Bristol is down for UpFest this weekend

Bristol is down for UpFest this weekend

Posted on: 25 Jul 2017

Europe’s largest street art festival returns to Bristol this weekend, with over 350 artists descending onto the streets of Bedminster for three days of urban painting.

Upfest

Upfest is the urban paint festival which allows you to quite literally paint the town red. Last year, some 40,000 visitors descended on Bedminster to watch 300 artists do their thing, and 2017 will be even bigger, with the festival’s route now extending from Ashton Gate to East Street.

 

The roads, side streets and parks between these points will be covered artworks which run the gamut of size, theme and colour, contributing to a vast tapestry of aesthetic prowess.

UpFest

The aforementioned Ashton Gate is the newest addition to the festival’s roster of venues and will host over 70 artists live painting on the Saturday and Sunday, and kids’ areas. Similar hives of artistic activity will be dotted up and down North Street, with the Tobacco Factory and South Street Park as the two main other epicentres.

 

The majority of the action at UpFest will unfold between Friday and Sunday, with more exhaustive information about the festival available at www.upfest.co.uk. For updates and more from UpFest, check them out on Facebook.


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Sam Mason-Jones

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.