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A series of short films featuring Cornish speakers is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Letters and diaries written by passengers on the SS Great Britain when it sailed the high seas have inspired a Bristol poet to produce a unique anthology.
A new exhibition at Durlston Country Park, ‘Hidden Perspectives – A Sense of Studland’, features work from three artists June Ridgway, Lizzy Short and Lin Walker, showcasing their different perspectives and interpretations of the Studland landscape through the seasons.
Thirty-seven works of art created by people with dementia living at a Bridgwater care home have been sold in an online auction, boosting the residents’ activities fund by over £100 and creating great excitement among the artists and their families and friends.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has announced a partnership with the ground-breaking UK-wide art education project, The World Reimagined, which will see the firm sponsor two globe sculptures, one in Bristol and the other in London.
An exhibition and sale of eight artworks of traditional and modern Tibetan icons, created over decades of meticulous research and work, will go on public display in a Glastonbury art gallery in June.
A portrait of England rugby star Maro Itoje is set to be auctioned at a flagship players’ event later this month – created by a self-taught Bristol artist who took up painting during lockdown.
Final preparations for the second BS5 Art Trail are underway as artists and makers from across the city put the finishing touches to their work.
Local artists are being given the chance to showcase their work at venues around BS5 as the popular BS5 Art Trail returns for its second year.
Tom Rooney, a 93-year old retired Grenadier Guardsman who lives at a dementia care home in Bridgwater, has produced artwork which so astonished his carers that they have been inspired to organised an exhibition of his work.
Hoteliers in Bristol are hoping that the Government’s decision to end the ‘Plan B’ Covid-19 restrictions will lead to a much-needed boost to their businesses.
The opening of the showhome on the new Strawberry Field development in the village of Hempsted, near Gloucester, is intriguing local people with an interest in how you can reflect your personality when you decorate your home, according to interior designer Elaine Deeks.
Bristol's business and cultural links with China were celebrated when a delegation from the West Country visited the award-winning "Guangzhou Garden" at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The gold medal-winning garden, designed by Bath-based landscape architecture practice Grant Associates for the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which is the sister city of Bristol, aims to highlight how planners must work in harmony with nature.
Having lived with COVID restrictions for over a year, many of us are eager to reunite and reconnect with friends and have fun together once again. Bristol-born online experience marketplace Yuup.co has over 200 unique COVID-safe things to do for the inquisitive individual to enjoy with friends, run by passionate local hosts.
With the national lockdown extended until 8 March, many people and parents will be looking for at-home entertainment this February half term. Here are some of the best offerings from Bristol including a Wallace and Gromit augmented reality game, an online Lunar New Year Festival, Bristol Old Vic’s Swallows and Amazons and virtual art classes and exhibitions.
