We'll have visuals by the amazing GONZO VISUALS, live art from Ink Soup, and food trucks outside. Grab your tickets now!

The Gories
Ron Gallo
Spectres
KILL WEST
The Shivas
Hey Colossus
Dead Rabbits
SEX SWING
Abjects
Swedish Death Candy
LICE
Table Scraps
Dead Coast
YO NO SE
The Evil Usses
The Brackish
Phoenician Drive

Children aged 14+ can be on site until 11pm. If they are under 16 they must be accompanied by an adult..

TICKETS ON THE DOOR WILL BE £35

“Thank you for doing such powerful and difficult stuff! Great to see Political Art and Social Change”. Audience Member Cathy, Cardboard Citizens

A HUGE shout-out to all the companies and artist who have been part of Season One.

To recap: Ultimate Dancer brought: Holy Smoke, a surreal exploration of shamanism that filled Fyfe Hall with, a lot of smoke, while Jo Fong’s An Invitation… , playfully and delightfully enticed audiences.

“Warm, friendly, powerful and outstanding performance”. Audience Member An Invitation, Jo Fong

Peter McMaster explored masculinity and age with: 27, An Ecstatic Ritual of Life and Death. Cardboard Citizens brought debate and conversation with Cathy and we were immersed in a New York Club with Uchenna Dance’s: Our Mighty Groove.

“Excellent. Really got the club vibe and the personalities of the dancers where excellent! Had a great time! Thank You”. Audience Member Our Mighty Groove

Programme Manager, Rhiannon Jones, and Producer, Fergus Evans, have been busy presenting Season Two to our programming forum, so eyes peeled everyone to early 2017 when we will launch this to the public.

Behind the scenes

“Very useful workshop with Jo Fong. Always useful to be exposed to how others work.” Workshop participant

Our building is used by many different groups in many different ways (through the Trinity Community Initiative) and we are dedicated to improve how our communities participate and engage with performing arts.

Alongside our main IGNiTE programme Uchenna Dance delivered two open classes, including one to HYPE Dance, Trinity’s weekly street dance class for 5-25yr olds. Jo Fong worked with with Gerry’s Attic, a new resident older people’s Dance Company to deliver a workshop that explored participants relationship to dance.

Team IGNiTE are super excited to be continuing to connect artists and communities in the New Year.

“Our work together comprised of sensory exercises, partner work and an exploration to our own relationships to dance … what I saw there was something like a real curiosity about sensation and presence, inhabited bodies, thinking bodies, a hyper awareness and yet a directness, an honesty of approach and a committed attention.”

Jo Fong reflects on working with Gerry’s Attic

2017 (and beyond)

We do tell subscribers of the IGNiTE mailing list FIRST about shows, tickets offers, workshops and opportunities. So if you are not subscribed, you definitely should be. Email us at info@3ca.org.uk and we can pop you on.

If you are on that list you will be the first to know about our first batch of resident artists, which we will be announcing soon who have been selected with help from our fabulous Programming Forum:

On board we have Tom Marshman (Independent Artist) , Kate Yedigaroff (MAYK), Dr Edson Burton, Natasha Benjamin (HYPE), Julie Thorneycroft (Gerry’s Attic) and Jasmine Haque (Awaz Utoah).

& for now, a very merry signing off from me (Sarah), Fergus, Edson and Rhiannon and the rest of the team.

See you in 2017.

The Misfits Theatre Company would like to invite you to Rhythm of the Night.

So put on your dancing clothing on, be entertained and join us for a fun night at Trinity!

A great and fun way to meet new people and have a chat over a drink or two, along with some great music to do some dancing and socialising.

Disco starts at 7.00pm

Tickets £7.50 - on the door

Bar open - please note you have to be over 18 to buy alcoholic drinks from our bar. You will be asked for an ID, so please bring one with you. Please ensure that transport is arranged for the end of the night.

Please note that Trinity has a public pay and display car park. It applies to anyone parking at the Centre, including staff, hirers, centre users and blue badge holders. The rates start at £1 (for 1hr) and go up to £5 for 12hrs. More info about Trinity's car park can be found here

The Misfits Theatre Company would like to invite you to Rhythm of the Night.

So put on your dancing clothing on, be entertained and join us for a fun night at Trinity!

A great and fun way to meet new people and have a chat over a drink or two, along with some great music from our regular DJs to do some dancing and socialising.

Disco starts at 7.00pm

Tickets £7.50 - on the door

Bar open - note that you have to be over 18 to buy alcoholic drinks from our bar. You will be asked for an ID, so please bring one with you

Please note that Trinity has a public pay and display car park that works with an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system. All visitors, including blue badges, need to purchase a ticket on arrival for the duration of their stay. There is a grace period of 10 minutes for people who need to drop off/pick up.

Payments can be made by card, via a smartphone app, online or cash on our existing P&D machines. Trinity receives all revenue from P&D parking which goes back into the charity and help us support groups and events like Misfits.

Trinity does not receive any revenue from Charge Notices and therefore we have no powers of waiving fines for non-payment of parking. More info about Trinity's car park can be found here: https://www.3ca.org.uk/contact/parking

Their annual Christmas tradition 'Under The MistleTour' rolls into the The Trinity Centre in Bristol on Sunday, 18th December! Be sure not to miss out on all the festive-fun when the Weird & Wonderful World of ATTACK! Pro Wrestling invades the South West once more.

Set to appear; ATTACK! Pro Wrestling Champion 'The Pride of Wales' Eddie Dennis, 'White Lightning' Mark Andrews, Nixon Newell, Tag Team Champions #CCK [Brookes/Lykos], 'Ginger Jesus' Mike Bird, The Wild Boar, The Anti-Fun Police, 24/7 Champion 'Extremely Confused' Drew Parker & much more~!

Doors Open 7:00pm / Show Starts 7:30pm 

Important Details;
- No physical tickets will be distributed for this event. Print or screen grab your receipt or alternatively present your name and transaction number on the door. 
- Card subject to change.
- Ticket sales are non-refundable.

Now is your time to have your say, face to face. Join one of our sessions:

Meeting for current centre users - Tuesday 8th Nov, 5pm to 8.30pm

Open public meetings (2 sessions) - Wednesday 9th Nov, 10.30am to 1pm / 2pm to 6.30pm

Light refreshments will be available - Everyone is welcome

No need to book in your place, just drop-in.

For more information, you can contact Ruth Ramsay: 07722565759 / ruthramsay@ymail.com

If you cannot make any of the meetings, please send us you feedback via email or complete our online survey: Community Consultation.

It will take you less than 10 minutes to complete it and is open until the 10th November - As a big thank you, we will enter your details (if submitted at the end) in a prize-draw to win a pair of tickets for the event of your choice!*

Your responses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any purpose other than research conducted by Trinity Community Arts.

*subject to availability

The consultation focuses on our existing services, building characteristics and facilities, and amongst other things it will help to inform our 2017 Learning and Participation Programme.

This new online survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and is open until the 10th November.

Tell us what you like and we'll endeavour to keep doing it. Tell us where there's room for improvement and we'll look at where we can implement change to get it right.

We've acted on your suggestions since we last consulted you in 2012 - See You said, We did!

So please, take a few moments to complete our new Community Consultation.

This online survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and is open until the 10th November.

As a big thank you, we will enter your details (if submitted at the end) in a prize-draw to win a pair of tickets for the event of your choice!*

Your responses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any purpose other than research conducted by Trinity Community Arts.

For more information about this survey and how the results will be used, or to have a chat face to face with Ruth, please contact us at: info@3ca.org.uk

*subject to availability

Rhythm of the Night

The Misfits Theatre Company would like you to join us on Thu 24 November for the last event of 2016!

It's a great and fun way to meet new people and have a chat over a drink or two, along with some great music to do some dancing and socialising.

Disco starts at 7.00pm

Tickets £5 to get in

Bar open - please note you have to be over 18 to buy alcoholic drinks from our bar. You will be asked for an ID, so please bring one with you.

If you can't make it to this one, join us next year - we are back in Thu 26 January 2017

Please note that Trinity operates a public pay and display carpark. It applies to anyone parking at the Centre, including staff, hirers, centre users and blue badge holders. The rates start at £1 (for 1hr) and go up to £5 for 12hrs. More info about our car park can be found here

SHEELANAGIG play intricate, groove heavy arrangements of original and traditional tunes drawing influence from the folk music of Europe and beyond. This high-octane five-piece play a wide variety of instruments with reckless abandon, forcing you to dance your socks off and have a good time!

MOULETTES are an English eclectic Art Rock band that combines elements of Rock, Prog, Folk and Pop. Their charismatic, idiosyncratic yet poppy brand of  progressive, psychedelic neo-classical folk rock has enthralled crowds at many festivals as varied as Bestival, Glastonbury, End of the Road and Cropredy.

HONEYFEET are Manchester’s finest ethio-trad, folk-hop & barrelhouse-pop exponents have the skill, charm and (frankly) tunes to pull it all together into a joyful, foot-banging sound. Evoking the afro-funk of Mulatu Atstake, the exuberant folk of Flook, and the blues of Junior Wells. Honeyfeet have in Ríoghnach Connolly one of the most striking frontwomen on the scene at the moment.

DJ Dad will keep things flowing with his seemingly endless collection of great tunes!

Tree House

By Chris Fogg

Tree House is a story of love and dreams, promises and betrayals, hope and redemption, shot through with warmth, humour and compassion.

It relates the fortunes of three people – Robbie, Jane and Alan – whom we first encounter as children playing in a tree house on a piece of waste ground on the edge of a village. We then follow each of them as they navigate their way along the different rungs of the social and property ladder: Jane goes into law, politics and the media; Alan pursues a career in property, finance and the City; while Robbie joins the Army, carries out a number of tours of duty in Afghanistan, defusing roadside bombs, where a spontaneous act of kindness leads to a sudden and unexpected tragedy.

Some years later fate conspires to bring all three back to the waste ground, back to the tree house, where old scores are settled in a final act of reckoning.

A story for our times. A play for today.

Responses to Tree House:

“… looks at life’s moving parts through a watchmaker’s loupe. Shows how the tiniest elements can affect the whole mechanism, meshing apparently disparate details, making them not just tick, but unexpectedly chime.” Quentin Cooper, broadcaster and journalist, former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Material World

“Gripping and poignant.” Kate Wood, Artistic Director, Activate

“Evokes fundamental questions of now, who we are and where we are inside ourselves…” Mark Bruce, winner of Sky Arts/South Bank Award 2014

“Chris Fogg is a master at seeing the extraordinary in the everyday bits and pieces of modern life. I have an inextinguishable admiration for his gentle politic, for his ability to weave an apparently simple idea into a thoughtful reflection of what we should value most. This is quietly urgent work.” Gavin Stride, Director Farnham Maltings, house and caravan

Please book in advance: online or in person at Tobacco Factory Theatres box office, or over the phone (t: 0117 902 0344).

The PE Class is an ongoing series of workshops exploring the essentials of ensemble theatre practice. They are a space for theatre-makers to experiment, to practice, to share ideas, and to meet.

Each session will be led by a different Bristol-based Director who is asked to try something new, to facilitate an extended practical exercise for the duration of the session.

This season’s facilitators:

Tue 11 Oct – Steph Kempson (Sharp Teeth)
“Feeling vs. Text”: finding alternative ways through movement, sound and music to access challenging texts.
NB. Singers and instruments welcome.

Tue 18 Oct – Josh Ben-Tovim (Impermanence Dance Theatre)
“De-misting the windscreen of collaboration”: creating structures to enable equality of input with minimum chat and maximum making.

Tue 25 Oct  – Chris Pirie (Green Ginger)
“Hiding in Plain Sight”: audiences are OK now with seeing puppeteers on stage, but can they deal with us on their screens?

Tue 1 Nov – Adam Fuller (Open Attic Theatre)
“Tracing Energy Onstage”: like a sparkler at a bonfire, can physical brushstrokes and the way energy moves around the performance space supercede the narrative content?

What will I get out of the classes?

As well as getting to develop skills and try out new approaches, learning from some of the best practitioners making work right now, PE Classes are a great way to meet other local theatre-makers, and to introduce yourself to a range of Directors developing work in Bristol and beyond.

Are the classes right for me?

PE Classes are aimed at active theatre-makers who want to collaborate to tell stories for their audience. They are peer led sessions, pitched at fellow practitioners who work professionally in the theatre, or who aspire to.

Actors, dancers, clowns and circus artists… performers from any discipline are all welcome, as are teachers/workshop leaders and current theatre/performing arts students (HE and 18+ only).

Other Directors are particularly encouraged to attend as particpants. Award-winning acting talent is not required, only openness, generosity, and an ability to support the groups’ improvisation and play.

Nuts and bolts

Places are limited and class size capped. Please note that you cannot pay on the door so places must be booked in advance, and that Trinity Arts do not sell tickets for these workshops. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or in person at Tobacco Factory Theatres up until 4pm latest on the day of each session. As long as you’ve paid-up by then, no need to bring paper-ticket with you to Trinity Centre.

PE Classes take place in Fyfe Hall, upstairs at Trinity Centre. Doors open at 6.15pm for chat, finishing coffee, wandering in, stretching if you want. Class starts 6.30pm sharp.

Please wear loose comfortable clothing and bring drinking water. Bring appropriate soft indoor footwear or be prepared to work bare foot.

Any questions, please contact simon [at] theplasticinemen.co.uk.

Supported by Bristol City Council Creative Seed Fund and Tobacco Factory Theatres.