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Social cinema

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*Community Cinema Night* The premiere of the film ACTionism, directed by Michael Shaw, took place at the Better Business Summit in Manchester, an annual flagship conference organized by the Better Business Network at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School. This year’s summit theme was "Future Proof," posing the question, “What does your business need to truly be future proof?” Two weeks after the premiere, the film ACTionism, which follows Ellie Meredith on her journey from being a passive consumer to an active citizen, garnered just under 40 requests for community screenings from various organizations. These requests came from the Green Party, Doughnut Labs, universities, schools, festivals, and Polmont Community Hub, as well as from locations including the US, New Zealand, Wales, Denmark, Ireland, the Alps, and many more. The production team decided to kick off the community screenings on Thursday, January 30, in our PCHub's "Wee Hall," as...

Just transition for Scot’s tradition

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Tradition got a just transition Sustainability braes successfully Transitioned the traditional burns supper into achieving sustainability and governmental net zero targets, by giving the traditional burns night an update ( whilst also being mindfull not to commit culturcide) to achieve net zero targets, this transition to a well loved tradition, to help educate modern burns fans about the population explosion biodiversity loss and environmental destruction, The evening kicked off with the address to our vegetarian Haggis. This Haggis was locally sourced (as was nearly everything we have a shop local champion) the vegetarian Haggis unfortunately came from a local slaughterhouse! this did not please our animal welfare advisor (she's a lifelong, peace loving vegetarian who's passionate about an end to cruelty) but; she was overruled this slaughterhouse is only two miles up the road, and- Campbell's meats gave us a good deal on their veggie Haggis and broth mix. The evening...