Category: Arts, crafts and culture

BS9 Arts Trail 4 & 5 September

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  • Type of event: In-Person
  • Date: 4 & 5 September
  • Time: 11am-5pm
  • Location: Various BS9
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: Free
  • Booking instructions: HOME – BS9 Arts

From 11am to 5pm on both days, four group venues and five private homes will be open and ready to welcome you to browse the huge range of art work on offer. It’s all made by the 65 artists taking part in the Trail, and includes painting, print, textiles, jewellery, wood, ceramics, photography, and much more. Many exhibitors sell cards too. Artists love to discuss their work, so feel free to ask them about how they did it. There is no pressure to buy, but prices are always lower when you purchase directly from the artist because there is no gallery commission.

Love saves the day 4 & 5 September

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  • Type of event: In – person
  • Date: 4th – 5th September
  • Time: 1 pm to 10 pm
  • Location: Clifton downs
  • Meeting point: N/A
  • Cost: £55-£105
  • Booking instructions: Book online

 

Love Saves the Day are excited to announce that the festival will look to take place on the 4 – 5 of September 2021 at its new home of Clifton Downs.

​​Love Saves the Day continues with its aims to combine the best of Bristol’s thriving underground scene with pioneering artists across the globe in one buzzing, unified space. With an emphasis on great music but a following from all of the creativity and live entertainment that occurs throughout the festival, expect the spectacular.

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Tokyo World 18 & 19 September

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  • Type of event: In-Person
  • Date: 18th & 19th September
  • Time: 12pm-10pm
  • Location: Eastville park
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: £40-£70
  • Booking instructions: Tokyo World Festival

Tokyo World returns for 2021 and will be a whole weekend, taking place over two days in Bristol’s Eastville Park. 5 fields of music featuring over 100+ artists for a whole weekend. Line up information to be released soon.

Frank Bowling at Arnolfini Now – 26 September

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Arnolfini are delighted to announce a major exhibition with pioneering painter Sir Frank Bowling, OBE RA, as part of their 60th anniversary year celebrations in 2021. The exhibition will feature new and recent work, as Frank continues his exploration and experimentation with the painted surface that has marked his extraordinary career.

Bristol Museums, online tours and exhibitions – on demand

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  • Type of event: online
  • Date: on demand
  • Time: on demand
  • Location: online tour and online exhibitions
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: no booking required

‘Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a very attractive venue, and home to countless treasures from in and around Bristol, and from further afield. Explore the collections of art, nature and history. (more…)

Bristol Cathedral, virtual tour – on demand

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Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: on demand
  • Time: on demand
  • Location: virtualtour
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: no booking required

Bristol Cathedral is one of England’s great medieval churches. It originated as an Augustinian Abbey, founded c.1140 by prominent local citizen, Robert Fitzharding, who became first Lord Berkeley. (more…)

The National Gallery, virtual tours – on demand

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  • Type of event: online
  • Date: on demand
  • Time: on demand
  • Location: nationalgalleryorg.uk
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: no booking required

‘Wherever you are in the world, take a virtual tour of the National Gallery. Two virtual tours allow you to step inside the Gallery and explore one of the greatest collections of paintings, from the comfort of your home. (more…)

A Feminists Guide To Botany 29 July

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This class is dedicated to the life and work of one of the most visionary female artists you’ve never heard of – Hilma Af Klint was a swedish victorian woman, who, obsessed with the natural world around her, envisioned a kind of art no one had ever dreamed of before. Now lauded with ‘inventing’ abstraction at least five years before Kandinsky (the man previously accredited with this concept), Hilma AF Klint is FINALLY starting to be recognised for the unique and incredible talent she was, over 70 years after her death.

Bristol Photo Festival – Year round

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Quick info:

  • Type of event: In-Person
  • Date: Now – March 2022
  • Time: Various
  • Location: Various
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: Free
  • Booking instructions: Home | Bristol Photo Festival

Bristol Photo Festival is a new biennial festival with a year-round programme of commissions, collaborations, and exhibitions by both local and international artists. The first edition encompasses a summer showcase of photography exhibitions across the city followed by a full autumn programme of festival exhibitions and events including a book fair, film programme, talks series and symposiums.

Netsuke: miniature masterpieces from Japan – Year round

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Quick info:

  • Type of event: In-Person
  • Date: Now – March 2022
  • Time:12:00pm
  • Location: Bristol museum & Art gallery
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: Free
  • Booking instructions: n/a

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has a collection of over 200 Japanese netsuke, small carvings mainly used by men to attach items to their belts. Created in the 1700s and 1800s, each netsuke is unique and they depict a huge range of subjects from Japanese popular culture.75 of these tiny masterpieces from the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery collection are featured in this exhibition