Hello and welcome to Mayfest 2024.

We are, as ever, excited and proud to be welcoming this heart-filling gathering of artists from all over the world for what we hope will be a connecting and inspiring time for everyone who chooses to come together over nine days this May.

A strange duet. A funny kind of twinning. A kinship. PASSING, a short film by Jo Bannon, invites you to pay attention to the barely visible but highly choreographed ways in which we all perform, or pass, on stage and in everyday life.

Do you need to rest throughout the day? Do you have a story to share about resting in public? Commissioned by WDR, we are gathering stories from German speakers based in Europe, to feature in a radio play which will be broadcast in Autumn 2024.

The Emergent Value research project is trying to find out why, and how, live arts events (such as theatre or music performances) are meaningful to people.

A look back on some of the highlights of 2023

Alongside other colleagues across the city, we are hugely disappointed to hear that Bristol City Council are not recommending us for renewed funding for the next three years.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Verity Standen. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Verity and spoke about her upcoming Confluence project There You Go, Lovely.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Travis Alabanza.

Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Ryan Convery-Moroney. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Ryan and discussed his upcoming project.

As part of Confluence’s weekend programme, multidisciplinary artist Asmaa Jama will be presenting A Song for the Slippages - a live performance exploring the idea of a hidden or parallel world and converging tales in the city. For MAYK’s blog, we did a quick artist profile with Asmaa discussing their project.