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Foxlowe Films
Decade of movie nights at the Foxlowe
Foxlowe Films are back with a short season of films in the run up to Easter celebrating their ten year anniversary of screenings at Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek.
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The team have screened more than 280 films and have sold over 13,000 tickets since starting with their initial pilot season back in 2012 with Leeks filmmaker Gerald Mee providing equipment and his projectionist skills.
A spokesman for the volunteer Foxlowe Films team said: The support from audiences has been fantastic, together with a committed band of volunteers who help with running the bar, selling tickets and setting out chairs. Foxlowe Films was born out of a meeting in Foxlowe trustee Peter Kent-Baguleys living room in January 2012 when a likeminded group of film fans, enthusiastic to bring movies to our town, were given a brief to go away and work out how we could screen films in Leek. Within a few weeks they had corralled Gerald Mee to help, worked out the licensing arrangements, and programmed a short pilot season of five films to test the waters.
The first screening of Jane Eyre on February 28, 2012 sold out with 70 coming along, setting the group off on a firm footing and still here ten years later with a lot of fun and memorable screenings along the way.
Foxlowe Films are screened every Tuesday evening at 7.45pm, with bar open from 7pm. Tickets are available on line and usually at the door also, priced at £5.
The next screenings are: March 15 - The Father (12a), March 22 The Sound of Metal (15), March 29 - And Then We Danced (15), and April 5 - The Farewell (PG).
For further information, go online to: https://foxloweartscentre.org.uk.
The Father
The Farewell And Then We Danced
The Sound of Metal
result was a new group of pub owning property companies (which were often subsidiaries of the giant brewing empires), which if anything gave an even worse rental deal to their tied estate pub tenants.
Unfortunately, The Travellers Rest was owned by one of these pub owning property companies, who care nothing of their own pubs, their hard working tenant licensees or the customers and communities they serve. Any pub in the land which sits on a large piece of land or has a car park is now under threat from these kind of modern day rogues of the pub world, as any pub can soon be declared unviable and disposed of by the accountant led management teams of these companies and replaced by a dozen or so new build houses, to make a quick buck.
The Flying Horse on Ashbourne Road and Pride of the Moorlands on Junction Road are further local examples of this practice.
Im pleased to say that on a more positive note, our very own great pub town of Leek is relatively cushioned from this phenomenon by the fact that most of its pubs and bars are either privately owned businesses or owned and run by locally based smaller breweries and pub chains who really do genuinely care about their tenants and the local communities they serve.
That is why, dear reader, Leek is quite simply one of the best towns for pubs and bars in the UK. How lucky we are. Cheers
CAMPAIGN FO REAL ALE
Steve Barton Chairman of the Staffordshire Moorlands CAMRA
