Call Out For The Goonies Workshops!

Urgent call out for Creative/Arty people to assist with two workshops Handmade Cinema are running THURSDAY and FRIDAY next week prior to a screening of The Goonies! 

Handmade Cinema have teamed up with our good friends Magic Lantern Film Club who are showing the cult classic at Highfields Adventure Playground, Sharrow Sheffield on Saturday 9th August at 3pm - for FREE!!

In usual Handmade Cinema style we will be exploring the films themes with free and fun creative workshops beforehand at Highfield's Adventure Playground!! We're thinking treasure maps, pirates and of course, Adventure! 

If you are creative/artist or just have a passion for The Goonies we would love you to join us and help out with one (or both!) of our workshops! Artistic ability not essential but must have an in date CRB/DBS check. 

Dates: 

You must be available for one or both of the dates below! 

Thursday 7th August 2-5pm at Highfields Adventure Playground

Friday 8th August 3-5pm at Highfields Adventure Playground


Payment: 

We are supported by Sheffield City Council's Ward Pots Small Grants so some payment is available. This will be Thursday £25 and Friday £20.

For more details see poster below! Or get in contact at handmadecinema@hotmail.com! 

The Goonies - Coming Soon to Highfield's Adventure Playground!

Bored and looking for something fun to do with the kids next weekend? 

Our good friends Magic Lantern are putting on a screening of The Goonies next Saturday 9th August at 3pm in Highfield's Adventure Playground, Sharrow. For FREE! 

To mark their screening of this wonderful cult classic, we at Handmade Cinema have decided to team up with Magic Lantern and are running fun, FREE, family workshops next Thursday and Friday at Highfield's Adventure Playground. 

Whether it's designing and making your own treasure map, or helping us recreate key set pieces/scenes and props from the film to be used in a treasure hunt before the film showing - there is something for everyone to take part and get involved in! 

Check out the poster for more details - we hope to see you there!!! 

Exciting Updates!

Sorry to have been a bit quiet on the website front but that can only mean one thing... We have been busy and have LOTS of exciting updates! 

Firstly, back by popular demand! 

We were invited to run a special screening of The Aristocats at Woodseats Primary School.

This was our first screening in a school and we are pleased to announce it was a great success with over 130 people in attendance! 

Thank you so much to everyone who came down - we had some great feedback and it was fantastic to see the faces of the children as they entered their school hall which had been completely transformed into Paris! 

Thank you also to Friends of Woodseats who assisted with the event, especially Sarah Bull invited us and Mrs Fox the Headteacher for letting us invade your school with cardboard boxes! 

More pictures to follow soon... 


If you think Handmade Cinema would work well in your school or community group - please get in touch handmadecinema@hotmail.com! We'd love to hear from you! 

Next announcement, we will be at the Winter Gardens this Sunday (15th June) as part of the Sheffield Network for Arts and Cultural Providers and Sheffield Children's Festival JOIN IN Day! 

Inspired by Wallace and Gromit and the wondrous Aardman Studios, we will be bringing our own Handmade Cinema Animation Studio down for the morning! 

So come on down and join us between 10:30 am - 12 noon and have a go at creating your own short animated film! 

If that isn't enough, we are pleased to announce that we are teaming up with The Montgomery Theatre to create a new screening in October/November... 

We are very, very excited about this and will announce the full details, including workshop and screening times and dates next week.

But in the meantime here is a little teaser of our lovely promotional material courtesy of the wonderful Handmade Cinema artist Alison Swinney... 

Can anyone guess what film we might be showing???!

Handmade Cinema Film

Happy Monday to you all! 

Check out this marvelous short film documenting Handmade Cinema's last event made by the super talented Tom Rolley (@RolleyTom)! 

Huge thank you to Tom (and Cat Marshall who provided additional footage and timelapse) for all their hard work putting this together, it captures who we are and what we do perfectly! :)

And thank you to all who came and joined us for the screening - more news on its way soon about our next screening! 

More Pictures from The Aristocats!

A lovely selection of some more pictures taken during our last event a screening of The Aristocats at the Old Junior School in Sharrow. 

Many thanks to our photographer Megan Griffith for taking these absolute gems! 

More Press for Handmade Cinema!

Handmade Cinema got a lovely little write up in this January's Toast Magazine! Thank you Toast! 

A couple more lovely press write ups on Handmade Cinema's first event: 

Sheffield Star

Interactive cinema success for Sheffield entrepreneur Ellie

Youngsters in cat costumes and make-up at the Handmade Cinema showing of Disney s The Aristocrats at Sharrow s Old Junior School

• by Julia Armstrong

Published on the12December
2013
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Young Sheffield entrepreneur Ellie Ragdale is celebrating the success of her first interactive cinema event in Sheffield that involved more than 75 youngsters.

Ellie, who runs Handmade Cinema, put on a special showing of Disney’s The Aristocats at Sharrow’s Old Junior School, which was a sell-out. In pre-event workshops held at Friends of Adventures playground in Highfield, children worked with Ellie and her team of 
young graduate artists to recreate Paris’s famous landmarks and make French-themed décor to complement the film.

Ellie was helped to fulfil her lifelong dream of running her own cinema club by somewhereto_ the Lottery-funded space-finding service for 16- to-25-year-olds. They found her a free venue and helped her secure funding from O2 Think Big to get the project off the ground.

She said: “I want to say a massive thank you to somewhereto_ for all their help and support and Magic Lantern for providing the screening equipment.”

Ellie is currently looking for further funding and support to run a series of events in 2014. For further information, email Luisa@somewhereto.com

ITV Calendar

Aristocats launch community cinema

A community cinema is due to be launched in Sheffield with an interactive screening of Disney's The Aristocats.

Handmade Cinema, which has been set up by Sheffield-based Ellie Ragdale, is run solely by young people for the benefit of families in the city.

This project is unique because we will get local children and families involved in creating the cinema through building sets in workshops, and on the night everyone dresses up for a really exciting experience.

I hope to establish Handmade Cinema as Sheffield's number one children's interactive film club.

– ELLIE RAGDALE

Cinemagoers are being asked to dress in cat costumes for the inaugural screening, which takes place from 4pm at the Old Junior School in Southview Road, Sharrow.

There will be a live jazz band, French cuisine and cat painting on the day, while artists will hold free workshops in schools and community groups before the event to create the set for the screening.

Tickets cost £2.50 per adult and £1.50 per child. Booking is not required.

Thank you to everyone for spreading the word of Handmade Cinema! 

Photos from 'The Aristocats' Event!

Very excited to finally share with you a selection of photographs taken at 

Handmade Cinema's first event 'The Aristocats' which took place on the 23rd November!

A BIG thank you to Megan Griffith and Cat Marshall for taking these for us.

Paw prints leading into the room 

Artists painting children's faces

The Arc D'Triomphe

Playing in the Boulangerie made by children at Highfield's Adventure Playground

Cat claws before the film! 

The film begins...

Helping with Notre Dame

La Patisserie serves up some traditional food! 

Hope Valley College Big Band set the mood with some Jazz music

Colouring and crafting with cat pictures and masks! 

Miniature Eiffel Tower

Thank you to all who came as well as those who helped make the event such a success! 

We are now planning our next event - if you would like to know more details/be involved please get in contact, we'd love to here from you!