Latest News (Bristol) - Visit West

We take a look at press and media coverage of Bristol, from March 2025. 

Around Bath and Bristol, National Trust gardens are filling with colourful spring blooms and houses are looking tip-top after their intensive winter cleans.

Bristol's highly anticipated Gin & Rum Festival is back, bringing an unforgettable experience to the city on Saturday 10 May 2025, at the City Hall. 

Adam Flint has been named as the new Chair of the Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA), taking over from Raphael Herzog, who has held the position for six years.

Fancy an Easter trip to Rome – street food, local traditions, all the pasta you can eat – but not so keen on eye-watering flight prices and sardine-packed hotels?

The theatre is hosting an interactive audio installation as part of visiting play The Beautiful Future is Coming, which will invite young people across Bristol to record audio messages imagining the future they want to see. 

A new exhibition at The PIT brings together reworked gig posters and music photography, curated by Sickboy and IDLES’ Adam Devonshire

Turin Brakes, Lucy Spraggan, Lime Garden and Morgan Harper-Jones join the Harbourside celebrations this June - with more still to be announced.

Bristol’s biggest music festival completes its 2025 lineup with Ms Dynamite, Denis Sulta, Netsky, Notion, Neffa-T, RSD, Stush and more.

Families are invited to dive into the heart of Bristol this Easter for the Wonderful Water Festival, a free celebration of the power of water to sustain life and inspire creativity.

Forwards Festival's brand-new dance tent, The Arches, will debut in 2025 with Annie Mac as its first-ever headliner on Saturday 23 August.

The 9^th annual edition of Cinema Rediscovered - the UK’s leading celebration of newly-restored films, forgotten gems and classic revivals – takes place in and around Bristol from 23 - 27 July.