Bumper 2 week’s what’s 8th - 22nd

Bumper 2 week’s What’s on

Sept 9

Sept 10

Blade Runner 40th Anniversary

Description: Perhaps more than any other film, Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi classic has gripped audiences and inspired passionate and fierce debate for the past 40 years. Based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by science fiction master Philip K Dick, Blade Runner is a haunting look at reality, memory and mortality set against the dystopian future of LA, 2019.

Venue: Curzon cinema 46 Old Church Rd, Clevedon BS21 6NN

2022 Nailsea Bike Show

Description: The 12th Nailsea International Bike Show, featuring a wide selection of motorcycles, classics, custom, sports, tourer, cafe racer, trade stands and more! A great weekend for all the family, free entry and money raised goes to Children’s Hospice South West.

Venue: Ring O Bells 4 St Mary’s Grove Nailsea Bristol BS48 4NQ

THA PINGAZ

Description: A show for the fans of Alternative Rock, Punk and Grunge! Here’s the lineup Tha Pingaz

Venue: Thunderbolt 124 Bath Road Bristol

Party in the Park

Description: This Years PITP date has been announced, get it in your diaries now.

Venue: Golden Hill Sports Pavilion Wimbledon Rd BS6 7YA Bristol

50th Anniversary Fun Day

Description: Windmill Hill Community Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary of serving the local community. Come join us from 2pm until late for a Fun Day with entertainment, music, taster sessions and refreshments.

Venue: Windmill Hill Vivian Street BS3 4LW Bristol

Miniature steam train rides

Description: Bring your kids to ride on our miniature railway! Featuring a selection of real steam, electric and petrol driven trains. £1.50 per ride or 5 for £6.50.See here for how to find us:http://www. bristolmodelengineers.co.uk/ getting-to-ashton.../

Venue: Ashton Court Railway BS8 3PX Bristol

Grace Martinson

Description: Grace Martinson joins us for a Sunday session at the Bristol Inn in Clevedon. Join her at 5pm. Grace Martinson is a singer/songwriter from Portishead. Free Entry

Venue: Bristol Inn Chapel Hill BS21 7NL Clevedon

Bearpit Market

Description: Come and visit us at our market to see a host of crafts, collectables, vintage clothing, books, plants and more. If you want to apply please visit www.bearpitmarket.co.uk

Venue: St James Barton Roundabout Bristol BS1 3LY

Open mic night

Description: hosted by the insanely talented Josh Graylish and Luke Potter. We welcome all local musicians to come down and perform your material. 2 for 1 cocktails all evening!

Venue: The Walnut Tree Winterstoke Rd Weston-super-Mare BS24 9HD

Big Fat Geeky Quiz

Description: The Big Fat Geeky Quiz is back. Teams of 6 max. £2 entry per person This always sells out, so it’s advisable to book a table

Venue: The Stable Games Room 129 High Street, Weston-super-Mare

Singalong Cinema: Grease

Description: Calling all T-Birds and Pink Ladies to a singalong Rydell High Reunion! Whether you’re content tapping your toes along, or prefer belting out every line, this singalong event at Bristol Improv theatre is the perfect way to toast the end of those summer nights...

Venue: The Bristol Improv Theatre 50 St Paul’s Rd Clifton Bristol BS8 1LP

Folklore at The Vestibules

Description: Folklore is an exhibition of drawings and paintings by artist Katie Marland, the culmination of her research into British folklore, mythology and the eerie. Her previous work can be found at katiemarland.com

Venue: The Vestibules College Green BS1 5TR Bristol

Kingswood BSL group

Description: Come along and meet other people informal chat using BSL, stay short or long time up to you!! Have fun chatting!

Venue: The Kingswood Colliers, 94-96 Regent Street, Kingswood BS15 8HP Bristol

SEPT 13

Sept 15

Movie Nights

Description: Movie nights at Shirehampton JTE. Films from all genres will be shown, we will give a description of the film but for licensing reasons cannot announce the title outside of the venue. Our first film is a thought provoking sci fi classic set in 2274 in a world where everything is perfect - until you reach the age of thirty. Certificate 12.

Venue: Shirehampton Methodist Church Penpole Ave BS11 0DY Bristol 9

Sept 16

Sept 17

Sept 18

Bristol Careers Fair

Description: Looking for a new Career? Looking for your next Hire? The UK Careers Fair returns to Bristol on Friday 16th September.

Venue: Victoria St Redcliffe Bristol BS1 6HY

Mr & Mrs and everything in between

Description: Are you ready for our first MR & MRS and everything in between? We are hosting a Fun filled Couples Games night.

Venue: Maytree Pub St Peter’s Rise Bristol BS13 7QT

Dom Joly’s Holiday Snaps

Description: We are delighted to be welcoming Dom Joly to the Blakehay Theatre in 2022! Dom Joly is best known as the creator of Trigger Happy TV. And now the writer and broadcaster is undertaking his first UK tour since 2011, giving fans a rare opportunity to see him live.

Venue: The Blakehay Theatre Wadham Street BS23 1JZ Weston-super-Mare

The Bristol Shanty Festival

Description: A fabulous and free-to-attend day of shanty singing and songs of the sea with 3 main stages and 10 other venues. More details at www.bristolshantyfestival. co.uk

Music River Cruise

Description: A fabulous river cruise on board the Towerbelle boat, up the River Avon from Bristol Harbour to the beautiful gardens at Beeses Tearooms. Enjoy an hour sipping your favourite drink in the garden before rejoining the boat for the hour cruise back to Bristol Harbour whilst Barry and the band play for your entertainment. Departs from and returns to the jetty at Welsh Back ( next to the old Glassboat). Please note due to nature of the boat, there is limited accessibility

Venue: Welsh Back Bristol BS1

Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

Description: The exhibit invites visitors to step into more than 300 of Van Gogh’s sketches, drawings, and paintings by using floor-toceiling digital projections, made possible by state-of-theart video mapping technology.

Venue: Propyard 39-46 Feeder Rd Bristol BS2 0SE

Circuit Breakers

Description: Enjoy a fantastic night of comedy in the Chicken Shed at The Hen and Chicken! Circuit Breakers is a monthly night which showcases the best up-and-coming talent on the UK comedy circuit. This month’s Special Guest is the fantastic Jamie D’Souza!

Bristol Freshers Week

Description: Join this event for first access information for all Bristol Universities – Freshers events in 2022! 2022 is set to be Bristol’s BIGGEST freshers week ever, by joining this event you will be the first to hear of the BEST events in the city. BUT FIRST – Join your university groups below to find & get to know your new university friends, coursemates & flat mates!

Venue: The Hen & Chicken, 210 North Street Bristol BS3 1JF

Closer Each Day

Description: The unscripted, unconventional and uplifting comedy hit of Bristol - packed with drama, romance and big laughs!

Venue: The Wardrobe Theatre 25 West Street Old Market Bristol BS2 0DF Venue: Bristol

Think Global Description: Bristol has declared climate and ecological emergencies. How did we get here? What’s our city’s role in it, and how can we help get out of it? What does a just, green future look like? Think Global: Act Bristol explores big environmental questions affecting people here and worldwide, and presents perspectives from a wide range of local voices. This event is on from now till 30th October.

Venue: M-Shed Princes Wharf Wapping Rd Bristol BS1 4RN

Six

Description: From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.

Venue: Bristol Hippodrome St. Augustines Parade Bristol BS1 4Uz

Sept 22

Ellie & Nikon’s

Description: Ellie & nNikon’s one big road ep launch gig! We will be playing live at (our favourite pub) the old king’s head to celebrate our newest ep one big road! Be there from 7pm to make sure you don’t miss anything!

Venue: The Old Kings Head 19 The Scaurs, Westonsuper-Mare

LION STORES CELEBRATES 50 YEARS SERVING BEDMINSTER

Derek Knapman of the iconic Lion Stores on North Street, Bedminster, has now been serving the people of Bedminster for half a century as he celebrates 50 years in his hardware store this month.

In a store that can only be described as ‘Aladdin's cave’, shoppers will find stacks of shelves filled to the brim with hardware tools, electricals, vintage radios, cleaning products, decorations and even an Iron Man action figure peering through the shop window. Derek’s father bought the iconic North Street landmark in 1972 when the tobacco factories were the main source of employment in the area. Now 50 years have passed and Derek has been helping the residents of South Bristol out of sticky spots for 50 years as when there is a problem, he jokes that Lion Stores is the “fourth emergency service.” Lion Stores and Derek have become synonymous with Bedminster and anyone who’s resided in BS3 for a long time will have watched him grow into the incredibly kind man he is. When he was born he lived above Eddie’s Appliances and his family would regularly shop at Dennis Butt Butchers.

As a young lad, Derek would cycle home from school to work behind the counter at his father’s business with only one minor aversion… “We’d get all the Will’s girls’ come down and I’d hate serving them as they’d always make me blush.” Speaking with Derek about how much the shop has changed over the years, he reminisced over the times where they would sell a lot of ornaments; particularly the ‘china shire horses’. “The only place you’re likely to see one of those today is in the charity shops.”

Regulars will know that Derek has a penchant for dancing on the pavement outside his store, where the stock continues to grow beyond the bricks and mortar - displaying an array of potted plants and gardening supplies.