Broadway, Nottingham

As one of the leading exponents of Independent Cinema in the United Kingdom, Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham began life as a Wesleyan Chapel in 1860, where the methodist preacher William Booth experienced a religious conversion and later founded the Salvation Army in 1878. Since the 1960s Broadway has housed the Co-operative Education Centre, Nottingham Film Society, City Lights Cinema and, in 1982, the Broadway Cinema. Under the subsequent directorships of Adrian Wootton and Gill Henderson, Broadway established Shots in the Dark Crime and Mystery Festival, which highlighted the work of Quentin Tarantino and a new wave of crime fiction. Since 1998 the current director Laraine Porter has curated at Broadway a series of pioneering festivals on British Silent Cinema in conjunction with the British Film Institute. In 2006 Broadway went through a major capital development with funding from the National Lottery and the Arts Council, transforming the cinema from two to four screens, including the world's first ever cinema created exclusively by the Nottingham designer Sir Paul Smith.

As well as the Cinema there are also two bars: a cafe bar and the mezzanine bar, the bars are a central hub in nottingham alternative culture with dj's and themed nights a close link is shared with muse across the road.