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Celebrate Bristol’s maritime heritage at Bristol Harbour Festival – the annual
summer festival since 1971. If you are a fan of arts, circus, dance, music, boats,
nautical capers, good food and drink and general enjoyment – make sure you
put that weekend in your diary.
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BRISTOL HARBOUR FESTIVAL
21-23 JULY
Why stay at
home? Get out
and enjoy the
wide variety
of events and
entertainment
that Bristol and
its surrounding
areas have
to offer over
the next few
months
Europe’s biggest vegan festival, Vegfest, is now returning to Bristol’s
Harbourside during one weekend only in May. 180 stalls, 15 specialist vegan
caterers from across the world, four licensed bars, talks, live music and cookery
demos will ensure there is enough entertainment both for adults and kids.
VEGFEST
20-21 MAY
Bristol has been named as the UK’s European city of Sport for 2017 and
Gloucester County Cricket Club will be one of the five venues hosting the ICC
Women’s Cricket World Cup this summer, held for the first time in England since
1993. Bristol will take on a theme of encouraging a surge in women and girls’
sport in the city. A great way to celebrate the part sport plays in every aspect
of life across the city.
ICC WOMEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP
26 JUNE – 23 JULY
Europe’s largest Street Art and Graffiti Festival comes back to Bristol in the
Summer of 2017. After a great success in 2015, which brought 30,000 visitors
and 300 artists from across the globe to Bristol, the city will have 30,000 sq ft
of surfaces being painted across 35 venues. The event is free and will have art
works for sale, live music and art workshops which will undoubtedly turn this
event into a visually spectacular entertaining weekend.
UPFEST
23–25 JULY
Where to be seen
in Bristol
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