Dalliance at Depot
Every weekend from Saturday 3 May
Depot’s weekly live music & street food extravaganza, which has been bringing those summer festival vibes to Lewes since 2021!
Each Saturday from May to September, we host live music and delicious street food vendors on our beautiful open terrace, guaranteed to give you that great festival experience. Mix that with a great selection of local beers and ciders, and you’ve got an unforgettable night out planned.
Board Game Night
26 June & 31 July
These monthly meet-ups in the Depot Studio will provide a welcoming space for adults of all experience levels to connect, compete, and unwind over some great games.
Virginia Woolf at the Cinema
8 – 17 June
Marking the centenary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s literary masterpiece Mrs Dalloway, Depot presents a series of screenings and talks exploring the celebrated modernist author and her relationship with film.
Two Films by Marleen Gorris
12 & 16 June 2025
Experience two rarely screened films showcasing the work of acclaimed Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris: A Question of Silence (1983) and Broken Mirrors (1984).
Motherload
Friday 13 June
Post-film Q&A session led by Lewes’ own champion of electric cargo bikes, Matthew Bird (Get Bikery) along members of Cycle Lewes, Lewes Climate Hub and other users of these fun and super-capable two-wheeled machines
Award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change. The film captures a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of modern life, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote.
Refugee Week
16 – 22 June 2025
As part of this year’s theme for Refugee Week, ‘Community as Superpower’, we are collaborating with several Ukrainian refugee groups and individuals from our local area. We will be celebrating Ukrainian culture, talent and the diverse experiences through a vibrant schedule of events.
Cinelogue presents: News from Home
Thursday 19 June
This beautifully captured time capsule of 1970s New York City is Akerman’s most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditation on dislocation and estrangement.
Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. A tender meditation on urban alienation and personal disconnection.
Al Fresco Supper Club
Thusday 19 June
We invite you to join us in our walled garden for an unforgettable evening of gourmet dining underneath the summer sky – a unique al fresco dining experience, surrounded by wildflowers and good company.
The Stone that Spoke
Friday 20 June
Screened for Refugee Week. Includes discussions with the performers and filmmakers
What’s important when you’re on the move? Ukrainian women relocated to East Sussex today due to the war explore a generation of trailblazing, decision-making eleventh-century female travellers whose lives mirror their own.
KnitFlicks: Knitting Talk & The Ballad of Wallis Island
Saturday 21 June
Join us for our very first ‘KnitFlick’! As part of Sussex Craft Week, we’re collaborating with Ida’s House yarn shop in Lewes to bring you a crafty afternoon of knitting and movie watching.
Music and Movement with Movingsounds
Tuesday 24 June, 29 July
Movingsounds invites those with dementia and their carers to join us for uplifting musical fun, with this interactive and varied workshop. Also welcome are any elders whose health will benefit.
The Quatermass Xperiment
Thursday 26 June
Includes a Q&A with Jon Dear, who worked closely with Hammer to provide extensive content for their latest 4K Quatermass releases
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it.
Carnival of Souls
Tuesday 1 July
Presented by Lazy Girls Film Club
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist, but is plagued by terrifying visions of a spectral man.
Climate Action! Festival 2025: Women in Activism
Thursday 3 – Wednesday 9 July
This year’s theme, Women in Activism, highlights the powerful role women play in defending our planet – amplifying voices from across the globe who are reshaping how we live with, and care for, the ecosystems and climate on which all life depends.
Human Traffic
Wednesday 16 July
New 4K restoration
Looking for an escape from boring 9-5 jobs, bad relationships, and dysfunctional families, five Cardiff friends plan a night out to remember, where all that exists is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. Human Traffic is an unapologetic celebration of 90s club culture and youthful hedonism.
Barry Lyndon
Sunday 20 July
50th anniversary screening: New 4K restoration
Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He changes his name and marries an aristocrat for her wealth, but the acceptance he seeks finally eludes him.
Everybody Friendly Screening: Wicked
Wednesday 13 August
Elphaba, an ostracized but defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda, a privileged aristocrat born popular, become extremely unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. Everybody-Friendly Screenings are less intense than everyday screenings with the auditorium lights at half-setting and the sound slightly lower. All films are subtitled.
Wine Tasting Sessions
Our wine tasting sessions in Robert’s Bar are back for 2025! Join us as our guest wine experts take us on a journey through some the worlds best and most underappreciated wine regions.
Homegrown
Join us at Depot once a month for the latest in British Independent Cinema. We will be handpicking films that show the diversity and skill present across the industry – and inviting the filmmakers and actors themselves to join us and provide first hand personal insight into the process of making a film.
Cinelogue
Depot’s strand dedicated to screening arthouse, independent and cult films while engaging in discussion on issues surrounding film and cinema culture.
Cinemas of the Mind
A screening with post-film discussion facilitated by Dr Jake Harvey, a forensic psychiatrist, and Jenny Leeburn, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, focusing on the psychological aspects of the film, and the emotional impact on the viewer.
Kino Collective
A group of young people dedicated to sharing an enthusiasm and knowledge of cinema through the hosting of specially selected screenings and events for young adults.
Book to Film Club
Depot’s Book to Film Club is a relaxed and open space to talk about books and movies. With classics, horror, and sci-fi on the shelf, there’s something for everyone to get their reading glasses on for.
