Hyde Park Picture House Re-opens
After three long years of closure, we’re incredibly excited to announce that the Picture House will be officially reopening its doors on Friday 30th June, following our major redevelopment project.
A summer-long celebration of special screenings and live events will extend a massive thank you to our amazing audience, partners and funders for your support.
As part of our reopening programme, we'll be running a series of launch events for each of our new and returning strands, as well as special Q&As, sponsor events and preview screenings – giving everyone an opportunity to be part of this special period in the cinema’s history.
Our opening film will be the new Wes Anderson feature Asteroid City (30th June - 6th July).
Our much-missed Bring Your Own Baby screenings will be relaunched with a special screening of Asteroid City for parents, carers and their little ones on 5th July. Other launch events include the launch of Tuesday Wonders, a strand dedicated to documentaries, on 4th July with a screening of Shabu with a special Q&A with the director and main star, Shabu.The official launch of Cinema Africa! will be celebrated by a screening of The Wedding Party on 29th July. and a firm favourite of ours, Brassed Off, will launch our reRUN strand on 30th July, and we are delighted to be joined by the film's director for this event.
During this reopening month, we'll also be running a series of open days where we're inviting you to come and explore our building, apart from our second screen which is due to open later in July. This will be a chance to see up-close all the heritage conservation work that’s taken place, as well as the new accessible facilities we’re proud to have introduced.
To mark the countdown to reopening we have launched our brand-new website, which has been expertly designed and built by Rabbithole and Let’s Dance.
On our new site you’ll find details of all our upcoming events, with the full July programme soon to be added in the coming weeks. We've also introduced our new Journal, where we'll be sharing stories from the HPPH team and our amazing partners.
Thanks so much to everyone for your support and patience as we prepare to reopen – we can't wait to welcome you all this summer.