Raploch on Film

by Ruth Barker, 22 Apr 2011

Hello,

I’ve just heard about an event that I’d love to go to, but I can’t make it. It’s an outdoor film screening in Raploch (short extract from the press release below). Would anyone like to attend, and report back for PAR+RS in return for having your expenses paid? I think it’ll be a really enjoyable event.

Just drop me an email before you go, if you fancy it.

RAPLOCH on FILM
EARTH DAY – FRIDAY 22nd APRIL – 7.45 – 9.15 p.m.
Outdoor Film Screening
The event is free and open to all

What do you do with a gap site or a stalled space while you wait for the market to pick up? In Raploch they do things a bit differently. Two years ago Raploch URC, along with Architecture and Design Scotland, Rankin Fraser Architects and arts organisation Wave, proposed an idea to the then Scottish Arts Council, to take a large area of land known as Site Seven at the back of Craighall crescent in Raploch, and think about how it could be made available to the community during the years before it would be built on. Plans to plant the land and open it up for a variety of uses were made, and this Friday sees the inaugural event take place. As the first event on the Green Arena, it is also no coincidence that it takes place on Earth Day, (April 22nd).

I hope someone is tempted by this as we’d really like to cover it!

More later,
R