Alma Tavern hosts comedy night for charity

Alma Tavern hosts comedy night for charity

Posted on: 09 Mar 2023

Action on Poverty, a charity helping to fight extreme poverty across the world, are hosting their very first comedy fundraiser at the Alma Tavern & Theatre.

There are a lot of comedy offerings around Bristol these days – to the point where it can be hard to choose which ones to give your time to. Why not make it one for a good cause?

Action on Poverty are Bristol-based charity who raise funds to help train & provide resources to people experiencing extreme poverty in Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania – focusing on raising them up to achieve their own sustainable livelihoods.

Now, you can help Action on Poverty with their mission – all whilst having a laugh at the same time – at An Evening of Comedy for Action on Poverty. Taking place on the Tuesday, April 25, and hosted by the Alma Tavern & Theatre, the show features a lot of names that are big on the comedy circuit right now – both locally and nationally.

First up on the bill is Joe Kent-Walters & Mikey Bligh-Smith – A.K.A The Lovely Boys. Yorkshire lads best known for their knockabout physical comedy and pure silliness, this is an act with all the wholesomeness of giving to charity.

The Lovely Boys will be presenting to you a bevvy of Bristol’s best talent; firstly, the show features excellent, Fringe-tested comic Millie Malone – sometimes called ‘the people’s princess of Bristol comedy’ – shortlisted for BBC New Comedian of the Year.

Alongside Millie will be the "adorable, loud and intensely awkward" Alice-India Garwood, once described as 'the personification of charisma' by Kiri Pritchard-McLean – and a 2Northdown New Comedian of the Year Finalist 2021.

Bringing some punk to the affair will be the ‘spoken word phenomena' (Voice Magazine) that is T.S. IDIOT, a multidisciplinary artist bringing the strange, the riotous and the tender to life in scorchingly good punk poetry.

Last but not least, diagram-comic Greg Curzon will be on hand to explain concepts you’ve never thought of – his comedy is guaranteed to be silly, absurd and hand-drawn.

If you're interested in enjoying a night of comedy whilst helping end poverty across Africa, get your tickets here.

 

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Patrick Bate

Patrick is a filmmaker with so much Bristol in his blood the white blood cells are graffiti'd. Educated at the Northern Film School in Leeds, he’s returned home to be a Videographer and Reviewer for 365Bristol and BARBI. When he’s not messing about with cameras, he enjoys playing guitar, spending far too much time on tabletop RPGs, and being an awful snob about cider. Have a look at his work here, or get in touch at patrickb@365bristol.com.