Forum

Forum or The Forum (pl.: forums or fora) may refer to:

Common uses

• Forum (legal), designated space for public expression in the United States
• Forum (Roman), open public space within a Roman city
  • Roman Forum, most famous example
• Internet forum, discussion board on the Internet
• Public forum debate, a type of high school debate

Arts and entertainment

For venues, see § Sports and entertainment venues.

• Forum & Forum Expanded, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival
• Forum (album), a 2001 pop/soft rock album by Invertigo
• The Forum (vocal group), organized by American musician Les Baxter
• Forum theatre, a type of theatrical technique created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal
• Forum Theatre (Washington, D.C.), a former theatre group

Buildings

Shopping centres

See also: Forum Mall (disambiguation)

• Foorum, Tallinn, Estonia
• Forum (shopping centre), Helsinki, Finland
• The Forum (shopping mall), Bangalore, India
• Forum Mall (Kolkata), Kolkata, India
• Forum The Shopping Mall, Singapore
• The Forum on Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States
• The Forum Shops at Caesars, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Sports and entertainment venues

United Kingdom

• The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England
• The Forum, Bath, an event venue and church in Bath, Somerset, England
• The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, a live music venue in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
• O2 Forum Kentish Town, formerly London Forum, a nightclub and live music venue in Kentish Town, London

United States

• Broome County Forum Theatre, a theater in Binghamton, New York commonly called The Forum
• FedExForum, an arena in Memphis, Tennessee
• The Forum (Chicago), an event venue in Chicago, Illinois
• The Forum, Los Angeles, former name of Kia Forum, an indoor arena in Inglewood, California
• Tampa Bay Times Forum, former name of Amalie Arena, a multi-purpose arena in Tampa Bay, Florida

Other countries

• The Forum, North Adelaide, former name of the Piccadilly Cinema, a cinema in Adelaide, South Australia
• The Forum, Toronto, former venue on the site of the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
• Forum Copenhagen, exhibition, concert, and faire building in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Forum Theatre (officially Forum Melbourne), a live music venue in Melbourne, Australia
• Mediolanum Forum, an indoor arena in Milan, Italy
• Montreal Forum, a historic arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Thessaloniki Forum, an indoor arena in Greece

Other buildings

• Forum Restaurant, Sino Plaza, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
• Forum Station, a metro station in Copenhagen
• Informatics Forum, on the campus of the University of Edinburgh
• The Forum, Hemel Hempstead, municipal building in Hemel Hempstead
• The Forum, Norwich, a library, tourist information office and headquarters of the BBC in Norwich
• The Forum at 343 East 74th Street, a residential building in New York City
• The Forum Southend-on-Sea, a library in Essex, England
• The Forum, Gloucester, a digital campus in Gloucester, England

Businesses and organizations

For facilities, see § Places.

• Forum (alternative dispute resolution), formerly known as the National Arbitration Forum
• Berkeley Forum, a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley
• Forum Group, an Australian company
• ISKCON Youth Forum (IYF) Ahmedabad, a youth organisation
• The Forum, a group involved in the origins of The Urantia Book
• The Forum, a brand of self-help firm Landmark Worldwide
• World Economic Forum, a Swiss nonprofit foundation

Events

• European Forum Alpbach, held by a political and economic thinktank
• OpenForum, a conference held in Cape Town in 2012
• SCO Forum, a computer conference held in the United States from 1987 to 2008
• Universal Forum of Cultures, an international cultural event
• World Social Forum, an annual meeting of civil society organizations

Media

Periodicals

• Forum (Bangladesh), Bangladeshi current affairs magazine
• The Forum (alumni magazine), the Columbia University alumni magazine
• Forum (business magazine), Swedish-language magazine in Finland
• Forum (Macedonian magazine), weekly political magazine in the Republic of Macedonia
• Forum (Turkey), biweekly political magazine in Turkey published between 1954 and 1970
• Penthouse Forum, American pornographic magazine
• The Forum (American magazine), published between 1886 and 1950
• The Forum, official magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous
• The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, newspaper in Fargo, North Dakota
• The Forum, online publication of the African American Policy Forum
• FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, publication of the National Council of Teachers of English

Places

Natural features

• Forum Peak, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
• Piz Fora, a mountain in the Alps

Populated places

• Forum, Arkansas, United States
• Blandford Forum, town in England
• Forum Fulvii, Roman settlement in Italy

Radio

• Forum (KQED), a radio show on KQED-FM hosted by Michael Krasny
• The Forum (BBC World Service), an international radio discussion show

See also

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a 1962 musical
  • A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film), a 1966 film based upon the musical
• Foraminifera, a phylum or class of amoeboid protists
• National Forum (disambiguation)