| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Must be doing something right | |
| Posted by: | Jennifer Selig | |
| Date/Time: | 23/01/13 01:55:00 |
| My friends and I love Waterman's cinema - OK we're not in the first flush of youf but we're regular visitors - every week if there are good films on. We're from Chiswick with two from Kew. We'd support the lovely litle theatre too if it ever had anything on that appealed - last visit was some while back - the jazz group from Ronnie Scott's - just wonderful. The restaurant could be improved and not just the food - its few tables are very thinly spread about to fill the yawning bleak space. The bar area too needs a make over to creat a more intimate and fun space. Its all a bit like sitting in an aircraft hanger! No advantage is taken of it's riverside setting - why not? Also, any "arts" venture seems very strange and remote from what most of the current visitors want and doesn't seem to bring in any other folk either - not sure who the audience is for this odd stuff. On the few occasions I've wandered in there's been only an odd bewildered person, if anyone at all. Beyond the bar area there are some folk engrossed in their laptops, don't know who or what they are - members of the public with no where else to roost out of the rain perhaps? Who actually is in charge of what happens at Waterman's? What is the overall scheme/principle/aim of Waterman's? No good saying "the Arts Council", I'd like a name and for that person to explain. Currently it's an idea venue for a quick inexpensive "curry" and afternoon cinema outing for grey wrinklies and one we all thoroughly enjoy and shall miss once its gone. |