Project underway to convert 1980s caravan into cinema

A Scottish arts group is busy converting an old 1980s caravan into an eight-seater cinema which it hopes to tour around Southern Scotland.

Moving Images hopes to turn the 1983 Swift Pirouette owned by artist Kerry Jones into a solar-powered “Autonomous film zone” that will travel to rural and urban communities in the south of Scotland screening non-mainstream films and other projects, including films centred around climate change.

The project is one of 20 currently vying for £10,000 match funding from Creative Scotland by crowdfunding. It needs to raise the money by 14 April. More details at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/creative-scotland-crowdmatch.

Kerry currently lives in a caravan park in Galashiels and is still in the process of updating the caravan for its new role.

It is due to have its first outing at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, due to be held in Hawick in the Borders at the end of April.

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PeterBaber

Peter Baber is Reviews Editor of both Practical Motorhome and Practical Caravan. He has been reviewing motorhomes for the best part of a decade now. His first caravan reviews date back to the early 1990s when he first worked on Practical Caravan, before he embarked on a 20-year career in business journalism which saw him edit a wide variety of magazines, and launch a few too, including one that won an award. Although he enjoyed that, he always knew he wanted to come back. Peter reports on all the new models that make it to dealer forecourts each season, giving his judgement online and in magazine reviews. He has twice been shortlisted for a Caravan Writers Guild award. When he is not working, apart from going on motorhome trips himself (mostly local to where he lives in West Yorkshire, but also last year right across France) he likes trying to write novels, cooking, throwing the odd pot, and has just taken up tennis.