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Sunday, 26 July 2015
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Europe's largest, free street art and graffiti festival is happening this weekend, 25-26th July 2015, in Bedminster and Southville. Upfest 2015 will gather over 250 talented artists coming from 25 different countries to paint live on 30,000sqft of surfaces.
There are 28 venues where all the art sale, music and workshops will take place including Tobacco Factory, Red Point Climbing Centre, North Street Green and The Old Book Shop among others (download map here). Artists such as Angus Art, Cheo, Miss Wah, Stina Jones and Vlong will be decorating the neighbourhood with street art stencils. The live artist painting will take place on Saturday and Sunday (11am to 7pm), whereas Monday has been designated as a viewing day and special family day with extra workshops for kids.
An exhibition called "The Standard" will be featuring original artwork from selected festival artist at North Street Standard. Also, outside in the garden of The Steam Crane, will be Black Flag Brewery setting up a pop up bar which will offer a selection of craft beers on tap, and in the garden barn will be a series of local creative traders opening for a weekend-long mini-market. A similar event will be at The Rising Sun, serving cask ales, beers and ciders at the large rear garden which hosts DJs, live music and also a BBQ.
There is Scribble 'N Scratch at Tobacco Factory, a monthly illustration battle and hip-hop night based in Bristol. The main focus of the battles is to take artists out of their comfort zone and push boundaries as artists accompanied by a selection of DJs playing hip-hop, soul and break. Two heats on Saturday and one on Sunday down-select artists for the Grand Final, happening at 4pm on Sunday 26th July.
If you bring your kids, in the back garden of Hungry Caterpillar Play Cafe will have urban fairy tales with Peter Pan and Princess Pal, and pose for pictures between 10am and 12pm. On Sunday (11am-2pm), families are invited to join Brillustration in drawing all over the wall inside and out with chalk.
The festival is FREE but organisers do ask to buy a programme on site and donate to NACOA... and do not forget to pick up you limited edition festival T-shirt at The Upfest Gallery!
WEBSITE: http://www.upfest.co.uk/
Cheo's graffiti picture "borrowed" from the official website. Thank you! ;)
Sunday, 19 July 2015
Summer is the time where our calendars are busier than the usual. For the past few years, the popularity of al fresco cinemas have been increasing and this year, we are having plenty of options to enjoy a movie in an uncommon way. This weekend, after announcing the event early April this year, The Moonlight Cinema will finally be happening. The even has been confirmed and early bird tickets are already SOLD OUT! Do not worry, though. There are still general tickets left!
After an online voting to select the screened movies, these are the finalists:
Grease will be screened on Friday, 24th July. That's the American musical romantic comedy-drama from the 1978, where Australian Sandy Olsen meets local boy Danny Zuko at the beach and fall in love. Thinking they will never see each other again, they bump into each other at Rydell High and that's basically when all the drama starts.
If you prefer Pretty Woman, get the tickets for Saturday, 25th July. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere start one of the most famous movie from the 90s, where man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute... only to fall in love with her.
On Sunday, 26th July, the movie is The Wolf of Wall Street, a more recent movie where Leonardo Dicaprio plays the role of Jordan Belfort, a wealthy stock-broker living the high life who finally gets involved in crime, corruption and issues with the federal government.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased here. General admission is £9, and children's ticket costs £1. I could not find discount tickets for students but there some limited Premium Tickets available (£16.50) if you want to get prime position, avoid queuing and get a complimentary drink!
We will be there. Will you?
Note: picture borrowed from the Moonlight Cinema's Facebook page. Thank you! ;)
Sunday, 12 July 2015
Are you a quiz lover? If yes, this is the post for you! We have gathered information on pubs and bars in the city centre organising a weekly quiz, including price to take part, jackpot price (if any), day of the week and area.
Monday is the favourite day for quiz. The earliest quiz starts at 7.30pm in The Beer Emporium, where you can win the biggest jackpot of the day (£50). Traditional Gloucester Road pubs such as The Flyer and The Wellington also organise weekly quizzes at 8pm and 8.30pm respectively. Close in Cotham, quiz at The Hill starts at 8.30pm with a £25 jackpot. Quizzes around Clifton start at 8.30pm in the Alma Tavern and at 8.45pm in The Eldon House, both with £50 jackpots. Both the Barley Mow (Bedminster) and the Grain Barge (Hotwells) start their quizzes at 8pm with £16 and £20 jackpots respectively, Stag and Hounds starts at 9pm.
On Tuesdays, best is to go to the Old Town area. The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer, with the incredible jackpot of £100, arrange a weekly quiz at 7.30pm while the one at Mothers Ruin in St Nicholas Market starts at 9pm. In the last one, apart from having the chance to win a £100 jackpot, they serve free food. We have been there and we had loads of fun! Read here. The Bank Tavern, also in the city centre, has a quiz that starts at 8.30pm which unfortunately has no jackpot.
Park Street is also a good area to go for a quiz on Tuesdays as Bristol Ram, starting at 7.30pm, has a £100 jackpot, and The White Harte, very popular among students, starts at 8.00pm with a £40 jackpot. Finally, The Brass Pig at the triangle starts at 8pm with a £45 jackpot.
If you have missed the Mothers Ruin quiz on Tuesday, you have another chance closeby on Wednesdays as Seamus O’Donnell hosts a quiz starting 9pm (£60 jackpot). Two quizzes are organised in Clifton this day: one at the Coach and Horses and the second in The Vittoria (both at 8.30pm). In Easton, the quiz at Chelsea Inn could be your option at 8pm, where it is free to participate but there is no jackpot to win either.
On Thursdays, the Three Sugar Loaves hosts a quiz on Christmas Steps starting at 9pm. It is the most expensive quiz of all, though (£2) and there isn’t a jackpot either. If you live in St Pauls, Surrey Vaults has a quiz at 7pm with a £40 jackpot, and in Cotham, the quiz starts at 7.30pm in Cotham Porter Stores (£50 jackpot). The other option is to go to The Ship Inn in Gloucester Road to try to win a £50 jackpot at 8.30pm.
There is no quiz on Friday or Saturday.
And the only quiz we know of that happens on Sundays happens at 8.30pm in The Cambridge Arms with a £50 jackpot.
It’s £1 to participate in all of them except for the few exceptions mentioned. There is a very useful map on this website (click here) which show the pubs with quizzes on a map, filtered by days. Have a look and… let me know if you win a jackpot!! :)
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Monday, 6 July 2015
Two years after Gromit (read here), it's Shaun The Sheep's time to raise some money for the Children's Charity. Today, 6th July 2015, it's official day for the Shaun Trail in Bristol but I have been able to spot some of them during the weekend!
If you haven't already come across with any of them yet, go for a walk around Bristol and I bet that you will spot at least one in less than 5 minutes. As a help, you can download the trail map here. On the website, there is also a list of all Shauns, with pictures and detailed information of the author and sponsor(see here).
This year, I will try to take a picture of all Shaun the Sheep sculptures and post them here. So far, I have 7 of them. Do you think I will managed to take pictures all of them? Place your bet!
Where is Gromit?: http://greatlittleplacecalledbristol.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/where-is-gromit.html
Friday, 3 July 2015
Look up at the front of the Corn Exchange building and you will see there is a big clock with two minute hands: one black, one red. It is a clock with an interesting tale behind.The clock was installed in 1822 showing the local time in Bristol. As Bristol is located 200kms west to London, sun rises and sets about 10 minutes later. Therefore, Bristol and London did not have the same time. Having such different times was common until the arrival of the railway and the introduction of new means of communication.It soon became apparent that an agreement would have to be reached on exactly when trains arrived and departed. Bristolians needed to know when the trains were running. Thus, began the concept of Greenwich Mean Time and an extra hand was added to the central clock. Therefore, each station would have two clocks: one showing the local time (black) while the other hand pointed to "Railway Time" (red).Today, nobody uses "Bristol Time", of course. Bristol officially adopted railway time on 14th September 1852 but the red hand is still an interesting remain of past times.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THIS EVENING, 3rd July, there is the St Nick's Night Market with street food, musicians and circus performances. Pop up between 5.30-9.30pm! :)WEBSITE: http://bristolnightmarket.com/
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Regardless the drizzly day, we have been at the Foodies
Festival on Sunday. It is a food festival which happened between
26-28th June this year, and as a novelty, it has been held at the
beautiful Clifton Downs instead of the Harbourside.
As recommended by the organisers of the event, we took the bus to get to The
Downs, and our invitations were waiting for us at the ticket office right at the entrance. Two days earlier I was lucky enough to win a couple of day tickets in a competition at the blog A Life Less Organised, which I am very thankful for. ;)
I personally love food festivals because I love tasting free samples of... everything! Ginger beer, cheese, chocolate, chilli sauces, special oils an vinegars... Nonetheless, we also filled our shopping bags with some Ruby Mist cheese from the Snowdonia Cheese Company (one for £4; three for £11); chocolate from Sciolti Botanical Chocolates (£4), biscuits from The Sawley Kitchen (Offer! £1.50), although there were plenty of other tasty things we could have bought!
We stopped for lunch, which was a tasty rib-eye sandwich (£8) at BoyMeatsGrill and a glass of great wine (£4.50) at the Rioja stand, and continued with the route once our stomachs were full. There were many events for adults. I have been told that each ticket got you access to one of the events on each stage but on Sunday, probably because the weather was not in favour, there were many seats available except for the wine tasting event, which was very popular.
I personally love food festivals because I love tasting free samples of... everything! Ginger beer, cheese, chocolate, chilli sauces, special oils an vinegars... Nonetheless, we also filled our shopping bags with some Ruby Mist cheese from the Snowdonia Cheese Company (one for £4; three for £11); chocolate from Sciolti Botanical Chocolates (£4), biscuits from The Sawley Kitchen (Offer! £1.50), although there were plenty of other tasty things we could have bought!We stopped for lunch, which was a tasty rib-eye sandwich (£8) at BoyMeatsGrill and a glass of great wine (£4.50) at the Rioja stand, and continued with the route once our stomachs were full. There were many events for adults. I have been told that each ticket got you access to one of the events on each stage but on Sunday, probably because the weather was not in favour, there were many seats available except for the wine tasting event, which was very popular.
Nonetheless, it is not a festival for adults only. There were many activities for children as well. Starting from cookery classes to bouncy castles and slides, kinds can also have a lot of fun! However, only cookery classes were free: face painting for example cost £3.50, and the bouncy slide wasn’t free either (£1).
On our way out, we were given a set of freebies including a nice Stella Antois chalice, Chupa Chups bubble gum, a can of energy drink and some tea. Brilliant!
WEBSITE: http://www.foodiesfestival.com/bristol/
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Are you an anime fan? Do you like board games? There is a chance this Saturday, 27th June, to meet up with other gamers, cosplayers and geeks at the Bristol Big Geek Meet. Invite your friends and make new friends ahead of Bristol's big event next October (more info here)!
The meet-up will be this Saturday, 27th June at Bristol Temple Meads Train Station. The plan is to meet up at 12.30pm and move on at 1pm, go shopping and grab some food. They will go to Cabot Circus, Excelsior and around 4pm onwards, head to the upstairs area of King William pub where they will bring a selection of board and card games including Cards Against Humanity (I love it!), Cash n' Guns, Resistance and many more.
INTERESTING LINKS
Briston Anime & Gaming Con: http://www.bristolanimecon.com/
Bristol Big Geek Meet: http://www.animeleague.net/forum/showthread.php?101320
NOTE: Picture borrowed from Bristol Big Geek Meet forum. Thank you! ;)
NOTE: Picture borrowed from Bristol Big Geek Meet forum. Thank you! ;)
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