Bath needed a small-format community room.
Bath has commercial multiplexes and an arthouse strand at the Tivoli, but no small-format community venue. There's no room in the city programming nights that won't fill two hundred seats — and no room where the social-screening dimension is treated on a par with the film itself.
Bath Electric Picture House is a thirty-seat community cinema in the ground floor of a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse at 32 Belvedere. Not-for-profit, tickets at cost, one to four events a month between 8am and 11pm. Established films and documentaries — programmed across four strands — with a curated post-screening conversation at every event.
Our scale lets us programme nights that wouldn't fill two hundred seats, take risks on lesser-known titles, and put the social-screening dimension on a par with the film itself.— Programming concept, 2026
Four programming strands.
A quarterly Director Retrospective season — four films across twelve weeks, anchored on a single director. A monthly First Sunday Doc Club with thirty minutes of facilitated discussion. A monthly World Cinema Friday for recent foreign-language work that didn't get a wide UK release. And Bath on Film — seasonal specials tied to the Bath cultural calendar.
Friends and walk-ins, side by side.
Tickets are sold per screening — every evening is open to walk-in Bath audiences. Alongside that, a Friend of Bath Electric Picture House subscription (£60/year) builds the community core: 20% off all tickets, priority booking, one free guest per season, and members-only events including programming meetings and season-preview screenings. A Patron tier (£200/year) adds complimentary tickets and programme listing. Year 1 target: sixty Founder Friends.
The venue
Thirty seats. Ground floor of a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse.
One to four events a month. Last screening ends by 22:30.
Step-free ground-floor entry. Designated wheelchair space planned. Captioned screenings where prints allow.
MPLC umbrella licence plus Filmbank per-title bookings. BBFC classifications respected. Written fire risk assessment commissioned. Annual public liability insurance in place.
Find us
32 Belvedere, Bath, BA1 5HR. A short walk from Queen Square and the Roman Baths.
