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Things to do in Bristol today: Tuesday, October 11
WILDSCREEN DAY 2: Day two of these wild public screenings includes The Ivory Game, Life Is One and The Memory of Fish. Watershed, 3pm.
DAPHNE WRIGHT: EMOTIONAL ARCAHEOLOGY: Major solo exhibition for this Bristol-based artist that draws on the suburban and the domestic to explore complex social issues. Arnolfini.
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER: North Bristol’s excellent non-pros The Kelvin Players stage Noel Coward’s haunting, yearning love story. Kelvin Studios, 7.30pm.
SPAGHETTI!: Croon Productions return with a puppet-theatre pastiche of the spaghetti Western genre. Wardrobe Theatre, 8pm.
NATIONAL THEATRE ENCORE: THE THREEPENNY OPERA: Rufus Norris’s pleasingly filthy Brecht/Weill production. Vue Cribbs Causeway, 7pm.
STEPHEN JOHNSON & ENGLISH PIANO TRIO: An intimate chamber performance of the great Tchaikovsky’s grief-laden Piano Trio in A minor. Colston Hall, 7.30pm.
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: A Shakespeare inspired week kicks off with Andre Tchaikowsky’s The Merchant of Venice. Hippodrome, 7pm.
SHIPPED: As part of Theatre West’s autumn new-writing season, recent University of Bristol graduate Eno Mfon’s Shipped tells the story of a young British girl who is sent to her family in Nigeria for the summer. Hamilton House, 8pm.
HEDWIG HOUBEN: OTHERS AND I: Dutch artist Hedwig Houben’s first UK solo exhibition encompassing film, performance, sculpture and text. Spike Island.
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