The Mount Without
Stunning converted church venue on St Michael's Hill.
Is The Mount Without Bristol's most beautiful venue? A recently converted church that's been the site of worship for over 900 years, whoever's in charge has left a lot of the drag majesty of the old structure in tact. And so, with a keen eye for visual art and interior design, the Mount Without was born. Principally a wedding / private hire venue, it adds a touch of the sublime to all performances and gigs hosted there.
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Karla Shacklock’s autobiographical dance-theatre piece takes a one-woman lactivist leap into the many myths, social stigmas and divisive debates which surround the world of infant feeding. A heartfelt and deeply personal work, Niplash moves with humour, authenticity, compassion… and confetti.
NIPLASH at The Mount Without.
A performance film by artist Hetain Patel about family and memory, Mathroo Basha (Mother Tongue) traverses dance, voice, and personal history to reflect on immigration and the ways traditions shift over time. Patel responds to recorded Gujarati-language interviews with women from his own family, using movement to explore what is passed down between generations after loss.
Mathroo Basha at The Mount Without.
Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler imagines a post-human world in dance fiction Learning From the Future. Human bodies are vanishing as a futuristic female cyborg moves through a sci-fi landscape shaped by accelerating data and dematerialising flesh – an exploration of how we adapt, resist, and assert ourselves even as we fade.
A Post-Human Dance Fiction by Colette Sadler
Free entry! Tactile body horrors and uncanny architectural echoes crawl out of the subconscious of Bristol-based artist Honoria Brown and into The Mount Without’s subterranean Crypt. Her new exhibition of surreal oil paintings are born from four years of vivid dreaming, painstakingly transcribed into mysterious worlds on canvas.
Opening event at the Crypt, featuring live music and bar.
A kaleidoscopic dance-theatre plunge into early 20th-century upheaval. VENUS 2.0 unravels the wild journey of a Suffragette turned fascist, hurtling you through the volatile birth and rise of a political disease. Six shape-shifting dancers fuse explosive movement, sharp wit, and cabaret flair to interrogate power, chaos, and the future’s dark edge.
An explosive journey into the roots of Fascism