Record audience for Welshpool’s Flicks in the Sticks

We may not have had a cinema in Welshpool for a number of years, but big screen nights out are continuing to prove popular.

Every month, Welshpool Town Council screens a film in the Town Hall’s Corn Exchange for anyone to attend for just a donation, if they can, and March’s screening drew its biggest audience to date.

At the latest Events & Planning meeting, Events & Markets Manager Kimberly Wright said that ‘One Chance’ had attracted 54 attendees with donations for tea, coffee and cake seeing the evening break even financially.

“It was our biggest attendance to date and a really good night,” she said.

Called ‘Flicks in the Sticks’, the initiative brings films to communities that are without a cinema and Welshpool Town Council includes it as part of its responsibility to make events and opportunities available to local residents.

The next screening will be ‘Brassed Off’ on Monday, April 13.