More Screenings at Lucem House

Over the past few weeks we hosted 3 screenings of our film ‘Another Country’ created as part of this project, looking at the creative period 1982-1995 and what enabled it to happen.

All the screenings were virtually sold out and there were lively discussions after each screenings often leading towards what needs to be in place for this creative period to happen again.

It was also a really good way for people to make connections, either old friends and colleagues or ones for new possibilities. It reminds me of the power of cinema – these connections would be unlikely to happen if we had just put the film on the internet. We’re planning more public outings of the film for next year.

Borough of Culture Launch

On Saturday 4th March, we’ll be part of the opening celebrations for St Helens Borough of Culture Year, held at The World of Glass between 10:30am – 3:00pm. We’ll have a stall to show you some of the collected material so far and outline our plans for the year. If you have any memorabilia from 1982-1995 that you would like to add the St Helens Archive, please bring it along, we’ll have a scanner to copy anything so you can keep the original. We’ve love to hear your stories and memories from that time too. Look our for our banner on the mezzanine level and hopefully see you there.