Bristol Photography Festival

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

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© Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte Jame

James Barnor:
Ghanaian Modernist

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
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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

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© Jessa Fairbrother

Lips Touched with Blood:
Sarah Waiswa

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL

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© 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

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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

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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.

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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.”

Theaster Gates - Sanctum - Bristol

This is well worth a look: http://sanctumbristol.com/
Until 6pm on Saturday 21st November, Sanctum hosts a continuous programme of sound over 552 hours, sustained by performers, musicians and bands in a temporary structure within the shell of Temple Church, Bristol. Sanctum is Theaster Gates' first public project in the UK, produced by Situations, as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital.

Back to the future - artists moving image - Tonight at the Cube

From a repatriation ceremony at Wootton Bassett, to a migratory border crossing between Bulgaria and Turkey, from Berlin’s Reichstag building and the reconstructed ‘memorial wall’, to a journey down the Danube past Belgrade - we present five contemporary artists films by Breda Boban, Rose Butler, Ergin Cavusoglu, Katie Davies and Monika Oechsler . 

The programme will be followed by a Q+A with the artists led by film curator Al Cameron.

Willem de Rooij - Arnolfini

A new exhibition, by Dutch artist Willem de Rooij, featuring a politically-charged photographic work in an installation that explores themes of individuality, protest and representation.

Index: Riots, Protest, Mourning and Commemoration (as represented in newspapers, January 2000–July 2002), 2003, consists of 18 large panels each featuring a selection of photographs cut from newspapers. De Rooij is interested in how these images are selected for global distribution in the news media, the ways in which people are presented in protest, and how they stage themselves in front of a camera. The installation presents a large selection of global political struggles, but despite being taken in different geographical and political situations and contexts, there are similarities between the different images presented. Without the newspaper headlines and captions, the formal qualities of the photographs become apparent, inviting a closer look at representation and drawing together the subjects that the title of the work indicates: riots, protests, mourning and commemoration.

Free. Friday 21 November 2014 to Sunday 08 February 2015, 11:00 to 18:00.

Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay. Bristol BS1 4QA

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Space is the Place - Screening - AfroFuturism - Watershed- 23/10/14

Sun Ra's Space is the place is showing at Watershed as part of their 'Afrofuturism' programme.

'Calling planet Earth, you are cordially invited to experience (or re-experience) the Sun Ra sci fi classic Space Is The Place, one of the most elusive cult music films of all time. Sun Ra was a Pharoah from another galaxy who took the form of philosophical and experimental jazz genius leader of the Intergalactic Arkestra. Travelling through the cosmos in his music fuelled spaceship, Ra discovers a planet where the 'vibrations are different', a world that might serve as a new home for the black humans from Earth, a place where they still struggle to achieve equality. Before our hero can offer the people of Oakland the chance of a new life, he must first do battle with the establishment, as well as a pimpish Devil-like figure known as The Overseer. Whilst earthbound, he manages (but of course) to play some of his most famous songs with the Arkestra. For Ra (born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, also the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan), outer space wasn't just a gimmick, a convenient source of song titles and an awesome theme for outfits (there's full on glitter-Egyptian regalia, gold silk tunics and chain mail skull caps galore). It was a zone where racism didn't exist, a place where black people could make their own destinies - just imagine. This is a wonderfully strange filmic adventure, one we should all get on board for - join us for a jazz-flavoured ride into space!

With an introduction by Professor Denenge Akpem, performance artist, designer and lecturer.

Ticket prices: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions. Ticket holders also receive priority entry to the pre-film DJ set (see below).

Join us for FUTURE SHOCK, a pre-film warm up in the Café/Bar from 22:00-23:00 with DJ Food (Ninja Tune/Solid Steel), who will present a turntablist soundscape of sci-fi songs, cosmic music and retro electronic visions of a future very different from the one we live in now.'