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The good news story coming out of the Philip Road Centre is that Moving Image, the independent community cinema for Wivenhoe, is now a key holder. When it comes to local government and policy twonk type talk, terms like key holder and stakeholder etc are often part of the garbled Third Way of working.

Not so here in Wivenhoe – Moving Image is a key holder; the group physically holds a key for the Philip Road Centre.

Hurrah!

This should make the setting up and transformation of the centre into a state of the art cinematic experience (steady) a lot smoother on film nights. A spring and summer programme is currently being put together.

But it’s not all about lower Wivenhoe for Moving Image. The programme of parallel screenings up amongst the splendour of the Lakeside Theatre at the University has just been announced.

The fascinating theme of Futura Dystopia isn’t something that you’re likely to experience at the Co-op on a Monday morning, but it should make for a worthy experience within the post-modern (steady) surrounds of Square 5.

The schedule itself is a cracking run of futuristic films: Metropolis (16th May) Blade Runner [or Bladder Runner - arf] (23rd May) Monsters (13th June) and Children of Men (20th June.)

All films start at 7:30pm.

Back towards the town and it was fantastic to see that the recent Sunday afternoon screening of Bugs Life was fully booked for the showing at the William Loveless Hall.

Maybe this is an apt time to remind folk about the benefits of Moving Image membership?

“Annual membership of Moving Image will be £5.00 for 2010/11. Tickets will be £3.00 for members. Non-members will be able to buy tickets for £4.00 to include £1.00 guest membership. Tickets for under-16s will be £2.00 when family films are being screened.”

Sounds like something that you should be a stakeholder in.

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