Clifton Library – Welcome Space

February 20, 2023 at 2:00 pm 4:00 pm

We are proud to be able to open the library as a Welcome Space thanks to funding from Bristol One City; Social Action Small Grants. We are able to offer free hot drinks, newspapers, afternoon films and a range of supported activities including table tennis, craft, cards and board games, photography and wellbeing support. This Monday afternoon between 2 and 4 the library will be open. Table tennis is on offer upstairs and downstairs we will have newspapers and a cup of tea or coffee.

Presented by Friends of Clifton Centre and Library

Clifton Library

13 Princess Victoria St
Bristol, Clifton BS8 4BX United Kingdom
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Clifton Library – Welcome Space; Half hour Tai Chi drop in and relax at 11.30

Half hour Tai Chi session; Clifton Library Welcome Space

January 31, 2023 at 11:30 am 12:00 pm

We are delighted to host this well being session of Tai Chi as part of Clifton Library Welcome Space. This is part of Clifton Library Welcome Space and therefore each session of Tai Chi is free. There are four remaining sessions and each will start at 11.30 for 30 mins;

Session two; Tuesday 31st January.

Sessions three, four and five; Tuesday 7th, Thursday 16th and Tuesday 21st February.

Tai Chi Shibashi for health and well-being Shibashi is a gentle flowing exercise routine that is both a joy to do and deeply relaxing.

Improves balance, breathing and flexibility.

Easy to learn, calms the mind and reduces stress.

Suitable for all ages and abilities and can be performed seated.

Presented by Friends of Clifton Centre and Library

Clifton Library

13 Princess Victoria St
Bristol, Clifton BS8 4BX United Kingdom
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Shakesbeer Promenade Performance 13:00, 15:30 & 18:00

Guided tours of theatrical performances in Clifton Village – Beginning at the Fringe Pub

Shakesbeer Promenade Performance 13:00, 15:30 & 18:00

Guided tours of theatrical performances in Clifton Village – Beginning at the Fringe Pub

Film Friday: Baby Driver

‘Couples’ performed by Kim Hicks

Short stories and poetry by Dorothy Parker, performed by Kim Hicks.

‘Couples?’ is Kim Hicks’s second longest running One Woman show – launched in 1982.

Dorothy Parker was known in her own lifetime as ‘the wittiest woman in America’ and is perhaps best known for her razor edged one-liners. Her literary criticism – “This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly, it should be hurled with great force” – is just one example among hundreds. No book of quotations is complete without Parkers brilliance on display.

Couples? however, focuses on Parker’s less well known but beautifully crafted short stories and poetry. These explore every irony of the human condition, especially in the area of relationships, and they reveal her deep mistrust of romantic illusion. With pathos and biting sarcasm jockeying for supremacy, each deliciously constructed verse or paragraph will have you laughing and wincing in equal measure.

REVIEWS 

“Kim Hicks’s subtle, understated readings add a new dimension to Parker’s precise and probing verse and prose. With a script that sparkles . . . she grips our attention. It is a thoroughly enjoyable diet of bright, metallic Parker wit.” Mary Gladstone

“Kim Hicks’s selection from the Dorothy Parker repertoire is done with style”   David Foot

“With the aid of a typewriter, a cigarette holder and unnerving charm Miss Hicks took us through some of Dotty P’s finest verse and prose.”     Christopher Ashe

“…a rare experience . . . Miss Parker’s words brought vividly to life”   Gordon Riley

. . . a feat of delivery . . . all through she brings a lightness to what is so often the intensity of American humour.”   G D H

 

Tickets are available at the library or on Eventbrite.

 

 

A Word In Your Ear Presents.. Little Potatoes

Bittersweet comedy-drama set in China about marriage, mothers, and family planning.

Doors open at 7pm. Licensed bar available.

 

Little Potatoes Matchmaking mums at the Shanghai marriage market hatch a plan to get their Little Emperors hitched. Little Potatoes is a powerful, bittersweet comedy-drama which explores the impact of the one-child policy on the lives of two women in China. Playing multiple-roles two talented performers create a fast-paced narrative presenting the realities and repercussions of state controlled birth control. Bath-based A Word in Your Ear performed Little Potatoes to great acclaim in January at the Arcola Theatre, London. “Michelle Wen Lee and Sarah Curwen shine… a highlight with its sensitive treatment of matchmaking mothers.” [ayoungertheatre.com]

Written by Clare Reddaway

Performed by Michelle Wen Lee and Sarah Curwen

Directed by Bryn Holding

www.awordinyourear.org.uk

‘My Burning Heart’ – The Life of Satprem

A rehearsed monologue by Norman Bowler.
The story of Satprem-1923-2007.
Born into a Christian family from which he rebelled to look for his own truth.
Was a member of the French resistance,arrested by the Germans and spent 18 months in a concentration camp which badly scarred him.
A prolific writer and poet.This is the story of that amazing journey.
Norman Bowler is a well known Bristol actor,who starred in “Softly Softly” and “Emmerdale “

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