Enter now for your chance to win two tickets to Slapstick 2025’s Silent Comedy Gala!
We have two top price tickets that must be won, worth a total £110, for the festival’s flagship event – its Silent Comedy Gala, happening at Bristol Beacon on Friday 14 February.
Hosted by Martin Freeman (The Office, Sherlock, Fargo, The Hobbit films, Black Panther, etc), you can enjoy:
- Pre-show entertainment in the Beacon’s foyer from Trip for Biscuits playing 1920s ragtime takes on modern hits
- Big screen showings of three classic silent comedy films, each accompanied by live music and with the legendary keyboard player Rick Wakeman among the musicians
- An inter-film performance by The Matinee Idles, the acapella group comprising members of the 1970s/80s doo-wap chart-toppers Darts + actor Paul McGann (Withnail & I, Doctor Who, Luther, Holby City).
When Slapstick – the UK’s biggest festival of screen comedy – returns to Bristol with a 20th birthday edition from 12 to 16 February, hardly any of its celebrity guests nor thousands attending will guess how much the programme owes to south Bristol.
But the festival’s founder and main organiser, Chris Daniels, is a longtime resident of Somerset Road. And it’s a fact that, as ever, much of the festival’s planning and appearance-fixing work takes place at his home or in eateries along the Wells Road.
“The festival has got a small office within Aardman’s HQ but it saves a battle with traffic to work in places like Acapella or Arnos Vale’s café and useful to have good coffee within easy reach.”
In all, Chris and his team are putting on 35 events for Slapstick 2025, with live visits from more than a dozen showbiz stars including Martin Freeman, Meera Syal, Harry Enfield, Stephen K. Amos, Lucy Porter. and Rick Wakeman.
To view the full line-up, go to www.slapstick.org.uk
TO ENTER
For your chance to win two tickets to Slapstick 2025 festival, simply email news@southbristolvoice.co.uk, putting the words ‘Slapstick 2025 competition’ as your subject line, and tell us the answer to the following question:
Q. Which birthday is the Slapstick Festival celebrating this year?
The closing date is midnight 31 January 2025.
PS! Don’t forget to include your name, address and contact details!
Terms and conditions
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The prize promotion is open to UK residents only.
- Entrants must be 18 or over and all entries must be made from within the United Kingdom.
- The prize shall be awarded at the discretion of South Bristol Voice. We reserve the right, at any time, to verify entries and to disqualify any entries by any person who tampers with the entry process or who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Conditions of Entry.
- Directors, employees and their immediate families of the Promoter and the agencies associated with this promotion are not eligible to enter.
- Multiple entries per household and individual are accepted, but only one prize will be distributed.
- No purchase is necessary.
- The closing date for receipt of entries is midnight on 31 January 2025.
- The winner will be chosen at random.
- The Prize: As specified above
- The prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and no cash alternative is available.
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