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GFF25 Community Takeover Day

Glasgow Film Festival Community Takeover Day is a free cinema event, created with and for communities around Glasgow and will be a day of free film, activities and food!

GFF25 Community Takeover Day

About GFF25 Community Takeover Day

This event will cater to all ages and will be planned by members of the local community. The event is entirety free to attend. Please pick up you free ticket on the day, first come first served. Details below.

Part of the Glasgow 850 project.

Join us for a screening of Ukrainian film 'U are the Universe' [N/C15+], food, music and activities! The film will be introduced by Glasgow Film Festival Director Allison Gardner.

Kids activities at Adelaide Place from 13.15 onwards.

Times and Locations
13.00 Ticket collection: Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose Street, G3 6RE
14.00 Film screening: Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
16.00 Food and Activities: Adelaide Place, 209 Bath Street, G2 4HZ

GFF25 Community Takeover Day: Activities and Times
Venue: Adelaide Place, 209 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4HZ
Doors open at 13.15
All Day: Quiet Room

If you need a moment to chill, pray or want to get away from the busy space, please use the Quite Room. It is situated down the ramp and through the doors on the left side of the stage.

Children must be accompanied by their guardian.

All day: Planet Treasure Hunt – Activity Sheet
Can you find all the planets in the solar system? Have a look around the space and tick them off as you go on your activity sheet.
Suitable for all ages.

13.30 - 17.00: Robot Crafting – Drop-in Workshop
Make your own robot out of colourful paper and recycled materials!
Suitable for ages 3+

13.30 - 17.00: Space (Selfie) Station – Drop-in Activity
Take your photo in our space-themed station. There will be props and you get to take a Polaroid picture home with you! (Available until the film runs out!)
Suitable for all ages.

16.00 - 17.00: Food
A selection of vegetarian and vegan food from Social Bite Catering. There will be boxes to take away food for those fasting. Social Bite are a charity and social business providing homes, jobs, food, and support to empower people to transform their own lives. Their vision is a society where no one should have to be homeless. We challenge the status quo by pioneering solutions that create lasting change.

16.00 - 18.00: Knitting and Pom-Pom Solar Systems – Drop-in workshop
Join the Garnethill Multicultural Centre Knitting Group for a drop-in knitting workshop. Two activities available. You can learn how to knit and make some squares to make blankets or you can make some pom-pom planets and create your own pom-pom solar system hanging mobile!
Ages 5+ up

16.00 - 17.00: Raffle!
When you fill in an Evaluation form about the Community Takeover Day you will be entered into the raffle. Some of the prizes include: GFF25 Merchandise, Two Free GFT Cinema tickets and a Universe//Starry Sky Projector.
Ages 15+

17.00 - 17.20 Cinema City: The History of Glasgow Cinemas with Erin from Glasgow City Heritage Trust
About the speaker:
Erin Russo began her career in heritage as an exhibition research and design intern at Glasgow City Heritage Trust. Her research focused on Glasgow's Lost Cinemas, producing an exhibition and series of talks related to the architecture and society of these spaces. This interest in the city's built environment and heritage continued to develop and Erin is now the Historic Environment Grants Administrator at Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

Talk focus:
This talk will explore Glasgow's love affair with the cinema. Introduced to the city in 1896, cinema quickly took hold not only of Glaswegian hearts, but of the very fabric of the city. This talk will tour the sheer number of cinemas which once populated Glasgow's cityscape, surveying the diverse and often eccentric architecture of these spaces. Finally, this talk will address the fate of Glasgow's lost cinemas, taking stock of how these spaces function as part of the city's historic built environment today.

17.30 - 18.00 Trio of musicians Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Join us for some beautiful music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

18.30 End of Event

Access Information
Level access and accessible toilets at all venues. Interpreters: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi and Ukranian. There is a Quite Room available at Adelaide House. For more access info and to book a wheelchair cinema space email: nicola.scott@glasgowfilm.org

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