Bantam Cinema & Arts Center

The mission of the Bantam Cinema & Arts Center is to preserve and operate the historic Bantam Cinema and enhance the cultural vitality of the Litchfield Hills through offering a diverse program of film, theater and music that seeks to inspire, educate, and engage its audience. Families and friends can delight and be transported through film and the arts by spending time here - at Connecticut's oldest and continuously operated movie theater. The Cinema opened in 1929 as the Rivoli Theater showing silent movies and vaudeville acts. It has survived a Great Depression, a World War, a tornado and now a global pandemic. Step into our story at bantamcinema.org and help support our mission by making a donation today.