In a period of growing inequality and a desperate housing and homelessness crisis, the discussion around property, the landed and the landless, the disappearance of the commons, and the privatisation of just about everything, is the issue of our times. With the huge systemic inequalities that are created thereby, the need for alternative thinking and action has never been so vital.

Led by Chris Chalkley, founder and director of People's Republic Of Stokes Croft Rebel Walk: Tesco Riot will explore the social and cultural experiment that some claim Stokes Croft to be, and the role of PRSC in that experiment, as we come to realise the necessity to find better solutions to the disaster that conventional economics has created.

How To Book and Key Information
Booking in advance is essential - tickets are Pay What You Can starting from £3+ booking fee per person and you can book your tickets using the 'Book Tickets' link on the left hand side of this page.

The walk will start and finish at Space at People's Republic Of Stokes Croft (17-25 Jamaica Street, BS2 8JP).

The walk will last 2 hours and will be followed by an opportunity to stay around in the bar afterwards to buy refreshments and ask informal questions.

If you have any access needs you'd like to discuss before booking, please contact the box office at info@trinitybristol.org.uk or by calling on 0117 935 1200.

About Art Of Resistance
Rebel Walk is part Trinity's Art of Resistance, a two-year National Lottery Heritage Funded project celebrating Bristol's alternative and activist heritage through a series of workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions, and oral history.

Lowkey, Photo Khali Ackford

Leading UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey is renowned for using spoken word and music as a form of activism and amplification. He was at Trinity to share the story of his journey as an activist/artist as part of Art of Resistance, a two-year Heritage Lottery project exploring creative acts of resistance.

Before the event, Lowkey kindly joined students from Trinity’s music making project, Making Tracks, to chat about how he entered into his musical making career, the challenges he has faced, and some top-tips for the emerging musicians.

“I found this advice really helpful and I've since tried to begin putting some of it into action. Lowkey also spent some time talking about how to stay motivated and keep up a consistent creative output, and how important consistency over time can be to develop a career in any creative industry.” Feedback from Jo Joyce-Venables, who is currently on a six-month placement at Trinity, as part of the Kickstarter scheme.

Lowkey shared some helpful advice on self-promoting, sharing his own story of how to use different methods of finding audiences online and keeping them engaged, using the technology and resources that are available today. Many students, including Jasper, found his tips on using Patreon and other online platforms useful, commenting "It was really good that Lowkey gave us a few insider tips such as using Patreon."

We are really grateful to Lowkey for taking the time to chat with students. Connecting emerging musicians directly to professionals is an important part of young people’s journey on Making Tracks. Lowkey joins the likes of Benjamin Zephaniah and Dev (Idles) who have all offered their support to the project and the young people’s journey.

Making Tracks

Making Tracks is supported by Youth Music and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, as well as support from match funders Youth Sector Support Fund.

Exhibition open from 12.30pm Saturday and 10.30am Sunday.

A series of inspiring talks have been programmed throughout the two days. See below for more details.

Day 1: Art, Roots, Revolution

From reclaiming nature, the landscape and the body to building alternative communities, Bristol’s many protest movements are linked by a common thread. They aim to bring us back to the roots of what makes us human and connected. Across this day we explore the many ways in which creativity is central to protest and reconnection.

Please click through the hyperlink on each talk session that you wish to register for:

• 1.30 pm Performance from Rider Shafique

• 2 pm Arts as Activism - Tom Marshman, Michelle Curtis, Rider Shafique

• 3 pm Digital Keynote - Mikaela Loach

• 3:45 pm Ring The Alarm - Deasy Bamford, Doug Fransisco, Rosina Al-Shaater

• 4:45 pm Special Guest Keynote: Melissa Chemam

• 5:45 pm Reclaim Space - Chris Chalkley, Rita Lynch, Freddy Sygrove

• 6:45pm Performance from Rita Lynch

Workshops led by Bristol City Poet Caleb Parkin, hip-hop artist Craft D, Ruth Ramsay, and more.

Day 2: Call This Equality?

As International Women's Day nears, artists and activists will explore challenging questions around classism and sexism and celebrate female desire, the body, asking how far, if at all, women have made progress in reclaiming the body.

• 11am Pay and Equality – TBC, Angie Belcher, Rhiannon White

• 12pm  Body and Soul - Isadora Vibes, Tamatha- Ann Lovett, Lucy J Turner

• 1pm Key Note - Rommi Smith

Our talks programme will be followed by performance Dry Season by Kat Lyons. Please click here for tickets and more information.

Resistance is never futile

Entry is Free – Walk ups allowed but please pre-register for the session(s) you wish to attend to help us manage numbers.

Art of Resistance is a two-year, National Heritage Lottery Funded project charting 100 years of protest in Bristol.

Cleo Lake is an activist, artist and elected representative, her activism spans the BLM movement, environmentalism and gender equality.

A former Colston girls school student and a leading voice in the Countering Colston movement Cleo, on taking office as Lord Mayor of Bristol, removed a portrait of Edward Colston that hung in the Lord Mayor's parlour.

Dr Edson Burton caught up with Cleo as part of the oral history research for Art of Resistance and captured the inspirational story of how she remains rooted in grassroots activism whilst navigating local and global corridors of power.

Watch the highlights of the interview above or view the whole interview by clicking here.

Want to find out more about Art of Resistance? Click here to find out more about the project and upcoming events or keep up to date with events and news at Trinity by signing up to our mailing list.

Art of Resistance is a two-year, National Heritage Lottery Funded project charting 100 years of protest in Bristol.

Soundtrack Soft Cheeks by Grove

"St Paul's Riot, that is the name it was known as but, for the Black youths of St Paul's it was yet another attack from the system. After years of Endless pressure of pure pressure, the melting pot spilled over. " Simba Tongogara, Walk Leader.

Community activist Simba Tongogara draws on personal experience to describe the events that led to the 1980 St Pauls Uprising, the subsequent campaign to ensure those charged were legally represented and that the voice of the Black community was heard. Simba also gives a searing assessment of the gentrification of St Pauls.

How To Book

Booking in advance is essential - tickets are Pay What You Can starting from £3+ booking fee per person.

Please check your ticket confirmation for the meeting point.

Art of Resistance is a two-year, National Heritage Lottery Funded project charting 100 years of protest in Bristol.

Image credit: Copyright Bristol Post

Join writer and historian Mike Manson for a 'Rebel Walk' through Old Market, as he reveals the hidden story behind the riot, drawing on recently discovered documents that reveal governmental fears of deeper conspiracies.

Mike Manson is the author of Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793 (Tangent Books).

How To Book

Booking in advance is essential - tickets are Pay What You Can starting from £3+ booking fee per person.

Please check your ticket confirmation for the meeting point.

Art of Resistance is a two-year, National Heritage Lottery Funded project charting 100 years of protest in Bristol.

Join writer and historian Mike Manson for a 'Rebel Walk' through a darker moment in Bristol’s history outlining the dreadful sequence of events that led to one of the worst civilian massacres of eighteenth century Britain.

Mike Manson is the author of Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793 (Tangent Books).

How To Book

Booking in advance is essential - tickets are Pay What You Can starting from £3+ booking fee per person.

Please check your ticket confirmation for the meeting point.

Art of Resistance is a two-year, National Heritage Lottery Funded project charting 100 years of protest in Bristol.

Lullabies performance. Photo Khali Ackford

Lullabies, created by multi-disciplinary artist Roxana Vilk, reached out and connected with communities across Bristol, recording and collecting songs from the many people who call Bristol home.

“Sharing lullabies is deep and private because you end up talking about your past, your motherhood, your mothering and your mother." Participant Lullabies

Initially developed during an IGNITE residency the project was selected to be part of the national project Here and Now to celebrate the National Lottery 25th Anniversary. Initially, Roxana worked with partners deliver song and music workshops in local community centres. However, due to the impact of the pandemic Roxana moved these workshops online meaning her project began to connect with people across the world.

Roxana used the sounds and stories of the people taking part in the project to influence the project. This saw a one person who initially took part in a workshop became a collaborator, helping in the delivery of the music-based workshops.

To celebrate Lullabies, Roxana staged a two day Trinity take over. She collaborated with tech-creatives Squidsoup to create an immersive, interactive performance inspired by the Lullabies journey with movement from dancers Delicia and Marianna, Real World Studios, Arron Hussain.

Bristol-based illustrator, Jasmine Thompson created portraits of some the families who took part in Lullabies exhibited and outside in the garden DJ’s staged a Baby Rave for the youngest members of our communities (plus their grownups).

Roxana is further developing her creative practice working with Bristol and Bath Creative R+D to further explore the Lullabies Project and is developing an ‘Adaptative Podcast’ with brand new technology featuring the co-creators Lullabies.

Projects like Lullabies are at the heart of Trinity’s commitment to artistic development.  We offer paid commissions to artists to develop work in collaboration with communities as well as artist residencies, free/subsided hire for R&D and producer and marketing support.

Walk Leader Steve Spear, outlines the social and political backdrop leading up to the 1831 riots. He explains how the problematic relationship between military and civic power led to a catastrophic level of destruction which sent a shockwave throughout the kingdom.

Steve Spear is a member of the M-Shed Historic Walks team. Join Trinity's third ‘Rebel Walk’ for a fascinating insight into this dramatic episode in Bristol’s history.

How To Book

Booking in advance is essential - tickets are 'Pay What You Can' starting from £3+ booking fee per person.

Please check your ticket confirmation for the meeting point.

About Art Of Resistance
Rebel Walk is part Trinity's Art of Resistance, a two-year National Lottery Heritage Funded project celebrating Bristol's alternative and activist heritage through a series of workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions, and oral history.

Image Credit: Bristol Riots: The Burning of Queen Square: the Custom House, by William James Müller, 1831. Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Spend a relaxing afternoon creating a uniquely decorated piece of fine English bone china at PRSC's famous studio in Stokes Croft.

Choose your piece and collage as many images and text as you like from their unrivalled collection of historic and new transfers that includes vintage images of popes and royals through to modern political slogans and street-art, ready to make a mug with a message of your choosing.

PRSC’s experienced workshop crew will guide you through applying the transfers to create your own unique design, which they will fire, ready to be picked up the following week.

As a key partner for Art Of Resistance, we have commissioned People’s Republic of Stokes Croft's (PRSC) to deliver Crafts & Resistance, a series of workshops to help you create a small act of creative dissent.

Due to high demand of places there is £10 refundable deposit which will be reimbursed at the end of the session upon attendance. If you are unable to attend the workshops or need to cancel in advance of the first session, please give us at least 5 days notice in order for your deposit to be refunded.

Please click through the hyperlink on which workshop date that you wish to register for:

Saturday 28th May (10am - 1pm)

Saturday 28th May (2pm - 5pm)

Sunday 29th May (10am-1pm)

Sunday 29th May (2pm - 5pm)

Crafts & Resistance is part of Trinity's Art of Resistance, a two-year National Lottery Heritage Funded project celebrating Bristol's alternative and activist heritage through a series of workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions, and oral history.

Spend a relaxing afternoon creating your own uniquely decorated tote bag at PRSC's famous studio in Stokes Croft.

PRSC will provide a selection of screens ready to print radical imagery, slogans, and lettering to spell out your own message, and they'll guide you through the process of printing them onto a tote bag, ready to take away at the end of the session.

As a key partner for Art Of Resistance, we have commissioned People’s Republic of Stokes Croft's (PRSC) to deliver Crafts & Resistance, a series of workshops to help you create a small act of creative dissent.

Due to high demand of places there is £10 refundable deposit which will be reimbursed at the end of the session upon attendance. If you are unable to attend the workshops or need to cancel in advance of the first session, please give us at least 5 days notice in order for your deposit to be refunded.

Please click through the hyperlink on which workshop date that you wish to register for:

21st May - 11am-1pm

21st May - 1:30pm - 3:30pm

21st May - 4pm - 6pm

28th May - 11am - 1pm

28th May - 1:30pm - 3:30pm

28th May - 4pm - 6pm

Crafts & Resistance is part of Trinity's Art of Resistance, a two-year National Lottery Heritage Funded project celebrating Bristol's alternative and activist heritage through a series of workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions, and oral history.

Do you want to learn how heritage events are planned and delivered?

Would you like to find out more about the history of Women’s Rights,  Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism Workers Rights, Counter Culture movements?

Sign up to this online event to find out more about getting involved. At this meeting the project curator Historian Dr Edson Burton and the wider team will take you through the story of the project, the wider programme and give you a chance to decide how you may want to get involved.

Art of Resistance is a two year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Project charting 100 years of creative responses to the resistance movements above.

We are looking for volunteers to help us deliver this exciting project. There are a number of ways in which you could get involved.

We need help with the following

Research: archives, media, books, online & online, and private

Interview: Conducting audio/and or film interviews with activists and creatives.

Transcription: Writing up interviews (see above Editing: Video, & audio content as described above. Events: Planning, facilitating, stewarding a range of activities.

Volunteers will receive: Training in research methods The opportunity to work with experienced researchers, Expenses allowance. Free entry to ticketed project events

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Image Colin Moody

Art of Resistance is a 2-year project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest, and civil disobedience in Bristol, and the art that underpinned each movement.

We're looking for people who have artifacts or stories they would like to share to help build this picture of Bristol as a city of art and activism.

Whether your #resist story or art relates to Workers Rights, Women’s Equality, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism - or something else we haven't thought of - we'd love to hear from you.

In particular, we're really interested if any artwork, including poetry, textiles, posters, banners and ephemera, music and performing arts that were used to support and capture the spirit of different movements throughout the ages.

#GetInvolved

If you have digital material you can upload it here: Art Of Resistance Submission form.

If you have a physical item or would like to discus taking part in an interview to tell your own story, please contact info@trinitybristol.org.uk

Keep up to do with the project and other Trinity news and event sign up to our mailing list here.

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Dancers from Gerry's Attic, a dance group for the over 55's take part in a workshop (photo @ Sarah Koury).

Trinity Community Initiative supported community and voluntary groups with over 4000 hours free and subsidised hall space.

Keisha Thompson delivers a workshop to young people as part of our IGNiTE programme (photo @Khali Ackford).

Over 100 people took part in one of the professional workshops delivered by touring companies and artists programmed as part of our IGNiTE theatre and dance programme. Highlights included students from Making Tracks taking part in a vocal looping workshop with Keisha Thompson and Rise Youth Dance taking part in Uchenna Dance’s workshop.

This year we earned a Bronze Attitude is Everything Award, and secured £5,000 funding from the Hedley Foundation and Bruce Wake Charitable Trust to pay for a mobile accessible lift to enable wheelchair users to access our Main Stage.

Josh attends regular 121 music sessions at Trinity's collaborative music making project (photo @ Alistair Brookes).

Our collaborative music making project Making Tracks provided over 400 music sessions for 101 young people, many of whom (85%) struggle with confidence, behaviour, health, well-being or other challenging personal circumstances.  Making Tracks makes a difference in peoples lives.

We are committed to conserving and protecting the Trinity Centre for ours and future generations (photo Khali Ackford).

With generous donations from the public, an uplift grant from Historic England and support from Heritage Lottery Fund and, other charitable Trusts & Foundations we raised the much needed funds to complete the major repairs to the fabric of the building.

Trinity's annual Festival of Light along with the Garden Party attract over 3k visitors and feature a line up of the best local musical talent (photo @Khali Ackford).

You can read more about the work we do by downloading our annual report here, or you can find out how you can continue to support the work we do here.

We couldn’t do this without your support, thank you.

We wish everyone the best over the festive season.

In this online session, led by pioneering researcher and curator D-M Withers, you will find out more about using and accessing online sources. By the end of the session you will be able to start your own research as part of Art of Resistance or, for your own personal project.

D-M Withers is a researcher and curator with expertise in the history of Twentieth century feminist social movements and radical archives. D-M recently acted as Curatorial Consultant on the British Library's exhibition Unfinished Business: the Fight for Women's Rights and is co-author of The Feminist Revolution: the Struggle for Women's Liberation and a forthcoming book about the publishing activism of Virago Press.

If you would to attend the session, please email esther@trinitybristol.org.uk to register

A link to attend the session will be sent out closer to the time

You do not need to have attended a previous Art of Resistance event to attend this session.

If you are unable to attend the session but would like to take part in the project, please contact esther@trinitybristol.org.uk.

Art of Resistance is a 2-year project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest, and civil disobedience in Bristol, and the art that underpinned each movement. Click here for more information about the project or to contribute content.

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.