Press Release
Solar powered cinema in running for national award

A solar powered cinema has been shortlisted to win an award this month. The Sol Cinema from Swansea is currently in competition with arts groups from across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Built in 2010,The Sol Cinema is a micro movie house powered entirely by the Sun. Accommodating 8 adults comfortably for a unique cinematic experience. the micro movie theatre has been a huge hit at numerous events across Wales.

The Epic Awards are an initiative of Voluntary Arts, the national development agency for arts participation. Voluntary Arts offers information, advice, training and development opportunities to those in the voluntary arts sector, from small local groups to large national organisations.

A spokesperson for the Epic Awards said
'We've had lots of excellent entries to this year's Epic Awards! Here are the shortlisted English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh entries, but there will be a separate winner and runner-up from each country which will be decided by a panel of expert judges. There will also be a People's Choice award to a group from each nation voted for the public'

In 2010, the Sol Cinema won The Network Wales award for best communications project and was a finalist in the Big Lottery Awards 2011.

Paul O'Connor, projectionist for the Sol Cinema said
'We are excited at being a finalist for yet another award. The Sol Cinema is entertaining and practical example of how we can be using renewable energy.We hope the public will vote for us by clicking the green thumbs up for the Epic award.'

Public voting is on  http://epicawards.co.uk/shortlist
Online voting closes at 9am on Mon 16th Jan.
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Notes for editors
World's Smallest Solar Powered Cinema
 http://thesolcinema.org/

The Sol Cinema is a project of arts charity Undercurrents