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.
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minimal tech house
electro
house
uk garage
tech house
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dub
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lgbtq+
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Our recent recommendations for The Island
After a lil' EU tour, Realist Alive link with cult post-club purveyors Evolver in this absolute lifeline for the weird club kids. Prepare for maximalist EDM distortions from Ninajirachi collaborator Maniken05, industrial cumbia from Exmantera, hardcore experimentalist Mvcoko + more preeminent architects of the hyper-online avant-rave terrain.
Realist Alive x Evolver - Maniken05, exmantera, Mvcoko, CU-SITH & more at The Island.
Free entry / PWYC! Bristol’s DIY club beacon returns after a short summer hiatus, and we’re bloody glad! Spotlighting local unsung heroes who’ve been holding it down since day one, this wild edition brings Saskia’s mind-warping techno futurism, Cruise’s downtempo delights and Rali Pibs’ deep clurb catharsis to the fore.
Grama08 - Cruise, Saskia & Rali Pibs at The Island.
The mayor of Tblisi techno meets the gal with the punkest track names in the biz. The Island's long dark tunnel is ideal for the UK debut of HVL's Warp-indebted IDM brain-soup, rupturing straight from his hardware table to mangle minds alongside Machine Woman's playful, loopy club slugs. Another unbeatable Probe exercise in ethereal and cerebral club immersion here...
Meeting of two independent operations, with a couple of very special guests and a few familiar faces. Ready yourselves for another trip down the electronic wormhole….
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
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A two hour workshop for total newcomers to have a shake at the great art that is PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING!!!!