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Cinema Rediscovered returns to venues in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 23 - Sun 27 July 2025 with an 80+ event programme offering screenings of newly restored films, international rediscoveries and film-on-film rarities, special guests, expert intros, have-a-go-workshops, industry insights, cinema histories, a quiz and multiple starting points for lively conversation.

Across Bath and Bristol, National Trust places are alive with the promise of warm summer days, lazy weekend picnics and trips out with family and friends. There’s lots going on this season, from outdoor theatre performances to archaeological digs, garden games to guided walks, and much more.  

St George’s Bristol, along with multiple Bristol venues, Bristol City Centre BID and Visit West, has brought together a day-long programme of free pop-up activities and mass-participation musical events across Bristol’s city centre.

Visit England has revealed the winners of its VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2025, highlighting the very best of England’s outstanding tourism industry. 

Milestone moment celebrates the city’s creative hub for sustainability, culture and community, just two years after launching in 2023

Winner of the Broadway Baby Bobby Award, Rum, is a darkly humorous and powerful new play that wrestles with masculinity, mental health and addiction in the building trade. Described by comedian, Dara Ó Briain as “a small gem”, also appearing at the Ustinov Studio in the coming week is one-man, musical-comedy, Frankenstein (On a Budget).

This International Day of Play, World Child Cancer and Upside Down House UK are inviting families to play with purpose, and support the right to play for every child, everywhere.

FORWARDS Festival is set to close out the summer in style this August bank holiday weekend, revealing final artists for its standout 2025 lineup. 

A brand-new, large-scale music festival is set to hit the UK next summer, reviving the legendary T4 on the beach festival experience that defined a generation.

Customers flying from Bristol Airport will soon be able to enjoy flights to the stunning shores of Barbados from October 2025 to March 2026, thanks to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ new route from Amsterdam Schiphol to Bridgetown, Barbados.

We take a look at press and media coverage for Bristol, from May 2025.

This June, Bristol’s leading contemporary dance company, Impermanence, invites audiences to peel back the pink plastic surface of a cultural icon with Elefantin.