The Forum is OPEN during the Millennium Library refurbishment - Our car park, events, PizzaExpress, Cafe Bar Marzano, On the Stall City will all be operating as usual.

Here for Everyone

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What's on

There's always something on at The Forum!

Event calendar

Sat 23 May
Sat 30 May

All day

Norwich Games Festival

Norwich’s celebration of all things games is back 23 - 30 May 2026.

Festival

Norwich Games Festival

Family Friendly

School Holidays

Free
Wed 27 May

10am - 4pm

The Arena - Wed 27 May

The Forum is home to The Arena during NGF26 where you’ll find a huge variety of FREE interactive gaming fun for all ages. You can just drop by and play. There’ll be plenty of your favourite games there, plus lots to discover and try out!

Free

Family friendly

The Arena

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Sports & Exercise

Wellbeing

Careers

Tabletop

Video Games

Retro

Industry

Showcase

Arts & Crafts

Millennium Library refurbishment from 27 April 2026

Norfolk County Council will be carrying out a major improvement project to the library until mid-July, the rest of The Forum will be open and operational as usual. The library team will be providing some services and events from The Gallery within The Forum from May.

Follow Norfolk Libraries for more info

Work with The Forum on an exciting website project

We're looking for proposals from experienced digital providers to work with us to create a new user-first, accessible website which supports our organisation going into our next phase of development.

Submit a proposal

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Norfolk Deaf Festival - Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June 2026: Browse the programme and book tickets

Everyone is welcome to join us for a two-day inclusive celebration of D/deaf culture and community.

Everything on the programme, except for a very special comedy evening, is free to attend. Some activities, while free, must be pre-booked.

Visit our NDF pages for more info, to browse the programme and book tickets

Your venue

Your visit to The Forum

The Forum is a public building, open to all.

There's always something going on with a mix of free exhibitions, events, activities, food, shopping and learning opportunities. And, we're home to Norfolk Heritage Open Days, Norwich Science Festival, Norwich Book Festival, Norwich Games Festival and Norfolk Deaf Festival.

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First-class venue hire

Hold your event in the centre of Norwich.

Looking for the perfect venue for your event, performance, launch, meeting, festival, fair or market? We’ve got the space for you - at an affordable price.