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PWYC! The world’s been on the edge of its seat as Trump’s threats against Iran escalate to tyrannical breaking point. Bristol Counterfire continues a vital run of global political talks, trying to make sense of the current Middle East crisis with Scottish activist and the Islam Channel’s current affairs reporter Chris Bambery. A Bristol Counterfire meeting with Chris Bambery

A moving exploration of memory and belonging through expanded cinema: Morgan Quaintance presents his performance and exhibition project ‘Available Light’, a fractured portrait of city life drifting between London and Tokyo. He’s joined by preeminent local 16mm experimentalists BEEF for a mini-showcase of projections, detuned guitar and spoken word. Available Light is a new touring commission devised by London based artist, writer and musician, Morgan Quaintance presented by Outlands Network.

PWYC! Newsflash: global network of uber-wealthy elites operates beyond the law. As utterly demonic as the Epstein scandal is, it’s a logical extension of the ever-present patriarchal capitalist shadow. Counterfire hosts a necessary sitdown with activist and Suffragette biographer Kathe Connelly to break down the total impunity of the men that run our world. A Bristol Counterfire meeting on the Epstein files about what they tells us about sex, class and power in a capitalist society

BEEF hosts an avant-crud lineup of AV experimentalism and bizarro sonic wanderers, headed up by Popon’s wiry industrial scuzz soundtracking Laura Phillips’ DIY 35mm film collages. For starters: PanOrama celebrates Daphne Oram’s centenary with improvised cello and synths, while Annie Gardiner brings acoustic melancholy and Lucia layers in feminist readings. 10/10! On the eve of International Women’s Day, we celebrate boundary-breaking sound with a powerful lineup of visionary women and non-binary artists reshaping experimental music.

Essential one for cut-and-splice connoisseurs: this quartet of avant-garde short films raids the attic and finds the empire in a shoebox. Merging diasporic memory with geopolitics, Sylvia Schedelbauer and Richard Fung recontextualise queer love, colonial history, AIDS and opera across four haunting screenings. This short-film programme positions the family archive as a starting point from which to illustrate complex personal histories of belonging and acceptance in diasporic contexts through filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer and Richard Fung's works. The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with Sylvia Schedelbauer.