Things have changed for ever at King Street, Bristol. Shirley Brown offers an insight into the complicated history of the Bristol Old Vic and the steps now being taken to ensure a sound future for theatre in the city .
And now the good news – the Bristol Old Vic has already re-opened!
It will take several [...]

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Banksy’s Bristol was just pipped for the Christmas Number One slot at Waterstone’s, The Galleries by Russell Brand’s My Booky Wook. Here we reproduce an extract from Steve Wright’s book…
Bear essentials: The story behind The Mild Mild West, by Jim Paine - the man who got Banksy to do it
Jim Paine started out with a [...]

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Mary Michaels explores the life and work of Joan Barton on the 100th anniversary of the local poet’s birth
Joan Barton’s Miss Prideaux of Clifton (the beginning of which isreproduced in the panel to theright) is a poem which peoples theterraces and squares familiar to anypresent-day Bristolian with their shabbygenteel inhabitants of the early part ofthe [...]

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The RWA’s extensive and ever-growing permanent collection is the subject of a new book from Redcliffe Press
The Royal West of England Academy’s galleries are among the finest outside London and, although slightly forbidding to some, the magnificent building is an architectural masterpiece, a jewel in Bristol’s crown, an immense cultural asset for the city. The [...]

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