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
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anti-folk
art rock
folk
singer-songwriter
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experimental
folk
industrial
jazz
post-punk
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indie pop
indie rock
post-punk
punk
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experimental
experimental rock
jazz
singer-songwriter
traditional folk
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Superbad for the girls and gays! 2019’s Booksmart follows two co-dependent nerds whose end-of-high-school blowout / hormonal exorcism spirals into serious suburban chaos – it’s the gross-out cringe-comedy we deserve, beamed to Cafe Kino by the trans healthcare fundraising angels at Project The Dolls.
In July we’re screening queer rom-com Booksmart at Cafe Kino!
Relentless riffage raising cash for Refugee Women of Bristol, what’s not to like there? Steel City metallic hardcore heroes Dead Harts return for a Kino cagematch vs Chewing Glass’ industrial-damaged grind vs Casket Feeder’s djent-y deathcore whirlwind. 60-cap insanity FFO: The Chariot, Stick To Your Guns, Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
Close quarters carnage in the Cafe!
Free entry / PWYC! Cinema Transexuál treats you to some delicious agitprop via La Chinoise – Godard’s Dostoyevsky-riffing portrait of a group of Maoists rehearsing the revolution in 60s Paris. One of his most overtly political and narratively unruly, it’s a borderline Brechtian spectacle that’s essential viewing for would-be insurrectionists and cinephiles alike.
Transexuals! Movies ! Marxism Leninism !
We’re back down to the balmy 20s so there’s no excuse - peel yrself from home for this intimate Kino collab between Rosemary Prowse and near-mythical, needs-no-introduction Deerhoofer Greg Saunier. Fungus-fuelled anti-folk-rock with strange swerving melodies that shine in a minimal drums-n-guitar duo format – a charmer FFO: Ponytail, Sleater-Kinney, Throwing Muses.
Debut Bristol show! One night only, take a tour of House of Frills,,'a little twee, a little unsettling' Rosy Prowse & Greg Saunier
It’s only a laugh, no harm done. Jack Bond's surreal Pet Shop Boys flick follows the duo through a decaying Thatcherite England of rundown seaside towns, urban blight, and Catholic guilt. Panned at the time for its navel-gazing vanity, It Couldn’t Happen Here has become a fascinating time capsule, dripping with melancholic 80s pop sensibility.
Pride month screening of British road movie starring synthpop icons, Pet Shop Boys, It Couldn't Happen Here (15).