Walthamstow cinema vision v18 120912

Imagine joining us
for events like the
Opening Ceremony
live streamed in the
main auditorium...
or a gospel choir
live performance...
or seeing
Eddie Izzard
performing
in Hoe St.
FUTURE
PROGRAMME...
Imagine a stunning art deco building at the centre of its
community with thrilling live performances, year round
cinema and an innovative education programme.
The strength of the team assembled here will ensure a programme of
a high quality and broad range. This will be a venue which balances
curatorial decisions with financial considerations to ensure the right
mix of risk, profile, audience development and artistic merit.
This will be a local venue with a national profile - a venue that serves
its community while attracting international names and events.
LIVE:
Alongside its role as a leading venue for comedy, the auditorium will
be able to host and present a broad range of work.
This will vary from headline comedy acts recording a DVD to big name
bands wanting a more intimate space to launch a stadium tour. It could be
live streaming of major cultural or sporting events – think the Olympics or
the Metropolitan Opera live from New York. It could be a radical hip-hop
version of a Shakespeare or the final of a street dance competition; a
talent show, a gospel choir or a recital from the Christie organ.
Once a year, we aim to present an annual panto. Soho Theatre Artistic
Director Steve Marmion has created critically acclaimed national pantos
providing not to be missed family entertainment for the whole community
and these will become a regular feature to compete with the very best.
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Year round cinema
and special themed
one-off events...
an education
programme aimed
at participation...
and an annual
panto with discounted
tickets for local
schools and families
...HERE IN
WALTHAMSTOW
FILM:
There will be three dedicated screens offering year round quality
independent cinema. Alongside this, we have the opportunity to use the
main auditorium to screen one-off’s of the biggest blockbusters, classics
or film premieres in what will be one of London’s largest and most striking
cinema venues.
Working with Sadie Frost’s Blonde to Black production company, Curzon
and others, means that we will be connected to the production of cinema
and will placed to attract events such as film festivals, Secret Cinema
(cinema and live performance), Q&As with directors and actors and work
from local filmmakers.
EDUCATION:
Working with Soho Theatre and other leaders in the field means that we can
create the innovative and high quality education programmes working with
people in the borough and beyond.
For many young people, this can be transformative, giving valuable life
skills and a way into the opportunities and insights that access to arts and
entertainment can offer.