What: Simple Things Festival // Where: Various // When: Fri 24th-Sat 25th Oct // Cost: Various Simple Things Festival returns to Bristol this Friday with a special opening party and a full day of musical diversity on the Saturday. For a fourth year various Bristol venues will open their… Continue Reading
Welcome to WHIL Wednesdays. We are opening a photo of the week series, where our readers can have their photography featured here on The Fix’s very own website. From time to time I’ll experiment with different photography techniques with the odd… Continue Reading
What: Wildscreen Film Festival // Where: Watershed/Arnolfini/Various // When: Sat 19th-Fri 24th Oct // Cost: Various There aren’t many more universally popular British icons than Sir David Attenborough. From Widnes to Windsor, Sir David entertains and informs like few can. So the opportunity to see the… Continue Reading
What: Cary Grant Comes Home Festival // Where: Watershed/Hippodrome/Various // When: Sat 11th-Sun 12th Oct // Cost: Various Before Banksy, Bristol’s most famous son was Archie Leach, aka Cary Grant. This weekend Bristol celebrates how Horfield-born Grant changed his name and his fortunes to become internationally… Continue Reading
James Acaster began performing stand-up comedy in 2008, after the bands he played drums for in Northamptonshire broke up, and he “decided to do comedy before deciding what he really wanted to do”. A year or so later he appeared… Continue Reading
Have you ever said something you instantly wanted to take back? You do wonder if political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, ever wonders just that, when he thinks back to his generation defining postulation that the fall of Communism in 1989 marked… Continue Reading
What: Bristol Bright Night // Where: @Bristol/Watershed/Various // When: Friday 26th Sept // Cost: Free Bristol Bright Night is set to bring the city streets to life with free activities that offer the chance to discover the wealth of scientific research taking place on our… Continue Reading
What: Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival // Where: Cube/Arnolfini/Harbourside & Watershed // When: Tuesday 16th-21st September // Cost: Various We are pretty good at animation in Bristol aren’t we, what with a bona fide Oscar winner in our midst and all. It may come,… Continue Reading