Arnolfini
Bristol primary exhibitions space also hosts music events.
Known for its gallery space and exhibitions, it's easy to forget that the Arnolfini also hosts some unique music events (1 or 2 a month). Technically the venue excels with its main auditorium boasting a high spec PA, large stage and quality lighting setup.
Unsurprisingly the Arnolfini's (music) programming bears strong links with Bristol's arts scene. While shows are diverse, alt-indie, folk and electronica bookings are undeniably prevalent. Past guests include Dirty Projectors, Polar Bear, Tunng and Tim Hecker.Considering the popularity of experimental, modern music amongst Bristol's art crowd it's worth nothing that such events are popular and frequently sell out well in advance.
Unsurprisingly the Arnolfini's (music) programming bears strong links with Bristol's arts scene. While shows are diverse, alt-indie, folk and electronica bookings are undeniably prevalent. Past guests include Dirty Projectors, Polar Bear, Tunng and Tim Hecker.Considering the popularity of experimental, modern music amongst Bristol's art crowd it's worth nothing that such events are popular and frequently sell out well in advance.
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Aura Satz’s experimental documentary feature fractures sense and sound, taking sirens as its subject. Filmed in empty lots and fields around the world, the work prompts reflection on how we prepare for disasters, and how the sounds designed to save us can become haunting, poetic, or eerily useless over time. Featuring sirens for a new age composed by Sarah Davachi, Moor Mother, Kode9 and more.
Preemptive Listening at Arnolfini.
Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke meditates on our relationship to the natural world in the context of climate breakdown, stretching language like play-doh across an enigmatic acapella score for four voices. Shepherded by click tracks, the vocalists’ syllables tumble into abstraction, and selfhood dissolves. Unmissable FFO: Steve Reich, Kali Malone, Mica Levi, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk.
Impossible and arcane: a strange new four-part a capella work from Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke. With support from Emergency Chorus.
The RAI Film Festival hosts a vibrant gathering of cinematic voices – traversing anthropology, reshaping memory and imagining new futures across 90+ films from 36 countries. Opening with 'God Is a Woman', an arresting meditation on cultural memory and indigenous image reclamation.
With a screening of Andre Peyrot's 'God is a woman' (2023).
An evening’s journey through immersive art worlds, featuring multidisciplinary responses to Barbara Walker’s extraordinary graphite portraits. Wander through the gallery to the revival sounds of Ujima’s DJ Donvan, marvel at the break dancing and ballet with guided life drawing sessions or explore the nature of archiving with Amanda Egbe’s Radical Memory workshop. It’s the Fini like you’ve never seen it before ...
Celebrating Barbara Walker's Being Here with Nia Bimkubwa, DJ Donovan, and more...
Part of BEEF's 10th birthday celebration: a double screening from British Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong. In A Letter (Side B) and A Pledge are brutalist hymns to survival which utilise the nostalgic soul of a hacked Gameboy camera, traversing memoir, fiction, cultural criticism and Gōjū-ryū karate.
A screening of current work within British Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong’s ongoing GHOST_DATA_ short film series followed by a conversation between Achiampong and curator Ben Borthwick.