Love Tea. Love Cake. Love The Mayfest Café

The Mayfest Café is here! Located inside The Parlour on Park Street directly opposite College Green, the friendly bunch at The Mayfest Café are serving teas and cake all day, every day to one and all for the entire duration of Mayfest. In here you'll also be able to find up-to-the-minute information on events, reviews, gossip and meet the Mayfest team and festival artists. Pop along!

The Blind Tiger's Call for Artists

Come and show us your claws!

As you may well have heard, this year we are introducing The Blind Tiger to Mayfest proceedings which is our very own late night bar/cabaret/speak-easy type affair. We don’t want to define it too much, because ultimately you, the artists of Bristol, will bring the ingredients needed to give it its own unique flavour. But here’s the info you need…

What's it all about?
The Blind Tiger is in the Basement of the Bristol Old Vic will be open from 9.30pm til midnight on the 6th–8th and on the 11th–13th May. Each evening there will be open slots for you to come and delight and entertain our most discerning of audiences. We call for performers, musicians and magic-makers of all kinds to pitch up, take to the stage, and have some fun.

How do I get involved?
There will be a Blind Tiger sign up sheet resident in our Mayfest Café at The Parlour on Park Street. If you fancy a slot you just need to pop along and scribble your name down at some point during the day. At 6.30pm each day we will then chalk the acts up on the ‘Blind Tiger Presents’ board outside the Basement, and any remaining gaps will remain up for grabs until 9.30pm that evening.

Mayfest On The Green

This year, the Mayfest office has picked up sticks and relocated to The Parlour on College Green. Our snazzy new surroundings have been made available by the Bristol City Council’s Capacity Project, which aims to open up empty and underused buildings for the benefit of Bristol’s creative community.

During May, the bare shop-floor level below our office will be transformed into The Mayfest Cafe; a hub for the festival providing a welcoming space for information, debate and relaxation over tea and cake.

We hope that our new home will form the centre of our pop-up community and we will keep you updated with news and events from Mayfest HQ.