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Wednesday 24 September 2014

Cinema Programme at Airdrie Town Hall

We are so pleased at the success of our wee cinema so far, and excited to announce our most extensive programme to date. This great mix of old classics, Pixar and Disney favourites themed nights and Christmas gems takes you through October right up until Christmas Eve.

Further info regarding theme nights and final timings for all to be announced. Tickets already on sale for Despicable Me, Tarantino and To Catch a Thief by calling 01698 403 120 or simply buying on the door.

Hope to see you all there!

Silver Screenings

10/10/2014 – To Catch a Thief (PG)

07/11/2014 – Gone with the Wind (PG)

05/12/2014 – North by Northwest (PG)

All silver screen films £4.95 and includes tea, coffee & home baking at 1pm, movie at 2pm.

Theme Nights

10/10/2014 – Tarantino – Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (18)

07/11/2014 – Horror Fest – Halloween and Friday the 13th (18)

05/12/2014 – Musical Night - Grease and Footloose (12A)

All theme nights £5.95, with a fully licensed bar, cocktails and cinema snacks on sale. Further info to be announced.

Kidz Club

28/09/2014 – Despicable Me (PG)

12/10/2014 – The Incredible’s (U)

26/10/2014 – Toy Story 3 (U)

09/11/2014 - Brave (PG)

23/11/2014 – Monsters Inc. (U)

07/12/2014 – Finding Nemo (U)

Usual cinema prices apply for customers - cinema snacks on sale. 2pm for movie.

School October Week

13/10/2014-17/10/2014 - One Direction! Where We Are! – The Concert (PG) *TBC

Usual cinema prices apply £5 adult, £3.50 child - cinema snacks on sale.

Christmas Cinema

20/12/2014 – The Muppets Christmas Carol (U)

21/12/2014 – Elf (PG)

22/12/2014 – It’s a Wonderful Life (U)

24/12/2014 – Miracle on 34th Street (U)

Usual cinema prices apply £5 adult, £3.50 child - cinema snacks on sale. Times to be announced.

Monday 7 July 2014

Cycling Stories: Cait, Summerlee

Our new exhibition all about cycling, 'The Perfect Machine' opened at Summerlee Museum on Saturday. As part of the exhibition we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Cait works at Summerlee.

“My name is Cait and the first bike that I ever had was my granda’ found it on a local dump. It was red and he done it all up and he bought a bell with Mickey Mouse on it.

“Has cycling changed my life? Well I cycle to work now and what I do get it is a sense of freedom. It’s helped me keep fit and it makes me feel good, it’s a great start to the beginning of my day and for the end, all my troubles just go away by the time I’m home.

“A memorable bike ride that I’ve done was a trip to Sandwood Bay, Durness. It was very cold, it was October time. We had not got much daylight left, I wasn’t feeling that great that day and I hadn’t rode a bike for years. Before we started the cycle we met three experienced cyclists on their way back and they told me how hard it was. Most of the way you were going through water, over rocks and you couldn’t cycle any more. So a few miles in we had to dump the bikes and go the rest by foot, a good few miles by foot but it was well worth it. Once we got over the hill it was like something out of Pirates of the Caribbean, beautiful white sands, blue water, there were stacks on either side. But then had to start making the journey back and by the time we reached our bikes again it was complete darkness so you can imagine what it was like, but it was well worth the trip.

“I cycle to work in the summer months and I cycle from Glenboig to Coatbridge and most of it is cycle tracks. It takes you through a local nature reserve, through Gartcosh train station and this is the site of the old Gartcosh Steel Works. Then you have got a busy stretch of road to Drumpellier. There’s quite a scary bit trying to cross the road, you’re kind of playing chicken there but that is the busiest and most dangerous bit of the cycle. You are then in Drumpellier Country Park. That takes you by the visitor centre, round the loch and onto the cycle track at the back, in the woodlands. It takes you down onto the Monkland Canal at Old Home Farm, then the stretch takes you by the allotments. On your right is a woodland: the wildlife is amazing and, on a good day, you could be anywhere. You then cycle to the West End Park through two underpasses into the old canal basin, cross the road and that’s me at my work at Summerlee: half an hour; four miles.”

If you would like to be featured in 'Cycling Stories' please contact Justin Parkes, Industrial History Curator on 01236 856376; ParkesJ@culturenl.co.uk

'The Perfect Machine', Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge
5 July to 14 September 2014

Wednesday 25 June 2014

Cycling Stories: Donald, Summerlee

Ahead of the opening of cycling exhibition 'The Perfect Machine' at Summerlee Museum in July 2014 we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Donald is not only a keen cyclist but also a tram driver at Summerlee. Many thanks to David Peace, CultureNL Photography Development Officer for taking this photo.

“I have been cycling on and off since the age of five. My first bike was a wee blue one with white stabiliser wheels, balloon tyres and chrome mudguards. I remember the feeling of going a bike myself for the first time without stabilisers or anyone holding on.

“I cycle to work when the weather is good and also cycle for leisure. Cycling helps keep me fit and gets me outdoors; I enjoy the sense of freedom. I quite enjoy the route in the morning which takes me along the old Caledonian Railway and then on to the towpath of the Monkland Canal – beats driving in!

“I have two bikes but my favourite is my Raleigh Royal which is now nearly 30 years old. It is a tourer, built light but strong. The steel frame has a bit of ‘give’ which makes it more comfortable.”

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Cycling Stories: Maja, Glasgow Women's Library

Ahead of the opening of cycling exhibition 'The Perfect Machine' at Summerlee Museum in July 2014 we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow.

Maja volunteers with the Glasgow Women's Library (http://womenslibrary.org.uk) in Bridgeton where she is one of the 'Paper Girls' who distribute library information by bike. Many thanks to Rita Lamarra of the Thursday night Photomedia Studio photography class at Summerlee for taking this photograph.

"I got my bike in Berlin where I used to live. I lived there for about three years and it was on the small ads in Berlin that I saw it advertised. I didn’t actually want a single-speed bike but I thought it was so beautiful and I really wanted something this colour, it’s a vintage Giant it just looked really nice. So I went along and it belonged to a guy who had found it, probably paid about 50 Euros for the frame, I think it’s an old ‘80s Giant frame and he scrapped most of the parts apart from the frame and did it all up himself. It was like his project, his baby and his plan was to do it up for his girlfriend (it was a bit of a smaller frame it didn’t fit him) and she then decided instead that she would prefer to have a sort of lady’s shopper bike and he was devastated because he put so much work into it! So then he decided to sell it on to someone and he saw how much love I had in my eyes and I think he was like, ‘go on then’.

"I rode the bike in Berlin for about a year before I moved back here, it’s suffered a few scratches there from its transport to Glasgow. I find the single speed surprisingly okay in Glasgow, because Berlin is really flat and I thought it was going to be really tough in the hills and stuff but it’s not, it actually works really well. It’s better because it’s more a challenge, in Berlin it just felt too easy and here at least I feel like I’m getting a bit of a workout from cycling.

"I cycle to work. I did my degree in Glasgow and during that time there is no way you would have had me on a bike on the streets in Glasgow. I suppose I built some confidence up in Berlin and then came back here and felt that I was ready to face the traffic in Glasgow. It’s really different here and people are not very bike-friendly, there’s a lot of animosity on the road."

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Cycling Stories: Rosemary, Cumbernauld

Ahead of the opening of cycling exhibition 'The Perfect Machine' at Summerlee Museum in July 2014 we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Rosemary was a customer I met at IAmBikes, a cycling charity in Cumbernauld. Many thanks to Morag Prach for introducing us.

“I wouldn’t say that I am a keen cyclist now that I have had a family, more for them now. We’ve started taking the children out and about on bikes and taking a trailer for the wee one and cycling as a family more than anything.

“I enjoy it, it’s nice to get them out in the fresh air and get exercise as well and see some of Scotland, not too far afield because they are only young. We go along the canals and sometimes to parks and so on, not too far for them yet.

“I don’t cycle to work. I would like to in the future when the girls are a bit older. I live in Cumbernauld and work in Kilsyth so it’s not too far to go. I’m a bit nervous going on the roads so I would like to take my time with that because there are cycle paths in some areas but not in others.

“We got my bike from IAmBikes and two of my daughters’ bikes as well. I think it’s absolutely great, I really do. I think it’s a wonderful thing and I keep telling everybody about it. More as well to save money when a lot of my friends have more than one child. They are all growing and they are not in one bike for very long.”

If you would like to be featured in 'Cycling Stories' please contact Justin Parkes, Industrial History Curator on 01236 856376; ParkesJ@culturenl.co.uk

'The Perfect Machine', Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge

5 July to 14 September 2014

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Cycling Stories: Shamus, IAmBikes

Ahead of the opening of cycling exhibition 'The Perfect Machine' at Summerlee Museum in July 2014 we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Shamus is co-founder of IAmBikes, a cycling charity in Cumbernauld.

"I have been cycling on and off for 25 plus years now. Years ago I used to do a bit more road cycling but now is much more focused around cycling with the children. I don’t go on the roads because the roads are quite a hazard but there are certainly good routes you can find and figure out yourself to get from A to B.

"I like the freedom of cycling. I got my first bike when I was nine or ten when I lived in Ireland it was a red 5 speed Raleigh road bike, this was back in about 1978. We were about three to five miles away from the nearest school so of course the only mode of transport was a bicycle which I used every day, day in day out in all weathers to get to school and back."

If you would like to be featured in 'Cycling Stories' please contact Justin Parkes, Industrial History Curator on 01236 856376; ParkesJ@culturenl.co.uk

'The Perfect Machine', Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge

5 July to 14 September 2014

Thursday 15 May 2014

Cycling Stories: Morag, IAmBikes

Ahead of the opening of cycling exhibition 'The Perfect Machine' at Summerlee Museum in July 2014 we are profiling cyclists from around Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Morag works at IAmBikes, a cycling charity in Cumbernauld, where she runs the Cycle to the Moon campaign to get more people cycling. See the campaign website to follow their progress.

“I remember my first bike, it was a blue and yellow Raleigh Nippy and I absolutely loved it. I was always falling off and cutting my knees.

“As I got older, my mum managed to get me someone else’s bike, it was passed down and then I didn’t ride again until I was at university. I went to St Andrew’s University and a bike was a good thing to have to get about and to get to my classes. But on my first day out I was knocked off: a guy reversed out of a parking space, didn’t look and knocked me clean off my bike. Then my bike was stolen and I was a student so I couldn’t afford to get another one.

“I didn’t actually get another bike until just after I had my daughter. I’ve got two kids and they were old enough to cycle to school and we worked out that there was a safe route from our house. It’s off the road and is a mile and a half which if I take the car is about five and a half miles, so a really easy, great way to cycle. Last summer was fantastic so the kids were quite happy and they felt the benefits as well. Everyone was chatting about it at school and before we knew it all the bike hoops were full and people were having to strap their bikes to the railings in the school playground. I lost a stone in weight and felt absolutely phenomenally good, so good that that’s why I wanted to get involved with the IAmBikes charity.”