Andrew Ormston
@andrewormston.bsky.social
Professional interests: international cultural policy, community cinema, performing arts.
Other stuff: art history, printmaking, drawing, curling, geology, good books.
Other stuff: art history, printmaking, drawing, curling, geology, good books.
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Applications for Glow are now open ✨📽 Build on your existing knowledge and experience and reach your community cinema's next goals with a £300 bursary and support from our team!
Deadline 📆 : 1st December 2025
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Deadline 📆 : 1st December 2025
Apply now 🔗 : bit.ly/4aS4b8B
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Applications for Glow are now open ✨📽 Build on your existing knowledge and experience and reach your community cinema's next goals with a £300 bursary and support from our team!
Deadline 📆 : 1st December 2025
Apply now 🔗 : bit.ly/4aS4b8B
Deadline 📆 : 1st December 2025
Apply now 🔗 : bit.ly/4aS4b8B
Good piece on the @cinemaforall.bsky.social celebration of 100 yrs of community cinema www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas
With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventure
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good piece on the @cinemaforall.bsky.social celebration of 100 yrs of community cinema www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Andrew Ormston
Author Kate Mosse addressed the Labour Party Conference on AI "theft", citing lack of economic impact study for the protection of copyright 👇 #BookSky
'To not protect copyright is foolish': Kate Mosse condemns AI 'theft' at Labour Party Conference
ebx.sh
September 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Author Kate Mosse addressed the Labour Party Conference on AI "theft", citing lack of economic impact study for the protection of copyright 👇 #BookSky
Jaq Chell of @cinemaforall.bsky.social taking us thru a 100 yrs of community cinema and film societies at the Centenary Gala in Sheffield
September 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jaq Chell of @cinemaforall.bsky.social taking us thru a 100 yrs of community cinema and film societies at the Centenary Gala in Sheffield
Really enjoyed this year’s festival. Great atmosphere.
ICYMI: Footfall for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival soared by 60% with around 162,000 people overall, accompanied by an expanded YA programme and a “significant” rise in first-time attendees 👇 #BookSky
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025 footfall up 60%, with expanded YA strand 'a resounding success'
ebx.sh
August 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Really enjoyed this year’s festival. Great atmosphere.
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... Really enjoyable and well hosted by Jackie Wylie
Harriet Walter: Beyond The Bard
From Sun 10 Aug - Jackie Wylie talks to Walter (renowned for her Oliver Award-winning stage performances, and her many screen appearances including Succession and Killing Eve) about what it's like to ...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... Really enjoyable and well hosted by Jackie Wylie
£22.5m for 400 schools over 3 years amounts to under £19k per school per year going to under 12% of England’s secondary schools.
ICYMI: Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced an £88 million investment in youth services across the UK, including music lessons and other extra-curricular arts provisions 👇
£88m boost for youth services including arts extra-curriculars
Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced an £88 million investment in youth services across the UK, including music lessons and other extra-curricular arts provisions
www.thestage.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
£22.5m for 400 schools over 3 years amounts to under £19k per school per year going to under 12% of England’s secondary schools.
Powerful reading from Poems for Palestine - Najwan Darwish with Marjorie Lofti at EIBF Gala this evening
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Najwan Darwish: Poems for Palestine
From Sun 10 Aug - Hear Darwish - described as one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets - discuss what it means to survive, how to avoid bring desensitised by conflict, and the incredible tenacity o...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Powerful reading from Poems for Palestine - Najwan Darwish with Marjorie Lofti at EIBF Gala this evening
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Looks like a visit to Perth Art Gallery is on the cards open.substack.com/pub/maxwellm...
Scotland's most significant acquisition in a generation
OPINION: Millais has come home — and we are so proud.
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Looks like a visit to Perth Art Gallery is on the cards open.substack.com/pub/maxwellm...
Community group needing access to equipment for a film screening? @cinemaforall.bsky.social to find equipment near you mycommunitycinema.org.uk/equipment/
Equipment
mycommunitycinema.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Community group needing access to equipment for a film screening? @cinemaforall.bsky.social to find equipment near you mycommunitycinema.org.uk/equipment/
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We've had a wonderful selection of community cinemas from our Climate Action Cinema Collective taking part in this year’s pilot collaborative film festival - New Leaf!
Each group received a £250 bursary to support their screening ideas. Next year we hope to involve even more community cinemas 🌍🎞️
Each group received a £250 bursary to support their screening ideas. Next year we hope to involve even more community cinemas 🌍🎞️
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We've had a wonderful selection of community cinemas from our Climate Action Cinema Collective taking part in this year’s pilot collaborative film festival - New Leaf!
Each group received a £250 bursary to support their screening ideas. Next year we hope to involve even more community cinemas 🌍🎞️
Each group received a £250 bursary to support their screening ideas. Next year we hope to involve even more community cinemas 🌍🎞️
Moving wee Rembrandt etching of his mother. Great to have an afternoon at @leedsartgallery.bsky.social and adjacent Henry Moore Institute
June 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Moving wee Rembrandt etching of his mother. Great to have an afternoon at @leedsartgallery.bsky.social and adjacent Henry Moore Institute
Enjoyable Edinburgh Geological Society excursion to Cocklawburn Beach led by Alison Tymon.
May 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Enjoyable Edinburgh Geological Society excursion to Cocklawburn Beach led by Alison Tymon.
It's not unusual when negative English stories run under a UK strapline. But in the case of health it unnecessarily worries people in NI, Wales and Scotland.
May 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It's not unusual when negative English stories run under a UK strapline. But in the case of health it unnecessarily worries people in NI, Wales and Scotland.
Petals of Blood was the first African fiction I read back in the day and it made a huge impact www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Petals of Blood was the first African fiction I read back in the day and it made a huge impact www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Really enjoyable evening from #BalletBC. Compelling work and wonderful dancers www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/ballet...
Ballet BC (British Columbia) - Capital Theatres
www.capitaltheatres.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Really enjoyable evening from #BalletBC. Compelling work and wonderful dancers www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/ballet...
If you’re visiting Edinburgh be sure to look in on the newly opened Palestine Museum on Dundas Street
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you’re visiting Edinburgh be sure to look in on the newly opened Palestine Museum on Dundas Street
Tweed time machine
May 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Tweed time machine
www.screenmachine.co.uk/funding-sg-s... That’s great news! Screen Machine = dream machine!
£500,000 funding from Scottish Government - Screen Machine
We're delighted to share the following press release from the Scottish Government, issued today Friday 9 May 2025.
www.screenmachine.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
www.screenmachine.co.uk/funding-sg-s... That’s great news! Screen Machine = dream machine!
Over a 100 years of Glasgow on Film. @natlibscot.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnA... I your kind of thing, have a look at @cinemaforall.bsky.social for info on the centenary celebrations of the first film society in UK.
850 years of Glasgow
YouTube video by National Library of Scotland
www.youtube.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Over a 100 years of Glasgow on Film. @natlibscot.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnA... I your kind of thing, have a look at @cinemaforall.bsky.social for info on the centenary celebrations of the first film society in UK.
The mystery stone in my garden wall
May 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The mystery stone in my garden wall
U.S culture wars and trade wars coalescing. One of the benefits of the streaming platforms was supporting the diversification of international production. 3dvf.com/en/trump-sha...
May 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
U.S culture wars and trade wars coalescing. One of the benefits of the streaming platforms was supporting the diversification of international production. 3dvf.com/en/trump-sha...
Not surprising, but will disappoint more than a few
May 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Not surprising, but will disappoint more than a few
Producer for celebration of 100 years of film societies #BritishFilmInstitute @cinemaforall.bsky.social
Freelance Producer
cinemaforall.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Producer for celebration of 100 years of film societies #BritishFilmInstitute @cinemaforall.bsky.social
Tweedmouth’s Teeth
April 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Tweedmouth’s Teeth