Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX
Ayr Film Society has been in operation for 50 plus years and endeavours to provide an interesting, varied and eclectic mix of independent, contemporary, classic, English and Foreign language films also including animations and documentary films. The Society works hard to boast a diverse programme of thought-provoking and challenging films. It is an award winning society mainly for its programming.
Screenings at Ayr Town Hall, seating in Main Auditorium in either stalls or balcony, also at the local Merlin Cinema (the Astoria) where we use their Screen 2 from time to time.
The Society is regularly shortlisted at the Film Society of the Year Awards, run by Cinema for All. Check out all awards, and the archive of films screened, at the website www.ayrfilmsociety.co.uk
The society runs weekly between August/September and March each year. Members are always consulted through weekly reaction charts so that the committee always have information to assist with programming in the future.
Currently screening in Ayr Town Hall, and the Astoria, on the big screen.
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Screenings
Upcoming
Sentimental Value
17th Sep 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Joachim Trier
Norway 2025
With : Stellan Skarsgard, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning
Tragic/comedy 2hr 13mins
A poignant melancholic family drama that follows two estranged sisters, Nora and Agnes, whose lives are disrupted when their egomaniacal and long absent father Gustav, a celebrated filmmaker, returns for their mother’s funeral and announces he wants to make a comeback film based on their family’s traumatic history. When Nora refuses to participate in the film, Gustav brings in a Hollywood star to play her, which only adds to the tension. The film explores estrangement, art versus exploitation, the ethics of mining pain for creative work, and reconciliation between the sisters and their father.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Father Mother Sister Brother
24th Sep 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Jim Jarmusch
USA 2025
With: Tom Waits, Vicky Krieps, Mayim Bialik, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Kate Blanchett
Comedy/Drama Anthology 1hr 51mins
Constructed in the form of a triptych, the film explores the humour and complexities of estranged family bonds through three estranged family relationships in three different countries around the world, using understated dialogue, starring an ensemble cast. Three set of siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and revaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 82nd Venice IFF 2025
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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It Was Just An Accident
1st Oct 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Jafar Panahi
Iran/France 2025
With Mariam Afshari, Vahid Mobasseri, Ebrahim Azizi
While driving home at night with his pregnant wife and young daughter, Eghbal runs over a dog and his car breaks down. Vahid, a car mechanic, at the garage thinks he recognizes one of his former torturers from when he was detained by the Iranian authorities. The film follows a group of former Iranian political prisoners who face the question of whether to exact revenge on a man they believe may be their sadistic tormentor but who vehemently protests his innocence.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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My Father’s Shadow
8th Oct 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Akinlo Davies Jr.
Nigeria/UK 2025
With : Sope Dirisu, Wale Davies, Efon Wini
Drama/Narrative 1hr 33mins
Award-winning debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr, and a powerful and poetic exploration of fatherhood, identity and memory. Tells the story of two young brothers who spend a day with their estranged father. They explore Lagos, for the first time, during the 1993 Nigerian presidential election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Golden Spurtle
15th Oct 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Constantine Costi
Scotland 2025
With : Ian Bishop, Charlie Miller, Adam Kieni
Documentary 1hr 15mins
Once a year, contenders from around the globe descend on a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion.This year is special because it’s the last time Charlie Miller will be in charge of the festivities due to failing health and now it’s time to pass on the spurtle. Amid intense rivalries, steaming bowls of porridge and the lives of charming locals we see a living legacy unfold.
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includes A.G.M.
Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
22nd Oct 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Robert Wiene
Germany 1920
With : Werner Krauss, Conrad Cesare, Lil Dagover
Horror/Fantasy 1hr 17mins
A landmark of German Expressionism, this silent masterpiece follows the mysterious Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist, Cesare, whom he uses to commit gruesome murders. As a young man tracks the duo to a local carnival, the twisted, jagged landscapes reflect a fractured psyche. This chilling tale of authority and madness concludes with one of cinema’s first and most famous twist endings, blurring the lines between reality and delusion.
Our annual silent screening with live organ accompaniment by Aaron Hawthorne
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Silent screening with live organ accompaniment
Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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It’s Not My Film
29th Oct 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Maria Zbaska
Poland 2024
With : Zofia Chabiera, Marcin Sztabinski, Maiusz Saniternik
Drama 1hr 39mins
In this meta-cinematic journey, Maria discovers she is merely a character in a movie she didn't audition for. As the fourth wall crumbles, she navigates a surreal landscape of production sets and script revisions, desperately trying to reclaim her autonomy from an invisible director. It is a witty, existential exploration of agency, identity, and the chaotic nature of storytelling where the protagonist refuses to follow the written lines
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In collaboration with Borscht Film Club Glasgow .
Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
Booking Link
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Sirat
12th Nov 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Oliver Laxe
Morrocco/Spain 2025
With : Sergio Lopez, Bruno Nunez Arjona, Stefania Gadda, Jade Oukid
Drama/Road movie 2hrs 0mins
Named after the bridge in Islamic eschatology, this poignant drama follows a family navigating the precarious "bridge" between their heritage and a modernizing world, as a father and son search for his daughter missing for 5 months after last seen at a dance festival in the Morroccan desert. Set against a backdrop of breathtaking landscapes and raves, the narrative weaves together personal sacrifice and spiritual searching. As tensions rise between tradition and progress, the characters must decide what to carry across and what to leave behind in their quest for a meaningful future
Winner of Jury Prize at Cannes 2025
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Home Alone 2
15th Nov 2026 at 16:00
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Dir. Christopher Columbus
USA 1992
With : Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
Family Comedy 2hrs 0mins
Kevin McCallister is separated from his family once again, finding himself stranded in the bustling streets of New York City. Armed with his father’s credit card, he turns the Plaza Hotel into his playground until he crosses paths with his old enemies, the Wet Bandits. To protect a toy store and himself, Kevin transforms a vacant brownstone into a creative gauntlet of traps in this high-stakes holiday adventure.
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Fundraiser for Whiteleys Retreat. Tickets £9:00 available from Whiteleys.
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Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
Nouvelle Vague
19th Nov 2026 at 19:15
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Director: Richard Linklater
France 2025
With : Guillaume Marbeck Zoey Deutch Aubry Dullin
Comedy / Biography 1hr 46 mins
Nouvelle Vague is Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater's love letter to the revolutionary magic of the French New Wave, reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless.
Capturing the youthful dynamism and creative chaos at the heart of one of the world's most beloved and influential movies, Nouvelle Vague transports us to the streets of 1959 Paris for an ode to the transformative power of cinema.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Still Pushing Pineapples
26th Nov 2026 at 19:15
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Director: Kim Hopkins
UK 2025
With : Dene Michael Anne Betteridge Hayley Louise Spridgens
Documentary Road Movie 1hr 32 mins
Still Pushing Up Pineapples (2025), directed by Kim Hopkins, is a poignant documentary following ageing pop singer Dene Michael of Black Lace fame. As he tours small venues with his girlfriend and elderly mother, the film explores fading celebrity, family bonds, and resilience, blending humour and melancholy while reflecting on working-class life and the enduring pursuit of relevance and dreams
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Ballad Of Wallis Island
3rd Dec 2026 at 19:15
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Director: James Griffiths
UK 2025
With: Tom Basden Tim Key Sian Clifford Carey Mulligan
Comedy / Drama 1 hr 39 mins
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025), directed by James Griffiths, is a British comedy-drama about a lonely lottery winner who invites his favourite folk duo—former lovers—to reunite for a private performance on a remote island. As old tensions resurface, the film blends gentle humour with melancholy, exploring nostalgia, lost love, and the human need for connection.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Jim’s Story
10th Dec 2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Jean Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu
France 2024
With: Karim Leclou, Latetia Dosch, Eol Personne, Bertrand Belin
Comedy/Melodrama 1hr 41 mins
Based on the 2021 novel Le Roman de Jim by Pedric Bailey, this film on modern fatherhood was directed by the Larrieu brothers. The story unfolds between Lyon and Sain Claude, a small town in Jura, where Aymeric meets ex-colleague Florence, who is unmarried, 6 months pregnant, and the father is married and gone. He moves in, and brings up the child Jim for 7 years, until the biological father reappears, and paternal tensions ensue.
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in collaboration with the French Film Festival. At this screening we will also host our annual social evening.
Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Presidents Cake
7th Jan 2027 at 19:15
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Dir. Hasan Hadi
Iran 2025
With: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef /Waheed Thabet Khreibat / Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Drama 1hr 45 mins
The President’s Cake (2025), directed by Hasan Hadi, is a poignant drama set in 1990s Iraq under Saddam Hussein. It follows nine-year-old Lamia, who is forced to bake a birthday cake for the president despite severe poverty and food shortages. As she searches for ingredients, her journey reveals the hardships, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living under an oppressive regime.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Last One For The Road
14th Jan 2027 at 19:15
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Dir. Francesco Sossali
Italy 2025
With: Filippo Scotti; Sergio Romano; Pierpaolo Capovilla; Roberto Citran
Comedy / Crime / Drama 1hr 45minS
Two blustery 50-somethings, from the northern region of Italy, have an obsession: going for their last drink. One night, they run into Giulio, a shy architecture student from Naples, whose way of seeing the world and love will be transformed as the trio wander from bar to bar of Veneto. Not loud, not rushed, just quietly honest – and that is exactly why it hits. The film feels personal without trying too hard.
Best Director and Best Film at the David di Donatello Awards
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Network
21st Jan 2027 at 19:15
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Dir. Sidney Lumet
U.S.A. 1976
With: Faye Dunaway; William Holden; Peter Finch; Robert Duvall
Dark Comedy / Psychological Drama 2hrs 2mins
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control. Following his firing from the network, due to loss of his once strong ratings, the anchorman reacts in an unexpected way which affects the fortunes of himself, his co-workers and the network. A prophetic masterpiece whose scathing satire of media culture grows more relevant with time
Screening for its 50th Anniversary. Winner of 4 Oscars: Best Actor; Best Actress; Best Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Fokus Film Festival
28th Jan 2027 at 19:15
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In association with Goethe Institut Glasgow
Title will be announced prior to the festival
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
11th Feb 2027 at 19:15
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Dir: Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunisia 2025
With: Saja Kilani; Motaz Malhees; Amer Hlehel; Clara Khoury
War / Drama 1hr 33mins
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.This film is a masterclass in restrained, yet emotionally devastating filmmaking. What makes the film remarkable is not only the real-life tragedy at its core but also how skilfully it is transformed into cinema without sensationalism
Winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Blue Heron
18th Feb 2027 at 19:15
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Dir. Sophy Romvari
Hungary 2025
With: Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Edik Beddoes
Autobiographical drama 1hr 31mins
This highly acclaimed first film written and directed by Sophy Romvari blends fiction and memory following a young Hungarian immigrant girl Sasha and her family relocating to Vancouver Island in the 1990s, as their new life is disrupted by her older brother’s erratic and dangerous behaviour. The narrative unfolds in fragments, mirroring the haze and unreliability of a child’s memories, and then jumps to present day where Sasha, now a filmmaker revisits this formative trauma, to try and make sense of the impact it left on the family
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Audience Choice
25th Feb 2027 at 19:15
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Nearer the time, the audience will be invited to choose a title from a selected list to be screened on this date.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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The Wolves Always Come At Night
4th Mar 2027 at 19:15
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Dir. Gabrielle Brady
Mongolia 2024
Documentary 1hr 35mins
Born to generations of herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a young couple Davaa and Zaya are raising their four children with an intimate connection to the land and the animals they share their lives with. When a severe sandstorm kills their entire flock of sheep, they are forced to move to the city and leave behind the land and rural lives they treasured.
The film blends documentary and fiction, with Davaa and Zaya co-authoring their own story.
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Earth Hour
25th Mar 2027 at 19:15
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Titles will be announced nearer the time
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Location
Ayr Film Society @ Ayr Town Hall KA7 1JX, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
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Archive
The Love That Remains
03-09-2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Hylnur Palmason
Iceland 2025
With: Saga Gardarsdottir, Sverre Gudnason, Inguar Sigurdson & Panda the dog.
Comedy/Drama 1hr 49mins
A tender rumination on the tenuous bonds of family, the changing Icelandic landscape and the passage of time itself. The film chronicles a year in the life of Anna, a visual artist and her commercial fisherman husband Magnus as they navigate an amicable but emotionally complex separation while co-parenting their three children through the changing seasons. Palmason weaves moments of deadpan humour with surreal flourishes, as he subtly blurs the line between reality and the subconscious, together with a dreamy piano score and a winning performance from Panda the dog!
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Location
The Love That Remains, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
No Other Choice
10-09-2026 at 19:15
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Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Korea 2025
With: Lee Byung-Hun, Son Ye-Jin, Jeong Yu-Yeon
Comedy/Thriller 2hrs 19mins
When a happy family man is made redundant after 25 years of loyal service at a paper mill by the new American owners, who cite they had no other choice, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role : truly eliminate the competition. A deliciously dark satire on modern industry, where machines and algorithms replace humans, and the protagonist feels he has no other choice than to plan a bizarre homicide campaign, as human agency descends into farcical irrelevance.
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Location
No Other Choice, Ayr Town Hall, 1 Newbridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX