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Things to do in Bristol today: Friday, September 23, 2016
GOOD IMMIGRANT: Speakers including Nikesh Shukla discuss race and immigration at Waterstones, as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas. £6.
NOT SO LATE: The UK’s finest alternative-comedy TV chat show, The Note So Late Show comes to the Cube with an evening of special guests, sketches, short films and music. £8.
TAPE FACE: An uproarious and moving tableaux using only the most everyday of objects and the most popular of songs. Comedy Box, £16.50.
CHUCKLE BUSTERS: A regular mix of big names in stand-up comedy as well as handpicked local talent at the Wardrobe Theatre. £5.
BLUE HEART: Tobacco Factory Theatres and Orange Tree Theatre present two one-act plays by the inimitable Caryl Churchill, Heart’s Desire and Blue Kettle. 8pm, £11.
SILKY SMOOTH JAZZ: Well honed grooves from the Headhunters at Colston Hall. 8pm, £19.35.
AUSSIE DISCO: Say G’Day to Late Nite Tuff Guy who will be spinning disco at The Small Horse Club. £4.
EVERYTHING MUST GO: Every 7” played at the Lanes tonight is given away. Perfect if you like disco, funk and soul. £6.
FOREIGNER’S GRAVEYARD: Inspired by the path to Afghanistan,The Plasticine Men’s new show unearths a startling true story from a 200-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Foreigner’s Graveyard. 8pm, £8.
HIGH-SOCIETY MAYHEM: Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s Georgian-Bath-set Restoration comedy The Rivals is the next instalment in Bristol Old Vic’s 250th birthday celebrations. £9.50 – £30.
MEXICAN COLOUR: Adela Breton’s copies of the wall paintings in temples and buildings in the Mexican ruins are now the only full record of what was there in the 1900s.
LIER LIER: Learn how comic/documentarist Matt Brierley changed the face palaeontology at the Alma. 7.30pm, £5.
HAVANA MOON: They’ve still got it. A docu-film shot at the Rolling Stone’s latest tour in March 2016.
SHORT FILMS AND ANIMATION: Encounters day 4 includes very adult shorts and music videos. Tickets £6.
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: An audio-visual tour through ‘punky-reggae’ pioneer Don Letts’s career.
BRISTOL SOUND: The Encounters festival takes a look back at archive film and music videos chronicling the so-called ‘Bristol Sound’
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME: Watch the Lego movie alfresco at Ashton Court. £12.50.