Artport - Portishead Arts Festival

24/03/2026

Registration for playing at the Portishead Music Festival BOPFEST 2026 is now open!

https://forms.gle/Txyz5nRW5WCaoyEEA
Please complete the form by 30th April.
We hope to accommodate as many acts as possible and look forward to showcasing all of the amazing talent we have in the town and local area!

13/03/2026

Don’t forget to follow Portishead Music Festival for more information on this year’s live music events

12/03/2026

Bands On in Portishead have provided the live music events for the last 3 years and will be hosting the Portishead Music Festival for 2026 across the 25-27 September weekend - follow www.facebook.com/Bopfest26 for more information about how to register to perform and the full schedule when it’s released.

11/03/2026

BREAKING NEWS:

ArtPort, the Portishead Arts Festival, is taking a break but we will be back, better than ever, in September 2027. So save the date: it’s always the last weekend in September!

Our team is recharging and working hard behind the scenes to bring fresh exhibitions, more opportunities for artists, and new literary and street-based events.

But don’t worry – the music isn’t stopping! 🎶 Bands On In Portishead (BoP) will host their very first Festival BoP this summer. Stay tuned for details and follow for all the latest on local music events

For full details read the press release published on our website:
https://www.portisheadartsfestival.org

24/02/2026

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12/10/2025

THANK YOU to our amazing volunteers!

Our wonderful venue stewards; our fantastic live music team, sound and lighting crews; our amazing photography team Dave White and Alan Harrison (swipe ⬅️); our wonderful committee of organisers; our leafleters, buskers, bunting putter-uppers, and EVERYONE who helped us in any way. THANK YOU: you helped make something great happen. 😀🥳🙏🥰

🟠 A special Instagram thank you to photographer Sergey Grozov who has so generously allowed us to share his fantastic images of our beautiful town.

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10/10/2025

THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING PUBS, BARS & RESTAURANTS
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🟠 A HUGE ArtPort THANK YOU to the pubs, bars and restaurants that hosted two days and nights of live music this year! When a community works together, great things can happen!

🟠 Portishead is lucky to have such a breadth of places to go out (or ‘out out’ 😉🥳) - so show them some love and use ‘em or lose ‘em!

🟠 THANK YOU to the following businesses who partnered with ArtPort this year:

🟠 The Black Horse, Clapton-in-Gordano

🟠 Clarence House, High St.

🟠 Hall & Woodhouse, The Marina/Newfoundland Way
Hall & Woodhouse, Portishead

🟠 Impero Lounge, High St
Impero Lounge

🟠 Phoenix Bar, Victoria Square
Phoenix Bar Portishead

🟠 The Siren’s Calling, The Marina.
The Siren's Calling, Portishead

🟠 Workmens Club Sports Bar, Slade Road
Workmens Club Sports Bar

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10/10/2025

Portishead Methodist Church &
The Beacon Hub
High Street
BS20 6EN

🟠 We are so grateful to the wonderful community and congregation at the Beacon Hub for welcoming the festival and our visitors with open arms each year.

🟠 And isn’t Portishead lucky to have such a fantastic community space: a place to come together; a place to meet friends or find new ones; to find support and solace…
They have the most fantastic cafe too! ☕️🍰🥰

🟠 Special thanks to Jayne Packer and Rev. Nick Moxon - you always make us so welcome into your wider community congregation each year 🥰🙏

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10/10/2025

🟠 The winners of the ArtPort Annual Open Photography Competition were the lucky recipients of some wonderful prizes donated by some very generous local businesses and restaurants 🥰

A great big ArtPort thank you to:
🟠 Aqua Restaurant 🙏
🟠 The Royal Inn 🙏
🟠 The Windmill Inn TThe Windmill Inn, Portishead🙏

🟠 Nortech Computers NNortech Computers & Printing
Nortech is one of those places that can do almost anything you need related to print and tech! A key supporter of the Photography Competition from the start, we are so grateful for the fantastic professional print services, prize donations, competition support and general wonderfulness!

🟠 Hartmann’s Books. HHartmanns BooksIt’s so great to have an actual bricks and mortar book shop on our High St! Use it or lose it!

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10/10/2025

🟠 The Port bar Portishead
On the precinct
https://www.theportbar.uk

🟠 Once again a huge ArtPort THANK YOU to our friends and sponsors at The Port. We are so grateful for your support 🥰🙏

🟠 You won’t need us to tell you what an absolute delight The Port is, as a go-to Portishead venue for coffee, pizza or delicious beer brewed on the premises. (Special mention for the waffles 😋😍)

🟠 They host regular music nights and exhibitions of local artists too. 🥰

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10/10/2025

MUSE BOUTIQUE
13 High St. Portishead. BS20 6AB
Tel. 01275 818584�
https://www.museportishead.co.uk

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🟠 THANK YOU to Muse Boutique Portishead and especially the marvellous Amanda Johnston, who believed in us from the start and quietly supported us and many creative initiatives in our community over the years. Thank you for your amazing support 🙏

🟠 Muse is an absolute gem of a boutique on our High St: stocking fantastic stylish European brands you won’t find elsewhere and gorgeous accessories and jewellery. One for the ladies… but gents - not a bad place to pop in with Christmas around the corner…😉

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