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Watershed Media Centre - Harbourside arts venue offering photographic exhibitions, digital media and cinema. Online programme and digital arts.

Universal Source - E-zine covering music, film, going out and the arts.

Bristol City Libraries - Details about each library, news, information on library services and online library catalogue.

Bristol Events - Searchable database of arts, sport and culture maintained by the City Council.

Bristol 2008 - Background to the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.

BBC Bristol Going Out - Online guide to theatre, music and entertainment in the city. Reviews, links, features, message board.

Bristol City Council Arts Development Unit - Strategy, links, resources, contact details and news bulletin from local government funding body.

Bristol 2008 - Another View - Alternative look at the City Council's bid for European Capital of Culture status.

Bristol Entertainment - Pubs, clubs, venues, cinema, theatre and eating out guide from the Evening Post.

Nowt2Do.Com - Listsings and reviews of local theatre, cinema, comedy and events: forum, newsletter, links and contact details.

PluginCinema - Local collective dedicated to the creation, distribution and exhibition of films on-line: news, manifesto, links, forum and contact details.

Stepping Out - Charity providing information and support for all to access leisure and entertainment: directory of local facilities, volunteering opportunities and contact information.

Venue Online - Local listings magazine: event details, prices and booking information.

Floatclub - A collaborative project space and launch pad for local designers, artists, companies and other creative industries.

Decode - Magazine for local creative culture: subscription details, news and links.

Art and Power - A group of disabled people using art to change wrong ideas and attitudes. Project details, history of the movement and an invitation to participate.

Maria Shakespeare's Bob Ross Workshops - Promotes oil painting lesson's using the Bob Ross wet on wet technique.

Reveal - A documentary photography project allowing 36 young people to make a series of images showing their lives through portraiture in the city in which they live.

Asian Arts Agency - An information, networking and advocacy resource for the development of Asian arts locally. Events, links and contact details.

Bristol Hobby Horse Club - Folk activities including singing, morris, sword, clog, mummers plays, crafts, music and social dance.

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(George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Arts and Entertainment I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Arts and Entertainment Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. 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