Your guide to the arts in Bristol: exhibitions, plays and musicals, and concerts and gigs. Plus, discover what’s on at galleries, museums and cinemas across the city.
Shane MacGowan, the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk folk band The Pogues, has died aged 65 following a long period of ill health. The musician, whose hits include ‘Fairytale of New York’ and ‘...
Doctor Who is back. The Doctor is back. David Tennant AS The Doctor is back. Can you tell we’re excited? The Star Beast, the first of three hour-long special episodes marking the iconic show’s 60th anniversary, aired on...
The Turner Prize is the UK’s most prestigious art award. Previous winners include Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry, with the award often given to the country’s most controversial and boundary-pushing...
Helping to prove Bristol’s street art scene is more than just Banksy, the annual graffiti festival Upfest in Bedminster has become one of the key dates in Bristol’s cultural calendar. Since the first festival in 2008, t...
There are no two ways about it. Banksy is a Bristol legend. Far from the city’s first graffiti artist, he’s definitely its most famous. In fact, he’s inarguably the world’s most well-known street artist. You can find hi...
This season, the bewitching Candlelight concerts will illuminate one of the UK’s largest and most culturally important cities. Bristol will be able to enjoy a number of concerts under candlelight with some of the...
Lizzie Magie designed the original Monopoly as an educational tool to demonstrate the issues of capitalism. Back then it was called The Landlord’s Game, before morphing into the endlessly frustrating yet fun, fami...
Yes, Bristol is colouful, but it can also be creepy and unnerving. Named the most haunted city in the UK recently, there are numerous…...
Before releasing their first single, Love Me Do, in 1962, no one – not even the band themselves – could have foreseen the impact of The Beatles. Sixty years on, the world is being treated to one final track...
The term ‘national treasure’ gets thrown around too much for our liking. But if there’s one person it should be applied to, it’s David Attenborough. The face (and voice) of shows like Planet Earth, The Blue Planet and,...