We will be attending the excellent Bristol Photography Festival on Wednesday 14th October 2026.
The festival runs October 14-18th across many venues, with many exhibitions running longer. Full details can be found via link below
See notes from 2021 edition of festival at: Bristol Photography Festival — POOOL
Film & Media Arts Production, BA (Hons) students will be attending Encounters Film Festival 2026 at Watershed in Bristol.
We will be offering subsidised Discovery Passes which will be £20 for 5 events (£35 if buying from festival). You can purchase these via Weston College shop, see link below.
Once you have the pass you can then reserve individual tickets for screenings, talks and events. See link below for details.
We will be meeting at Watershed at 10am on Weds 23rd and Thurs 24th September, you will need to make your own way to Bristol. Watershed. 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX.
This is an invaluable trip that will support all of your modules. You should keep some notes about what you see and feed this into your module course work.
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:
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte Jame
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
More Info and Booking
Ghanaian Modernist © James Barnor. Courtesy of Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Jessa Fairbrother
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).
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
Please see handout (copy on Teams) for full details.
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
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/
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.
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.”
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.
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.
![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)
