{"id":613543,"date":"2025-12-05T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613543\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:39:13","slug":"end-of-an-era-as-curtain-draws-on-the-spectrum-film-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613543\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era as curtain draws on the Spectrum Film Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organising committee have tried numerous incentives to try and increase the audience numbers but with varying success. \u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Libby Cairns,\u202fChair of\u202fEast Dunbartonshire\u202fHSCP\u202fBoard, said, \u201cThe aim of Spectrum Film Club was to make a night at the movies more accessible for those with additional support considerations from East Dunbartonshire and their families, and it was loved by the people who did attend it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, due to the dwindling audience, the film and venue costs and after a long hard few months of deliberation it has been decided that this month\u2019s showing of The Polar Express will be the film club\u2019s last ever showing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank the organising committee and Local Area Co-ordinators for all their hard work over the past three years with the film club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA special thanks to the club\u2019s spokesperson Ed who has done an amazing job of introducing each film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks also to Jamie for his film introductions and to David and Louise Simmons for their tuck shop contributions \u2013 and of course to everyone who regularly attended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis last screening will be a celebration of the Spectrum Film Club. Please bring along family and friends, and as it\u2019s Christmas feel free to wear anything festive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organising committee have tried numerous incentives to try and increase the audience numbers but with varying success.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-613543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115666299574883214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}