Coming soon…
A brand new programme of films and NT Live performances
for the autumn.
Watch out for announcements on the Message Service,
and call back to see all the details.
Meanwhile, enjoy your summer!
Ticket Sales and Table Reservations
Tickets available on-the-door £6.
(Under 15’s £3)
Contactless payments preferred.
Please help
Earlier this year we suffered a major equipment failure. We were forced to purchase a new AV Receiver as quickly as possible. Whilst we are extremely grateful to Asby Parish Council for the grant of £400, this still left a shortfall of £300 which we were forced to finance via a loan from a cinema team member. In order to repay that loan as quickly as possible we have organised some fundraising activities (e.g. June’s Pub Quiz).
If you would like to make a donation to our Equipment Fund, no matter how small, they can do so via our JustGiving page. Thank you very much!
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Welcome
to our community cinema
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The movies in our current season are listed opposite.
(or below if viewing on your smartphone).
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Click on a listing to see full details, including trailers and film reviews.
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Loyalty Cards earn free entry to a film.
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Reserve your seats now for our next film!
FAQs
We screen all our films in Great Asby Village Hall CA16 6EX. There is some street parking right outside the Hall.
Wheelchair users may access the Hall via a ramp leading to wide double doors. If you contact us before a screening we can ensure a suitable table space tis available for you. A disabled toilet is available.
Whilst we are a non-profit organisation we have substantial costs to cover, primarily the licence we need to purchase to screen each film. We have maintained our ticket prices over several years at:
Adults: £6
Under 15s: £3
This community cinema project was initiated by Eden Arts in Penrith and promoted as the “Rural Touring Cinema”, a project that aims to bring films closer to the community by involving local people in the choices of films and the way the films are presented.
We aim to show a good film in a friendly, relaxed environment. We aim for the cinema to be a relaxed, easy going and cosy atmosphere, where friends & visitors to the village can meet and share time together.
The cinema project is totally self funded and so we rely on people in Asby and the surrounding areas to attend the events in order to pay for our licences, and keep the cinema going.
Ours is a community cinema, run by people in the village. Although we do have a core group of people to arrange and publicise programmes, and to set up and screen the film on the night, it is an informal committee. (We prefer the word ‘Team’.)
So, if you live in Great Asby, or Little Asby, we’d prefer to think of our ‘committee’ as you!!
Twice a year we put together a programme of films to be shown over the coming months. We aim to provide a varied programme, of mostly recent releases, to suit all tastes. Often our regular audience members have commented that they enjoyed a film they would not bother to see in a commercial cinema.
Anyone can recommend films, just let us know your ideas when you attend one of our screenings, or use the online ‘Suggestion Box‘ (on the right).
Details of our forthcoming films, including video trailers, reviews etc. can been seen on this web page. (We also include them in the monthly edition of “Asby Matters”, and publicise them via the Asby Parish Message Service.)
Additionally we spread the information with old-fashioned posters and via our Facebook page.
The team usually meet a few hours before to set up the equipment and the hall.
If you are arriving in time to watch the film and have a relaxing evening with friends, there isn’t much more you need to know. Just pay on the door, sit down to enjoy the film.
Please do bring along your favourite drinks (we have plenty of glasses), or you can pop out to the pub next door and bring drinks back to the hall (so long as you return your glasses afterwards). The pub also does takeaway pizzas that you are welcome to order for collection before the film.
We invariably have an interval when we serve ice creams with some other cinema refreshments, meanwhile people can have a chat about the film so far.
You can!!!
If you would like to know more about the cinema project in Asby or would like to become involved in some way, please do get in touch. We would love to be able to do more with the evenings, perhaps more themed nights or discussion groups after the more thought provoking films. We’d love to hear from you.
