The Island
Former police station turned creative playground
The Island is a vibrant multi-use venue in the heart of Bristol city centre. Once occupied by Bridewell Police Station, it’s been in the hands of community arts charity Artspace Lifespace since 2008.
Home to over 100 resident artists, The Island boasts a diverse mix of spaces and facilities including dance and circus training studios, a sewing room and an art gallery, while doubling up as a thriving events venue – covering live music, workshops and classes, immersive performance art, and more.
After dark the Edwardian cells come alive with experimental club nights, recent highlights including Timedance’s forward-thinking techno and bass nights, jungle, soul and Afrobeats from Nightspace, and late-night sessions from leftfield festival En Masse.
The 300-capacity venue is at basement level and is not wheelchair accessible. Free tickets are available for personal assistants. See https://artspace.uk/venue/the-island/ for details of the different event spaces within the building.
Home to over 100 resident artists, The Island boasts a diverse mix of spaces and facilities including dance and circus training studios, a sewing room and an art gallery, while doubling up as a thriving events venue – covering live music, workshops and classes, immersive performance art, and more.
After dark the Edwardian cells come alive with experimental club nights, recent highlights including Timedance’s forward-thinking techno and bass nights, jungle, soul and Afrobeats from Nightspace, and late-night sessions from leftfield festival En Masse.
The 300-capacity venue is at basement level and is not wheelchair accessible. Free tickets are available for personal assistants. See https://artspace.uk/venue/the-island/ for details of the different event spaces within the building.
What's On At The Island
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experimental
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trance
trap music
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
— The Island
workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
— The Island
workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
— The Island
workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
— The Island
workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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electronic
experimental
techno
noise
Get a feel for The Island
Our recent recommendations for The Island
Free entry / PWYC screening of this heart-wrenching and often humorous portrait of Palestinian life in Lebanon’s Ein el-Helweh refugee camp. In Mahdi’s video diary, the World Cup sits next to PLO training, and family home movies mix with armed teenage hijinks and war-torn destruction. A World Not Ours is raw dispossession seen through generations of martyrs, exiles and those forced to remain in a land not theirs.
FREE SCREENING: A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous film portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon
Sell out warning! Now’s your chance kid, WWE are on the phone and you need to get in shape FAST with this 2 hour introduction to the crazy world of pro wrestling. Seasoned champs Chuck Mambo and Kyri are here to guide you through everything, from beginners' floorwork to holds and character development – BYO spandex!
A two hour workshop for total newcomers to have a shake at the great art that is PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING!!!!
No-phones queer techno powerhouses RTN unite two mighty forces of warehouse-grade hypnosis. Mike Parker’s hard-as-nails minimalism is as future-facing as the first time it slapped the club – out of body experiences will happen in the presence of his Buffalo GOATness, alongside the witchy heart at the centre of Brooklyn’s Merge, Clarisa Kimskii. Deeper than deep FFO: Sandwell, Dozzy, Plastikman.
Two Bristol debuts. Two artists over from the US at the top of their game.
Evening into late-night low-end pressure and maniacal club experimentalism, with inclusion and representation at the forefront. Powered by the hefty dual subs of Brussels’ Pssound and London’s BOSS soundsystems, Ojoo’s scuzzed industrial-dub is gonna be an absolute treat alongside i-sha’s dizzying brain-melters and k means’ frenetic brain rattlers. Raw dubwise magic at its finest!
Music to Come and The Island present Pssound System with OJOO, Catherine Danger, Daya, Black Obsidian Sound System, i-sha and k means
PWYC! Another if-you-know-you-know soiree from Bristol’s essential local’s club night – do their lineups ever not deliver?! Get down early for Cowper’s lysergic downtempo brain-melters, queer community powerhouse Peoplelikeusdj, and stay til the lights come on for Anina’s occult DnB magic. Let's be honest, this is a night where the DJs have to bring their A-game – Grama’s truly doing God's work here!
Grassroots clubnight supporting the abundance of local bristol talent