Former EastEnders and Bad Girls actress and councillor, Kika Mirylees, has teased that Farnham's new REEL Cinema could host a gaming competition – cashing in on the region's booming gaming sector and 'getting gamers out of their bedrooms'.
Farnham and Waverley councillor Cllr Mirylees made her remarks during a Champagne reception to open Farnham's new REEL Cinema, attended by the great and good of Farnham.
Farnham and Waverley councillor Cllr Mirylees made her remarks during a Champagne reception to open Farnham's new REEL Cinema, attended by the great and good of Farnham.
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00:00 So hi Kika, yeah obviously fantastic to see the cinema open tonight with lots of people
00:06 in it so just love to hear your first impressions.
00:09 I think it's really really great, I love the design, I think it's the right size and I
00:16 think they've made it beautiful actually, as far as I'm ascared it's beautiful and I've
00:21 tried out the seats in the different, what do you call them, cinema areas.
00:27 In the real lounge.
00:28 Yeah you can have a really good scooze in there.
00:30 But yeah I think it's lovely and I think it's going to be a great asset to our community,
00:39 great asset.
00:40 But what's really good is that I talked to the youngest guy who's just given his wonderful
00:46 speech and we have approached him before, I know others have from the Farmer's Party
00:52 as well to see if they wanted to work with us on a much more community level which they
00:57 do and we have amazing gaming companies here.
01:02 One of the biggest, most famous international ones in Guildford, another really good one
01:08 here in Varna and we'd love to have a convention here, get people out of their bedrooms, having
01:14 it coming to the screen, meeting other gamers, I think it would be great and I know they're
01:19 very up for us to have as a cinema to be very much involved with our community so it's
01:26 very different from one of those great big Odeons or wherever they are which don't have
01:32 any connection in that way.
01:34 So I'm really looking forward to that and they're very much, they've bought into it
01:38 and said they want to do it and without us wanting them to do it they said yeah they're
01:42 very happy to do that so I see this as a really good, good thing for us in Varna.
01:48 I do see Varna now as becoming, as most towns are, not so much retail but places where communities
01:57 come together, leisure, art facilities, all those things are now coming into play so I
02:04 see this as just another wonderful extension of that.
02:08 Things are changing and I think although we have problems in terms of retail I see that
02:16 things organically are growing up, it always happens and it's really good if you can just
02:22 go with it and make the most of it.
02:24 So yeah, I see our towns as becoming much more community oriented and I love the fact
02:30 that these guys understand that and they want to work with us on that.
02:34 So yeah, very pleased.
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