Bristol Doors Open Day provides the chance to see the inside of some of the city's most fascinating and important buildings. Many are not normally open to the general public, and entry is free.

If you're a nascent Sylvia Plath or Seamus Heaney, this literary affair at the Arnolfini Harbourside and throughout Bristol is for you. It offers an opportunity for closet poets to get some…

The world's longest-running gas-balloon race, the Gordon Bennett Cup this year takes place in Bristol. Celebrating an era when adventure was ruled by the elements, teams of two compete to…

Cycle across the Avon countryside raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care with the Bristol-Bath Cycle Ride. The route loops from Bristol's city centre through the countryside to the edge of…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

Welsh National Opera makes the first of its two annual visits to the Bristol Hippodrome visits. Joining Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Beethoven's Fidelio is Mozart's ever-popular Magic Flute.

A series of encounters, performances and film screenings, artists, magicians, performers and academics come together at Bristol's Compass of Desire Festival. Featuring an eclectic and decadent…

Wildscreen, a biennial event held mainly at Bristol's Watershed Media Centre, presents training workshops, debates and seminars, lectures from leading lights in the world of nature…

The sky above The Downs fills with noise and colour for the annual Bristol Charity Fireworks Fiesta, celebrating the historic demise of Guy Fawkes.

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

Are you mad about moving pictures? Fusing the Brief Encounters and the Animated Encounters film festivals, venues around Bristol's Harbourside play host to the Encounters Short Film Festival -…

Long a centre of learning and research, Bristol brings together many of its cultural organisations and universities for its annual Festival of Ideas. During its course, esteemed intellectuals…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

The Royal West of England Academy presents its most popular exhibition of the year. The Autumn Exhibition features over 500 works of watercolour, oil, paint, print, sculpture, photography and…

Every year, Bristol Zoo gardens presents three special evenings of beautiful carol singing. Visitors can join the traditional choir for a rousing chorus of classic carols and bop along to the…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

If the sight of someone slipping on a banana skin leaves you in stitches, then Bristol's Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival is for you. Relive classic silent movies and view live comdey shows at…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…

On the first Sunday of every month, the UK's first regular Slow Food market brings the very best local, seasonal, traditionally-produced food and drink from all over the South West to Corn…