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Book now for a boat Another award for fi lm society
trip with Santa Swindon Film Society, which last year was voted acknowledged nationally. We were told that the judges
Following the success of last year's Film Society of the Year, has now received the British were impressed by the diversity of our programming
ride with Santa along the Wilts & Federation of Film Society’s Best Film Programming and the way we appeal to different audiences through
Berks Canal from the landing stage Commendation. the annual fi lm festival and cinema events in different
at Kingshill, Swindon, the canal After the ceremony, SFS chair Barbara Hoffbauer communities, as well as our core programme of the
trust has booked Santa to visit in said: “We’re delighted that once again the excellence best World Cinema titles.”
December. of the fi lms we bring to the Swindon area has been www.swindonfi lm.org.uk
Places on the canal boat Drag-
onfl y are limited so early booking is Images of Swindon on tour
essential. Trips in the heated boat
take about an hour; refreshments A Portrait of Swindon - the digital installation using photography and fi lm to celebrate the people and places
will be served and children will of Swindon in The Queen’s jubilee year - can be seen at the Community Arts Gallery on the ground fl oor in
receive a gift from the man in red. Great Western Hospital from 26 October until 16 November.
Download a booking form via Working with social engagement of contemplation, work and play. some of whom were captured on a
www.wbct.org.uk/boat-trips/drag- artist Jill Carter and filmmaker Over 600 people and some 60 sofa, or throne, that was transported
onfl y-santa-trips Gurchetan Singh, Create, Swindon venues participated in this project, around the town.
Council’s digital media centre has Jill Carter, right, at Swindon’s Big Arts Day in July with young arts
woven a sensitive and revealing ambassadors and the sofa that features in A Portrait of Swindon
HEAD RUSH culture, commerce and landscapes
portrait of Swindon’s communities,
HAIR to commemorate this unique mo-
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Behind Spectrum documented the warmth of ordinary
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