Gloucester BID - Business Improvement District

Free Open Air Film Screening - 'The Lego Movie' and 'The Greatest Showman'
2024-03-30 12:30 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Kings Square, Gloucester, United Kingdom
COMING TO KING’S SQUARE!

This Easter, prepare for an afternoon of cinematic delight! We’re excited to announce our outdoor cinema event on Saturday 30th March, featuring ‘The Lego Movie’ and ‘The Greatest Showman’ in the glorious Easter sun.

Get ready for a double-feature extravaganza!
– Free deckchairs available, first come, first served (you are welcome to bring your own)
– Range of food and drink available

Halloween Ball
2023-10-28 17:00 - 23:00 | The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 2PG, United Kingdom
A festival of all things spooky
The Halloween Ball is a festival of all things spookaliscious with themed food and drink, vintage cinema, traditional sweet shop, face painting, glitter tattoos and seasonal games such as apple bobbing.
There will be a photo area and chill-out board gaming zone not to mention scare and character actors, storytellers, live music and a cheesy disco with the best costume competition!
Activities are all included in the ticket price of £15, group and concession prices are available, under 12 yrs go free.
Themed food and drinks can be purchased on the night, Autumn Tea, hot dogs and jacket potatoes, sweet shop, frothy coffee, themed teas, creepy cocktails and monstrous mocktails including a potion lab drinks for the kids. And of course, snacks for film watching!
Join us from 5pm to 11pm at The Folk of Gloucester on the 28th of October 2023.
The Folk is an atmospheric ancient wooden framed building that is reportedly haunted!! What a perfect space to celebrate the season!

RSC LIVE : Titus Andronicus
2017-08-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s most bloody play.
Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and severed body parts fill the moral void at the heart of this corrupt society.
Shakespeare’s gory revenge tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, and, as the body count piles up, poses questions about the nature of sexuality, family, class and society.
Blanche McIntyre returns to the RSC to direct Shakespeare’s brutal revenge tragedy after her debut directing The Two Noble Kinsmen (2016).
Tickets from Box Office Only.

Silent Film screening of Phantom of the Opera
2017-03-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Gloucester Cathedral
Silent film screening with live improvisation by Jonathan Hope at Gloucester’s beautiful Cathedral

Roger Waters The Wall
2015-09-29 19:45 - 22:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Roger Waters, co-founder and primary songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a concert film that goes well beyond the stage. Based on the groundbreaking concept album, Roger Waters The Wall could be called a concept film: it’s a state-of-the-art show that dazzles the senses, combined with an intensely personal road trip that deals with the loss Roger has felt throughout his life due to war.
After the film we present The Simple Facts, a unique opportunity to see Roger Waters and his Pink Floyd bandmate Nick Mason – reunited, unscripted, and in conversation to answer questions submitted the fans from around the world.

LIVE: The Rocky Horror Show (12A)
2015-09-17 18:45 - 20:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Come and join Richard O’Brien and some very special guests for a guaranteed party, live in cinemas for one night only. Still the world’s favourite rock ’n’ roll musical 40 years on, the sensational Rocky Horror Show is hailed by critics and adored by fans around the world, and “still has audiences rolling in the aisles” (Daily Telegraph). For this exclusive event, O’Brien returns to the cast for the first time in more than 20 years.
On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean-cut kids, Brad Majors and his fiancée Janet Weiss, run into tyre trouble and seek help at the site of a light down the road. It’s coming from the Frankenstein place, where Dr Frank N. Furter is in the midst of one of his maniacal experiments…
Ready to thrill you with its frothy, fun and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life! Get ready for a night of frolics, bursting at the seams with timeless classics including Sweet Transvestite and Dammit Janet – and join us for the largest pelvic-thrusting worldwide Time Warp ever to make Rocky history! Don’t Dream It – Be It.

The Merchant of Venice
2015-07-22 18:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all, as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made.
With the gold flowing all is well, but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

Man and Superman
2015-05-14 18:45 - 22:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Broadcast live.
Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List; Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.
Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his.

Love's Labour's Lost
2015-02-11 18:45 - 21:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No sooner have they made their pledge than the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting arrive, presenting them with a severe test of resolve.
Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy delights in championing and then unravelling an unrealistic vow, mischievously suggesting that the study of the opposite sex is in fact the highest of all academic endeavours. Only at the end of the play is the merriment curtailed as the lovers agree to submit to a period apart, unaware that the world around them is about to be utterly transformed by the war to end all wars.
Christopher Luscombe directs one acting company in both Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (usually known as Much Ado About Nothing).

Paddington (PG)
2015-02-07 15:00 - 16:45, 2015-01-31 15:00 - 16:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
A young English boy befriends a talking bear he finds at a London train station. A live-action feature based on the series of popular children’s books.

12 Years A Slave (15)
2014-03-27 00:00 - 2014-05-06 17:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Dir. Steve McQueen
USA, UK (134 mins)
12 Years A Slave is based on an incredible true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty and unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Classic Matinee - Casablanca
2013-12-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Casablanca (U)
Saturday 7th December @ 3pm
Ticket Prices:
Adults £5.50 or Adult Screen Tea £6.50
Concessions £4.50 or Concession with Screen Tea £5.50

Classic Matinee - Casablanca
2013-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Casablanca (U)
Friday 6th December @ 2pm
Saturday 7th December @ 3pm
Ticket Prices:
Adults £5.50 or Adult Screen Tea £6.50
Concessions £4.50 or Concession with Screen Tea £5.50

Classic Matinees - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
2013-11-02 15:00 - 16:45 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Saturday 2nd November @ 3.00pm CLICK HERE
Ticket Prices:
Adults £5.50 or Adult Screen Tea £6.50
Concessions £4.50 or Concession with Screen Tea £5.50

Classic Matinees - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
2013-11-01 14:00 - 15:45 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (U)
Friday 1st November @ 2.00pm CLICK HERE
Saturday 2nd November @ 3.00pm CLICK HERE
Ticket Prices:
Adults £5.50 or Adult Screen Tea £6.50
Concessions £4.50 or Concession with Screen Tea £5.50

Bram Stocker's Dracula (18)
2013-10-31 19:45 - 22:00 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Bram Stocker’s Dracula (18)
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
(USA. 122 mins)
Join us for a Halloween treat: Based on Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel, this film offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula is motivated more by romance than by bloodlust. He punctures the necks as a means of avenging the death of his wife in the 15th century, and when he comes to London, it is specifically to meet heroine Mina Harker who happens to be the living image of his late wife.
Come along in your fancy dress ready for our competition.
Showtimes (click times for tickets)
Thursday 31st October at 7.45pm CLICK HERE

Casper (U)
2013-10-31 15:00 - 17:00 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Casper (U)
Dir: Brad Silberling
(1995. USA. 100 mins)
Come along for our special family screening of Casper! A spoiled woman attends the reading of her late father’s will and learns he has only left her the old Whipstaff Manor in Maine. Learning there may be treasure hidden within the manor, she visits the house but discovers it is haunted by a friendly yet lonely ghost, Casper, and worse, his three obnoxious uncles, Stretch, Stinkie, and Fats.
Showtimes (click times for tickets)
Thursday 31st October at 3pm CLICK HERE

Mystery Movie Night at the Guildhall
2013-10-24 19:45 - 22:00 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Can’t decide what to see at the cinema? Why not let us choose for you!
Inspired in part by the ever popular Secret Cinema, movie-goers are invited to take a gamble and buy a ticket for a mystery film, the title of which will remain a closely-guarded secret until the lights go down in the cinema and the credits roll. Carefully selecting films from the last 100 years of cinema, the cinema team will endeavour to delight film fans each month with an eclectic mix of much-loved classics and little known gems, the only details revealed before the night being the film classification and the run-time. Comedy, thriller, retro, modern, British, subtitled, the possibilities are endless, and at the bargain price of only £5 per ticket, it’s a great opportunity to discover something new or perhaps see an old favourite on the big screen for the first time.
Previous films have included: A Town Called Panic, Brief Encounter, Gran Torino, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Rare Exports, Grizzly Man and The Full Monty……
Mystery Movie nights are held one Thursday a month – see listings for more details

The Bling Ring (15)
2013-10-23 14:00 - 15:45 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
The Bling Ring (15)
Dir: Sofia Coppola
(USA,UK,France,Germany and Japan. 90 mins)
Oscar Winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola takes us inside the world of these teens, where their youthful naivete and excitement is amplified by today’s culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession. In the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills. Based on true events, the group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson. The gang became known in the media as “The Bling Ring”.
Showtimes (click times for tickets)
Wednesday 23rd October at 2pm

The Bling Ring (15)
2013-10-22 19:45 - 21:30 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
The Bling Ring (15)
Dir: Sofia Coppola
(USA,UK,France,Germany and Japan. 90 mins)
Oscar Winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola takes us inside the world of these teens, where their youthful naivete and excitement is amplified by today’s culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession. In the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills. Based on true events, the group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson. The gang became known in the media as “The Bling Ring”.
Showtimes (click times for tickets)
Monday 21st October at 7.45pm
Tuesday 22nd October at 7.45pm
Wednesday 23rd October at 7.45pm
