Coffee catch-up with Bristol International Student Centre (BISC) – Wednesday 24 March

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: Wednesday 24 March
  • Time: 4 pm
  • Location: n/a
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: book your place to receive the Zoom link.

BISC is enjoying weekly catch ups with international students, who are joining us from their accommodation in Bristol or their homes around the world. Take a break from studying and come along to the weekly virtual drop-in. Make connections with other international students; share your week’s highs and lows with friends at BISC.

Joy in Dance: Lunchtime Shakeout with Spike island, online dance – 18 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 18 February
  • Time: 12:30 pm to 1 pm
  • Location: Spike Island website
  • Meeting point: YouTube Live, link will be sent beforehand via email
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: sign up online

‘Join Grace Willow of Joy In Dance as she invites you to stop what you’re doing and join in the Lunchtime Shakeout: 30 minutes of simple and invigorating dance and body movement. (more…)

Can we adapt to a changing climate? Dr Gabrielle Walker, online discussion – 18 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 18 February
  • Time: 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
  • Location: online
  • Meeting point: link provided on registration
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: book online

‘Can we adapt to the pressures of climate change? Journalist Dr Gabrielle Walker chairs a conversation about climate adaptation in humanity’s past, present and future. Speakers include Gaia Vince, Dr Eric Wolff and Dr Rick Knecht.’

What does the future of our Universe look like? Daniele Sorini, online talk – 22 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 22 February
  • Time: 7 pm to 8 pm
  • Location: online
  • Meeting point: link provided on registration
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: book online

Although we still have several open questions, decades of observations and theoretical modelling have allowed us to reconstruct the past of our Universe. But what will our Universe look like way after the Earth and the Sun will cease to exist, and may intelligent life still develop in the far future?’

Growing Supermassive Black Holes, James Aird, online talk – 8 March

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 8 March
  • Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
  • Location: online
  • Meeting point: link provided on registration
  • Cost: free
  • Booking instructions: book online

We now know that supermassive black holes, with masses of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, are found at the centres of most galaxies (including our own galaxy, the Milky Way). But where do they come from and how do they get so big? (more…)

Lunar New Year Festival: Year of the Ox, online interactive festival – 16 to 23 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 16 to 23 February
  • Time: various
  • Location: Bristol Museum website
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free, donations are welcome
  • Booking instructions: book online

‘Celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Ox with our interactive online festival. We’ll be marking the occasion with music, dance, talks, craft activities, storytelling, Chinese meditation, Chinese yoga, a panel discussion on being East Asian and South East Asian in the UK, and lots more. (more…)

LGBTQ+ History month, Nicola Griffin in conversation, online talk – 16 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 16 February
  • Time: 7 pm to 8 pm
  • Location: Zoom, link available after booking
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free, donations welcome
  • Booking instructions: book online. Bookings close at 2 pm on 16 February

‘Saint Hilda of Whitby is a key figure in the history of Christianity in early Britain. (more…)

Late lunch talk: Highlights of the Chinese collection, online talk – 18 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 18 February
  • Time: 2 pm – 2:45 pm
  • Location: Zoom, link available after booking
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free, donations welcome
  • Booking instructions: book online. Bookings close at 11 am on 18 February

‘From carved glass candlesticks to earthenware storage jars, silk gowns to finely painted porcelain, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has one of the best regional collections of Chinese art in the UK. This talk will introduce some of the highlights of the collection and how the pieces came to be in Bristol through collectors such as Ferdinand and Max Schiller and Henry Burrows Abbey.’

LGBTQ+ History Month: The history of gender in sport, online talk – 24 February

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 24 February  
  • Time: 11 am to 12 noon
  • Location: Zoom, link available after booking
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free, donations welcome
  • Booking instructions: book online. Bookings close at 7 am on 24 February

‘Women were barred from the original Olympic games, yet Rome had women gladiators. Down the centuries, the question of who can partake in sport has always been controversial and not least for the LGBTQ+ community. (more…)

“Good Old Knowle” – The wrestling craze in Bristol and the South West c.1900, online talk – 18 March

Quick info:

  • Type of event: online
  • Date: 18 March
  • Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
  • Location: Zoom, link available after booking
  • Meeting point: n/a
  • Cost: free, donations welcome
  • Booking instructions: book online. Bookings close at 2 pm on 18 March

‘Bringing together an unusual mix of themes, including theatre, sport, masculinity and civic pride, this talk uses the wrestling encounter of 1905 between McInerney and Luffman to explore two questions. First, what was the significance of wrestling to the social and cultural life of the South West in the years leading up to this bout at the Bristol Empire? And second, how was the national “wrestling craze” during the first decade of the twentieth century realised at the local level.’