Cabaret is having yet another moment with the hit show in the West End but this 1972 cinematic version, with the magnificent Liza Minelli and Joel Grey, will always be a tough act to follow.

A reserved British writer arrives in Berlin and meets Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Club who introduces him to divine decadence, darling! Their story is set against a backdrop of the rapid rise of fascism but, for tonight night, as the MC says, “Leave your troubles outside. So life is disappointing, forget it! In here life is beautiful”

Join us for this special outdoor screening with live performance from Bristol Musical Comedy Club to set the scene and transport us back to 1930s Berlin. Dressing up encouraged, singing along welcome.

Trinity brings together two weekends with double bills of classic films, food and music over two nights:

UNDER THE SKIN is the story of an alien in human form. Part road movie, part science fiction, part real, it's a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.

Director(s): Jonathan Glazer

Runtime: 108 minutes

Certificate: 15

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Antonia Campbell-Hughes

**Revised timings for indoors**

Doors and bar open from 7.00pm (also visit our Visible Girls: Revisited Exhibition from 7pm)

DJ set from VMO$ (Young Echo) at 7.00pm

Film to start 8.00pm

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC Guidance:infrequent strong sex, frequent nudity

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Trinity brings together two weekends with double bills of classic films, food and music over two nights:

In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to everlasting fame as two women who embark on a crime spree across the American southwest.

Director(s): Ridley Scott

Runtime: 128 minutes

Certification: 15

Production Year: 1991

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast: Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Susan Sarandon

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

Live Music from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC guidance: Contains strong language and violence

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes 'The Shape Of Water' - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

Director(s): Guillermo del Toro

Run time: 123 minutes

Certification: 15

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

DJ set from VMO$ (Young Echo) at 7.00pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC Guidance: strong violence, language, sex, nudity

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Partnering with Come the Revolution, we kick off with Dancehall Queen:

“Made in Jamaica” is a powerful portrait of the leaders of a Jamaican music movement that has become a worldwide phenomenon. The film tells the story of how artists on a small island nation in the Caribbean of only three million people took their human experience and turned it into songs full of emotions that resonate around the world.” Reggae is Jamaica’s blues: a music of both desperation and hope.

Director: Jerome Laperrousaz

From: Jamaica/France/US Year: 2006

Run time: 110

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

Live music from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Partnering with Come the Revolution, we kick off with Dancehall Queen*:

Rags to riches fairytale set in the phantasmagorical world of Jamaican dancehall featuring some fab tunes and eye popping dancing.

Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. So, when the licentious patron threatens to abandon the family, and her brother breaks down under pressure, Marcia hits bottom. She needs to escape to a haven where she can get lost in fantasy; Marcia, don in sex-me-up clothing and outrageous glamour, finds refuge in the beats of the very dance hall outside of which she normally vends.

Directors: Rick Elgood, Don Letts

Writers: Suzanne Fenn, Don Letts

Stars: Audrey Reid, Carl Davis, Paul Campbell

From: Jamiacia / Year: 1997

Run time: 98mins

(*Please note that this film replaces Made in Jamaica which was on some earlier listings)

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

DJ Ngaio presents Booty Base from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

film screening & panel discussion

La Commune is an attempt to challenge existing notions of documentary film, as well as the notions of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' so beloved by the mass media today. We travel back in time to 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.

The telling of this story rests primarily on depicting the people of the Commune, and those who suppressed them. “I hope that the open form of ʻLa Communeʼ, and especially the process of discussion and community activity which can accompany the film screening, will help to forge the kind of collectivity, and frontal resistance to globalization and its satellite mass media which is now needed” (Peter Watkins).

The film lasts 345 mins and will have a 30 minute intermission between parts 1 and 2.

As a community arts space, Trinity is committed to our core values of being a ‘Centre for the People’ and platforming work as part of our programme that represents and reflects our diverse communities. Please read our free speech policy for more information

Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.

While they find themselves increasingly attracted to each other, they refuse to give in to their feelings so as not to commit similar wrongs... but the passion is so tempting.

With its exquisite colour costume, poise and tone Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love will linger in the memory like a perfect kiss.

Michael Galasso’s incredible score will be preceded by live music from Hokkett;

A trio of flute, violin and baritone sax. Skronky / wonky riffs, snippets of melodies and hints of harmonies, woven together through improvisation. Hokkett take the space between them, using it as an extra member - stretching the silence out before crushing it flat with kneejerk riffs and torn rhythms.

Tina Hitchens - Flute, Yvonna Magda - Violin, Helen Papaioannou - Baritone Sax.

Film duration: 1hr 38Min

Doors, food from Momo-Bar & our outside bar open from 7pm

Live music from 7.30pm

Film due to start at 8pm (when the sun sets!)

(Wet weather plan - screening and music will take place in Trinity's Main Hall)

Screened as part of the cinematic, music and food weekend series: Lush

Wong Kar-wai's classic was the inspiration behind our Saturday night film by Barry Jenkins - catch Moonlight Saturday 2nd September

Black Star Season House Party: Comedy Double Bill

As part of Black Star, a UK-wide celebration of the range, versatility and power of black actors, programming collective Come The Revolution invites you to an evening of film and entertainment celebrating Black comedy. Coming to America (Dir: John Landis 1988), Eddie Murphy's shining moment and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the directorial debut by trailblazer Keenen Ivory Wayans featuring a young Chris Rock.

Coming to America

Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is the prince of a wealthy African country and wants for nothing, except a wife who will love him in spite of his title. To escape an arranged marriage, Akeem flees to America accompanied by his sidekick, Semmi (Arsenio Hall), to find his queen. Disguised as a foreign student working in fast food, he romances Lisa (Shari Headley), but struggles with revealing his true identity to her and his marital intentions to his king father (James Earl Jones).

I'm Gonna Git you Sucka

Jack Spade (Keenen Ivory Wayans) comes home to the ghetto and finds his brother dead from a gold chain overdose. With the help of his hero, John Slade (Bernie Casey), and a team of washed-up crime fighters, Spade declares vengeance on Mr. Big (John Vernon), the white crime leader responsible for selling gold chains on the streets. But Spade realizes that he must take matters into his own hands to finish the job in this zany spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films.

Live Comedy & Big Tunes

Presented by Come The Revolution in partnership with Watershed and Ujima Radio as part of #BFIBlackStar

Girl Power is a documentary that presents female graffiti writers from fifteen cities – from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Biel, Madrid, Berlin, Toulouse, Barcelona and all the way to New York. The graffiti community is predominantly a man's world, and men often share the view that graffiti – namely the illegal kind – is not for girls. And yet women have become increasingly more emancipated in recent years; there are female graffiti shows, magazines and websites. Girl Power captures the stories of ladies who have succeeded in the male graffiti world. 
However, Girl Power is more than just a look into the graffiti microcosm; it tells the moving story of Czech writer Sany, who decided in 2009 to capture female emancipation in graffiti on film and to give other girls and women the possibility to express themselves. It took her 7 long years to complete the documentary. We follow her life with graffiti, her motivation and values that keep changing as the years go by. We will also meet her family, who are absolutely unaware of Sany's "second life". Sany sacrifices a lot for the film, but even when she's at the end of her tether, she refuses to give up on her dream – to make the very first movie depicting females in graffiti.

More info coming soon.

Films from the Front Line is selection of short films that highlight different issues which affect us all and that demand our action and resistance against the neoliberal assault. Films include The Battle of Denham Ford and Precarity Story

The Battle of Denham Ford

The Battle of Denham Ford tells the story of attempts by HS2 contractors to fell a tree that overhung their compound. A protest camp sits adjacent to the compound, and, hearing of the plan, the activists installed a climber in the tree.

Precarity Story

A short documentary that tells the work story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher, and researcher in the same British university. Her story stands as an example of the increasing casualisation of university labour and its human consequences.

As a community arts space, Trinity is committed to our core values of being a ‘Centre for the People’ and platforming work as part of our programme that represents and reflects our diverse communities. Please read our free speech policy for more information

Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.

This is a free event organised by Drs Dave Green and Michal Nahman, sociologists at The University of the West of England (UWE). The aim is to bring you together with people from local communities, organisations and academics to think about and discuss issues faced by migrants and the problems and opportunities posed by immigration, asylum and refugees.

The evening's themes will be introduced by Professor Phil Cole, an expert at UWE on the politics of migration. We will then be screening two films on the themes of migration and exile.

Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min

The film tells the very personal story of three young Afghan refugees: Hossein, Reza and Kaka, who are stranded in Greece and have tried for years to enter Europe.

Boya Boya (Shine Shine) Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash / Jordan, UK / 2014 / 18 min

A portrait of Syrian refugee Mohammed, a 12-year-old shoe shine boy, Boya Boya looks at the reality of the growing population of urban refugees from a child's point of view. This will then be followed by a panel of people drawn from local communities and organisations and academics to answer audience questions, debate and discuss the issues raised by the evening.

This event is co-organised through UWE's Social Science in the City initiative, Identities theme of The Social Science Research Group and the Visual Social Science Network, with kind help from The Royal Anthropological Institute.

How to attend

In order to attend you must register via this online form.

Please note: these films are uncertified