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Reopening date set for Shropshire community cinema
A reopening date has been set for a town's community charity Maona Arts plans to start showing films at the former Kinokulture cinema in Oswestry, Shropshire, from 5 July, with an 'official opening' the day cinema closed in April 2024 when the people who had run it for 14 years, Ian Garland and Ruth Carter, then, Maona Arts has raised more than £28,000 to pay for the restoration of the building and signed a lease for it on Saturday.
James Bond, the chair of the Oswestry Film Society, said volunteers would spend the next month getting the cinema ready to said it needed a "good clean" inside and out after lying empty for so society has been hosting live cinema nights at the Hermon Chapel arts centre on Wednesdays since Kinokulture money raised would meet the costs of the lease for 12 months, plus seating, and a refurbished box office and bar.
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