Summer’s here!

An Open Air Screen outside The Forum is showing live sport, films and other great stuff for five weeks during June and July – see the programme guide here

Bring your own chair, cushion or rug and make yourselves comfortable on the steps. Or why not reserve a table at Café Bar Marzano or Pizza Express?

Sit back and enjoy first round World Cup football, Wimbledon matches and stages of the Tour de France… all for FREE!

Get involved!

Take part in competitions for the whole family and find out about sport and healthy lifestyle opportunities where you live. And for those of you not into sport, don’t worry, there’s plenty more going on.

Thursday Film Nights! 

We’re showing a popular cinema classic, suitable for all age groups, on each of the five Thursdays the Open Air Screen is at The Forum*.

Here’s what’s on!

Thu 12 June – Ghostbusters

Thu 19 June – Breakfast at Tiffanys 

Thu 26 June – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Thu 3 July – Flash Gordon

Thu 10 July – Grease

Please note – if for any reason we need to change the order of these films we will use social media and this website to let people know.

For information on PG film, read the BBFC classification guidelines here

Thursdays are definitely a great night to come into Norwich city centre this summer. Enjoy free street performances while you are dining or late night shopping. The showbiz continues at The Forum from approximately 8pm.

Early birds!

The Open Air Screen will be on from 10am each day, beginning with an update from BBC News 24 and continuing with a varied daytime programme of features from the East Anglian Film Archive and Norfolk on Film.

There’s something for everyone and it’s all FREE. We are currently developing the full five week schedule and this page will be updated weekly.

You can also hear the latest by following The Forum on Facebook or Twitter  and don’t forget to use the hashtag #forumscreen.

The Open Air Screen is sponsored by Norwich BID, Active Norfolk, Norfolk County Council and Car Shop.

Also, thanks to EventGuard and Hannants Cleaning.

* 12, 19, 26 June & 3, 10 July – arrive early as its first come first served for space on the steps and in the amphitheatre. Maximum capacity 499 people.

Please note – all Open Air Screen events are alcohol free and the programme may change at short notice.

Outside The Forum 10am – 8pm

>See the programme guide

 related story:

Archive film gets an outdoor airing this summer

An appetising menu of lunchtime archive film shows will feature on the big Open Air Screen outside The Forum for a month from Tuesday 10th June.

From 12 noon till 2pm most days you will be able to feast your eyes on archive film for free for an hour and see how we lived our lives in the last century. Each day, a special programme of thematic productions made by Norwich HEART’s Digital Heritage Project, in partnership with the East Anglian Film Archive and French archive Pole Image Haute Normandie, will bring our archive alive.

Films include ‘Bon Voyage’ narrated by John Hurt and ‘Our Sporting Lives’ featuring a memorable derby match between Norwich City and Ipswich Town in the early 60s – come along to see who won! ‘Fish & Clips’ focuses on the county’s food heritage, whilst ‘The Pleasure of Leisure’ looks back at our pastimes over the decades. There will also be compilations of films showing Norwich, Cromer, Diss, Hunstanton and King’s Lynn from yesteryear, previously seen as part of Digital Heritage Project’s successful Archive Alive vintage mobile cinema tour which journeyed around the region in Summer 2013.

You can also watch hundreds of archive films online at www.archivealive.org. The Archive Alive website showcases digitised archive films from across the East of England (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire) and Upper Normandy in France, from as far back as 1896 to the 1980s.

The screenings are featured in the Lunchtime Nostalgia programme, showing films from the East Anglian Film Archive, as part of the Open Air Screen, brought to you by The Forum and sponsored by Norwich BID, Active Norfolk, Norfolk County Council and Car Shop. For full details of Open Air Screen film screenings visit www.theforumnorwich.co.uk.

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