What's On Friday 30th August in Bristol

Events on Friday 30th August

“The queen of Afro-Caribbean storytelling Jan Blake, tells some of her favourite stories of Anansi – the original Spider man. This well-travelled mythical figure is a Ghanaian God taken with slavery to the Caribbean, where his deeds and misdeeds have earned him the doubtful reputation of being the wiliest of tricksters and a master of transformation.”
From: Anansi Story by Jan Blake

“In a charm-your-socks-off performance, Michael Harvey draws on the collections of François-Marie Luzel, to recast and retell these half-familiar grown-up tales of wonder with a disarmingly light touch.”
From: The Balance of Things, by Michael Harvey

“From demure housewife to bloodthirsty goddess, gurgling infant to elephant man, meditating sage to cosmic fire-eater, Hindu mythology illuminates a mind-blowing world of radical transformations. Kali is one of the wildest shape-shifters of them all. demon-slayer, life-saver, supreme-mother, destruction-dancer, this goddess is truly awesome.”
From: Kali, by Emily H & Sheema M

“The work weaves the real and the imagined to create a mode of communication that is less language-driven. It is an invitation to inhabit animal energy and to allow it to inhabit you, to lose self awareness and to experience the animal as other.”
From: beCOME aNIMAL

“The Futureheads will be live in-store at Rough Trade BRISTOL to perform tracks from their new album 'Powers', released 30th August on Nul Records.”
From: The Futureheads