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Sparks Bristol have been busy decorating to welcome you through the doors this winter and discover easy, ethical ways to spend the festive season without costing the earth.

Weston-super-Mares Grand Pier will glow with purple light on 16 November, World Pancreatic Cancer Day, as part of the annual Purple Lights for pancreatic cancer campaign.

There ain’t no party like a beaujolais party!  KASK join bars around the world in celebrating 2023’s vintage with seven fresh-from-the-vine wines.

Europe’s largest live street art festival Upfest calls out for support towards raising £250,000 to bring the much-loved event back to Bristol for spring 2024.

Bristol’s annual celebration of African cinema and culture will visit a dozen different African countries and all points of the continent’s compass when it returns to Bristol from 14-22 November. 

The world’s first Amazement Park®, Wake The Tiger, has teased at mind-bending expansion plans of the revolutionary art walk-through experience, which will arrive in early 2024.

Celebrating its tenth birthday, the award-winning event is pulling out all the stops.

Christmas markets, winter wonderlands, enchanting light trails, a NEW drone light show, not to mention the magnificent theatre productions, Bristol is brimming with exciting things to do this Christmas. Here is Visit Bristol’s round-up of what’s on this season to get you into the #MerryBristmas spirit! 

Preparations are already well under way for what promises to be a very starry night in Bristol as the city celebrates and honours its hospitality heroes.

The Bristol Palestine Film Festival is back in 2023 with a diverse lineup of the very best in contemporary Palestinian cinema, arts and culture. 

Casting has been announced for first ever UK and Ireland tour of Come From Away, the multi award-winning ‘Best Musical’ across the globe.

Bristol Community Ferry Boats is thrilled to announce the generous gift of a beautiful wooden passenger ferry, named "Juno," from fellow community organisation RiverShack.