Bristol's Weekend Highlights: 12th - 14th May
Posted on: 12 May 2017As usual Bristol has a number of treats in store for you this weekend, with stellar examples of sport, music, comedy and art taking place across the city. Click the links below for more information or to buy tickets:
Friday:
Omid Djalili – Colston Hall
Omid Djalili, the comedian, writer and actor of Iranian descent has been a firm favourite of audiences ever since his emergence onto the scene back in 1995. His latest show Schmuck for a Night has been doing the rounds and attracting rave reviews – make up your own mind at Colston Hall.
Gloucestershire vs Somerset One Day – County Ground
Gloucestershire’s latest fixture in the Royal London One Day Cup sees them take on local rivals Somerset, who currently sit atop the division at the Brightside Stadium.
Saturday:
Andrea Luka Zimmerman exhibition tour – Spike Island
Take a guided tour around Common Ground, the first UK solo exhibition from celebrated filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, which explores the idea of community, whilst proposing new methods for communal living.
Theme Park - The Exchange
Stalwarts of the polished, jangly indie-pop which inhabited Spotify playlists and Made in Chelsea soundtracks at the beginning of the decade, Theme Park are back with a new record Is This How It Starts? See what you make of it at The Exchange on Saturday night.
Sunday:
Adam Ant – Bristol Hippodrome
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Ant Army assemble! The dandy highwayman is back on the road and he is bringing the glory days with him on his Anthems UK tour. Be sure to catch the eighties’ favourite invertebrate when he scuttles through the Hippodrome on Sunday.
Andy Parsons – Tobacco Factory
Poking fun at the world gone mad is Andy Parsons, the diminutive cheeky chappy and Mock The Week regular. Catch his latest show Peak Bullsh*t when he brings it to the Tobacco Factory on Sunday.
Also, across the weekend:
Brandon Hill Beer Festival
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Let’s hear it for the beer! All hail to the ale! This weekend sees the Brandon Hill Beer Festival, a celebration of the liquid gold, take place amongst the gregarious gaggle of pubs in central Bristol comprised of The Hope and Anchor, The Bag of Nails, The Three Tuns and The Lime Kiln. Expect music, magic and a spot of merriment.
Southbank Bristol Arts Trail
This weekend, over 150 artists and makers will be sharing their work with the public at the 15th annual Southbank Bristol Arts Trail – one of the largest, liveliest and longest-running community arts events in Bristol – which incorporates 45 spaces across Bedminster, Southville and Ashton.
Bristol Foodies Festival – The Downs
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Last year’s star baker Candice Brown will be just one of several leading culinary names cooking up a storm at the Bristol Foodies Festival, which takes place on the Downs this weekend.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
