Things to do in Bristol today: Saturday, September 24, 2016

TOKYO WORLD: A one-day festival featuring Wiley, Big Narstie and Artful Dodger. There’s DJs too.

BRIS-TEK: The no expense party is taking to the Black Swan once more for a night of techno and drum’n’bass. £13.  

TRIPPY PSYTRANCE: Tribe of Frog are celebrating 16 years at Lakota. Expect heavyweight sound and eye-popping décor. £12/ £15.

OXYGEN THIEF: Suped-up folk songs at the Louisiana. Acoustic ballads with some kickass drumming to match. 7:30pm-close, £9 in advance. 

GYPSY ORCHESTRA: Passionate intensity and smouldering pathos from multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger and his orchestra of hand-picked musicians from Budapest. 8pm, Colston Hall, £20.  

ENCOUNTERS: It’s the last day of the short film and animation festival. it brings two programmes of Family Friendly Shorts. £6, Watershed. 

SHORTS 2 FEATURES: Encounters Film festival has a series of must-see films as part of Shorts 2 Features. These include Somerset based film The Hatching, Light Years, Baden Baden and Norfolk. Tickets £6, Watershed.

WICKER MAN: ‘Pagan-headed ushers’, wicker-weaving witches and naked frolickers at this free alfresco screening of Wicker Man at Boiling Wells in St Werburghs.

ART TRAIL: St Werburghs is hosting free exhibitions, workshops and musical performances around the neighbourhood this weekend.

GLOBAL CLIMATE: Artist Thomas Dowdeswell presents a series of paintings and an installation critiquing the current global climate and continual threat of terror at It’s all 2 much. 12-6pm.

CARTMAN & MCGREGOR: Paintings by Sam Cartman and Euan McGregor, artists of quite different background and education who have emerged as two of the great stylists of contemporary Scottish painting. Lime Tree Gallery.

IT’S WILD: Exhibition at the Grant Bradley Gallery bringing together four artists with different approaches, whose work is influenced by their relationship with the natural world and the wild within it. 10am – 5pm. 

VEGAN TOUR: Discover the best vegan food to be found in the city, starting at Flour & Ash.  12pm – 3.30pm £35

SUPPER CLUB: A communal dinner party in Bishopston with a seasonal five course feast.

ISLAND MELA: Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of India at Creative Carnival’s version of this Hindu festival at the Island. 8am to 10pm.

FARM ANNIVERSARY: Windmill City Farm is celebrating turning 40 with a fun day out for the family.

LIER LIER: Learn how comic/documentarist Matt Brierley changed the face palaeontology at the Alma. 7.30pm, £5. 

STAND UP: Tonight’s Comedy Box headliner is Pierre Novellie, a former Cambridge Footlight and rising star . Doors 7.45pm £12. 

DISCO DIVA: Brand new production of the Broadway and West End hit musical comedy, starring Alexandra Burke.

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. 

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.