Tag: Ritzy cinema
Brixton – dynamic, oppressed and a game
Getting out the PlayStation to survive a locked down Christmas? You could join Richard Haas on a virtual stroll through our town in the...
Brixton’s Ritzy among hundreds of cinemas to suspend operations
The Cineworld Group announced this morning (5 October) that all of its Picturehose cinemas in the UK – which includes Brixton’s Ritzy – will...
Townscape Heritage Entertainment Series: The Ritzy Cinema
Following the interest in our recent article exploring the entertainment culture that has thrived in Brixton since the Victorian era, we decided to do...
Brixton architecture on paper
Brixton artist and designer Henry O’Boyle has recently completed a collection of illustrations of the iconic buildings surrounding the area.
Henry moved to Brixton last...
A tour of Brixton through sketches
During lockdown we are all missing a leisurely wander through the streets of Brixton, brother and sister design duo Jess and Tom Jones-Berney have...
Alex and the Wonderland celebrate song release at the Ritzy
Brixton supporters of the live music are in for a treat this week. Local music artist and band Alex and the Wonderland are celebrating the...
Union calls off Ritzy boycott but fight for equal pay continues
The long running dispute between Ritzy workers and Cineworld has been suspended says BECTU, the trade union representing cinema workers. The boycott campaign which...
Another Ritzy union rep wins case against sacking
A former Brixton Ritzy cinema worker, sacked for her trade union activities in support of the Living Wage, has won a victory with major...
Picturehouse seeks to vary planning condition for new Lambeth cinema
Picturehouse cinemas, the owner of Brixton’s Ritzy, is seeking to vary the terms of Lambeth council’s planning conditions for its new cinema in West...
Ritzy union reps were unfairly dismissed
Union representatives at Brixton’s Ritzy Cinema were unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Workers at the Ritzy have been campaigning over several years to...
Picturehouse campaigners reject ‘disgraceful’ management’s new threats
Workers employed by the Picturehouse cinema chain at Brixton’s Ritzy and BECTU, their union, have reacted to convoluted new legal threats with an angry...
Picturehouse strikers to defy sack threat
Workers at Brixton’s Ritzy cinema and others in the Picturehouse chain who have been campaigning to be paid the official Living Wage are to...
Ritzy workers vote for renewed strikes
Workers at Brixton's Ritzy cinema and others campaigning for the living wage at in the Picturehouse chain venues have defied attempts to "grind them...
Ritzy campaigners say housing crisis film showing ‘positive’
Workers at Brixton Ritzy cinema, whose long-running campaign to be paid the London Living wage has attracted national attention, have agreed to view in...
MPs ‘extremely concerned’ over Ritzy sackings
Seven MPs have written to The Guardian expressing “extreme concern” at alleged victimisation of trade union reps at Brixton’s Ritzy Cinema.
They include local MP...
Ritzy staff demonstrate after three union reps are sacked
Staff at the Ritzy cinema demonstrated in Windrush Square at 6pm today (16 June) to protest the sacking of three union representatives at the...