WORKSHOPS

Workshops are offered by professional artists at specially discounted festival rates.
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Printed programmes are available at all festival venues during the festival.
DOWNLOAD OUR HANDY FESTIVAL GUIDE & MAP
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DOWNLOAD LATEST FESTIVAL GUIDE & MAP
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Sign up for this wonderful introduction to printing. Run by Kate and Anna of Portishead Studios this is guaranteed to be a fun and colourful event!
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WOW! Learn to write your name graffiti-style, with a professional graffiti artist from Graffarty - BOOK NOW yo tag yourself a place on a graffiti art workshop
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CREATIVE LINO PRINTING with Barbara Ash. Sunday 25th September, 2.00-5.00pm at the Lock Control Building.
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Fantastic fun for all the family - BOOK NOW for modelling workshops from AARDMAN ANIMATION

SING LIKE ​A PIRATE

Don't expect to get away without singing like a true pirate - it's The Kilkenny Bay Steamers!

STRETCH YOUR LEGS - AND SEE SOME SKY

If you live in Bristol, you may not even know how much Portishead has to offer, just half an hour away. Come and stretch your legs, see some sky, breathe some fresh air.

RETAIL THERAPY
(SUPPORTING ALL OUR LOCAL ARTISTS & MAKERS)

Indulge in a little retail therapy, with unique hand-made items from over 50 local artists and makers at our venues Somerset Hall and Methodist Hall. knowing that you are shopping locally and sustainably and supporting local businesses.
Don't miss award-winning pastel artist Michelle Lucking's stunning hyper real paintings on display in Somerset Hall

SIMPLE
​PLEASURES
​Feed the ducks (seed only please - you can buy it at the cafe on the park), visit the play park, ride a pedalo, have a coffee or an ice cream, run around safely - all in Portishead's glorious pleasure gardens on the sea's edge.

STEPHANIE GAY | SILK ARTIST

Drop in to Somerset Hall to see artist Stephanie Gay's stunning paintings painted directly onto Chinese silk.

DANCE UP A STORM

Everyone will be dancing in the streets again at this year's festival as we LeRoc around the clock
with Portishead LeRoc

DO SOME SHIP SPOTTING

Did you know that Battery Point is the closest point in the UK that big ships come to the coast? (And we also have the second largest tidal range in the world!)

Take a walk along the front at Portishead, between the Severn Sea and the beautiful Victorian pleasure gardens - maybe you'll get to see the ships roll in from all around the world.