Cafe Kino
Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.
Cafe Kino is a collectively run vegan cafe and radical grassroots arts hub in Stokes Croft. Fiercely progressive and unapologetically queer-led, its 75-standing capacity basement hosts everything from DIY punk, hardcore and alt-folk gigs to arts workshops and avant-garde film screenings, all rooted in independence and collective care.
What's On At Cafe Kino
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experimental
contemporary jazz
post-punk
shoegaze
ambient
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folk
experimental
traditional folk
drone
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punk
metal
hardcore-punk
doom metal
thrash metal
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jazz
indie pop
psychedelic rock
progressive rock
trip hop
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folk
contemporary classical
workshops & classes
festival
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experimental
blues
contemporary jazz
post-punk
psychedelic rock
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folk
ambient
a cappella
spoken word
poetry
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shoegaze
noise rock
post rock
anti-folk
lo-fi
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Enter Kino's storytelling portals... Wessex Hag animates her spectral recordings for Halloween, spinning uncanny West Country fables with live vocal incantations and ambient drones born of bogs, hedgerows, and wind-whipped fields. Yorkshire’s Blabbermouth excavates the whispers of landscape and lore, stitching archaeology into myth.
Wessex Hag + Blabbermouth: Dark West Country Folklore at Cafe Kino.
Free entry! The first in a series of events at Café Kino offering a supportive community space for survivors of gender-based violence. Focusing on building connections and the power in unity, these wellbeing group sessions are carving out a gentle, no-pressure environment with optional creative activities and guided exercises.
Wellbeing Group For Sexual Abuse Survivors at Cafe Kino.
Sell out warning! Bristol’s most deadly necrotic hxc outfit eagerly drip another EP of blackened filth into the unworthy omniverse. Feel the brutality in the flesh first alongside Cryptbreaker’s dungeon beatdown and Bile Caster’s unholy sludge wreckage. Riffs to scare the vicar with FFO: Young and in the Way, Entombed, Martyrdöd, Wolvhammer, Indian, Wolfbrigade.
Plague Pit "A Whispered Curse" Release Show + Support at Cafe Kino.
More invigoration from the experimental improv scene’s rebel soundsmiths: IGH bids farewell to spoken word poet Devin Birse with one final defamiliarising sermon, alongside Berlin duo Slow Slow Loris’s ghost-haunted electronics and Sean Addicott’s untamed ambient storms. Anchored by a mutant house band featuring most of The Scuttlers.
DEVIN BIRSE FAREWELL / SEAN ADDICOTT / SLOW SLOW LORIS at Cafe Kino.
Frenzied Leeds nu-metal powerhouses, pilfering ideas from metalcore, post-hardcore, IDM and drum’n’bass like they were all the same thing. Bodyweb’s gonna flip Kino basement into an unstoppable beatdown generator FFO: Knocked Loose, Static Dress, Deftones, Higher Power, Korn, Nothingface.
Blowout Presents Bodyweb, Monochrome and Apathy at Cafe Kino, Bristol