinema”. The council asked the government for a ruling – the answer a resounding No to the church and a firm statement that the building should remain a cinema. Now [...]
BAG Newsletter
URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to [...]
Open Air Cinema Saturday 12th July
“New York, New York, It’s a wonderful town” (youtube clip) Walthamstow Town Centre’s the place to be on Saturday the 12th July for a free open air big screen showing of the classic Hollywood musical “On The Town“. Starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett and the music of Leonard Bernstein, it features some of Hollywood’s [...]
