Exhibition runs between Saturday 13th June and Monday 31st August 2009 @ Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

‘Best kept secret’ is a term which is banded around so often nowadays it has lost all meaning; it has morphed into a media cliché to try and imitate hype for something that people are completely disinterested in. The latest exhibit from Bristol’s number one cultural son though, truly has to be heralded as one of the very best kept secrets since Prince Gingernut went gallivanting around Iraq with a croquet set and sub-machine gun – and even that one was leaked early!
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Exhibition runs between Saturday 13th June and Monday 31st August 2009 @ Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

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Open between Friday 5th and Sunday 7th June 2009 @ Jamaica Street Studios, Bristol

Like many on the Gloucester Road to City Centre shuffle, I trudge by the unobtrusive mass of the Jamaica Street studio nearly every day. Despite its size, it’s easy to pass its scarlet and green frame and abundance of windows without realising it’s the diamond in Stokes Croft’s creative rough. Sometimes a paint-covered overall with a fag and a cup of tea in hand reveal its secret, but you’d rarely guess that inside this discreet building there’s a frenzy of activity as a community of artists go about their creative business.
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Saturday 6th June 2009 @ Tobacco Factory, Grain Barge, The Garage, Bridewell Island, Try Again Pub, View Art Gallery and everywhere in between, Bristol

When you first arrive at the Tobacco Factory (UpFest’s main and focus venue) and make your way outside to the beer garden and car park, the first thing that hits you is the sheer amount of stuff going on. There were so so so so so many artists all together there, all in their element going at the walls, boards, floors, cars, canvas and hexagon towers ‘hammer and tong’ (or is that ‘can and brush’) you had trouble trying to take it all in! UpFest ‘09 was a true celebration of everything urban art.
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Between Friday 5th and Thursday 11th June 2009 @ The Old Firestation, Bristol

Following hot on the heels of last year’s success, Bristol Design Festival is back with a vengeance. Not only will visitors see a return of the old favourites, such as the ever popular Grafikea table design competition, the Eco Design Show and a plethora of exciting exhibits to whet your design appetites, but there is a whole host of new initiatives ready to inspire and educate.

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Red Stripe Music Awards Showcase 2009
Friday 6th February 2009 @ The Croft, Bristol
Featuring Performances From: Fortune Drive, First Degree Burns, Yes Sir Boss, Roxy’s Wardrobe

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With Christmas approaching, the thorny issue of festive love always arises. Anyone can roughly divide their friends into the ‘I watch Love Actually and feel pathetically envious’ ones and the ‘fuck fucking Christmas, I’ll be broody’ types. From my experience, people will go through recurring cycles of transition between these two admittedly wonderful attitudes in the months leading up to the, now 2009th, birth of the most troublesome baby in history.

Getting Christmas Love Strategies:

Try standing awkwardly under mistletoe at the office party until someone takes pity or until you see someone on the other side of the room doing the same and you realise what a desperate lemon they/you look.

There’s no time to waste so catch prospective partners’ eyes by wearing the wedding-cake-like extravaganza dress – remember there is no limit to red taffeta/cleavage/bows/glitter wearing during Christmas.
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Exhibiting from Saturday 13th until Thursday 18th December 2008 @ PRSC HQ, Bristol

All locally produced work – all starting ay just 99p – NO RESERVE!
At the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft HQ: 35 Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft
Opening Party: 7pm - 10pm Friday 12th December 2008
Closing Party: 7pm Friday 19th December 2008
Final bids and announcement of winners 9pm
Some free drinks…

www.prsc.org.uk

By Heidi Gough

Katie Williams, 20
Military Coat - Aflex Palace, Manchester, £25
Describe your style: Individualist
Christmas Wish List: Vivienne Westwood couture coat
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Friday 12th until Tuesday 23rd December 2008 @ 15 -19 Stokes Croft, Bristol

www.12daysofxmas.co.uk