Spike Island - International centre for the development of contemporary art & design

📢 Open Call! The Syllabus VI is a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme that will support ten artists across ten months. https://t.co/nyAm44QpSf #Syllabus is a partnership between @_spikeisland @WysingArtsCentr, @eprjcts, @Iniva_arts and @StudioVoltaire. https://t.co/Y26x5ovglF

Today's opening hours Gallery: 12–5pm Café open 9am–5pm

Painting on cloth of many different bright colours and abstract detailed pattern and shapes

Pacita Abad The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling (1998) Oil, plastic buttons and beads, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas, 300 x 270 cm. Work courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate. Photograph courtesy Pioneer Studios, Manila

Current exhibition: Pacita Abad Life in the Margins

18 January to 5 April 2020 Read more

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Composite image. On the left is Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line book cover. On the right is a portrait of Deepa Anappara, wearing a red shirt and maroon glasses, looking off to the right of the image

Novel Writers: Deepa Anappara

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Thursday 27 February 2020, 6–7pm, £5/£3 concessions Read more and book tickets

British Sign Language Exhibition Tour

Life in the Margins Saturday 7 March 2020, 2–3pm, Free, booking essential Read more and book tickets

Portrait of Dr Zoé Whitley and Pio Abad

In Conversation: Pio Abad and Zoé Whitley

Thursday 19 March 2020, 6–7pm, £5/£3 concessions (free for Spike Associates) Read more and book tickets

Bristol New Music 2020

Friday 24 to Sunday 26 April 2020, 12pm, Festival passes now available Read more and book tickets

A photograph of a creative workshop where a young woman and young child are sitting in front of a wall onto which a light is being projected through a net to create circular patterns. The blue net hangs in the foreground. There are art materials scatted on the floor behind them.

Dream and Make

A celebration of colour and pattern Tuesday 18 February 2020, 2–4pm, £3, booking advised Read more and book tickets

Composite image. On the left is Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line book cover. On the right is a portrait of Deepa Anappara, wearing a red shirt and maroon glasses, looking off to the right of the image

Novel Writers: Deepa Anappara

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Thursday 27 February 2020, 6–7pm, £5/£3 concessions Read more and book tickets

Baby Art Hour paint palette

Baby Art Hour

Friday 28 February 2020, 10–11am, £3 for the first child in a family group, £1 for each additional child Read more and book tickets

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Gallery Tuesday to Sunday 12–5pm

Café Monday to Friday 9am–5pm
Saturday to Sunday 10am–5pm

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