Arnolfini
Iconic gallery and venue on Bristol’s waterfront
Established 1961, Arnolfini is an internationally renowned contemporary arts centre on the city harbourside, offering a diverse programme of visual art, contemporary dance, film screenings and live music, as well as workshops, talks and lectures, and family events.
Its versatile facilities span multiple exhibition and performance spaces including five galleries and a 200-capacity auditorium, plus specialist bookshop, reading room, and cafe-bar. Part of the building is shared with The University of the West of England (UWE).
Alongside its own exhibitions and events, over the years Arnolfini has hosted events for many of Bristol’s key cultural institutions, including Mayfest, Bristol Palestine Film Festival, Bristol Artists Book Event, Lyrafest, and Encounters Film Festival alongside Watershed and the Bristol Beacon.
Level access into the building is available via Prince Street, with lift access to all floors. Accessible toilets are available throughout the building. Further access information can be found on the Arnolfini website: http://arnolfini.org.uk/plan-your-visit/accessibility
Its versatile facilities span multiple exhibition and performance spaces including five galleries and a 200-capacity auditorium, plus specialist bookshop, reading room, and cafe-bar. Part of the building is shared with The University of the West of England (UWE).
Alongside its own exhibitions and events, over the years Arnolfini has hosted events for many of Bristol’s key cultural institutions, including Mayfest, Bristol Palestine Film Festival, Bristol Artists Book Event, Lyrafest, and Encounters Film Festival alongside Watershed and the Bristol Beacon.
Level access into the building is available via Prince Street, with lift access to all floors. Accessible toilets are available throughout the building. Further access information can be found on the Arnolfini website: http://arnolfini.org.uk/plan-your-visit/accessibility
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Our recent recommendations for Arnolfini
Essential documentary exploring the weaponization of anti-Semitism and the UK Terrorism Act to suppress Palestinian solidarity. Featuring Ken Loach, Sarah Wilkinson and Roger Waters, Censoring Palestine outlines the mechanisms of this concerted campaign of censorship across journalism, social media and academic institutions.
Censoring Palestine at Arnolfini.
Three luminaries of Black avant-garde sound link up for an essential dive into post-colonial techno and noise reclamation. Trevor Mathison (of Black Audio Film Collective renown), Gary Stewart and Nkisi present their ongoing radical sonic research practice 'Black Industrialism' via a compelling experimental essay-concert.
Reclaiming a post-colonial lineage of techno and noise music. Trevor Mathison, Gary Stewart and Nkisi.
Holly Thomas recalibrates our senses with dance-theatre piece Half Light, blending storytelling, movement, and textured sound to refract her lived experience of visual impairment and parenthood. Eschewing conventional audio description, it conjures a multi-sensory realm where movement is inhabited as deeply through sound as it is through vision.
A beautiful exploration of a mother-son relationship and lived experience of visual impairment, through immersive dance and sound.
Two absolute wonders of improvised performance in one evening! UK free jazz GOAT Evan Parker spins hypnotic patterns with circular breathing and overtone manipulation, while Trance Map+ blend acoustic instruments with live electronic processing to create shape-shifting soundscapes in real time.
Arnolfini is thrilled to welcome back the legendary exponent of free improvisation, with new collaborators.
Tender and heartfelt, Edhi Alice is a documentary portrait of trans lives in South Korea from trailblazing director/activist Ilrhan Kim. It screens at Arnolfini as part of the Queer East travelling roadshow, offering you a rare chance to see queer cinema from East and Southeast Asian communities across the UK.
Presenting director Ilrhan Kim’s moving documentary portrait of two trans women in South Korea.