World Premiere of Views from a Pear Tree plays to a packed Birchmore Hall!
Highbury East Lib Dem councillors Terry Stacy and John Gilbert were delighted to join Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn as guests at the first screening of Views from a Pear Tree at Birchmore Hall on Saturday evening. About 150 people crowded into Birchmore Hall for the event filling all the seats and leaving several rows of onlookers standing at the back of the hall and along the sides.
The film celebrates over 50 years of community life on Highbury Quadrant Estate through still images, film clips and interviews (including the unveiling of the Neighbours statue in 1959 pictured opposite). A very clear message comes through the film that Highbury Quadrant is a very special place, not only because of its green spaces and progressive design and architecture but also because of the people who live there and the neighbourliness that exists on the estate.
The film was made by the Highbury Quadrant Living History Project and funded by a grant from Terry, John and Laura’s Area Committee budget as well as by the National Lottery. It will shortly be playing in the recently refurbished Islington Museum on St John’s Street.
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