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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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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.

Sell out warning! Aunt Gladys is for the gays! Zach Cregger’s Weapons gifted us a high-camp queer icon, and it was only a matter of time ‘til it got the signature Ghoulboss drag-horror treatment. Cue Drag Dungoneers’ Boohooman, enthralling enigma Mariana Trench and the fantastical Garbitch, all serving up creepy-chic cabaret mayhem and ghoulish mystery. Ghoulboss Productions Presents: WEAPONZ at Zed Alley.

Grassroots food'n'film fundraiser featuring two illuminating shorts: in My Neighbourhood, Mohammed must suddenly share his family home in East Jerusalem with Israeli settlers, while Free Running Gaza shows parkour as a means of temporary escape from the constant oppression in Khan Younis refugee camp. Palestine Film Fundraiser - My Neighbourhood and Free Running Gaza at The Arc.

Sell out warning! Guardian columnist extraordinaire Owen Jones rings the death knell for Western superpowers, launching his explosive new tome in person with former Green leader Carla Denyer MP. Laying bare the 21st century's parade of arrogance and economic failures, Jones shows how the elite's crumbling façade paved the way for the migrant-baiting insecurities of today. The Fall of the West launch - Owen Jones in conversation with Carla Denyer at The Station.

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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

“'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

“Join us for complimentary drinks in Emmeline Café, followed by an informal tour of our autumn exhibition, Beverly Buchanan: Weathering. Beverly Buchanan was an African-American artist who found endless creativity in the people and places around her. This tour is a chance for our neighbours to get to know her story and her art. It will also be an opportunity to connect and come together around themes of care and solidarity – ideas that sat at the heart of Beverly Buchanan’s work and life. ”
From: Good Morning Spike Island Coffee morning and Tour