Until Wed 23 July

Eccentric lottery winner Charles (Tim Key) dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.
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Until Wed 23 July
Eccentric lottery winner Charles (Tim Key) dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.
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Until Wed 23 July
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their break-up - like a wedding but the other way around.
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Until Wed 23 July
Based on Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel and set on the sun-soaked Spanish coast, tensions simmer as a mother and daughter’s bond is tested by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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Until Wed 23 July
Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider.
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Until Sun 20 July
A smart, attitude-packed coming-of-age story set in New York that holds an important place in film history.
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Until Wed 23 July
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbour, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.
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Until Sun 20 July
Stanley Kubrick's breathtaking exploration of Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray's novel sees his 18th century Irish adventurer meet his share of women, take part in the Seven Years' War, get recruited as a spy and marry into the English aristocracy, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.
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Until Tue 22 July
Wes Anderson's latest film is the story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor.
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Sun 20 July 14:00
Produced at the height of Japan’s bubble economy, Ridley Scott’s Black Rain (1989) captures a sense of cultural anxiety.
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Wed 23 July 11:00
Join some of the most inspiring voices in film exhibition, restoration and distribution to reflect on and re-imagine how we present cinema of the past.
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Wed 23 July 19:00
BAFTA-winning and Oscar®-nominated producer Stephen Woolley (of The Scala Cinema and Palace Pictures fame) delivers our Opening Night Keynote, ushering in the festival’s main strand Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema.
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Wed 23 - Sun 27 July
Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes' cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple's exuberant musical adaptation with a who's who cast of music luminaries from Bowie and Ray Davies to Sade.
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Wed 23 July 22:30
The year is 1986… DJ Cheeba in the Café & Bar takes us back in time with a DJ/VJ set inspired by the riot of day-glo design and music that is Absolute Beginners.
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Thu 24 July 10:50
A young boy comes of age amid a challenging upbringing in this sensitive emblem of 1970s New German cinema.
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part of Reframing Film
Thu 24 July 11:00
Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections is a three-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. This event, organised by the project lead, Jacqueline Maingard, Associate Professor in Film at the University of Bristol, and the project team, puts colonial film collections in conversation with the Pan African cinema archive.
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Thu 24 July 11:05
Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes' cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple's exuberant musical adaptation. This is a Relaxed Screening.
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Thu 24 July 11:20
Carlos Saura’s début feature film, presented here in a restored and uncensored version remains one of cinema's most distinctive portraits of those living on the margins in Madrid, shot entirely on location.
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Thu 24 July 13:00
Join Professor Ian Christie and film historian Sheldon Hall for a talk exploring the influence of Channel 4’s approach to film.
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Thu 24 July 14:00
A manifesto shot between 1972 and 1975, Sidney Sokhona's first film tells the story of the struggle of immigrant workers in France showing alongside Med Hondo’s debut.
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Thu 24 July 14:10
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival, Carlos Saura’s raw, startlingly naturalistic tale of love outside the law reflects the turmoil of a generation navigating the social upheavals of the post-Franco Spanish society.
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Thu 24 July 14:20
Join co-directors Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden (Austrian Film Museum in Vienna) for a brief and imperfect history of artists' film in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
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Thu 24 July 16:20
One of the iconic films of Portuguese Cinema Novo, a vivid portrait of a former boxing star (and of 1960s Lisbon) with stunning cinematography by Augusto Cabrita and a jazz score by Manuel Jorge Veloso.
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Thu 24 July 16:30
1974 LA, and three self-determined young women look for their place in the world. Female friendship, work and utopian socialism braid the narrative beautifully together. Will the women do anything for money?
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Thu 24 July 16:40
Co-director of Alpe-Adria Underground! Matevž Jerman has selected some recently restored experimental/avant-garde shorts from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1945-1991).
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Thu 24 July 18:15
Secrets, lies, communism and loyalty all loom large in this criminally underseen British political thriller shot by a young Roger Deakins starring Gabriel Byrne in one of his early leading roles.
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Thu 24 - Fri 25 July
This daring and progressive account of a complex love triangle broke all manner of taboos to emerge as India’s first queer film and an icon of Parallel Cinema.
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Thu 24 - Sun 27 July
Gloriously restored in 4K, Miloš Forman’s triumphant drama examines the rivalry between classical masters Salieri and Mozart through a uniquely inquisitive lens.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Thu 24 - Fri 25 July
Forty years after its release, Donna Dietch’s 1950s set romance remains one of the most influential and beautifully shot lesbian films of all time.
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Thu 24 July 20:50
Charles Burnett’s pioneering account of blue-collar existence paved the way for African American representation on the big screen.
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Fri 25 July 09:30
Film Historian Professor Ian Christie, who contributed to Channel 4's Vision series, will talk about the impact it made in film culture in the UK and his own work on programmes about Jean Luc Godard and Raul Ruiz.
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Fri 25 July 11:00
Set in the declining North Shields fishing industry, this drama came out of the Channel 4 supported workshop movement and clearly prefigures the localised work of contemporary filmmakers such as Mark Jenkin, with its focus on the realities of marginalised communities.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Fri 25 July 11:10
She wrote, he directed: The Swimmer, adapted by husband-wife duo Frank and Eleanor Perry, is a surreal odyssey through the suburbs starring Burt Lancaster.
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Fri 25 July 11:20
After being betrayed by her husband, Leonor embarks on a quest for self-discovery and begins to live new experiences.
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Fri 25 July 13:00
Find out how a festival like Cinema Rediscovered is programmed by joining a discussion with some of the festival curators who will share their insight, thinking and journey and discuss how to get involved.
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Fri 25 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Ruth McCullough, Executive Producer, and Michelle Rumney, Producer for England, share some key learnings from the first Immersive Arts funding round and offer practical advice for artists thinking about applying in the final round of funding.
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Fri 25 July 14:00
She wrote; he directed: Joan Didion’s modern classic is adapted by Frank Perry in this elliptical, introspective interrogation of 1960s Hollywood starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.
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Fri 25 July 14:10
17th-century Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, defies social expectations, becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Fri 25 - Sat 26 July
A groundbreaking experimental film essay on race and disorder in Britain, filmed by John Akomfrah from the Black Audio Film Collective in Birmingham and London during the riots of 1985.
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Fri 25 July 16:10
In this spirited comedy, an aimless young man’s search for purpose, sex and self-identity becomes a microcosm of Czechoslovakian life amid the height of the Cold War.
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Fri 25 July 16:15
This stylish and inventive comedy thriller stars Lucy Sheen as Elaine, a young law clerk, tasked with executing the will of Chinatown businessman Sam Wong who has died in mysterious circumstances.
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Fri 25 July 18:15-19:15
Made on the Moon is happy to host a friendly post-screening gathering that bridges the community of East and South East Asian creatives and the wider audience together to discuss the film Ping Pong.
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Fri 25 July 18:30
Join director Stephen Frears, writer Hanif Kureishi and actor Gordon Warnecke for this 40th anniversary showing of the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette, the story of two lovers attempting to open a glamorous laundromat amid the turbulence of life in Thatcher’s Britain.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Fri 25 July 18:30, 18:40
Uproarious and hugely influential, Sam Raimi’s cabin-in-the-woods horror comedy was the very first title acquired by Stephen Woolley’s Palace Pictures.
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Fri 25 July 18:45
A sharp, satirical tale of love, class and female resilience in 1950s Brazil, from globe-trotting auteur Alberto Cavalcanti - newly restored and ripe for rediscovery.
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Fri 25 July 21:00
Marianne Basler shines as a Parisian sex worker looking for an authentic connection in this moving drama of identity and class consciousness.
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Fri 25 July 21:10
A young Los Angeles couple is invited by the mysterious Diane to her secluded desert home. Unbeknownst to them, she is a centuries-old vampire, and it’s not long before they become the objects of her desires.
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Fri 25 July 21:30
Yasuzō Masumura adapts Junichiro Tanizaki’s story as a visually arresting story of sexually charged vengeance.
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part of Reframing Film
Sat 26 July 09:00
Bristol has been an UNESCO City Of Film since 2017, but Bristol and cinema have been entwined since – some would say before – the beginning of moving pictures. Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for one of two gentle walks.
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part of Reframing Film
Sat 26 - Sun 27 July
Join BFI National Archive Curator Rosie Taylor on a tour of Watershed’s projection booth and discover how the films screening at the festival make it to the screen.
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Sat 26 July 10:00
Fact and fiction are intertwined to dazzling effect as the legacy of screen actor Henry Fonda becomes a metaphor for America’s ever-changing landscape.
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Sat 26 July 10:00
From state-of-the-art 13th-century warfare to perfumed sex, The Fall of Otrar is a hypnotic epic about one of world history’s crucial battles championed by Martin Scorsese.
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Sat 26 July 11:00
Made with an all female crew, Sally Potter’s (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) ground-breaking first feature is a key film of early ‘80s feminist cinema.
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Sat 26 July 11:10
With a colourful medley of cartoons, an orphaned squirrel, and mind-blowing science on display there is something for everyone in this family screening presented on 16mm.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Sat 26 July 13:00
This seminal African allegory by the late Souleymane Cissé (1940 – 2025) exists outside of time and space to act as a powerful commentary on fathers and sons, light and dark.
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part of Reframing Film
Sat 26 July 13:00-14:00
Join in a Chat & Craft drop-in workshop led by Cressida Williams inspired by the films showing at Cinema Rediscovered.
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Sat 26 July 13:30
This is part of a series of events which look at the UK-wide impact of London’s The Film Society in its centenary year. Co-curated by Bryony Dixon (BFI National Archive) and film historian Henry K. Miller.
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Sat 26 July 13:45
Structured around fourteen of Shakespeare's sonnets read by Judi Dench, Derek Jarman’s film is an exploration of love and desire between two men.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Sat 26 July 14:00, 14:10
An extraordinarily inventive fantasy from Terry Gilliam in which schoolboy Warnock is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a band of time travellers.
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Sat 26 July 15:20
Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed.
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Sat 26 July 15:30, 17:30
Ever wondered how to project 16mm film? As part of the celebrations of the centenary of the creation of the first film society this is an opportunity to get hands-on with 16mm film.
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Sat 26 July 15:40
Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay.
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Sat 26 July 15:50
The early life of influential American President Abraham Lincoln becomes cinematic nirvana in the hands of director John Ford and actor Henry Fonda.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Sat 26 July 16:00
The plight of the African American Deaf community is put under the spotlight in this moving and ambitious landmark of independent cinema.
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Sat 26 July 18:00
Toru Murakawa’s gritty and violent thriller is a vital addition to the pantheon of Japanese crime epics, centring on a deeply scarred war photographer turned bank robber.
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Sat 26 July 18:10
A white Midwestern divorcee, Julie (Barabara Barrie), and her black co-worker Frank Richards (Bernie Hamilton) fall in love but racial prejudice gets in the way with devastating consequences.
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Sat 26 July 18:20
Neil Jordan’s strikingly poetic debut feature explores the numbing violence of the Troubles starring actor Stephen Rea as Saxophonist Danny, one of the first films commissioned by Channel 4.
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Sat 26 - Sun 27 July
Who would have thought that this small budget film made for Channel 4 from a script by a then unknown writer about a young Pakistani Londoner (Gordon Warnecke), his ambitions for his uncle’s laundrette and his developing relationship with a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis in a breakthrough role) would become one of the most successful and iconic films of the 80s?
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Sat 26 July 20:20
We are delighted to be hosting a special Deaf Conversations About Cinema event as part of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered.
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part of Masumura x Wakao
Sat 26 July 20:30
Director Yasuzō Masumura broke new ground in Japanese cinema with this progressive exploration of lesbian sexuality.
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part of Restored & Rediscovered
Sat 26 July 20:40
Rebelling against dull conformism, Michel Piccoli is mesmerising as a factory labourer suffering a meltdown and regressing to a caveman in this anarchic assault on bourgeois ideals.
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Sat 26 July 20:40
One of the most moving and committed works of political cinema from the late 1970s America.
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part of Reframing Film
Sun 27 July 09:00
Bristol has been an UNESCO City Of Film since 2017, but Bristol and cinema have been entwined since – some would say before – the beginning of moving pictures. Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the second of two gentle walks.
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Sun 27 July 11:00
In this, her first European film, Anna May Wong (Shanghai Express) plays a dancer drawn into a tragic romantic triangle when she meets a cabaret knife thrower and his capricious sweetheart.
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Sun 27 July 11:10
A young woman finds herself on trial for her husband’s death in this perceptive Japanese drama, presented in a new 4K restoration.
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Sun 27 July 13:00
Join John Piedot from Silk Factory, one of the world’s leading Creative Agencies, for a plotted history of the cinema trailer.
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Sun 27 July 13:00
The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Gold Diggers is a key film of early '80s feminist cinema.
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Sun 27 July 13:30
Alan Clarke’s screen adaptation of playwright Andrea Dunbar’s uninhibited portrait of working-class life caused outrage at the time and reset the debate about class and representation on screen.
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Sun 27 July 14:00
Samuel Fuller combines two favourite topics, crime and GIs, with this gangster film involving crooked ex-soldiers organising a syndicate in occupied Japan.
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Sun 27 July 14:10
In her final silent film set in in Paris and the French Riviera, Anna May Wong (Shanghai Express) stars as a Chinese variety dancer who models for a young artist and ends up falling in love.
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Sun 27 July 16:30
The festival closes with the UK premiere of Yasuzō Masumura’s impassioned drama, which acts as a fierce critique of Japanese society.
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part of A Michael Haneke Season
Sun 27 July 18:20
Austrian auteur Michael Haneke places social tensions and cultural neuroses under the microscope with characteristic precision.
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Sun 27 July 20:30
It’s time to prove your film knowledge at this year's Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz — a night where deep-cut movie knowledge meets friendly competition.
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Mon 28 - Thu 31 July
Gloriously restored in 4K, Miloš Forman’s triumphant drama examines the rivalry between classical masters Salieri and Mozart through a uniquely inquisitive lens.
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Mon 28 - Thu 31 July
An actress 3-months post-partum attempts to find meaning in the writings of Martinique’s lost literary figure, Suzanne Césaire.
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Mon 28 July - Sun 3 Aug
An epic and darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction, Dying follows the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.
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Mon 28 - Thu 31 July
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and drink.
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Wed 30 July 12:00-17:30
Gather your well-loved clothes - the ones you had worn so much that they’ve now seen better days - and bring them to the Café & Bar for a free all-day drop-in mending workshop.
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