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                <title>Photographique</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A tiny basement gallery showcasing local and some farther reaching photography, but mostly unheardofs, embracing new and often unconventional approaches in cosy surrounds.  Rapid turnover of shows so always something new to see.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Banksy Vs Bristol Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Bristol Museum is the venue for an exhibition of street artist Banksy this summer. There are varying opinions as to whether the very long queuing time is worth enduring - and the suitability of the venue is also questionable for a major exhibition. But Banksy amuses and provokes - just a little hard to find all the pieces amongst the regular collections on display.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Spike Island</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A 1950's former tea-packing factory now home to a hub of Bristol's artists. It's a pivotal part of the city's artist-led initiatives and is due to be completely refurbished with new gallery space, a reading room and a cafe bar by early 2007. They produce a critical journal and commission works around Bristol entitled 'Spike in the City.' Over the May Bank Holiday weekend each year they host their Open Studios event allowing the public in beyond the galleries. The opening Friday night party for Open Studios is a boozy glut of trendy art types and a lot of fun.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mivart Artists Open Studios</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Epstein Building, which houses Mivart Studios, began life as a Victorian factory. The collective of artists, performers, designers and furniture makers who now occupy the premises have an open studios weekend in the middle of October every year when the public are welcomed in to peruse the ongoing creative work.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bristol Old Vic</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Britain's oldest working theatre that began life circa 1766. Under the recent stewardship of Artistic Directors Simon Reade and Rebecca Morland it has had no end of gushing praise from national theatre critics. The main auditorium is an architectural asset in itself.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tobacco Factory</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Downstairs there is a bar and cafe with a decent menu to choose from and bean bags to recline in. Upstairs there is exhibition space for artists and a theatre. On the third Sunday of every month there is an ever popular market selling local and organic produce. Architect George Ferguson's salvage and renovation of this building has done a great deal to revive this part of south Bristol. A great place to visit for those with an interest in urban regeneration or who may just fancy a bevvy.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Steps Gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A small gallery exhibiting a selection of works by established and new artists. All the art is for sale. Probably the best part of the gallery is the courtyard out the back with a hillside view of some of the city centre.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Plan 9</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Ditching the traditional gallery structure, Plan 9 is an artist-led group that stages arts events and exhibitions around Bristol. Given their peripatetic nature it's best to check their website to find out where their latest venture is taking place.]]></description>
                
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                <title>R O O M</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Bristol based visual artists are routinely snubbed by the City Museum &amp; Art Gallery as well as other organisations in the city. They have increasingly taken the initiative themselves. R O O M was established in 2003 as an artist/ architect collaboration. It hosts exhibitions, talks and films and sells contemporary art work.]]></description>
                
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                <title>STATION</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The former Fireboat Station sits on the cobbled quayside in the shadow of St Mary Redcliffe church. An artist-led initiative has transformed the diminutive building into an exhibition space for contemporary art worth peeking into.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Jamaica Street Open Studios</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A collective of artists occupying a large old fire station. Usually closed to the public, but they have an annual Open Studios event over the first weekend in May.]]></description>
                
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