The Wayfaring Cinema is a trailer-based cinema on wheels, built entirely from recycled materials, including 500 vinyl records for weather proofing. Using a back projection system from inside the wagon, the wayfaring cinema brings extremely special film screenings to where communities are, turning their place into a temporary autonomous zone. It is often arranged with a firebowl, popcorn machine and deckchairs, a stable-door bar and occasionally a woodsman’s awning. The Wayfaring Cinema, like the old traveling circus or the early versions of travelling cinema shows can take cinema into the wild, even in urban contexts. If you have an idea for a screening, send us a message. This beautiful mobile social sculpture is an itinerant cinema project that evolved from the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema. In the context of no action on a long-promised cinema for their area, artists Liam and Vanessa Scully collaborated with designer and builder Alex Tuckwood to create a cinema to bring people together to share histories & archives unique to the people of Thamesmead, the biggest social housing estate in England. Working with important input from the GRT community, and minded of the heritage of the Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange which was shot in Thamesmead, the Texas Travelling Cinema was created to follow the lines of the bow top, on an old caravan chassis. Scully & Scully devoted 4 years to the project and wanted to find other collaborators to take it on. Artist filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman had used the cinema in their film Wayfaring Stranger, and through other routes had met Christo Wallers and knew of his cinema-making practice. Andrea forged a project with Liam, Vanessa and Christo to tour Wayfaring Cinema in the north-east UK, and with some support from Arts Council England, the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema was relocated to Burnlaw in the North Pennines. As the project developed the group renamed the cinema and their own collaboration as the Wayfaring Cinema Collective. The 2025 programme included screenings in the car park of the Star and Shadow Cinema, Losing the Plot film retreat at Burnlaw, Abundant Earth in Broompark, Durham; Auckland Palace in Bishop Auckland and Lake Coniston in Cumbria. Since then, the Wayfaring Cinema has been managed and programmed by Good Cave Projects screening at The Balloon pub car park in Cowgate, Newcastle; on Hexham Avenue in Walker; at Hexham Abbey and in front of the New Bridge Hotel on the edge of the Blue Carpet in central Newcastle.