Project Space, Venue
CUBE Microplex Bristol
The CUBE Microplex Bristol is a left-field, 100-seat, voluntary/artist-led, not-for-profit cinema, events venue and social wellbeing enterprise.
The CUBE Microplex Bristol is a left-field, 100-seat, voluntary/artist-led, cinema, events venue and progressive social wellbeing enterprise in central Bristol, established in 1998 with a DIY ethic and run as a not-for-profit worker's co-operative. The building was formerly a small scale hand-built theatre, LGBTIQA+ avant-garde 70's art centre, COA martial arts film house, family run second-run cinema, secret gig venue and illegal gambling den.
The CUBE produces/presents/promotes an eclectic/eccentric mix of: independent, cult, artist, radical and avant-garde film (35, 16, Super 8, video and digital), live music, storytelling, fringe theatre, comedy, poetry/spoken word, puppetry, cabaret, new writing, family shows, discussions, visual and performance art, and off-the-wall 'happenings', with an emphasis on the alternative, innovative and experimental. Money made from events funds the organisation; every job needed to run the venue is carried out by devoted volunteers.
The CUBE is considered one of the 10 best independent cinemas in Britain (The Guardian: 'the innocuous brick shack prepares you neither for the warmth of its atmosphere nor the ambition of its programming'), and has a proud history of setting up interesting cultural exchanges and creating cinemas in challenging locations, including a Cornish tin mine, an abandoned multi-storey car park and earthquake hit Haiti (Haiti Kids' Kino Project).
The CUBE regularly works in association with A.M.E (Art Music Experiment), Bath Spa University Experimental Film & Media Arts, BEEF Collective (Bristol Expanded & Experimental Film), Bristol Radical Film Festival, The Brunswick Club, Cables & Cameras, The Crick Crack Club, Doc'n Roll Film Festival, Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC), Indymedia, Kino Im Sprengel (Hanover), Puppet Place, South West Silents, The Wire Magazine, and many others.
The CUBE produces/presents/promotes an eclectic/eccentric mix of: independent, cult, artist, radical and avant-garde film (35, 16, Super 8, video and digital), live music, storytelling, fringe theatre, comedy, poetry/spoken word, puppetry, cabaret, new writing, family shows, discussions, visual and performance art, and off-the-wall 'happenings', with an emphasis on the alternative, innovative and experimental. Money made from events funds the organisation; every job needed to run the venue is carried out by devoted volunteers.
The CUBE is considered one of the 10 best independent cinemas in Britain (The Guardian: 'the innocuous brick shack prepares you neither for the warmth of its atmosphere nor the ambition of its programming'), and has a proud history of setting up interesting cultural exchanges and creating cinemas in challenging locations, including a Cornish tin mine, an abandoned multi-storey car park and earthquake hit Haiti (Haiti Kids' Kino Project).
The CUBE regularly works in association with A.M.E (Art Music Experiment), Bath Spa University Experimental Film & Media Arts, BEEF Collective (Bristol Expanded & Experimental Film), Bristol Radical Film Festival, The Brunswick Club, Cables & Cameras, The Crick Crack Club, Doc'n Roll Film Festival, Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC), Indymedia, Kino Im Sprengel (Hanover), Puppet Place, South West Silents, The Wire Magazine, and many others.
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