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Bristol’s Family Arts Festival is back
It wouldn’t be Bristol if a month didn’t go by without a festival.
Back for a fourth year, Bristol Family Arts Festival is a month-long celebration culminating in a half-term bonanza of fun and free events for all the family, with a theme of innovation.
The festival will draw on the connections between art, science and technology with more than 60 events taking place across the city, including visual arts, film, theatre, dance, animation, play, heritage, storytelling, design, construction and outdoor learning.
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Arnolfini programme assistant for learning, Clare Karslake, says the festival is about creating the “the best possible experiences for families in the city”.
She said: “This year many festival events highlight the importance of creativity to the sciences and technology. At Arnolfini, we’re very excited to open up the world of electronics in an interactive storytelling session where audiences get to improvise.”
Highlights of the Bristol Family Arts Festival include:
• At the Arnolfini, explore The Unknown Adventure Bureau where you get to create the soundtrack – and the story. Plus discover 50 Ways to Make a Drawing.
• Wild Words with Glorious Greeks plus Halloween-themed MiniBeats Petrifying Pianos and Monstrous Makes, and a free lunchtime brass concert at St George’s Bristol.
• Spooky fun at the Tobacco Factory Theatres for Tales of Terror with scary stories, creepy creations and hair-raising hijinks as well as mask-making.
• Dancing at The Imagination Museum in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
• The Grinning Man, a wonderfully weird and wickedly wild new musical, which offers an alternative view of history at Bristol Old Vic.
• Storytelling and a mini engineering workshop, inspired by the adventures of engineer Rosie Revere, aged six, plus an afternoon of drawing and making, at the Architecture Centre and Junction 3 Library, Easton.
• Colour in the Crypt: crafts, dressing up and medieval toys at St John on the Wall, Broad Street.
• Experimenting with different mediums and techniques with Art Club as well as the Super Saturday Sample Session with Artrageous and child-led creative play sessions and Make a Mess with Children’s Scrapstore.
• Creating Magnificent Mobiles and colourful prints at the RWA.
• Brunel and the Bard and Sea Hear family storytelling plus Family Archive in Five and a peek behind the scenes with Conservation in Action at the ss Great Britain.
For more information, visit www.bristolfamilyarts.org.uk
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