{"id":163580,"date":"2025-03-29T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/stepney-bank-is-inner-city-riding-club-serving-newcastles\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:23:20","slug":"stepney-bank-is-inner-city-riding-club-serving-newcastles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=163580","title":{"rendered":"Stepney Bank is inner-city riding club serving Newcastle\u2019s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/03-Harry-Lawson-Stepney-Western-2025.-%C2%A9Harry-Lawson.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe stables is really close to where I went to school,\u201d Lawson explains. \u201cI got in touch with them and said: \u2018I\u2019d love to make a Western with the kids that you work with.\u2019 It was also a cinematographic challenge \u2013 to make a Western in a tight space, without the expanse [that you would typically get in the USA].\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In preparation for the film, Lawson sat down to watch \u201c40 or 50\u201d classics of the genre and found certain threads running through them. Aside from the classics and clich\u00e9s \u2013 revolvers, cowboy hats, bourbon, etc. \u2013 he saw thematic consistencies, which he realised lined up with the story of the Stepney and its community.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere are these thematic pillars to the Western, and if they don\u2019t have them, it\u2019s not a Western anymore,\u201d he says. \u201cThey all have a frontier narrative, so the idea that land is up for grabs and they tussle over it \u2013 typically it\u2019s a racist version of that historically, but the way I\u2019ve mapped that onto Stepney Western is a gentrification story, so it\u2019s the coffee shops instead of rancheros on horses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Throughout the film, there are visual hints towards the changing urban landscape in the centre of Newcastle, with an early scene featuring an archive voiceover that lays out plans for the \u201cOuseburn Development Strategy\u201d. The area has been circled as a site for regeneration plans for decades, but it\u2019s not only the types of businesses or properties springing up that are different, but also the people. Last year, Stepney Bank itself was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cx995wjzj40o\">saved<\/a> from closure after launching a fundraising campaign, as costs have soared and income has tightened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe stables is really close to where I went to school,\u201d Lawson explains. \u201cI got in touch with them and said: \u2018I\u2019d love to make a Western with the kids that you work with.\u2019 It was also a cinematographic challenge \u2013 to make a Western in a tight space, without the expanse [that you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[2331,6720,948,25660,5971,2570,13758,66588,22359,18213,5608,66591,66590,38267,843,4656,7416,813,38013,66589,3209],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-163580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-bank","tag-charity","tag-club","tag-documentary","tag-east","tag-english","tag-experimental","tag-film-in","tag-focusing","tag-functions","tag-harry","tag-innercity","tag-lawsons","tag-newcastles","tag-north","tag-riding","tag-serving","tag-sets","tag-stables","tag-stepney","tag-western"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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