Visit - Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th Sept ‘21
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and innovative festival, commissioning and producing exhibitions biannually across the city, alongside an ongoing programme of talks, events, workshops and training through a partnership model of collaboration. The festival provides platforms for national, international, student and emerging photographers, and an extensive outreach and engagement programme with schools, community groups, third level educational institutions, charities and libraries.
There is a programme, which you can look at to see what you’d like to visit join in with in your own time, but we have selected a couple of venues to get you going as they include 5 great exhibitions between them. If you go individually at other times, it’s worth checking the venue websites/calling in advance to check nothing has changed or been cancelled.
You will need to plan your visit on Thu and Fri 23rd /24th Sept by booking individually for each of the 2 venues.
Please see handout (copy on Teams) for full details or download pdf of handout here
We have selected the following exhibitions from the programme:
Island Life
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte Jame
James Barnor:
Ghanaian Modernist
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
More Info and Booking
Ghanaian Modernist © James Barnor. Courtesy of Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Beyond the Frame: Heather Agyepong | Jessa Fairbrother | Lua Ribeira
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Jessa Fairbrother
Lips Touched with Blood:
Sarah Waiswa
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Sarah Waiswa, created from original photo by Charles Trotter, copyright Bristol Archives. (right) © Sara Waiswa (left).
IN PROGRESS
Laia Abril - Hoda Afshar - Widline Cadet - Adama Jalloh - Alba Zari . Curated by Aaron Schuman
The Royal Photographic Society | 337 Paintworks, Arno’s Vale, Bristol BS4 3AR
![Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1), 2019 from the series ‘Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)’ © Wildline Cadet courtesy Royal Photographic Society](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ecf957e4b0a3afa66fba4e/1631195334743-2WNVEGOPWC75UNIS35LP/InProgressWidlineCadetPRESSIMAGE02WebOnly-1000x1250.jpeg)
Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1), 2019
from the series ‘Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)’
© Wildline Cadet courtesy Royal Photographic Society
Please see handout (copy on Teams) for full details.
Extras if you like the sound of them:
Simple Things and Limbic Cinema present: SPECTRA
SPECTRA, a large-scale immersive sculpture created by award-winning multimedia creative artists Limbic Cinema and music producer K-LONE.
The immersive sculpture, presented by Simple Things and Limbic Cinema, explores the relationship with light, through projection mapping, volumetric lighting and intricate sound design. The FREE experience lasts around 12 minutes, with intervals throughout the four days.
Free to attend. The Station, Silver Street, Bristol, BS1 2AG
Dates: 23 Sept 2021 - 26 Sept 2021
Open: Thursday 10:00- 21:00, Friday 10:00- 21:00, Saturday 10:00- 21:00, Sunday 10:00- 21:00
More details here
Peggy Ahwesh:
Vision Machines
The preview night for this Film / Video Installation exhibition is on the Friday evening
Exhibition preview: Friday 24 September, 6–8pm
More Info at: https://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/exhibitions/peggy-ahwesh/
Vanguard | Bristol Street Art: The evolution of a global movement
Although is: £6 concession, £7 adult. Free for under 18s – ticket still required
Book a time slot at: https://pretix.eu/bristolmuseums/mshed/ or just turn up and hope to get in.
High Volume: Bristol Sounds
Photographs from Mark Simmons
23 September – 30 October 2021
Strange Brew, 10-12 Fairfax St, Bristol BS1 3DB, United Kingdom
Photographs chronicling Bristol’s music scene since the 1980s by Mark Simmons.
I’d advise visiting on the Friday. Think you can get food/drink here during day too.
More Info
Bogle Competition Easton Community Centre, October 1992 A Jamaican Bogle dance competition at the local community centre. “The young man looks completely rapt, his partner is serene and holding the space while the crowd cheers them on.”