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PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER 2011

Heinz Dunkhase’s DINNER FOR ONE (1963) Freddie Frinton, May Warden: two Yorkshire

Music-hall stars in their classic Christmas routine: the most rerun sequence in all world television: 18 mins

George Seaton’s MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947) Maureen O’Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne in the original

Santa Claus classic 96 mins Cert U  £5 Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  doors open 7pm film start 7.30

refreshments before and during the films  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

PRINTABLE PENICUIK POSTER    SEASON POSTER

 

 

PENIC U    IK        C  INE M        A        in t h e    T   O   W     N H  A    LL

SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 2011

Nicolas Roeg’s DON’T LOOK NOW (1973) Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland

Classic psychic thriller set in Venice 110 mins Cert 15 (originally X then 18) 

£5 Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  doors open 7pm film start 7.30

refreshments before and during film  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

PRINTABLE PENICUIK POSTER    SEASON POSTER

 

 

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall.

     Sunday 4 December  2011  .

NORA EPHRON’S  JULIE AND JULIA (2009) Meryl Streep Amy Adams

Cert 12A £5  Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall   doors open 7pm

Refreshments  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema  film  starts 7.30

           Printable Penicuik Poster                Season Poster

 

 

Penicuik Trust and  Saltire Society contributions to              .

see programme here

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall  Marriage Room                                      .

-people & places in time

Monday 28 November 2011: 7pm reception for talk 7.30-9pm

Scots engineers and architects and their families in 19th century Japan

-with a postscript on their descendant SOE’s Colin Gubbins 

 Illustrated talk by Roger Kelly £3 (£2) Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

01968 677854 roger@kosmoid.net   http://www.kosmoid.net/lives/mcvean

As a result of the practical enlightenment, there was a highly productive interchange between Scotland and Japan in the second half of the 19th century.  This topic is the subject of current research in Japan. Roger Kelly will describe the role of architect Campbell Douglas, designer of Penicuik Town Hall, the work of lighthouse engineer Richard Brunton, surveyor Colin McVean, and seismologist Cargill Gilston Knott.  McVean and his wife Mary Cowan, daughter of the Penicuik papermaker Alexander Cowan, raised their family in Japan and imperial emissaries in return studied papermaking here in Penicuik.  When McVean and his wife returned to Scotland and settled on Mull  they brought their Japanese born grandchildren the Gubbins family and one of them, Colin Gubbins, later became liaison with Polish forces and leader of SOE’s secret war in occupied Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

In Crichton near Pathhead                             .

-people & places in time

Sunday 27 November 2011 introduction and singing 3.15pm to 4.30pm

Singing in Crichton Collegiate Church

Vault singers of Penicuik at Crichton Church near Pathhead, Midlothian EH37 5XA

Performance is free but donations may be made to the Crichton Collegiate Church Trust

01968 677854    roger@kosmoid.net   http://www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/vaults

Crichton Church was founded on 26 December 1449 by William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, Lord Chancellor of Scotland "Out of thankfullness and gratitude to Almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Kentigern and All Saints", Like many other Scottish collegiate churches, Crichton was built for the use of the local lord, and a provost, eight prebendaries, two choir boys and a sacrist were appointed to pray for the souls of the Crichton family. The building is no longer used as a parish church and is in the care of the Crichton Collegiate Church Trust. Vault Singers sing simple harmonic chants here every four weeks throughout the year, and also sing regularly in the nearby Collegiate Chapels of Rosslyn (in the crypt) and Seton. Built for voices, each of these ancient spaces has a very special acoustic.  Chants have a religious basis. 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                                     .

-people & places in time

Saturday 26 November 2011: 7pm reception for talk 7.30-9pm

  

Polish Forces in Scotland, General Maczek, and the Great Polish Map

 Illustrated talk by Roger Kelly £3 (£2) Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

01968 677854   roger@kosmoid.net     http://www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/maczek

The story of the Polish forces in Scotland begins with the Polish Navy’s arrival in the Forth at the outbreak of war in 1939. General Maczek’s successes against the Blitzkreig, escape to Hungary, France and ultimately the UK is explored, Polish deployment in Norway and the Battle of Britain and major role in the  defence of Scottish coasts is little known. This talk follows the Polish medical support through units like the Paderewski Hospital in Edinburgh, and the training for Normandy landings at Blairgowrie and in East Lothian. Successes of Polish Forces at Montecassino and at Falaise in 1944 was followed in 1945 by the liberation of Breda and the surrender of Wilhelmshaven.  But the shock of Yalta led to disillusion and years of postwar exile for many in Scotland.  During those Iron Curtain decades a lasting memorial to the Poles defence of Scotland was created: the Great Polish Map beside Barony Castle at Eddleston.  This is now being restored by the MapaScotland project, to which donations can be made.

 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                                     .

-people & places in time

Saturday 26 November 2011: 2pm reception for talk 2.30-3.45m

Diamonds in the Deli

Talk by David I Harvie £3 (£2) Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

01968 677854 roger@kosmoid.net http://www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/upcoming

David I Harvie tells the story of the brilliantly inventive James Ballantyne Hannay. The son of a baker who became a property developer and theatre-owner, he had an early interest at school in chemistry, philosophy and astronomy. He studied solids, liquids and gases in Glasgow and Manchester and opened a chemical works in Glasgow’s east end. He established a patents company and registered a bewildering range of patents in a variety of fields. While still a young man, he bought Cove Castle, a fine Scots Baronial tower-house. He opened a further laboratory in what later became a well-loved Glasgow delicatessen. Here, in 1880, he produced microscopic sample of artificial diamond – one of the holy grails of technology. They were authenticated by the top European diamond expert, Prof. Story-Maskelene of the British Museum.  Hannay himself, a classic experimenter, was  intent on setting out on yet more original work. The diamond issue remained oddly quiet for some time, perhaps through disbelief and the nervousness of stock exchanges. While Hannay devoted himself to technological innovations he became increasingly involved in exploring and writing about metaphysics.  He theorised on the origins and function of the universe, and aspects of religion and sexual iconography, from a staunchly atheist viewpoint.  Over many decades – until well after Hannay’s death in 1931 – his microscopic diamond samples were subjected to further testing, as new methods became available. Tantalisingly, it seemed that each result seemed to contradict the previous finding . . . until, in 1975 the ‘final’ series of tests, at King’s College, London, considered conclusively that they were definitely natural, and could not possibly have been man-made. It seems hard to believe that the last word has been heard on the Hannay Diamonds -  but for the fact that the tiny samples could no longer sustain further testing. Today artificial diamond technology is very advanced; yet, even here, the latest idea is to produce diamond film using Tequila! 

 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                           .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Saturday 26 November 2011 exhibition 10am-2.30pm

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

ENTRY FREE  Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

In a series of images the exhibition conveys some of the origins of the Saltire Society, and shows the a range of its achievements and award winners against the background of 75 years of Scottish cultural life  -from poetry plays and painting to architecture science and engineering, with an online preview at http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years    Cafe with home baking and soup

The full exhibition is also on show free at Inverness Public Library throughout November (not Sundays) Tel 01463 236463

 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                                     .

-people & places in time

Friday 25 November 2011: 7pm reception for talk 7.30-9pm

The Kosmoid Enigma

Talk by David I Harvie introduced by Roger Kelly £3 (£2)

Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

01968 677854  roger@kosmoid.net    http://www.kosmoid.net/shiels

There was extraordinary attempt to transmute elements on Clydeside at the beginning of the 20th century by Kosmoid Ltd, a well-funded company set up under the aegis of Dr Alexander Shiels, a charismatic medical man. The enterprise involved a tube factory, leading figures, and massive investment. Was it science, alchemy or an attempt to influence the markets?  This strange story cannot help but touch several people in Glasgow at the time: Glasgow metal speculator  and junior Trade Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Ernest Rutherford’s collaborator in elemental transmutation the Nobel laureate Frederick Soddy, television pioneer A.A. Campbell Swinton,  the later head of ICI Alexander Fleck, and one of Scotland’s most notable 20th century politicians: Walter Elliot who was the son of Dr Shiels’ dead sister and raised in his household. Intriguingly the events were alluded to by John Buchan in his novel loosely based on the character of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour “The Power House”. 

It is only in the last few years the extensive Babcock and Wilcox factory at Dumbarton has been demolished and turned into a housing development, almost a century after its construction. This factory was the unlikely focus of one of Britain’s most bizarre company scandals. In 1906 it was alleged that the Kosmoid Company was secretly trying to make gold from lead and copper from pig-iron on a commercial scale. The classic alchemist’s dream was to be set in the hard-headed and conventional cauldron of Clydeside heavy engineering. The Kosmoid companies (three of them) were set up by Alexander Shiels, a young doctor who did more than dabble in engineering and related activities - he had well over 100 British patents, as well as dozens of overseas patents and licences. The three companies were controlled by a secretive group of 18, called the Metallurgical Syndicate, whose stated aim was "the commercial development of secret processes of manufacture known to Alexander Shiels by which quicksilver (mercury) could be produced from lead and copper from iron." Some of the West of Scotland’s princes of industry incredibly put their names to this, and agreed that Shiels could do what he wanted and employ who he wanted with no interference from the partners. They also agreed not to enter the factory or ask what was being done there. Following the scandal, confusion and doubt perhaps rather suited Glasgow's business establishment, given the embarrassment suffered by some of their most influential merchants and financiers. The equivalent of £10 million was lost, reputations were in tatters, and there were allegations of attempted murder against the central character.

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                                     .

-people & places in time

Friday 25 November 2011: 2pm reception for talk 2.30-4pm

“The Man Who Caused the Boer War”

Talk by David I Harvie £3 (£2) Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

01968 677854 roger@kosmoid.net http://www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/upcoming

John Stewart MacArthur's contribution in two scientific areas is unique and important. A century ago, he and his collaborators were pioneers in ensuring the survival of the world's gold and silver extraction industry - with all the implications for international economies. And in the first two decades of the last century, he was closely involved with the innovators of what was then a completely unknown and dangerous field of science: he was unwittingly involved in the birthof the nuclear industry. MacArthur’s story occurred in a past so recent that, although out of the direct touch of anyone still living, it is still tantalisingly close. His discovery of the Cyanide Process of gold extraction, and its development towards commercial viability, was done in the hothouse that was Kinning Park in Glasgow. is exploits in gold extraction ended with a vicious patents trial in South Africa, when the venal gold magnates in that country deprived him of his share of the benefits that his process brought to them and their country.  His story is at a time when communications were poor, electricity was uncommon, and foreign travel (which plays a part in these events which it is impossible to ignore) was achieved only with considerable time and hardship.

 

 

 

 

At The Saltire Society, Fountain Court, off Royal Mile                             .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Thursday 24 & Friday 25 November 2011 exhibition 10am-4pm

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

ENTRY FREE Saltire Society 9 Fountain Close, 22 High St., Edinburgh EH1 1TF

 opposite Storytelling Centre in Royal Mile   0131 556 1836  saltire@saltiresociety.org.uk  http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk

In a series of images the exhibition conveys some of the origins of the Saltire Society, and shows the a range of its achievements and award winners against the background of 75 years of Scottish cultural life  -from poetry plays and painting to architecture science and engineering, with an online preview at http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years

The full exhibition is also on show free at Inverness Public Library throughout November (not Sundays) Tel 01463 236463

 

At Saltire Society, Fountain Court, off Royal Mile     Edinburgh                               .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Wednesday 23 November 2011, exhibition 10.30am-4pm

     

Scotland’s Planning Legacy

No charge for entry  01968 677854  roger@kosmoid.net    http://www.kosmoid.net/planning/legacyintro

The exhibition prepared for the 80th anniversary of the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland is shown here in the Saltire Society Headquarters.  It looks at the origins and achievements of Scotland’s approach to place-planning and some key figures along the way, with the author Roger Kelly  on hand for discussion.  The exhibition is also being shown earlier at Penicuik Town Hall Open House from 10 till 2 on Saturday 19 November and at Penicuik Town Hall with a talk on the evening of Tuesday 22nd.

 

 

At  Penicuik Town Hall                             .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Tuesday 22 November 2011 7pm reception, exhibition, talk 7.30-9pm

    

Scotland’s Planning Legacy

Talk by Roger Kelly £5 (£3)  Penicuik Town Hall, High St., Penicuik EH26 8HS

  01968 677854  roger@kosmoid.net   http://www.kosmoid.net/planning/legacyintro

The exhibition prepared for 80 years of the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland preludes this talk by Roger Kelly about the origins and achievements of Scotland’s approach to place-planning and some key figures along the way.

The exhibition is also being shown at Penicuik Town Hall Open House from 10 till 2 on Saturday 19 November and at The Saltire Society at Fountain Court off Edinburgh’s Royal Mile from 10 till 4 on Wednesday 23rd

 

 

 

At The Saltire Society, Fountain Court, off Royal Mile                             .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Monday 21 November 2011 exhibition 10am-4pm

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

ENTRY FREE  Saltire Society 9 Fountain Close, 22 High St., Edinburgh EH1 1TF

 opposite Storytelling Centre in Royal Mile   0131 556 1836  saltire@saltiresociety.org.uk  http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk

In a series of images the exhibition conveys some of the origins of the Saltire Society, and shows the a range of its achievements and award winners against the background of 75 years of Scottish cultural life  -from poetry plays and painting to architecture science and engineering, with an online preview at http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years

The full exhibition is also on show free at Inverness Public Library throughout November (not Sundays) Tel 01463 236463

 

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2011

Edgar Wright’s HOT FUZZ (2007) Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Penicuik Youth Choice

Martin Freeman, Edward Woodward, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent    Cert 15 121 mins

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm  refreshments before& after film  film starts 7.30

 

printable Penicuik poster                                               season poster

 

 

 

 

in Dunfermline Palace                             .

-people & places in time

Sunday 20 November only 2011 introduction and singing 3pm-4pm

Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7PD

Palace Undercroft 

Singing in Dunfermline Palace undervault

Vault singers of Penicuik

Performance is free but attenders require Palace entrance Adult £4.00, Child £2.40 by Historic Scotland, (concessions £3.20) palace 01383 739026 http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk   

 singers 01968 677854 roger@kosmoid.net   http://www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/vaults

After the Reformation, King James VI built this impressive new palace to the west of the old Abbey cloister. It became the home of his queen, Anna of Denmark. King Charles I was born here in 1600, the last king to be born in Scotland. With James and Anna’s departure for London in 1603, royal attention waned and the palace fell into disrepair. 

Dunfermline Palace is a building of enormous interest and Vault Singers sing simple harmonic chants here every four weeks throughout each winter. Although known as the kitchen vault, the building’s association with Anna of Denmark reminds us that some Danish royal palaces of the time contained acoustic vaults for musicians.  The vaults singers demonstrate the attractive acoustic of this place.  Warm clothing required. Although under cover, sides of the vault are open. There is no seating inside the vaulted space and numbers within at any one time may be limited.  Chants  have a religious basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                             .

-people & places in time

Saturday 19 November 2011 7pm reception, exhibitions  talk 7.30-9pm

Liszt in Scotland

Derek Watson introduced by Bill Fearnley

Tickets £7 (£5)  01968 677854 or 01968 673992  roger@kosmoid.net and peniwork@fsmail.net  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/upcoming

2011 marks the bicentenary of Franz Liszt.  Following in the footsteps of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Paganini, Liszt made a remarkable tour to Scotland as a young man, of which we will hear an entertaining account. His progress through this country was recorded by one of Liszt’s entourage, the talented John Orlando Parry, in words and sketches which bring the discomforts of ferries, coaching, inns and early railways vividly to life.  What was the legacy of this visit?   Four people close to Liszt had Scottish connections: the eminent conductor Hans von Bülow directed a season in Glasgow, and left a lasting mark on Scottish music-making in several visits; Liszt’s pupils Eugen d'Albert and Frederic Lamond were both born in Glasgow and became world famous piano virtuosi; and Liszt’s friend the composer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, born in Edinburgh, was important in musical education and, along with those of d’Albert, his works are being rediscovered.  Derek Watson has gathered rare and interesting material about these Scottish connections, providing opportunities for musical and visual illustrations of Liszt's life and extraordinary influence. Derek is well-known as a bookshop proprietor. He is also a talented pianist, author, composer, actor and public speaker. An acknowledged expert on Liszt, he brings immediacy, humour and colour to his talks. 

 

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                             .

        -75 years of the Saltire Society

Saturday 19 November 2011 exhibition 10am-2pm

Scotland’s Planning Legacy

No charge for entry  Cafe with home made cakes and soup.  01968 677854  roger@kosmoid.net    http://www.kosmoid.net/planning/legacyintro

This exhibition originally prepared for the 80th anniversary of the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland, shows some of the origins and achievements of Scotland’s approach to place-planning and some  key figures involved along the way.

See below for a related talk in Penicuik on the evening of Tuesday 22 November and an Edinburgh showing for the exhibition in the Saltire Society rooms off the Royal Mile during the day on Wednesday 23rd

 

 

 

in Penicuik Town Hall                             .

-people & places in time

Friday 18 November 2011 at 7pm reception, exhibitions,  talk 7.30-9pm

Powerhouse of Practical Enlightenment

 1700-1900 and beyond

with Roger Hipkin & Roger Kelly

Ticket price £5 (£3)  01968 677854 roger@kosmoid.net   www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/upcoming

The dispersal of practical enlightenment from this area around Edinburgh began with the foundation of a papermill at the start of the seventeenth century, growing with an unparalleled spread of ideas through the medium of its paper in for example Scottish bibles, Burns’ songs, Scott’s novels, Turner’s paintings, banknotes, account books and stamps. It led to industrial developments in Russia, Finland, Canada and Japan, and through its technical developments and efforts for removal of paper duty, to Edinburgh’s eminence as a centre for book and magazine production and educational publishing. It also provided the economic wherewithal for  public welfare investment at home and transatlantic infrastructure investment on a large scale, and for ethical, scientific and cultural resonances which continue to the present day. Roger Hipkin and Roger Kelly have been co-ordinating efforts to identify and secure permanent recognition for these local achievements at Bank Mill, Penicuik, in the last remaining buildings associated with these worldwide innovations.

 

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER  2011

WILLIAM WYLER’S  BEN HUR  (1959) - 11 Academy Awards

Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Finlay Currie

212 mins  Cert PG

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5 doors open 7pm refreshments before and during film film starts 7 .30

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SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 10-4

PENICUIK  COMMUNITY  ARTS

CRAFT FAIR IN THE TOWN HALL

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2011

Andrew  Stanton’s WALL-E (2010)  Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

Cert  U  98 mins                                                  Penicuik Youth Choice

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm  refreshments before& after film  film starts 7.30

 

printable Penicuik poster                                              season poster

 

 

Saturday 5 November 2011

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2011

the COEN brothers’ TRUE GRIT (2010) Cert 15  110 mins

Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5 doors open 7pm refreshments before and during film  film starts 7 .30

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Saturday 29 October 2011

 

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2011

Todd Phillips’s  THE HANGOVER (2009)  UK Cert  15/18 100 mins

Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha   Penicuik Youth Choice

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and after film film starts 7.30

 

printable Penicuik poster                                                  season poster

 

 

 

SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 2011

PAPERMAKERS FROM

MIDLOTHIAN TO CANADA

-A story of people and of their work

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2011

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S  APOCALYPSE NOW  (1979: 2001 Redux)

Marlon Brando,  Martin Sheen,   Robert Duvall,  Harrison Ford  

153 mins (202 mins Redux)  Cert 15 Redux (Cert X originally and Cert 18 in 1985)

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and during film  film starts 7 .30

 

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SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2011

3.15 To 4.30PM

BANK MILL SINGING BY PENICUIK VAULTS SINGERS

All welcome to join or listen, perhaps for the last time

About Saving the Mill

About the Vaults Singers

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 2011

PAPERMAKERS FROM

MIDLOTHIAN TO CANADA

-A story of people and of their work

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2011

FROM 9AM

BANK MILL VISIT OF PENICUIK HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS

FROM NOON

BANK MILL SECOND VISIT OF GLASGOW MACKINTOSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

About Saving the Mill

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER 2011

  Penicuik  Youth  Choice

Matthew Vaugn’s  KICK ASS (2010) Aaron Johnson, Mark Strong

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz 117 mins Cert 15                        

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and after film film starts 7.30

 

printable Penicuik poster                                                season poster

 

 

 

retained by demand for

SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER 2011

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

.                      http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years                   .

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER 2011

NIGEL COLE’S  MADE IN DAGENHAM  (2010) with Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins

Andrea Riseborough, Miranda Richardson               113 mins              Cert 15

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall            www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm     refreshments before and during film  film starts at 7 .30

 

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SATURDAYS 24 SEPTEMBER AND 1ST OCTOBER

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

.                      http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years                   .

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY  25 SEPTEMBER 2011

Edgar Wright’s  SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD  (2010)

Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin 112 mins cert12A   Penicuik Youth Choice

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and after film film starts 7.30

 

printable Penicuik poster                                                  season poster

 

 

SATURDAYS 24 SEPTEMBER AND 1ST OCTOBER

Arts Architecture Science Engineering

SALTIRE SOCIETY 75 YEARS

Celebrating more than 75 years of Scottish cultural life in pictures

.                      http://www.kosmoid.net/saltire/years                   .

 

 

PENICUIK RUGBY FESTIVAL

sponsored by

PENICUIK RUGBY FESTIVAL CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2011

                      RACHEL  ROBERTS                    .

LINDSAY ANDERSON’S  THIS SPORTING LIFE  (1963) with Richard Harris

Rachel Roberts,  William Hartnell,  Alan Badiel,  Colin Blakely,  Arthur Lowe

Vanda Godsell, Leonard Rossiter, Anne Cunningham         Cert 12A  (originally X)

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and during film film starts 7.30

 

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SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2011

PENICUIK STREET FAIR & RUGBY FESTIVAL

 

 

PENICUIK FESTIVAL CINEMA in the TOWN HALL 

 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2011

an Edinburgh romance in the presence of the

DIRECTOR TIM BARROW

TIM BARROW’S  THE SPACE BETWEEN: AN EDINBURGH ROMANCE  (2011)

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

£5  doors open 7pm refreshments before and after film   film start 7 .30

Q&A with director Tim Barrow

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SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2011

 

 

 

 

PENICUIK FESTIVAL CINEMA in the TOWN HALL  SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2011

MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA  DOUBLE BILL

   

“THE KID” –Chaplin’s first self-directed film 1921   .              F.W.Murnau’s amazing innovative ”SUNRISE” 1927   .

with Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan      BEST PICTURE BEST ACTRESS BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 1929

.        Special Festival screening with Chaplin’s own score       Special Festival screening -live piano by Graham MacDonald   .

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall: www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

Double Bill £8 (£4) doors open 7pm start 7.30pm  refreshments before + between films

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Sunrise Ebert film review

 

 

 

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2011

 Bank Mill Family Open Day

Working in papiermaché with Penicuik artist Jan Miller and in paperclay with Penicuik Pottery’s Jane Kelly

Open from 11 am, workshops from 1pm till 4pm to try your hand.

Lots of  exhibits & refreshments

BANK MILL is off Bridge Street & Valleyfield Road Penicuik  EH26 8LW

 

 

 

SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2011

OPEN HOUSE

AT PENICUIK TOWN HALL

FOR PENICUIK ARTS FESTIVAL

 10pm to 4pm coffee and home baking

 

PENICUIK ARTS FESTIVAL 2011

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PENICUIK FESTIVAL CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 28 AUGUST 2011

JACQUES TATI TRIBUTE DOUBLE BILL

A BITTERSWEET ANIMATION OF 1956 EDINBURGH

Sylvain Chomet’s animation of Jacques Tati in Edinburgh THE ILLUSIONIST  2010 90mins CertPG

Jacques Tati’s film of rural France and cycling postmen JOUR DE FETE 1947 70mins certU     

£8 (£4) Doors open 7pm  start 7.30pm, regular buses: refreshments served

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema

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printable Penicuik poster for 2010 (cancelled, bad weather) 

 

 

SUNDAY 28 AUGUST 2011

Bank Mill Family Papiermaché Open Day

Working in papiermaché with Penicuik artist Jan Miller

Open from 11 am, workshops from 1pm till 4pm to try your hand.

Lots of  exhibits & refreshments

BANK MILL is off Bridge Street & Valleyfield Road Penicuik  EH26 8LW

 

 

SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2011

OPEN HOUSE

PENICUIK TOWN HALL

10pm to 2pm coffee and home baking

DEMOLITION OF VALLEYFIELD MILL 1980

-Images from the John Scott collection

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

 SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2011

Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech 2010 :Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush

105m Cert 12A  £5  Start 7.30  regular buses refreshments at cinema

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema 

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SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2011

Bank Mill Family Papermaking Open Day

Make your own paper with Mandy Mills

Try your hand at the Mill between 11am and 4pm: exhibits & refreshments

BANK MILL is off Bridge Street & Valleyfield Road Penicuik  EH26 8LW

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Find out more about Penicuik Trust projects at the weekly Open House

Saturday August 20th

TOWN TWINNING: PENICUIK AND

L’ISLE SUR LA SORGUE Provence

-departure of 2011 French twinning visitors

 

 

SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2011

Bank Mill Open Day

Come and see the Mill between 11am and 4pm: exhibits & refreshments

BANK MILL is off Bridge Street and Valleyfield Road Penicuik  EH26 8LW

 

 

Find out more about Penicuik Trust projects at the weekly Open House

Saturday August 13th

TOWN TWINNING: PENICUIK AND

L’ISLE SUR LA SORGUE Provence

Arrival of 2011 French twinning visitors

 

BIG BAND BANK MILL BENEFIT

MONDAY 8 AUGUST

KFAR VRADIM YOUTH BAND

“-one of the world’s best”

The big Kfar Vradim Youth Band from Western Galilee comes fresh from the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.  Founded in 1991 in their hometown in northern Israel. this 52-piece youth band aged 13-19 play an upbeat repertoire on instruments from flutes and saxophones to tubas and French horns. They’ve earned international acclaim touring the world.

With a full programme from our own

PENICUIK SILVER BAND

BANK MILL off Bridge Street + Valleyfield Road Penicuik  EH26 8LW

 7 for 7.30pm Enquiries 01968 677854 refreshments available

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR BANK MILL: ADMISSION FREE

 donations welcome –you can reserve front seats by ticket £10 adult £5 child

A GREAT FAMILY NIGHT OUT

 

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Sunday 7 August: Bank Mill Open Day 11am-4pm

 

 

 

Penicuik Cinema in the Town Hall    DIMANCHE 26 JUIN 2011

Pascal Chaumeil’s L’Arnacoeur 2010 avec Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, Francois Damiens

105m £4  Start 7.30  finish by 10.00 pm    regular buses refreshments at cinema

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema   cert (France) U (Ireland) 15A

 

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PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2011

George Roy Hill’s The Sting 1973 with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw

7 Oscars 129m £4  Start 7.30  finish around 10.00 pm regular buses refreshments at cinema

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema  cert PG

 

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JUNE 11 IN THE MILL

FUNDRAISING BANK MILL PARTY

 With musicians Annie Patch, Graham MacDonald, Murray Campbell, Patsy Campbell, Colin Hall and John Levine.

donation tickets £10: Saturday 7 May 7.30 pm Bank Mill EH26 8LW Penicuik

(via Bridge Street down Valleyfield Road then turn right and under the bridge)

 

 

The Jammies “–we’re an enthusiastic group of singers from around Edinburgh”

THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2011 7.30pm

in a special Bank Mill Benefit

Jammies

TICKETS £5 FOR BANK MILL    

from Penicuik Town Hall  Saturday Open House, Sunday Cinema

 or at the door  (01968 677854          refreshments available

BANK MILL EH26 8LW  PENICUIK  via Bridge Street then left down

 Valleyfield Road and sharp right, the mill’s just under the bridge  

In aid of the BANK MILL project       www.music.makers.org.uk/jammies 

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TUESDAY 31 MAY 2011

7.30 PM TOWN HALL

PENICUIK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST AGM

Penicuik Community Development Trust Ltd (responsible for the Bankmill Project, Penicuik Food Project, Penicuik Open House and Penicuik Cinema) is a company limited by guarantee number 380626 with charitable status registered with OSCR number SC O37990 –Directors Roger Kelly (chair), Roger Hipkin (secretary 20A John St. Penicuik EH26 8A ), Jane MacKintosh (treasurer) forming part of a Managing committee with Barry O’Rourke, Caroline Maciver, Chantal Geoghegan, Chris Langdale, Dave Stokes, Doreen Gillon, Eric Marchant, Jane Kelly, Marianne Cortes, Mose Hutchinson, Penny Wooding, Ulla Hipkin, elected annually at the Trust's AGM. Website www.penicuikcdt.org.uk The Trust is a Member of Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS) and works with Penicuik Community Council, Midlothian Council, Midlothian Voluntary Action, the Midlothian Growing Ideas Partnership (including Midlothian Garden Services, Mayfield & Easthouses Development Trust, and other garden and food projects in Midlothian associated with the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens), and the Mapa Scotland restoration of the Great Polish Map of Scotland at Eddleston, , and supported the papemaking tercentenary led by Penicuik Historical Society.  . There are personal and mutually supportive links with Penicuik Community, Sport & Leisure Foundation, Penicuik Community Arts Association, the Penicuik House Project and the Saltire Society, with community groups and trusts in Aberfeldy, Broughty Ferry, Gorebridge and Moffat, with Penicuik’s twin town at L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue , Vaucluse, Provence, with Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec and with the Papeterie St-Armand in Montreal.  

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 29 MAY 2011

Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe 2010 with Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, Tamsin Grieg

From the Graphic Novel by Posy Simmonds 111m £4  Start 7.30  finish well before 10.00 pm regular buses refreshments at cinema

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema cert 15

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SATURDAY 21 MAY

 

BUTTERFLIES

HITCHCOCK’S FILMS

Plus on-the-spot hands-on crafts session for kids and adults in the Open Space’s regular

Making Space Crafts -find us on

as reported by Catriona Thomson in The Scotsman

 

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 15 MAY 2011

Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes with Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty

UK 1938 96m  Among Hitch’s best early work; shows his growing talent for building suspense from an unlikely mix of the commonplace and the incredible. Post-Munich times were just right for nervous laughter and the film builds up tension on a delicious foundation of slow burning comedy.

 £4  Start 7.30  finish well before 10.00 pm regular buses refreshments at cinema

www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema   originally certA

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SATURDAY 14 MAY

 

BUTTERFLIES

HITCHCOCK’S FILMS

Plus on-the-spot hands-on crafts session for kids and adults in the Open Space’s regular

Making Space Crafts -find us on

as reported by Catriona Thomson in The Scotsman

 

 

 

SATURDAY 7 MAY

 

PICTURES OF LOST PENICUIK

Plus on-the-spot hands-on crafts session for kids and adults in the Open Space’s regular

Making Space Crafts -find us on

as reported by Catriona Thomson in The Scotsman

 

 

PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY THE FIRST OF MAY 2011


Bill Douglas’s Comrades 1986 183m with Alex Norton as the Lanternist, Imelda Staunton, James Fox, Barbara Windsor, Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Jeremy Flynn, Keith Allen, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Michael Hordern, Freddie Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Simon Parsonage.  Cinematography Gale Tattersall, Production Design Michael Pickwoad   Bill Douglas’s remarkable and lovingly unhistrionic portrait of the Tolpuddle Martyrs: a beautifully made and invaluable record of important historical events £4  Start 7.30  finish 10.50  regular buses refreshments at cinema

cert15  See the full glory of our cinema programme at www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema 

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SATURDAY 30 APRIL

 

PICTURES OF LOST PENICUIK

Plus on-the-spot hands-on crafts session for kids and adults in the Open Space’s regular

Making Space Crafts -find us on

as reported by Catriona Thomson in The Scotsman

 

 

 

SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2011

 

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 MARY WOOD COWAN & COLIN MCVEAN IN JAPAN

THE CHILDHOOD ALBUM OF COLIN GUBBINS

Japan, Mull and links between Penicuik paper, Special Operations and Michael Powell’s classic film

Plus on-the-spot hands-on crafts session for kids and adults in the Open House’s regular

Making Space Crafts -find us on

as reported by Catriona Thomson in The Scotsman

 

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PENICUIK CINEMA in the TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2011

Powell & Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going 91m 1945

Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, John Lawrie, Petula Clark

£4  Start 7.30  finish well before 10.00 pm regular buses refreshments at cinema

cert U See the full glory of our cinema programme at  www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/cinema 

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16 APRIL 2011

Bank Mill Open Day

hands-on papermaking for children and adults at the Mill

& Town Hall display

 

 

SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2011

MAPA SCOTLAND

The project to restore

General Maczek’s

GREAT POLISH MAP OF SCOTLAND

at