Thursday 16th April

7.30pm

Clifton Community Bookshop

Sophie Pavelle

To have or to hold: nature’s hidden relationships

Join us for a conversation in the bookshop with Sophie about her latest book, which featured on the 2025 Wainwright Prize Longlist for Conservation Writing.

Tuesday 26th May

7.30pm

Bristol Folk House

Jay Griffiths

Wild Medicine

Join us for a revelatory and exuberant discussion between award-winning authors Jay Griffiths and Michael Malay about our relationship to the living world: mischievous, vital and wild.

Tuesday 28th July

7.30pm

Bristol Folk House

Natalie Bennett

Change Everything: How We Can Rethink, Repair, and Rebuild Society

Natalie (Green Party member of the House of Lords) will be discussing her latest book with Andrew Kelly (former Director of Bristol Ideas).

Tuesday 27th October

7.30pm

Bristol Folk House

Julian Baggini

The Art of Flourishing

Julian will be reflecting on what a lifetime of philosophy can teach us about how to flourish in today’s world.

Tuesday 7th

Doors 7pm

MV Balmoral

Butterfly brains

Dr Max Farnworth (University of Bristol)

What can butterflies tell us about brain evolution and memory? Dr Max Farnworth explores how some tropical butterflies have developed remarkable brain adaptations linked to their behaviour and diet.

Thursday 9th

7pm

Small City Bookshop

The Wild Within

Brigit Anna McNeill

Brigit (an eco-psychotherapist and herbalist) will be talking about her book, The Wild Within – an immersive, enriching and sensory journey of healing, one wild plant at a time.

Sunday 12th

10.30am

The Mount Without

Bristol Japanese Cultural Showcase

A day of Japanese performance art, market stalls, food, drink, and a blend of traditional and modern cultural experiences.

Tuesday 14th

7pm

Hen & Chicken

The Neuroscience of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Dr Jeffrey DeMarco

An exploration of the influences of early environment on children’s long-term well-being, and how this impacts us into adulthood.

Friday 17th

7pm

Waterstones

Joanna Nadin

After Darcy

Jo (one of our former Bristol Talks guests) will be discussing her latest book!

Friday 17th

Doors 7pm

Bristol Folk House

Bristol Ceilidh Presents: Crowdy-Kit

A foot-stomping ceilidh band guaranteed to get people up and dancing. It is a Friday, after all…

Saturday 18th

7.30pm

Redgrave Theatre

Damian Hall

Running Forever

Damian – an ultrarunner, author, and climate activist – will be discussing how to keep running long and strong and how our best years could still be ahead of us.

Tuesday 21st

8pm

Bristol Beacon

Michael Morpurgo

Always Take Notes Podcast

One of the UK’s best-loved authors, Michael Morpurgo will be in conversation with the Always Take Notes podcast live in Bristol.

Thursday 23rd

7.30pm

The Cube

Ben Haggarty & Steph Brittain

Bodies On The Beach – The Last Battles Of Fionn MacCumhaill

Step into a maelstrom of myth, as storytellers Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain pick through fragments of voices, medieval manuscript, and song to piece together a story of love, loss and destiny – a Celtic Iliad.

Sunday 26th

1pm

The Cube

Utopias (& Dystopias)

Bristol Radical History Group

A magical mystery tour of utopian thinking from the Medieval period, through the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries…and even beyond to 2087 Avonmouth!

Tuesday 28th

7pm

Showcase Avonmeads

Mountains on Stage

2026 Summer Edition

A chance to see four original films blending team spirit, humour, poetry, and the drive to push beyond one’s limits.

Thursday 30th

6.30pm

Spike Island Cafe

HYFYV Book & Supper Club

Eva Verde

A cosy evening organised by How You Find Your Voice (HYFYV) for people who love books, delicious food and great conversation – featuring the author Eva Verde.

Tuesday 5th

7pm

Bristol Beacon

Slavoj Žižek

On Liberal Fascism

Žižek will examine the idea of ‘liberal fascism’, the fractures of the so-called post-truth age, and the forms of justice that might still be possible amid chaos.

Tuesday 5th

6pm

Heron Books

Eloise Kane

Wilderlands – The Human History of Wild Britain

Eloise will be discussing her book that journeys through the unexpectedly human history of wild Britain and unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with the landscape.

Tuesday 16th

6pm

Heron Books

Tom Cox

Everything Will Swallow You

Heron welcome Tom Cox to discuss his latest novel as part of Independent Bookshop Week.

Sunday 21st

7.30pm

Redgrave Theatre

Adriana Brownlee

Adriana is the youngest woman to have climbed K2 and all 14 of the 8000m peaks. She’ll share stories of her mountaineering journey(s).

Monday 22nd

7.30pm

St George’s

David Olusoga

BBC Celebrity Traitors faithful finalist, and BAFTA award-winning producer, writer, historian, Professor David Olusoga will be presenting his new history talk.

Saturday 19th

7.30pm

St George’s

Anthony Scaramucci

The former White House Communications Director turned outspoken Trump critic and host of The Rest is Politics: U.S. comes to Bristol (among other UK venues) to offer an insider’s account of how America reached this moment and to offer a hopeful message for how it might find a way back.

Wednesday 30th

7.30pm

Redgrave Theatre

Banff Mountain Festival World Tour

Featuring a brand-new collection of short films filled with extreme journeys, untamed characters and captivating cinematography.