Meads Hall Eastbourne

13/06/2026

Friday 19 June
Memoires d'un Amnesique
An immersive cultural experience of film and live piano recital telling the story of the French composer and musician Erik Satie. Introduced and performed by its creator Alexander Metcalfe
Doors open at 6.30
Reserve table in advance by emailing [email protected]
£10 at the door (but tables not guaranteed)
Cabaret Style seating and wine bar available

***In 2018, Alex Metcalf formed Amusia Productions with film maker Keith Lovegrove and writer / director Sarah Miles to explore theatrical and multimedia piano performances. Their first production,

Memoires d'un Amnésique is a combination of a play, film and piano recital and enjoyed a sell-out premier at The Stables Theatre as part of the Hastings Fringe and has been touring the UK and beyond ever since.

10/06/2026

Drum roll, please! To help us celebrate 100 years of Meads Hall on Saturday 11th July we will be joined by the amazing Eastbourne Silver Band. Hope to see you there!

08/06/2026

Get ready to join us on the 11th July to celebrate 100 years of Meads Hall. Along with live music, barn-dancing, and food and refreshments, the pupils of Goldman’s Stage school will be singing songs from hit musicals. Goldmans Stage School

08/06/2026

🥂 🥳 Join us! It will be fun! 🥳🥂

We will be celebrating 100 years of Meads Hall on Saturday 11th July.

The road will be closed and the doors will be open!

Eat and drink your way through our programme of music, singing and dancing at our pop-up café and bar, BBQ and Food by Miss Walls.

The Eastbourne Barn Dancers will teach you the moves; Goldmans Stage School will lead you for a musical theatre sing along; more music and dancing with the Howlerz and a grand finale with the Eastbourne Silver Band.

Games and face painting too.

See you there!

Goldmans Stage School Eastbourne Silver Band
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02/06/2026

Interludes Stage and Screen are back this Friday 5th June ..

01/06/2026

Free valuations for your unwanted antiques and jewellery. No obligation to sell!

Monday 8th June 10am - 4pm

26/05/2026

Save the Date! 🥂🎂🥳

Join us to celebrate 100 Years of Meads Hall on Saturday 11th July. There will be music and dancing and things to eat! More details to follow.

11/05/2026

28/04/2026

The community cinema is open again this Friday!

FRIDAY 1 MAY
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS
RATED U/RUNTIME 1HR 29M

Doors Open from 2.30 Film starts at 3.15
Pay at the door £5
Light refreshments available

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Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955) is widely praised by critics as a masterpiece of 1950s melodrama, blending a lush, romantic story with sharp social critique. Reviewers highlight its gorgeous Technicolor, profound emotional impact, and skilled direction, which uses visual style to explore class, conformity, and societal entrapment.

Jane Wyman plays a widow slowly emerging from mourning to embrace the world again, caught between the daredevil impulses that see her step out in a gossip-generating, low-cut, crimson dress, and her deep sense of propriety and responsibility to her children. She rejects a marriage offer from an older man who promises her companionship and affection, but is drawn to her gardener, Ron, played by Rock Hudson, who is impetuous, bold, direct, and opens wine bottles with his teeth.

Everything you want from a tumultuous weepy is here: hard, breathless kisses; big, brave declarations of violent, undying love; battle-weary, star-crossed lovers who meet obstacles at every turn. But Sirk surpasses melodramatic cliches by securing an exceptional performance from Wyman, whose soft face, as watchful and nervously expectant as a child's, is capti­vating through­out, subtly registering every c***k of hope and approa­ching black cloud. This is her and Sirk's finest hour.

28/04/2026

Election Hustings near you! Next Wednesday 6th May.