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Cafe Kino

Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.


Cafe Kino is a collectively run vegan cafe and radical grassroots arts hub in Stokes Croft. Fiercely progressive and unapologetically queer-led, its 75-standing capacity basement hosts everything from DIY punk, hardcore and alt-folk gigs to arts workshops and avant-garde film screenings, all rooted in independence and collective care.

What's On At Cafe Kino

The Catweazle Club at Cafe Kino
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open mic folk singer-songwriter spoken word poetry
DISTRAXI / PALE WORLD / PLAYWORKER + MORE at Cafe Kino
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experimental noise industrial drone
Saint Jude at Cafe Kino
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alternative rock indie rock art rock garage rock
Black Dahlia + Kelan + Shoun Shoun at Cafe Kino
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alternative pop art rock art pop experimental pop lgbtq+
Greet, Ancient Hostility, Molly Samson, and Say, God at Cafe Kino
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folk singer-songwriter traditional folk drone anti-folk
Virus, Hermeticus, DJ Dub Punk, DJ Inigo at Cafe Kino
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alternative rock punk dub drone drum and bass
Wessex Hag + Blabbermouth: Dark West Country Storytelling at Cafe Kino
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folk ambient drone spoken word poetry
The Spark's Desire at Cafe Kino
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experimental country rock industrial rock goth electronic
Brooke Law at Cafe Kino
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alternative rock country folk rock country rock pop rock
Teddy Bear Making Workshop at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ workshops & classes life drawing

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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino

An intimate evening of activism and education at Kino: they screen award-winning documentary If A Tree Falls, following the story of imprisoned “eco-terrorist” Daniel McGowan and radical environmentalist group the Earth Liberation Front, alongside art and info stalls from Mintemori and BASE Social Centre. Cafe Kino Political Film Screening of 'If A Tree Falls'

We’re veeery here for this scene-saving new run of DIY punk shows for barely the price of a pint! A Friday night five-biller of fringe noise, including glitchy chiptune from Bristol experimental queer scene fixture Eyre, Sigil’s howling emo-laced screwgaze and more, plus gig-goer discounts at the Kino kitchen. Queercore Forever at Cafe Kino

Frankie say relax! In 1984 Brian De Palma trolled his critics with his most deliberate Hitchcock rip-off yet, reimagining Vertigo as a balls-to-the-wall sex-and-sleaze hardcore voyeurismfest. Met with boos at its first public screening, the power drill innuendos are worth the price alone. Its Christmas time! Here at Heavy Pictures Presents we have a hot and sleazy entry into Brian De Palma's filmography

Cambridge shoegazers Lemondaze play swooning, washed-out guitar-pop for the romantically concussed! Their woozy sound swells and shimmers with slow-release euphoria – tailor-made for acolytes of: Slowdive, Drop Nineteens, Just Mustard, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water. Blowout Presents Lemondaze, Indecision and Year of the Rabbit at Cafe Kino, Bristol

The IGH improv machine churns on with a second celebration of their fresh organised chaos imprint! It’s The Dark Prince of industrial neo-noir as you’ve never seen him before: Slack Alice / Bellyache rabble-rouser Kelan’s going full downtown jazzer with the house band in a Monday no-brainer FFO: Psychic TV, Special Interest, John Zorn, Glenn Branca. Celebrating our first release as label + future regular