EVENTS
2025
APRIL
MAY
Doors & Bar - 7pm
Music - 8pm - 10:30pm
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SUNDAY 4TH MAY AOTA PRESENTS - GNOSS
AOTA presents traditional music from Scotland upstairs in the Wharf room. Scottish artists GNOSS bring a rich tapestry of acoustic layers, outstanding musicianship, deep traditional roots and contemporary flair to their scintillating performances.
Tickets £18/£16 WSC members
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aota-presents-gnoss-tickets-1125169435069
Bath’s premier pop-up dance club night 'Frug!' springs into action - DJ Eddieboy (Motorcity) and DJ Ade (Transmission, Electric Dreams) bring you the finest high energy dance music from across the decades and genres:
Disco - Soul - Ska - Funk - R'n'B - Hip Hop - House - Pop and Electronica: 80s, 90s & 21st Century...
Get down on it at the Waterside Bar!
Tickets: £7 / £6 (WSC members) on www.ticketsource.co.uk/aim-music
8pm - 1am
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SATURDAY 26TH APRIL FRUG! MUSIC FOR DANCING
In our downstairs Waterside bar we are showcasing artwork by Jessica Palmer, a local artist based in Widcombe.
Jessica is a landscape artist, whose work combines paper collage, watercolour paper cutting and painting. She works in mixed media, bringing together her origins as an illustrator, her paper artistry and her passion for nature to create pictures and installations.
Jessica’s work depicts both real and imaginary views of the multitude of wild and unseen birds, plants and creatures; drawing attention to endangerment and the challenges posed to wild spaces by human activity.
The images are filled with life and movement - flurries of birds, insects and wild plants in the understory. They capture a hidden world we rarely have a chance to see.
All artwork on display is available to buy - just ask staff how to purchase.
website: www.jessicapalmerart.com
JESSICA PALMER
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Bath's biggest FREE party is returning with hundreds of musicians, poets, band and choirs performing in venues all over the city, including ours!
Programme:
6.30pm - 6.50pm - The Monohummers
7pm - 7.20pm - Birch Tree Folk Choir
7.30pm - 7.50pm - Widcombe Choir
8pm - 8.20pm - Sasspafellas
8.30pm - 8.50pm - Sassparella
9pm - 9.45pm - Junction 18
9.45pm - 10.30pm - The Bill Smarme Rock'n'Roll Trio
FRIDAY 16TH MAY PARTY IN THE CITY
Bring your friends and family, bag a table and cheer along at Eurovision 2025, live from Basel on our big screen in the Wharf Room. Feel free to dress up - or not! - as the mood takes you.
To introduce a little friendly rivalry on the night each table will be assigned a country flag on entry, and you’ll be encouraged to wave your flag and holler for that country’s entry as it is performed.
Of course, you’ll also be free to cheer for the UK entry from country girl band Remember Monday with their song ‘What the Hell Just Happened?” – they’ll need your support as they are currently placed 13th on the ‘Likely to Win’ list!
Bar open throughout.
Hot dogs and ice cream will be on sale.
Raffle with amazing European-themed prizes.
FREE ENTRY - no need to book but to be sure of getting a table, email us at info@widcombesocialclub.co.uk
SATURDAY 17TH MAY EUROVISION
Doors Open - 5:30pm
Film Starts - 6:30pm
SWEET THING
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Alexandre Rockwell, USA, 2020, 91m, 15
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Lana Rockwell (in a performance that should have made her a star) plays Billie, named for singer Billie Holiday whom she sees as guardian angel and all-round inspiration.
She lives with her energetic younger brother Nico and wayward father Adam, who is generous with his love when sober but an unpredictable handful when drunk. Billie’s mother Eve is now living with Beau, and seems to have washed her hands of Adam and her children.
This dysfunctional family dynamic is the background to events that come to a head, leading Billie, Nico and new friend Malik to set out from Bedford, Massachusetts with Florida in mind. What follows is a liberating road trip – until reality intervenes. In luminous monochrome (and occasional flashes of colour) with sterling performances from Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell and Bill Patton (as Adam), the film is truly a sweet thing of beauty.
Tickets: £9/£7 WSC members and concessions
https://ticketscandy.com/e/film-sweet-thing-8832
SUNDAY 18TH MAY OFF THE WALL FILMS PRESENTS
JUNE
Doors Open - 5:30pm
Film Starts - 6:30pm
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
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Mahdi Fleifel UK/Greece/Denmark/Netherlands/Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2024, 105m 15, sub-titles
Athens, the present-day. Cousins Chatila and Reda are penniless refugees stranded en route from Lebanon to Germany, where they hope to open a Palestinian restaurant. Their next move requires passports - they spend their days on the streets scamming, hustling and stealing to raise the necessary funding for fakes, but this is mostly blown on Reda’s drug habit and hope is fast fading of their ever accumulating enough. Falling in with a lonely Greek woman Tatiana and a 13-yr-old Gazan Malik, Chatila contrives an ingenious plan that should get them out of their fix. What could possibly go wrong?
This masterful first feature, combining deep empathy for its desperate protagonists with the unrelenting grip of a fast-paced thriller, is the winner of 24 international awards.
Tickets: £9/£7 WSC members and concessions
SUNDAY 15TH JUNE OFF THE WALL FILMS PRESENTS
3pm - 6pm
Are you a seasoned dancer or do you just fancy trying the first steps of a new dance?
Join us for an afternoon of swing jazz music & dance.
Our teachers Graeme & Ann are twice UK champion dancers. Their speciality is teaching dance styles from the 1920’s through to the 1950’s. They can work with all ages and abilities - from the very nervous to the more experienced by giving very clear instructions & being extremely supportive.
They emphasise the fun aspects of social dancing - their classes are relaxed, light-hearted and friendly, aiming to give people the knowledge and confidence to take to the floor, together with other dancers from the Hoppin’ Mad team.
After the class you will have the opportunity to put your new steps into action in a Tea Dance or sit back and watch the experts.
The bar will be open and refreshments available to purchase throughout the afternoon.
Tickets at - https://widcombe-association.whitefuse.net/events/taster-swing-dance
SUNDAY 11TH MAY SWING DANCE TASTER CLASS
Doors Open - 5:45pm
Doors Open - 5:30pm
Film Starts - 6:30pm
For Bath Fringe Festival
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BOB DYLAN: DON'T LOOK BACK
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DA Pennebaker, USA, 1967, 96m, 15
Did you see ‘A Complete Unknown’? Well, here’s the sequel, filmed 50 years ago! Don’t Look Back documents Dylan’s 1965 tour of the UK, replete with backstage footage, stunning on-stage performances, the infamous drubbing of Time Magazine’s hapless London reporter and the blazing row over a discarded wine glass, plus what is regarded as the first-ever music video, for Subterranean Homesick Blues.
The film is a pioneer, and some say the best-ever, ‘rockumentary’, and gives penetrating insight into life on the road with Dylan at a pivotal point in his career just before he started playing with an amplified band – the ’65 UK tour was his last as a solo acoustic ‘folk-singer’. Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price and Allen Ginsburg pop up amongst uncredited appearances by other celebrities, all part of the tumultuous hive of Dylan’s entourage. As he later sang, “all those people we used to know, they’re an illusion to me now”.
PLUS: extra surprise Dylan footage not to be missed!
Tickets: £10/£8 WSC members and concessions
https://ticketscandy.com/e/film-bob-dylan-dont-look-back-8806
WEDNESDAY 28TH MAY OFF THE WALL FILMS PRESENTS
Doors Open - 5:30pm
Film Starts - 6:30pm
WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE OFF THE WALL FILMS PRESENTS
For Bath Fringe Festival
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Simon DaVison, UK, 2023, 90m, PG
Partly filmed in Bath, this splendid adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense poem is a bejewelled, detailed and highly considered visual rendering.
Led by the Bellman, an unlikely motley crew sets sail in search of the elusive Snark and discovers a mysterious island. They hopefully explore the terrain but find a surreal wonderland of hidden dangers governed by the twisted logic of riddles and nonsense. An absolute treat for all Carroll fans, the film will look stunning in OTWF’s rare big screen presentation.
PLUS: introductory talk, in which director Simon DaVison explores the context for the writing of the poem within the revolutionary scientific thinking and discoveries of the mid 19th century, followed by a Q+A chaired by Mark Bishop of the Natural Theatre Company, who has a part in the film.
Tickets: £10/£8 WSC members and concessions
https://ticketscandy.com/e/film-the-hunting-of-the-snark-plus-director-qa-8818
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Bar Open - 6:30pm
Music Starts - 7pm
Showcasing the finest Musical Theatre singers in Bath under the Musical Direction of Matt Finch.
Matt will be the pianist for the evening with 9 amazing soloists, performing Musical Theatre solos, duets and ensemble pieces from a wide variety of shows.
The bar will be open throughout the night, and the evening will include an interval. Candlelit cabaret-style seating adds to the atmosphere. So don't miss out on this monthly treat & book now to avoid disappointment.
Tickets - https://www.finchmusic.co.uk/store/p35/Musical_Theatre_Cabaret_-_27th_April_2025.html#/
SUNDAY 27TH APRIL MUSICAL THEATRE CABARET
Bar Open - 6:30pm
Music Starts - 7pm
Showcasing the finest Musical Theatre singers in Bath under the Musical Direction of Matt Finch.
Matt will be the pianist for the evening with 9 amazing soloists, performing Musical Theatre solos, duets and ensemble pieces from a wide variety of shows.
The bar will be open throughout the night, and the evening will include an interval. Candlelit cabaret-style seating adds to the atmosphere. So don't miss out on this monthly treat & book now to avoid disappointment.
Tickets - https://www.finchmusic.co.uk/store/p36/Musical_Theatre_Cabaret_-_1st_June_2025.html#/
SUNDAY 1ST JUNE MUSICAL THEATRE CABARET
JULY
Bar Open - 6:30pm
Music Starts - 7pm
Showcasing the finest Musical Theatre singers in Bath under the Musical Direction of Matt Finch.
Matt will be the pianist for the evening with 9 amazing soloists, performing Musical Theatre solos, duets and ensemble pieces from a wide variety of shows.
The bar will be open throughout the night, and the evening will include an interval. Candlelit cabaret-style seating adds to the atmosphere. So don't miss out on this monthly treat & book now to avoid disappointment.
Tickets - https://www.finchmusic.co.uk/store/p37/Musical_Theatre_Cabaret_-_13th_July_2025.html#/
SUNDAY 13TH JULY MUSICAL THEATRE CABARET
8pm - 1am
SATURDAY 10TH MAY TRANSMISSION INDIE DISCO
It's warming up, and so are we. Come and have a dance at the indie disco to the tunes that used to get you moving, as your 6 legged groove machine once more bring you a night of Classic old school indie tunes, from punk and new wave through to baggy and Britpop and everything in between.
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Tickets on sale NOW!
Tickets: £7.50 / £6.50 (WSC members) on www.ticketsource.co.uk/aim-music
Doors & Bar Open - 6:45pm
Screening Starts - 7:45pm
7.30pm - 12am
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Celebrating 9 years of Bath Soul Club...come and see what all the fuss is about, and have a dance on one of the friendliest dancefloors in the South West.
As always, there will be 4 fantastic DJs spinning the best Northern Soul and Motown to keep you out on the floor.
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Tickets: £8
FRIDAY 13TH JUNE BATH SOUL CLUB
8pm - 1am
Bath's biggest 80's disco returns for the Summer term school disco...we're back to fill the floor with 80s pop gold.
Come and dance to the sounds of the charts... from the golden decade in pop and electronica. The dance floor is gonna be full, and full of fun, make sure you're on it!
Tickets: £7.50 / £6.50 (WSC members) on www.ticketsource.co.uk/aim-music
SATURDAY 14TH JUNE ELECTRIC DREAMS
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