Name: Songs and dances of peace in Bristol
Start: 2026-11-01T13:30+00:00
End: 2026-11-01T16:00+00:00
Location: The Beehive Centre, 19A Stretford Road, Whitehall, Bristol BS5 7AW

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Bristol's Family Event Scene

While Bristol is well known for it's hedonistic nightlife, it's also home to many young families looking for child-friendly events. A lot of the city's key tourist attractions like @Bristol (now renamed We The Curious) and the Aquarium run one-off events providing entertainment for all the family. Both are located on the Harbourside making that a key location for families visiting from out of town. The SS Great Britain is a big draw for families wanting to look round the famous naval ship, but they also offering chilling pirate stories as an additional attraction.

Windmill Hill City Farm and Bristol Zoo run regular workshops introducing children to environmental issues and you can also get the kids started on a budding acting career at the Tobacco Factory Theatre.

Ashton Court hosts the Bristol Balloon Festival annually. A wildly popular family event featuring (you guessed it) giant hot air balloons as well as flying demonstrations from the RFA and enough food and drink to keep any kid happy.

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What our editors say

“This January, February and March the Bristol Society of Magic is offering Five workshops for people who want to learn the ancient art of Magic. Led by the Society’s most accomplished Magicians, each workshop will teach one piece of magic so that by the end of the course participants will be able to perform publicly, for friends and family and at A Graduation Show”
From: Bristol Society of Magic - MAGIC WORKSHOPS

“Here's the deal: there's a family of delightful characters regularly bringing you their new jokes, joined by local guests doing short spots and, crucially - MOST IMPORTANTLY - we invite absolutely cracking headliners to come and show us what's in their finely-tuned comedy brains. Every month, on a Thursday night. What more could you ask for?”
From: OPPO Comedy

“Filmmaker Leah Galant moved to Germany to trace her family's Holocaust history, expecting a familiar story of return. Then she was detained while filming a pro-Palestine demonstration and charged with antisemitism, and the past could no longer be separated from the present. Weaving together a Holocaust survivor's descendant, a historian descended from Nazis and a Palestinian artist, alongside Galant's own father's struggle with ALS, Landscapes of Memory asks how memorials can honour lives without being co-opted to perpetuate harm. A deeply personal, thought-provoking film that premiered at True/False 2026.”
From: Landscapes of Memory

“On the outskirts of Amman, the Najars are among the last Afro-Palestinian Bedouin families in the city, living in tents on farmland with their animals, including a much-loved pet sheep called Badrya. Then luxury villas rise around them, and a government notice arrives: clear the animals within five days or face removal. As neighbours turn hostile and ten-year-old Eman is bullied at school for her background and the colour of her skin, the family must decide how much of themselves they can give up in order to stay. Asmahan Bkerat's first feature documentary is a tender, quietly devastating portrait of a family displaced again and again, and of a love for the land that concrete cannot erase.”
From: Concrete Land

“Scholar, critic and Palestinian advocate Edward Said reshaped how the world understands culture, power and the representation of the East. Drawing on newly digitised archival material and recordings, with access granted by the Said family and estate, this documentary allows Said to narrate his own intellectual and political journey. From exile and personal struggle to his unyielding commitment to Palestinian rights, the film revisits a voice whose insights into empire, identity and justice remain urgently relevant.”
From: Edward Said: Between Worlds