What's On
Below is a list of all the exciting events and activities we have coming up. From gigs and films to creative workshops for children and adults, there's something for everyone at The Hive.
Feb
27
Fri
10:30
Buzzy Beats Spring Term 2026
Tickets from £7
Fridays during term time @ The Hive Shrewsbury
PLEASE NOTE: Sessions are frequently sold out at present, therefore we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We are unable to offer door spaces if sessions are sold out.
Sessions start promptly at 10:30am.
Tickets priced at £7 per child.
Set your children off on a creative, music-filled journey in this engaging weekly workshop for children aged 5 years and under. There are lots of things to bang, crash and chime to create beautiful music. Fun for little ones and grown-ups too!
Please book for EACH child attending, and we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We can take bookings on the door, however we cannot always guarantee there will be space due to capacity constraints.
Feb
27
Fri
18:30
The Flying Scotsman
Tickets from £15
15+
1h 36m
Raising funds for Shrewsbury Food Hub
The true story of Graeme Obree, the Champion cyclist who built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines who won his championship only to have his title stripped from him and his mental health problems which he has suffered since.
Feb
28
Sat
19:00
Tea & Biscuits Presents: Viva Las Vegas!
Tickets from £8
Saturday 28th February - Doors open at 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start
Glitz, Glamour and Games of Chance, it’s VEGAS, BABY!
Luck be a Lady tonight!
Our resident drag queens and Lucky Ladies* Amaranta del Toro and Cruella de Phil are back with more of our signature chaotic comedy, drag performances, and guest interviews.
Expect glamour, glitter, feathers and fortune at our variety show as we sing, lipsync, play games, and spill the tea with our special guests.
*Luck not guaranteed, terms and conditions apply, if you leave poorer in pocket you will, we hope, be richer in spirit.
Mar
1
Sun
19:00
Ghost in the Shell
Tickets from £6
Sunday 1st March
6.30pm doors - 7pm start of activities - 7.30pm film starts
97mins, rated 15
Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg cop, hunts the hacker “Puppet Master” and begins to question what makes a mind human. A defining cyberpunk anime—philosophical, neon-noir, and visually striking, with a haunting Kenji Kawai score.
Presented by Open Door Cinema Club.
Mar
6
Fri
10:30
Buzzy Beats Spring Term 2026
Tickets from £7
Fridays during term time @ The Hive Shrewsbury
PLEASE NOTE: Sessions are frequently sold out at present, therefore we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We are unable to offer door spaces if sessions are sold out.
Sessions start promptly at 10:30am.
Tickets priced at £7 per child.
Set your children off on a creative, music-filled journey in this engaging weekly workshop for children aged 5 years and under. There are lots of things to bang, crash and chime to create beautiful music. Fun for little ones and grown-ups too!
Please book for EACH child attending, and we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We can take bookings on the door, however we cannot always guarantee there will be space due to capacity constraints.
Mar
6
Fri
20:00
The Measure Of A Man
Tickets from £6
France, 2015, rated PG, 91 mins
French, subtitled
After losing his job, a middle-aged man takes a soul-crushing role as a supermarket security guard. This French drama exposes the quiet tragedy of economic survival, as personal integrity clashes with institutional exploitation. A quietly devastating look at modern precarity.
Presented by Shrewsbury Film Society.
Mar
7
Sat
19:00
Mountain Song
Tickets from £15
7th March 2026 @ 7pm
Music from the golden era of Bluegrass & the Appalachian mountains.
Fast & furious guitar picking & tight harmony vocals.
Gospel, fiddle tunes, traditional songs & the high’n'lonesome sound.
Traditional microphone techniques and the organic beauty of their acoustic instruments.
Music inspired by the spirit of the settlers and pioneers of the American mountains.
Mar
8
Sun
19:30
Bayliss & Seal
Tickets from £12
In an era saturated with highly produced, multi co-writer music, the raw, unvarnished artistry of a true singer-songwriter can feel like a breath of fresh air.
Joe Bayliss with Mike Seal, are firmly planted in this esteemed tradition, delivering a collection of songs that are as introspective as they are universally relatable.
Bayliss possesses a vocal quality that is immediately captivating; a warm, slightly weathered timbre that conveys a depth of emotion without resorting to overt theatrics. There's an authenticity in his delivery, a sense that every lyric is pulled directly from lived experience. He navigates melodies with a gentle precision, allowing the natural ebb and flow of his voice to carry the narrative.
Mike Seal on upright bass, lays a strong foundation for Joe's melody, adding depth and richness. Precise rhythms and melodic insight create a backdrop that allows Joe's vocals and delicate guitar to truly bite through
Doors 7:00pm for a 7:30pm, All proceeds in support of The Hive
Mar
13
Fri
10:30
Buzzy Beats Spring Term 2026
Tickets from £7
Fridays during term time @ The Hive Shrewsbury
PLEASE NOTE: Sessions are frequently sold out at present, therefore we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We are unable to offer door spaces if sessions are sold out.
Sessions start promptly at 10:30am.
Tickets priced at £7 per child.
Set your children off on a creative, music-filled journey in this engaging weekly workshop for children aged 5 years and under. There are lots of things to bang, crash and chime to create beautiful music. Fun for little ones and grown-ups too!
Please book for EACH child attending, and we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We can take bookings on the door, however we cannot always guarantee there will be space due to capacity constraints.
Mar
14
Sat
19:00
Mark Lockheart Shapeshifter Trio
Tickets from £12
Saturday 14th March
NEW JAZZ START TIME - Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start
£25/£12 U22
Seated gig
Shapeshifter is a new a new trio featuring three very special creative voices of the UK jazz scene: Mark Lockheart (saxes, bass clarinet & electronics), Huw V Williams (bass), & Jay Davis (drums & percussion). The star-studded musical CV of these musicians is far too extensive to list here.
Creating a unique sonic experience the trio shifts moment to moment, gracefully and spontaneously stitching together sound landscapes and grooves. The three members share the writing credits alongside a few carefully chosen works by Bill Frisell, Joe Henderson and Paul Miriam.
Mar
20
Fri
10:30
Buzzy Beats Spring Term 2026
Tickets from £7
Fridays during term time @ The Hive Shrewsbury
PLEASE NOTE: Sessions are frequently sold out at present, therefore we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We are unable to offer door spaces if sessions are sold out.
Sessions start promptly at 10:30am.
Tickets priced at £7 per child.
Set your children off on a creative, music-filled journey in this engaging weekly workshop for children aged 5 years and under. There are lots of things to bang, crash and chime to create beautiful music. Fun for little ones and grown-ups too!
Please book for EACH child attending, and we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We can take bookings on the door, however we cannot always guarantee there will be space due to capacity constraints.
Mar
20
Fri
20:00
Return to Seoul
Tickets from £6
Korea, 2022, rated 15, 119 mins
Korean, French, English, subtitled
Freddie, a French woman adopted from South Korea, returns to Seoul to find her birth parents. Her journey unfolds with spontaneity and emotional turbulence in this nuanced exploration of identity, belonging, and the complexity of family across cultures.
Presented by Shrewsbury Film Society.
Mar
22
Sun
19:00
Eve Goodman + SERA
Tickets from £14
£14
Doors at 7pm
Show starts at 7.45pm
Join us as we celebrate the release of North Wales based singer-songwriters Eve Goodman and SERA’s long-awaited collaborative Welsh album Natur, a hymn of love to the cyclical element of women and nature.
Ranging from a whimsical sea shanty about a Menai Strait mermaid to an evocative acapella spell-song; from a love song inspired by a moth, to an ode to emotions and the weather, this is a meaningful and creative folk songbook. The album is a rich and varied journey from percussive, hooky ear-worms about burnout and modern life (Anian), to expansive and moving Celtic blessings that sing of reverence for the land (Bendith).
Eve Goodman and SERA (Sarah Zyborska) began working together when they were both selected as BBC Horizons Artists in 2019. Both women, with rising solo careers, grew up in Caernarfon, North Wales. After just one writing session they found common ground in their connection to and curiosity around nature. Surrounded by the beautiful North Wales landscape that is such an important part of their lives, they began to explore the Welsh names for birds, trees, flowers and the more-than-human world. The song tendrils soon grew to touch upon the cyclical element of both nature and women. Soon enough a body of work was growing, each song a celebration of both. Natur was born.
The duo have appeared on Welsh talk show ‘Heno’ and have recorded a session live at BBC Maida Vale Studios. In 2023 they were finalists in the televised song competition Can i Gymru (Song for Wales), with Tangnefedd, a track from the album. Over the years they have released two popular tracks (Gaeafgwsg and Rhwng y Coed) which have garnered almost 100,000 streams and were playlisted on BBC Radio Cymru. Thanks to a Ty Cerdd Lottery grant and the BBC Horizons launchpad fund, the two were able to write and record Natur, their first album together.
Mar
27
Fri
10:30
Buzzy Beats Spring Term 2026
Tickets from £7
Fridays during term time @ The Hive Shrewsbury
PLEASE NOTE: Sessions are frequently sold out at present, therefore we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We are unable to offer door spaces if sessions are sold out.
Sessions start promptly at 10:30am.
Tickets priced at £7 per child.
Set your children off on a creative, music-filled journey in this engaging weekly workshop for children aged 5 years and under. There are lots of things to bang, crash and chime to create beautiful music. Fun for little ones and grown-ups too!
Please book for EACH child attending, and we recommend booking in advance wherever possible. We can take bookings on the door, however we cannot always guarantee there will be space due to capacity constraints.
Mar
29
Sun
19:00
The Breakfast Club
Tickets from £6
Sunday 29th March
6.30pm doors - 7pm start of activities - 7.30pm film starts
83mins, rated 15
Five students—“a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal”—spend Saturday detention and discover they’re more than their labels. Funny, frank, and bittersweet; a defining teen movie.
Presented by Open Door Cinema Club.
Apr
10
Fri
20:00
The 400 Blows
Tickets from £6
France, 1959, rated PG, 95 mins
French, subtitled
François Truffaut’s seminal film follows a Parisian boy navigating neglect, misunderstanding, and juvenile justice. A landmark in French New Wave cinema, it offers a deeply personal and poetic view of adolescence and alienation, still resonant decades later.
Presented by Shrewsbury Film Society.
Apr
11
Sat
19:00
Let Spin
Tickets from £12
Saturday 11th April (Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start)
Let Spin are an egalitarian four-piece whose members Chris Williams (saxophones & flute), Ruth Goller (bass & vocals), Moss Freed (guitar), & Finlay Panter (drums) are active contributors to the fertile London, UK and European jazz scenes. The result is an explosive mixture of stylistic influences. Their collaborative way of working, with a focus on improvisation, leads to incendiary live performances as experienced at the Hive in 2023. The performance will be based on material from their fifth album ‘I am Alien’ which sees an expansion of their sound worlds and explorations with the additions of Ruth Goller’s vocals and Chris Williams’ baritone saxophone and flute. This has taken the band’s interplay and fusing of composition and improvisation to a whole new level, with spectacular results. Be ready!
“Electrifying live band whose grooves could wake the dead” ....The Guardian
Apr
18
Sat
19:00
The Classic Blues Show
Tickets from £14
£14 (or £17 on the door)
Doors at 7pm
Show starts at 7.45pm
Seated gig
Spend an evening in the company of this fine six-piece band to celebrate the British Blues explosion of the 1960s. From Muddy Waters to John Mayall and Peter Green, The Classic Blues Show recaptures the authentic sound of British Blues musicians and the artists who inspired them. The band’s engaging commentary weaves a narrative through the performance, providing a fascinating journey through the history of the Blues.
Apr
19
Sun
19:00
Ruth Notman Trio
Tickets from £17.5
Sunday 19th April 2026
£17.50
Doors at 7pm for a 7.45pm start
Ruth Notman is a folk singer/songwriter from Nottingham who is, most notably, known for being one of the leading ‘nu-folk revivalists’ in the late 00’s who bridged folk music into the 21st Century and plugged it into a mainstream audience.
Ruth first rocketed into the consciousness of the wider music scene in 2007, at 18 years old,with her debut album ‘Threads’.
Notman’s unique voice coupled with her novel and vibrant interpretation of folk songs garnered her overnight national critical acclaim and media attention seldom seen by a small independent release. ‘Threads’ also gained Notman support from luminaries such as BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris, Kate Rusby and Mike Harding to name a few.
Ruth further cemented her musical stature and identity with extensive touring and the release of her second album, ‘The Life of Lilly’ (2009), which enjoyed similar accolades to her debut.
In 2015, Notman was invited to join the impressive collaborative artist roster of the ‘Evamore’ project where her studio contributions and stunning vocal compositions attracted the late Sinead O’Connor. The song ‘One More Yard’ was released in 2019 and featured Ronnie Wood, Nick Mason and Imelda May.
Now, 16 years after her second album, Ruth is preparing to record what must surely be the most eagerly awaited album in British folk music.
Ruth will be joined by Saul Rose and Jon Doran.
Saul Rose is a renowned English folk melodeon player and singer known for his work in bands like Waterson:Carthy, Faustus, and Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, as well as duos with Maclaine Colston and James Delarre. He is a celebrated figure in the English folk scene, with a long and prolific career spanning numerous albums, awards, and performances, including a role in the West End play War Horse.
Jon Doran is a Newcastle-based folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from Gloucestershire. His captivating song delivery coupled with his effortless and sensitive musicianship landed him a spot in the finals of the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards. Jon also plays in an acclaimed duo with Janice Burns and tours with his own band ‘The Northern Assembly’.
Apr
24
Fri
20:00
Summer 1993
Tickets from £6
Spain, 2017, rated 12, 98 mins
Catalan, subtitled
After her mother’s death, six-year-old Frida moves to the countryside to live with relatives. Seen through her eyes, “Summer 1993” tenderly captures the confusion, resilience, and quiet moments of a child coping with loss and redefining family in a new world.
Presented by Shrewsbury Film Society.
Apr
26
Sun
15:00
At The Rainbow's End
FREE
3pm & 7pm shows.
These FREE play readings contain 'real' older LGBT people's stories about homophobia and transphobia in 'care' settings.
At the Rainbow’s End is a new verbatim play sharing real stories from older LGBT people who have experienced homophobia and transphobia in care and home settings. There will be two free script-in-hand performances at The Hive, Shrewsbury on 26 April 2026, at 3pm and 7pm.
Written by Clare Summerskill and performed by members of Artemis Theatre Company, the play draws entirely on interviews with older LGBT individuals who have faced discrimination in residential care and in their own homes. It highlights the serious and often overlooked issue of older LGBTQ+ people — many of whom have lived openly for decades — facing the possibility going ‘back into the closet’ when accessing care later in life.
Each performance and post-show discussion last approxminately 1.5 hours.
Feedback from audience members:
“This is amazing- if you haven't been go. Funny, tragic, Sad, insightful and really well put together”.
“Wow, wow, wow, what a powerful and moving piece of work. Exceptional. I'm in bits”
“Such a great piece. So moving and infuriating. And thought provoking. Congratulations”
www.artemistheatre.co.uk
www.claresummerskill.co.uk
These performances have been made possible by a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund
May
8
Fri
20:00
My Favourite Cake
Tickets from £6
Iran, 2024, rated 12, 94 mins
Persian, subtitled
A widowed woman defies social norms when she invites a charming stranger into her home for cake—and more. This warm Iranian film is a gentle yet subversive ode to companionship, joy, and the quiet rebellion of living fully, at any age.
Presented by Shrewsbury Film Society.
May
17
Sun
19:45
Dan Walsh
Tickets from £15
‘The real deal, a demon picker’ – UNCUT MAGAZINE
BBC Folk Awards ‘Best Musician’ nominee Dan Walsh combines ‘virtuoso playing and winning songwriting’ (MORNING STAR). Describing what Dan does is no easy task but at the heart of it is British, Irish and American folk music delivered with a healthy dose of funky grooves – all performed with his unique and dazzling take on clawhammer style banjo helping to challenge all preconceptions about the instrument.
One of the most incredible musicians I’ve heard in years – Bruce MacGregor, BBC Radio Scotland
If one name is synonymous with the revival of interest in the banjo, it’s Dan Walsh – Living Tradition
Add to all that poignant songs, astonishing musical departures and lively humour and the result is a truly memorable live show which has wowed audiences across the world from intimate seated rooms to huge dancing crowds in festival fields.
May
22
Fri
19:00
A Star Wars Improv Show: The One-Man Made-Up Movie
Tickets from £7
22nd May 2026 (Show starts at 7pm)
Fresh from a sell-out residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the new and acclaimed show embarks on its 2026 tour. Award nominated stand-up and improviser Jon Hipkiss brings together the ultimate celebration of comedy and fandom. Based solely on your suggestions, Jon will improvise an entirely new Star Wars film all by himself. He's all the trailers, all the characters, all the music, the ships, everything. Expect beautiful chaos!
Oct
3
Sat
19:45
Dar Williams plus support Heather Maloney
Tickets from £19.5
Saturday 3rd October 2026
Doors open at 7:00pm (gig starts at 7:45pm)
Tickets priced at £19.50
Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity. Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant; unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t.
Like everyone else, Williams spent 2020 in that state of non-control. She and longtime producer Stewart Lerman tracked most of the album, her 12th studio recording, in November of 2019. In late February of 2020, she cut the title tune in Woodstock with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and Larry Campbell, who produced the track and played guitars, pedal steel and twangy baritone guitar. When told they had to postpone a mid-March mixing date, Campbell said he wasn’t feeling well anyway. Turns out he’d contracted a serious case of COVID-19. That was a clear sign that at some point, you have to meet life where it meets you …the common thread throughout that these songs, the willingness to meet life as it arrives.
Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25+-year career. She rose out of the vibrant mid-90’s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets, and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert, and Jonathan Brooke. After a year of touring non-stop with her first album, The Honesty Room, in 1994, she was invited by Joan Baez to tour in Europe and The United States. “Good and bad things happen, and it’s not necessarily a reward or indictment. I’ve just got to meet it.” Williams observes. “Like, I’m bringing my whole life to this moment; it will surprise me, challenge me, show me where I was wrong, even make a fool out of me, but my job is to show up and not take adversity personally. Real happiness doesn't have to feel like Snoopy dancing with Woodstock; it can just be knowing you have the resilience to meet whatever comes to you. I will call that a good life.”
Nov
6
Fri
19:45
Richard Shindell
Tickets from £18
Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery, busked in the streets of Paris, opened for Joan Baez (who covered several of his songs), and collaborated with Grammy-winner Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Elvis Costello).
Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.”
During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances.
Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society's fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.
"Occasionally an artist has a night that makes even skeptics think, “O.K., maybe he is the best.” Richard Shindell achieved this." — Ann Powers, NY Times