This is a workshop at Spike Island. I’ve given them a ring and it’s free to attend in the main gallery space, you just turn up and take part. There’s also a cafe there. The contact details for Spike Island are:

Telephone: 929 2266
Email:  admin@spikeisland.org.uk
Post: 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX

“Activities for Families with Simon Tozer: Draw and Print your own Chapbook

Saturday 11 September, 12pm – 4pm

Join Simon to create your own Chapbooks…small and cheaply produced booklets sold by itinerant dealers, or chapmen, often illustrated with woodcuts. They contained tales of popular heroes, legend and folklore, jests, reports of notorious crimes, ballads, nursery rhymes, school lessons, farces, biblical tales, dream lore, and other popular matter. The texts were mostly crude and anonymous…

Using mono-screenprint methods along with simple but cunning paper folding techniques we will convert a corner of the gallery into a nineteenth century printshop. You will emerge as a (self) published graphic artist or writer.  This workshop is suitable for all ages: anyone in fact that can hold a pencil and has a story to tell.”

Text copied from http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/

COMPETITION

The age categories for this years model making competition are…

Details copied from http://animationfestival.blogspot.com/

The people at Zambezi Express have offered our befriendees and befrienders a great deal for the show next week. You need certain items and more information to prove who you are, so please email Jenny to get this information (this entry is deliberately elusive!).

To find out more about the show see www.zambeziexpress.com/index.htm

“— SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER —

STAPLETON ROAD STREET FAIR

12.30 – 6pm, Stapleton Road. Join residents of Easton for this fun day packed full of music, stalls, performance, food and more. For more details visit http://www.eastoncommunitypartnership.org.uk“

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“SOLAR POWERED OUTDOOR CINEMA

7.30pm at Ridingleaze Green, Lawrence Weston*. A showing of a brilliant selection of family friendly locally made short films and animations (including some Aardman favourites!). Wrap up warm, bring a cushion, a picnic, your family and friends, for a night of FREE entertainment under the stars.

*Please note if wet the screening will be cancelled.”

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Over the weekend of 26 and 27 September Portland Square and St Pauls Park will be full of free, family friendly, thoughtful and beautiful work alongside raucous and experimental experiences for you to behold and get involved! Prepare to be waited on by the expert duo of Cafe Sway, create your own picnic-theatre piece with Once, admire the complex dance of Balletboyz, experience a Hindu myth on stilts by the Foundation for Indian Performing Arts and be terrified by The Little Box of Horrors!

Evening events in the programme include award winning physical theatre by precarious at Circomedia’s St Paul’s church on Friday 25 and surreal musings on circus by The Sugar Beast Circus at Bristol Old Vic from 1 – 3 October.

Event: The Bristol Do weekend
Date: Saturday & Sunday 26-27 September 2009
Time: 1-8.30 pm
Place: Portland Square, St Pauls, Bristol
Admission :FREE

Visit : www.thebristoldo.com for more details

“Bristol sci-fi fans who know their lightsabres from their sonic screwdrivers will be glad to know a science fiction convention is headed to the city.

The one-day event is due to be held on Saturday, September 26 at Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa, Redcliffe Hill.

If it proves popular, organisers say the convention could become an annual event.

There will be discussion panels, trade stands, book signings, live music and a bar.

Discussions will revolve around such hot topics as “UK vs US science fiction, which is better?” and “The differences between fantasy and science fiction.”

For more information read this article or this website: www.kumara.org.uk/. Tickets for the convention are £20, but the film on the Friday night is £5.

The SS Great Britain have taken the initiative to get in touch with us to update their disabled access details.

Carers go free with a disabled child / adult.  Young people aged 16 and under pay £5.95 and under 4s are free.  We have asked about concessions for disabled people which currently they do not offer (the discount is for the carer). 

They have specially narrow wheelchairs on site to allow access through cabins etc and a lift cleverly built in to the funnel!  It might make a good day activity for befrienders and befriendees. 

Deaf & hard of hearing visitors:

• British Sign Language (BSL)hand-held interactive video tours. Please ask at the Ticket Office. Pre-booking advised Choice of BSL video tour foradults or children 

Blind & partially sighted visitors

• Please ask at the Ticket Office for audio companion tours for blind and partially sighted visitors, and for the tactile model of the ss Great Britain. Pre-booking advised Guide and assistance dogs are welcome. A sighted assistant is recommended for your visit

Events

There are also lots of events on (the ticket for the SS Great Britain in annual, so you can keep going back to do activities there). Click here to see what’s on at the moment.

For example, in May you can:

May 16, 17 & 23
Dream boats
Create giant paper boats for the launch

May 23 to 31
Mr Brunel visits
Meet Britain’s greatest engineer (except May 26)

May 25
Dream boats launch spectacular 6.15pm & 9pm (night glow)
Watch the stunning paper boats take to the harbour

May 29 & 30
Sinbad’s sea chests
Transform card, paint, glitter, and feathers, into art

In June:

June 21
Father’s Day treat
Dads enjoy a FREE beer 

In the Summer Holidays:

July 25 to September 2

Sinbad the Ship’s Cat trail Explore the ship, with Sinbad

Mr Brunel visits (except Mondays & Aug 27)

August 1 & 2 Bristol Harbour Festival 

Join the fun with an authentic steam fairground carousel, plus Victorian games

August 1, 8, 15 & 29 Sticky ships

Make stunning collages, with an artist

August 22 & 23

Crimean troopship

Take cover! Soldier re-enactors from the Crimean War. Victorian surgeon Seek out medical advice from the ship’s doctor. Leech included! 

Venue details:

Brunel’s ss Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol BS1 6TY

Opening times:

Open daily, from 10am, except Dec 24 and 25, and Jan 11, 2010. Closing times: 4.00pm (Jan, Nov & Dec), 4.30pm (Feb & March), 5.30pm (April 1 to Oct 23), 4.30pm (Oct 24 to Oct 31). Last ticket sales one hour before closing

General office, and bookings: 0117 926 0680