The Beehive Community & Arts Venue
The Beehive is a small, multi purpose, community and arts venue and a registered charity, with 4 part time staff and 1 full-time operational manager plus a fabulous team of volunteers who are the lifeblood of the venue. Together, they all aim to create a vibrant and stimulating centre that engages, challenges, entertains, supports, educates and encompasses our whole community. On the periphery of a rural market town with extremely limited previous arts provision, we have built an audience from scratch.
The venue opened in 2014 and raised funds for cinema equipment within a year. The Beehive then introduced a programme of weekly films after widespread public consultation and initially, a community programming group.
Recognising a need for Dementia friendly cinema; in collaboration with the local Dementia action alliance group, The Beehive launched a monthly matinee of Nostalgic cinema with subtitles, tea and biscuits, and a social.
Programming spans a diverse selection of films: including much favoured British films (Fisherman’s Friends, I Daniel Blake, Paddington etc), some less mainstream (The Souvenir, The Levelling, Dartmoor killing) and a few foreign language (Capernaum, Lost in Paris, The Farewell). Additionally, working with IntoFilm Fest for younger audiences, and pulling in a very different audience and people travel from far and near for Environmental/Social commentary films.
The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LZ
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