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the pigguide .com Speak to your GP about the flu jab today It’s life, Bath... but not as you know it. Upcoming events at Glassboat Plenty of fun events to keep you going during the cold, dark months! Tuesday 25 January Burns Night Whiskey-matched menu, readings & reeling. £35 a head Sunday 30 January Eat Cheese! Back for it’s second year. Eat Cheese festival brings a host of stalls, tastings, live music and family fun & games to the dockside. Special Sunday menu onboard First Sunday of every month Soul Food Lazy Sunday menu, brunch and proper roasts, free Bloody Marys, laidback soul tunes Sunday 13 February, 10.00am–4.00pm Valentine’s Brunch Special Valentine’s set menu with free pink bubbles and live music. £25 per person 12 & 14 February, 5.30pm–11.00pm Valentine’s at Glassboat Special Valentine’s set menu. £45 per person, inc. three courses and arrival cocktails For more information please contact Kirstie on 0117 9290704 or restaurant@glassboat.co.uk Glassboat Welsh Back Bristol BS1 4SB 0117 929 0704 E bookings@glassboat.co.uk W www.glassboat.co.uk eight Shipshape
arts & events feature Shipshape BOOK richard ii Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory celebrates its 12th season with a brace of plays – ‘Richard II’ and ‘The Comedy of Errors’. Running from Thursday 10 February until Saturday 19 March, ‘Richard II’ is Shakespeare’s theatrical account of the eponymous king’s last days after he takes the disastrous decision to exile his cousin Henry Bullingbrook and seize his Lancastrian estates. Bullingbrook returns to England, overthrows Richard and takes the throne for himself as Henry IV, setting the stage for the bloody Wars of the Roses. We’ll be previewing ‘The Comedy of Errors’ in the spring issue. More: sattf.org.uk ❉ discover all about us Launching in March, All About Us is At-Bristol’s new £1.5million permanent exhibition. As the name suggests, it’s a veritable celebration of the human body and how it works. There’ll be more than 50 new or siginifantly improved hands-on science exhibits – including real body parts, for your little CSI in the making. Hear music through the vibrations of the bones in your jaw, look at your veins under infrared lights, watch food run through a skeleton’s body, see your own blood cells move through the capillaries of your eye, and much more! More: at-bristol.org.uk visit Breuer in Bristol You’ve only got until Christmas Eve to see the Architecture Centre’s fascinating exhibition about one of Bristol’s most unlikely friendships. Breuer in Bristol is the story of the partnership between Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer and Crofton Gane, Bristol furniture manufacturer, which resulted in one of the most important examples of early Modernist architecture: The Gane Pavilion 1936 (pictured). The exhibition will reveal the reasons behind laugh Bristol’s Slapstick Silent Comedy Gala Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd: all the greats are present and correct at the seventh annual Slapstick Silent Comedy Gala, taking place on Friday 28 January at Colston Hall (£16-£20). Special guest hosts Barry Cryer, Ian Lavender and Bill Oddie will be introducing four classic short films, including Buster Keaton’s ‘Neighbors’ (1920) and Charlie Chaplin’s ‘One A.M.’ (1916), and each of the shorts will be accompanied live by either the European Silent Screen Virtuosi or 25-piece youth big band Jazz Train. There’ll also be special guest vocal performances from Neil Innes (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) and Paul McGann (pictured). The night forms part of Bristol’s Slapstick Festival. More: colstonhall.org Bristol’s dalliance with Modernism at a time when the Arts and Crafts movement was the driving force in design. Find rare archive images, artefacts, Breuer-designed and Gane-manufactured furniture, and a specially made model of the Gane Pavilion. You can also hear what Bristol’s residents thought about this key moment in the city’s history. More: Architecture Centre, until 24 Dec, architecturecentre.co.uk Impress your peers with your new-found knowledge of art – What Is… Contemporary Art? A Beginners Guide, Arnolfini, Sat 26-Sun 27 Feb, 2-5pm (£20/£15) eleven Gane’s Pavilion, Bristol , England , ca. 1936 / Courtesy of the Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986, AAA, Smithsonian Institution
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