
Books & Spoken Word / Poetry
Berkeley Square Poetry Revue
Poetry and music
Square Club: Monday, Jan 6 2020 8pm
Music
Janelle Monae’s visual album ‘Dirty Computer’
A dazzling visualisation of Janelle Monae’s concept album
Film
Charity preview: The Personal History of David Copperfield
Preview of Armando Iannucci's Dickens adaptation in aid of Children in Need
This week sees the annual Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade, with Saturday south of the river also seeing Bristol Bears take on Brive as they continue their European Challenge Cup campaign. Among the highlights this week, Armando Iannucci takes part in a post-screening Q&A after a preview of his new film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, at the Watershed; and Ubu! opens at the Marble Factory.
Books & Spoken Word / Poetry
Poetry and music
Square Club: Monday, Jan 6 2020 8pm
Music / Blues Rock
Reworking Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Gallimaufry: Tuesday, Jan 7 2020 9pm
Comedy / radio
An evening of inspired nonsense
Bristol Hippodrome: Tuesday, Jan 7 2020 7:30pm
Film / Documentary
"A film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety"
Theatre / Alfred Jarry
Kneehigh gives us a riotous, audience-involving update of Jarry’s satire
: Wednesday, Jan 8 2020 - Saturday, Jan 25 2020
Books & Spoken Word / Poetry
Popular poetry and spoken word night
The Greenbank: Wednesday, Jan 8 2020 8:30pm
Theatre / Bristol Old Vic Young Company
BOV Young Company with an urgent, physical adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy
: Wednesday, Jan 8 2020 - Saturday, Jan 11 2020
Film / Comedy
Preview of Armando Iannucci's Dickens adaptation in aid of Children in Need
Theatre / Cabaret
Bi-monthly alternative scratch cabaret night
Bristol Improv Theatre: Thursday, Jan 9 2020 8pm
Clubs / Drum and Bass
Jungle vs Rollers is back for the first Chronicles party of 2020
The Love Inn: Thursday, Jan 9 2020 10pm
Music / film
A dazzling visualisation of Janelle Monae’s concept album
Cube: Friday, Jan 10 2020 7:30pm
Theatre / improv comedy
Top-drawer improv comedy double bill
Bristol Improv Theatre: Friday, Jan 10 2020 8pm
Music / Punk
A two-piece thunder punk outfit from Northern Ireland
The Crofters Rights: Friday, Jan 10 2020 8pm
Film / Action
Meet the chap who was the great Nicolas Cage's stand-in for a decade
Events / Bedminster
A celebration of creativity and community
Bedminster: Saturday, Jan 11 2020 4pm
Music / Rock
Heather Findlay
Thekla: Saturday, Jan 11 2020 7pm
Dance / Trinity Centre
The fifth edition of the Bristol Salsa Congress returns to Trinity
: Friday, Jan 10 2020 - Sunday, Jan 12 2020
Film / Art House
A box office hit Soviet musical comedy from 1956
Theatre / Improvised
Improv / hidden camera show / social experiment
Bristol Improv Theatre: Sunday, Jan 12 2020 8pm