A convivial meeting - inside because it was too cold out. Clive and Kate Crook brought the dog, and the first round. Kate has just had her first exhibition in Europe, in Munich. Rohan Barnett fixed my computer, explained about the 'rebranding' of the Royal Oak in Hawkhurst, to open soon, and fell into discussion with Sylvia Howe who wanted a new website. Penny Tweedie was getting reading for a 10-day assignment in Nigeria – she is taking a suitcase full of film to give away, as she is now entirely digital. Dick Stevenson was in good form. Zoë Meyer brought along the series of books on trees she has published – above, 17 of them so far – and Andy Marshall, author of Stopping's Easy, a book on quitting smoking that he is promoting with visits to schools.Conversati
on drifted towards the Kino, and how Paul Corcoran and Helen Jones were bumped out of there by the money men. The Kino has been a godsend to the area, and the pioneering efforts of these film afinicionados have been fully appreciated; in fact, if Groucho had been a properly constituted organisation, a vote of thanks would have been passed. Better than that, we will buy them a drink when they make it to a Groucho night.• Next nights: Thursday July 31, Monday August 11, Tuesday Aug 26, Wednesday September 10, Thursday September 25
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It would be a great shame if Kino were to close.
When you tell people you live in Hawkhurst they invariably say: 'Oh, that's the place with the little cinema.'
In just a few years it has given the village an identity and facility that we should cherish and fight to preserve.
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