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Bristol's Exhibitions Scene

New art exhibitions are opening all the time in Bristol. Use this guide to find private views and exhibition launches in Bristol.

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A rare treat for radical thespians: Worms Theatre hosts a playful, beginner’s-friendly deep dive into Augusto Boal’s revolutionary practice, culminating in a Forum Theatre play at the end of the course. Theatre of the Oppressed reframes ‘acting’ as a vehicle for social change, encouraging anarchic audience participation and providing a safe space to practice real-life resistance. Theatre of the Oppressed 10-Week Course at The Trinity Centre.

Sell out warning! We've all dreamed of our own funeral, the tears, the mourners, the touching tributes, but death really gets in the way! This radical rehearsal of our end-of-days uses Boal's anarchic Theatre of the Oppressed as a therapeutic framework to delve into the mechanics of grief and loss, and, ultimately, reaffirm what we truly live for. Theatre of Death at The Cube.

Robert Aldrich’s psycho-biddy masterpiece often gets unfairly eclipsed by Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby. Bette Davis is absolutely unhinged in this one, playing an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister (Joan Crawford). A monochrome nightmare, a vicious send-up of showbiz, and a bleak examination of the damage wrought by childhood fame; Baby Jane is a must-see for all serious horror fans. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? + Panel 12 7.00pm at Bristol Improv Theatre.

Sell out warning! Bristol Porn Festival digs into the raunchier end of the moving image, bringing together short films by queer artists and sex-workers from Bristol and beyond. Hosted by local filthmongers Maya Poison and Pixie Sin, with ceramic awards for the evening’s most salacious offerings hand-crafted by Bunny Royle. Leave your inhibitions at the door.... Bristol Porn Film Festival at The Cube.

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What our editors say

“Kieran’s work has featured in several group exhibitions over the last two years. He currently has work in the Royal West of England 173rd Annual Open Exhibition and held his first solo exhibition this autumn at Negative Thinking Bristol.”
From: Make Your Own Photography Zine

“Join exhibition curators Clémentine Proby and Nicole Yip for a tour of Beverly Buchanan: Weathering, the first European survey of Buchanan’s work. Bringing together five decades of sculpture, painting, drawing, earthworks, artists’ books and archival material, the exhibition explores Buchanan’s enduring interest in memory, materiality and place, and the histories embedded in architecture, landscape and everyday materials.”
From: Curators’ Tour: Beverly Buchanan, Weathering

“'Chips or Chalk' is an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Luke Teale. Made over a period of seven months in one of the artists’ studios at The Island, the paintings are all oil paint on panel and canvas, layered and scraped back dozens of times through a process of trial and error. The work looks to embrace the uncertainty between recognition and abstraction, inviting the viewer to inhabit a place that is familiar yet impossible to fully locate.”
From: Chips or Chalk

“Prodigal Arts warmly invites you to join us for Where Creativity Grows, A Decade That Shows, a special Prodigal Arts exhibition marking ten years of creativity, artistic achievement, and transformation.”
From: Prodigal Arts Exhibition: Where Creativity Grows -A decade that shows

“For the past decade, Prodigal Arts has worked with artists in prison, supported them on release, and more recently developed preventative creative programmes with community groups affected by or at risk of involvement in the criminal justice system. This exhibition celebrates that journey through a selection of work from the past ten years alongside new commissions inspired by the theme of Trees; reflecting on roots, resilience, growth, and the many branches that have emerged through our shared creative work.”
From: Prodigal Arts Exhibition: Where Creativity Grows -A decade that shows