Cinema 2 Cinema - A DocFest Special
24 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Monday 12th June 2017
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Tom Mutton
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24 TREMENDOUS runners ran 5km to the Abbeydale Picture House to help CADS with ongoing renovations to bring the old Sheffield icon back to use!
WELCOME TO THE TEAM
A big family welcome to the new runners we welcomed into the @GGSHEFF family last night *Give em a cheer!
*Jo
Also a big welcome back to Mike Jones who has returned back to us after the birth of his child. CONGRATS MIKE
HEADING OUT
After a quick group selfie by some passing paparazzi we split into 2 groups, one going slightly further and faster and one going more direct. Big thanks to Sam and Bash our newly qualified Run Leaders for leading their first run!
TEAMING UP
On what was a remarkably well timed meeting of groups at the venue we received a brief on the tasks for the night an split into teams;
*TEAM - PAINT THE DISABLED TOILET
*TEAM - PAINT THE TABLES
*TEAM - LIFT & SHIFT
*TEAM - BASEMENT BONAZA
Our teams got straight to work with the task, getting really stuck in and achieving an amazing amount of progress in a 45min period which is really appreciated by the guys at CADS!
TAKING CENTRE STAGE
On hearing the AIRHORN we downed tools and headed to centre stage for our fitness session which this week included some active interval work including:
*Seated Squat Jumps
*Star Jumps
*Press Ups
*Burpees
*Tri Dips
*Split Lunges
After a quick drink we thanked and got thanked by the task owners at CADS and set off back to base for stretches, a well earned drink and the tempting smell of BBQ at the Showroom.
PARTY TIME
'Long' term member Kim Longborn kindly put the feelers out for a Summer @GGSHEFF BBQ at hers in the near future. So keep your eyes open on the PARTIES section of the website and the Watts App group for details...
WATTSAPP
Yes, we now have a Watts App group for all things @GGSHEFF so if you want adding please drop me and email with your number and i'll add you to the group!
UP NEXT
Next week we are off to Regather - sign up here
Happy Running!
Tom :)
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One of the most Beautiful buildings in Sheffield.
The Abbeydale Picture Palace was opened by the Lord Mayor William Farewell Wardley on December 20th 1920, with the silent film The Call of the Road. Designed by the architects Dixon & Stienlet of North Shields and Newcastle-on-Tyne to work as a theatre as well as a cinema, it has a generous stage with a fly tower, the UK’s only remaining “iron” safety curtain, intact and in situ, with original 1950s period advertisements. The original classical proscenium was hidden by the existing plain arch when Cinemascope was installed in the 1950s, but otherwise the auditorium remains intact and the building is listed Grade II. Soon after closing its doors on the 5th July 1975, the building was taken over by Messrs A & F Drake as an office-equipment showroom. They traded until the early 1990s, and after some years of neglect the building was taken over by the Friends of the Abbeydale Picture House as a rehearsal and performance space for amateur theatre groups. When the Friends of the Abbeydale project came to an end in 2012, the building was bought at auction by Phil Robins. Since July 2015 it has been managed by Hand Of, a Sheffield based arts platform who organise a diverse range of cultural events.
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