Latest News (September 2025) - Visit West

2025 is the 35th anniversary year of Bath Mozartfest, and will also be the final festival programmed by the peerless Amelia Freedman, CBE, FRAM, its artistic director for more than thirty years, who sadly died in July.

This autumn, Tyntesfield presents The Colony, a striking four-screen film installation by Vietnamese artist and filmmaker Dinh Q. Lê (1968–2024).

Full line-up revealed for two weekends of free sport, music, art and community celebration on Bristol’s Harbourside

Up All Night: A Bristol Nightlife Story offers rare glimpse into the city’s after-dark creativity and community

Bristol Hoteliers will host a special event next month to kick-start an education initiative which aims to partner businesses with local schools to inspire the next generation of industry talent.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the full cast for its swashbuckling Christmas production Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure, a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Bristol-inspired tale of hidden treasure and daring deeds

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On Sunday 7th September, Haynes Motor Museum proudly hosted the John Haynes Classic, celebrating 40 years of the Museum and the life and legacy of its founder, John Haynes OBE.

North Somerset Council will on Tuesday 16 September consider the future of the restoration of the Birnbeck Pier structure and the major funding gap placing that element of the project at jeopardy.

The Cheese Connection will open its first cheese shop at Wapping Wharf, Bristol on Friday 12 September, with founder Luke Maslen offering free cheeseboards to his first 50 visitors.

One of Bristol’s most distinctive creative events returns this month, as The Island Open Studios opens the doors of the city’s former central police station for a vibrant weekend of exhibitions, workshops and live performances.

Lead producer Colin Ingram, together with Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the creators of the Back To The Future film trilogy, are delighted to announce the first ever UK tour of the multi award-winning Back to the Future: The Musical, opening at the Bristol Hippodrome from Thursday 8 October 2026 to Saturday 21 November 2026.