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10 things to do this week, January 5-11
Monday: Nuala Honan & Kit Hawes, The Canteen
Bristol’s folk blues country singer joins forces with quick-fingered Sheelanagig guitarist Kit Hawes for an intriguing double bill.
www.canteenbristol.com/livemusic/nuala-honan-kit-hawes/
Tuesday: Language exchange, Leftbank
Is learning a foreign language a New Year’s resolution? Converse with a native Spanish, French or Italian speaker over a beer.
www.leftbankbar.co.uk/#!language-exchange/c1z1w
Wednesday: J Mascis, Marble Factory
The Dinosaur Jr founder and slacker icon currently in the middle of a world tour released his second solo album Tied to a Star last year.
www.motionbristol.com/events/single-event/455-j-mascis-dinosaur-jr-support
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Wednesday-Saturday: The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Bristol Old Vic studio
Bristol Old Vic Young Company bring a graphic novel to the stage, “using music and ensemble theatre to tell a fairy tale for our time”.
www.bristololdvic.org.uk/giganticbeard.html
Thursday: Can digital and interactive media (help to) save the world?, Watershed
This Green Capital event explores how documentary makers use interactive storytelling to address issues of environmental crisis and sustainability
www.bristol2015.co.uk/events/can-digital-and-interactive-media-help-to-save-the-world/
Friday: The Rupees, The Exchange
The Bristol rock and rollers are in the midst of recording their new EP. This gig features support from Jubilee Park and The Craddles.
www.exchangebristol.com/whats-on/
Saturday: Wassail, The Ethicurean
The Wrington restaurant’s annual celebration of drinking the health of their apple trees to encourage a bounteous harvest.
www.theethicurean.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/the-collector-vermouth-launches-wassail-fun-beckons/
Saturday: Beverage Collective & Go Next, Mr Wolf’s
Not a regular jazz venue but offering the combination of cool young Cornish modernists Go Next and jazz-funk from the Beverage Collective.
www.mrwolfs.com/listings/
Sunday: National Gallery, Watershed
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman presents a “richly detailed, beautifully nuanced” portrait of the working life of the National Gallery.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/6366/national-gallery/
Sunday-January 25: Walking the Chains, Brunel’s Old Station
A circus-theatre salute to the Clifton Suspension Bridge from Show of Strength and Circomedia, starring Tom Wainwright as Brunel.
www.colstonhall.org/shows/walking-chains/
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