Moston Small Cinema

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Outline – A permanent cinema installation in Moston, North Manchester, developed through community research, film commissions and a festival.

Partners – Buddliea, Manchester City Council, Miners Community Arts and Music Centre

Background – The Moston Small Cinema is the most ambitious expression yet of the Small Cinema project, working with volunteers over 12 weeks to create a permanent screening space in the heart of a community. The result: a 70 seater cinema, replete with authentic cinema seats, built with donated materials, housed in a former miner’s wash house. The project combined community engagement, research and film-making to inform an ambitious plan to develop a cinema facility and hold a 10 day festival of screenings and workshops in November 2012.

The project was commissioned by Buddleia and funded by Manchester City Council, as a means to explore the impact of longterm artist residencies in North Manchester. The cinema continues to be developed as a volunteer-run facility with support from Re-Dock and stakeholders from the community, and has hosted local film premieres, documentary screenings, children’s matinées, theatre shows and fundraising events.

read more about the Moston Small Cinema project

Links

Story of Moston Small Cinema

Moston Small Cinema blog

Moston Small Cinema website

Launch Night blog and film

Our Club, Our Rules film

Fine Casting film

Adelphi Cinema film

Granada Reports broadcast

Moston Small Cinema in pictures (pdf, 1.2mb)