With a great view over Hexham's Market place and fully stocked with a range of food and drink including some locally sourced treats, our café bar is the perfect spot to meet with friends and watch the world go by.
Our cafe/bar is open to all the public, regardless of whether you are joining us for a film, and is fully stocked with everything from handmade cakes to locally brewed ales, all at an affordable price.
All of the products stocked in our café bar are also available to take into the auditorium during a film screening.
The cafe/bar always opens 30minutes before our first film of the day and closes once our final performance ends, unless otherwise stated. This is typically from midday on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and later afternoon the remaining days of the week.
Our café bar hosts several fantastic regular and one-off events including art, music, poetry and much more!
Art Exhibitions - Our beautiful Art Deco area has proved a very popular backdrop for local artists to display their work and we host monthly exhibitions showcasing the talent and creativity of Northumbrians.
Current exhibition: Songbirds by Carol Davison
Brought up on a farm in the English countryside, Carol Davison has always been close to nature and maintains a simple and yet soulful affinity with all life that surrounds her. Davison is able to capture colours and wonderful aesthetics thus embracing the gift of creation. Through oil on canvas, Davison communicates her vision in an interpretation of composition and colour, in a balanced and perfect control of tone conveyed in a wonderful three-dimensional journey of contrast and form.
This latest collection of works is extremely bird orientated as Davison draws on her experience growing up in the Allen Valley. She recalls the joy in hearing the first curlew, with its haunting call, signalling the beginning of spring, closely followed by the swallow, and the cuckoo. The byre and barn housed a great many species including her favourite, the barn owl. She has so enjoyed capturing a small selection of these birds in oil.
Carol would like to thank the Forum for allowing her birds to migrate to Hexham and giving her a window to show her work.
The Forum Quiz Night - Our brilliant quiz nights are held from 8pm on the second Friday of every month. Teams are limited to four players and entry is £1 per player with prizes available! Our next quiz night will be October
Quillseekers Poetry Night - Quillseekers is a monthly poetry evening hosted by local poet, Caitlin Kendall. From 8pm on the last Friday of the month you can join us in our cafe/ bar for a friendly and relaxed evening of shared poetry with open mic opportunities. Quillseekers returns Friday 30th October
Want to hire the café bar?
The café bar is also used as a meeting place so if you are involved in a book, language or meeting of minds group, looking for a place to gather together that wants to meet at The Forum, please contact carmen@forumhexham.com
