16 things to do in Bristol this week, August 15-21 2022

Monday: Pale Waves, Rough Trade
To celebrate the release of their latest record ‘Unwanted’, Dirty Hit Records affiliates Pale Waves take to the central Bristol record store for an intimate acoustic performance in their live music back room.

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Tuesday: Raise The Bar: Kat Lyons & Tom Sastry, Trinity Centre
Raise the Bar proudly presents a joint book launch from two of Bristol’s best loved poets, Kat Lyons (Love Beneath the Nails) and Tom Sastry (You have no normal country to return to). Featuring support from Suzannah Evans and Saili Katebe.

Tuesday: Lunchtime Organ Recital, Bristol Cathedral
Join touring organ recitalist Paul Carr as he tickles the ivories of the glorious, decadent organs of the Bristol Cathedral whilst you while away your Tuesday lunchtime. Get comfortable and relax to the sounds of Bach, Bonnet and Walton, to name but a few.

Wednesday – Friday: Hoo-Ha! Festival 2022, Bristol Beacon
From top to bottom, Bristol Beacon transforms itself into a hub of family fun, with arts, crafts, music, and just about anything that the little one’s creative minds can conjure up. The Wednesday will be a considerably more relaxed day, allowing for parents and children who prefer a quieter, more gentle environment to come along and enjoy the activities on offer.

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Wednesday: Immersive Yoga, Propyard
A unique opportunity to take part in a yoga class amongst the immersive Van Gogh exhibition at Bristol’s newest large venue. Led by Jade, a Bristol yoga teacher who specialises in teaching in unique locations across the city, the class is suitable for all levels of comfortability with the practice.

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Thursday – Friday: Bristol Science Film Festival (Online Screenings)
If you weren’t able to make the in person screenings of the shortlisted films for this year’s Science Film Festival last week, do not fret, as the festival team are hosting a round of live online screenings this week. What’s more, you don’t have to pay a penny (although donations are, of course, appreciated).

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Opens Friday: The Feast, Watershed
This outstanding slow burn, Welsh-language folk horror sees a wealthy family host a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly unravel their lives with terrifying consequences they could never see coming…

Friday: Level The Vibes, Cosies
A star-studded night of Bristol reggae/dub and the like at one of Bristol’s most infamous underground reggae venues. Expect plenty of vinyl, and even larger amounts of vibes.

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Saturday: The Grounded Garden Party, Grounded Redfield
Due to the cancellation of Redfield’s community arts festival Redfest for the third year running, Grounded Redfield are hosting their own day of festivities this weekend. Expect live music of the acoustic, funk and soul and folk variety, and a plethora of barbecued food and arts to enjoy with the family.

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Sunday: Make a Bristol Balloon Print, Creative Space North St
A relaxed arts and crafts workshop at North Street’s Creative Space. Learn accessible printmaking/rolling techniques that can be recreated at home, and create your own A3 Bristol hot air balloon print that you’ll be able to take home. All materials are provided within the ticket price.

The workshop is dubbed the perfect way to spend a wholesome Sunday afternoon – Photo by Liz Clayton

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August 24: Meet the AniBotics Robot Elephant Toy, Watershed
Come and meet a cute elephant robot toy at this free family drop-in activity hosted by Pervasive Media Studio residents AniBotics. Find out more about how the robot works, what went into making it, and how the elephant is coded. There will also be an opportunity for children to draw their favourite animals, perhaps inspiring the next robot animal AniBotics make next!

Visit Watershed to find out what the robot elephant does – Photo by Watershed

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August 26: Cola, Rough Trade
From the ashes of Ought, new project Cola rises. Following the break-up of the post-punk outfit last year, Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy teamed up with Evan Cartwright, of US Girls and The Weather Station; together the trio combines resonant guitar grooves and tight angular rhythms, along with Darcy’s idiosyncratic wry vocals. “Deep in View” is the band’s first full-length release, and the album sees their precise and adroit musicianship in fine form, conveying danceable art-punk with astute lyrical vignettes and a self-aware charm.

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August 27: Club Djembe Day Party, Trinity Centre
Club Djembe team up with Trinity to celebrate the opening of our new outdoor space, The Den, with a classic summer shoobs full of funky house, amapiano, good drinks, even better food, and vibes a plenty.

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August 27: Luisa Omielan – Ten, Redgrave Theatre
Luisa Omielan creates iconic one woman shows. She was the first Comedian to receive a Bafta Breakthrough for stand up. Not the first female comedian. The first.

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August 30: Xenia Rubinos, Strange Brew
Xenia Rubinos’ music fuses Latin rhythms, downtempo R&B and electronic pop experimentations. The Brooklyn-based musician pours her effervescent spirit into her work, lending a tangible emotive and charismatic essence to each of her songs. Rubinos’ latest release Una Rosa came after a period when she wasn’t sure if she’d be able to continue making music, and the album sees her sound infused with more of an electronic palette and draws more overtly on her Latinx heritage.

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September 1: Jenny Eclair – Sixty, Redgrave Theatre
Having hit 60, Jenny Eclair confronts a new decade of decrepitude. Now that it takes 30 minutes of scrolling to find her DOB when she’s filling in forms online, should she celebrate or crawl into a hole? What will her 60’s hold for this 1960’s babe and is it a legal requirement to buy Nordic walking poles?

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