Mysterious lady on the bridge, San Remo, Good Friday, April 11, 1941. Featured in this month's San Remo movie matinee. By Kirsty Mawer
HAVE you heard the one about the San Remo Cork Club? Or the local Robin Hood Club?
You’ll learn about the clubs, and much more, at Movie Matinee: San Remo Stories, later this month. Narrated by locals, the 10 mini movies – each four to six minutes long – provide an entertaining insight into events, practices, and people that have shaped the San Remo.
We’ve sub-titled the matinee “Probable Truths or Plausible Lies - You be the Judge”. That’s because the movies are based on people’s memories and someone’s view of one thing could be quite different from someone else’s view.
HAVE you heard the one about the San Remo Cork Club? Or the local Robin Hood Club?
You’ll learn about the clubs, and much more, at Movie Matinee: San Remo Stories, later this month. Narrated by locals, the 10 mini movies – each four to six minutes long – provide an entertaining insight into events, practices, and people that have shaped the San Remo.
We’ve sub-titled the matinee “Probable Truths or Plausible Lies - You be the Judge”. That’s because the movies are based on people’s memories and someone’s view of one thing could be quite different from someone else’s view.
The people telling the stories include some names that are very familiar in the San Remo community: Snow Lacco, Ray Dickie, Tuppy Cleeland, Lorraine Ingridsen and Heather Mabilia, to name a few.
The matinee, on Sunday, April 28, is the final project started by the “Tides of Change” group. The group initially got together in San Remo in 2015 to apply for a Small Town Transformation artistic grant. When we didn’t get that we kept plugging away to get other art into the village.
After securing funding for the Excuse Me Mr Seagull sculpture on the foreshore, we got a community grant for an arts project about the history and culture of San Remo – what’s shaped it and made it what it is today.
Initially the community came together for a “Stuff and Stories” workshop where we captured the essence of key historical events in the village and then identified key people to interview so we had a broad range of topics to tell tales about.
Mick Green of Drift Media did the recordings then did some amazing editing to reduce many hours of recordings down to 10 four-six minute sound files. I spent copious hours searching for and using photos that had been given to us to create a visual representation of what’s being told in the stories.
The result is the 10 mini movies that we’re launching at this event. The people who were interviewed have all given approval and love what we have done. Many of them will be in attendance at the event. It is going to be a hoot.
One of my favourite stories is about the San Remo Robin Hood Club. The cork club is also good. I do have a favourite story but I don’t want to blow its cover before the screening.
When we did the interviewing it was one on one, because they were talking about their experiences, but you see the intersections when someone else talks about their own experiences.
The oldest of the interviewees, in his 90s, died before we finished the project. The youngest interviewee is still a primary pupil, one of four generations in the story recounting her memories of San Remo Primary School.
What we discovered with this project is that the San Remo community was really looking for an opportunity to come together. A lot of people would come to the meetings just because they haven’t seen each other for a long time. It was a chance to chat about the days of old. It was a social occasion.
Movie Matinee: San Remo Stories is at the San Remo Recreation Centre, 1 Wynne Road, at 2pm on Sunday, April 28. It’s free to attend but RSVP to save a seat - seats are limited and bookings are coming in thick and fast.
This will be the one and only public screening of the mini movies but we plan to make them available online down the track.
Kirsty Mawer is communications co-ordinator for the Tides of Change group.
Editor's note: The San Remo films are now available on Youtube.
The matinee, on Sunday, April 28, is the final project started by the “Tides of Change” group. The group initially got together in San Remo in 2015 to apply for a Small Town Transformation artistic grant. When we didn’t get that we kept plugging away to get other art into the village.
After securing funding for the Excuse Me Mr Seagull sculpture on the foreshore, we got a community grant for an arts project about the history and culture of San Remo – what’s shaped it and made it what it is today.
Initially the community came together for a “Stuff and Stories” workshop where we captured the essence of key historical events in the village and then identified key people to interview so we had a broad range of topics to tell tales about.
Mick Green of Drift Media did the recordings then did some amazing editing to reduce many hours of recordings down to 10 four-six minute sound files. I spent copious hours searching for and using photos that had been given to us to create a visual representation of what’s being told in the stories.
The result is the 10 mini movies that we’re launching at this event. The people who were interviewed have all given approval and love what we have done. Many of them will be in attendance at the event. It is going to be a hoot.
One of my favourite stories is about the San Remo Robin Hood Club. The cork club is also good. I do have a favourite story but I don’t want to blow its cover before the screening.
When we did the interviewing it was one on one, because they were talking about their experiences, but you see the intersections when someone else talks about their own experiences.
The oldest of the interviewees, in his 90s, died before we finished the project. The youngest interviewee is still a primary pupil, one of four generations in the story recounting her memories of San Remo Primary School.
What we discovered with this project is that the San Remo community was really looking for an opportunity to come together. A lot of people would come to the meetings just because they haven’t seen each other for a long time. It was a chance to chat about the days of old. It was a social occasion.
Movie Matinee: San Remo Stories is at the San Remo Recreation Centre, 1 Wynne Road, at 2pm on Sunday, April 28. It’s free to attend but RSVP to save a seat - seats are limited and bookings are coming in thick and fast.
This will be the one and only public screening of the mini movies but we plan to make them available online down the track.
Kirsty Mawer is communications co-ordinator for the Tides of Change group.
Editor's note: The San Remo films are now available on Youtube.