The Scott Arms in Dorset hosted The Strummerjam ‘Jerk Shak’ Garden Party in celebration of the birthday of Joe Strummer - British musician co-founder and lead vocalist of the Clash - and to raise a glass to the late DJ Derek, who sadly passed just over one year ago.

Donations for the raffle came from the Scott Arms, Wilkswood Farm Butchers Shop and Worth Matravers Tearooms. The Hattie Brown Brewery donated a barrel of 'Sweet Memory Ale' and Charlie Newman at the Square and Compass donation of a barrel of 'Johnny Appleseed Cider'. The event raised funds for Sweet Memory Sounds - the legacy set up in memory of DJ Derek by his family and friends, to support good causes that would have been close to his heart.

Funds raised will support Trinity's Youth Music Programme, working with young people who have become disengaged or excluded from mainstream education. Using music, we help young people increase their confidence, skills and abilities and help them to re-engage and get back into learning.

A big thank you to DJ Jack and his family for selling an amazing amount of raffle tickets and for supporting Trinity's youth music programme.

Read more about our work with young people here.

Only a few final-tier tickets left at Idle Hands!

Teachings In Dub

After their heavyweight Summer special with Peng Sound and Zam Zam Records we will be opening our doors again this Autumn to celebrate twenty years of Dubkasm.

Lineup
Dubkasm feat Solo Banton
OBF Soundsystem feat Shanti D
Evermoor Sound feat Aisha'Mae

“Wielding inspiration and uplift in equal measure, this musical odyssey is one of the cinematic journeys of the year. Don't miss it.”

Philip Wilding, Empire ★ ★ ★ ★

From the lawless streets of Kinshasa, Congo, comes one of the most incredible stories ever committed to film. Five years in the making, BENDA BILILI follows a group of street musicians as they struggle to record their first album. Four of the group are paraplegics who get around Kinshasa in Mad Max/ Easy Rider-style customised wheelchairs. The other three are homeless street children whose star is Roger Landau - a teenage prodigy who plays on a home-made, single string guitar, fashioned from a tin can.

Prepare to lose yourself in the remarkable true story of BENDA BILILI, as we follow them from their first recording session to worldwide acclaim and stardom. Hailed as the new Buena Vista Social Club and brimming with humour in the vein of Anvil, BENDA BILILI is an inspirational, infectious, hilarious and life-affirming story of a dream that becomes reality.

12 +

Presented by Come The Revolution as Part of Doing Things Differently

How to use Forum Theatre as a tool for social change with communities

Join Cardboard Citizens for an interactive two day workshop, exploring the Art of Engagement.

This workshop covers the theory, practice and application of Forum Theatre, in encouraging social change within the community.

The workshop will introduce accessible Image Theatre techniques, developed and pioneered by Augusto Boal. The group will start to identify and explore issues of concern, with a focus around the challenges of engaging marginalised individuals and groups. Cardboard Citizens will share its own knowledge and experience of how best to engage and support participation within communities.

This two day training will also provide the opportunity for Arts and Social Sector professionals to come together ahead of Cardboard Citizens’ Bristol residency programme and Forum Theatre performances in Spring 2017.

Cardboard Citizens

Cardboard Citizens is a creative hub for excluded people, offering workshops, training, support and progression to grow confidence, community and skills. Cardboard Citizens tells stories that need to be told, through theatre performed on the stage, in the street, in hostels, centres and prisons.

Who is this event for?

This training is ideal for Arts and Social Sector practitioners who want to develop their practice to support working with disengaged groups.

Why is this part of Doing Things Differently?

Cardboard Citizens has been making life-changing theatre with and for homeless people and disengaged groups for 25 years. This workshop is a fantastic opportunity to develop skills around how to work with ALL within the community, creating a more socially minded practice.

Watch Cardboard Citizens

Untold Stories is a short video about Cardboard Citizens’ Forum Theatre Tour in 2010, created by The Community Channel.

Our Mighty Groove

An immersive - interactive nightclub in a theatre experience

Our Mighty Groove is an immersive-interactive show set within a New York underground nightclub where the space is filled with dance, music and ‘diva’ antics. You are the audience and performer as you observe and experience the individual attributes of five female club goers whose personalities and amusing behaviour leave you standing on the edge of your feet!

Using a blend of club styles such as House, Waacking and Vogue, fused with African and Contemporary Dance, Our Mighty Groove is the theatre clubbing experience that empowers you to let go and LIVE YOUR LIFE on the dance floor!

Reviews

**** - The Independent

Our Mighty Groove is a high-energy immersive production combining infective rhythms, dance styles and attitude - DANCE TOG BLOG

You might also be interested in our Open Class by Uchenna Dance, more info here

About Uchenna Dance

The Company

Uchenna Dance is based in London, UK. It was formed in January 2009 under the vision and leadership of Vicki Igbokwe, shortly after she experienced a life-changing trip to New York during the summer of 2008. It was a Wednesday evening and Vicki had just finished taking a house dance class at Peridance Studios and had been told about a club called Sin Sin, that had a house night called Soulgasam. It hit her that this dance she was falling in love with, house dance, was much more than just a style of dance, it was a culture, a way of life. The DJ was spinning some tunes and the dancers were killing it…

The Uchenna dance style fuses Waacking, Vogue and House with traditional African and Contemporary, creating a signatory aesthetic that simply is, Uchenna.

Uchenna (pronounced OO-CHENNA) offers a unique and contemporary addition to the UK dance scene.

Since its inception, Uchenna Dance has grown from an informal explorative company to a tour de force within the dance sector.

The company’s overarching aim is to Empower, Entertain and Educate through dance in a diverse programme that includes the production of dance theatre production experiences, coaching, dance based empowerment workshops and teaching in further and higher education.

FORWARD’s ‘Musicians Unite to End Female Genital Mutilation’ presents:

Dobet Gnahoré

FORWARD presents ‘Musicians Unite to End female genital mutilation (FGM)’ an evening with Grammy award winner and Radio 3 World Music Award nominee Dobet Gnahore.

Dobet is a singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast and sings in seven African languages. In 2003 she released her first album entitled “Ano Neko“, then "Na Afriki" (2007), "Djekpa La You" (2010) and Na Drê (2014). She has toured internationally sharing stages with the likes of Angelique Kidjo, Habib Koité and many more. Her incredible band bring ranges from Congolese rumba to Ziglibito from Ivory Coast carried along with jazz-like sounds. Dobet’s powerful voice, intensely captivating stage presence and high energy dance routines all promise the audience an inspired, energetic and beautiful performance.

Special guests include Vanessa Kisuule a spoken word artist and master kora player (21 string West African harp) Mamadou (Modou) N’Diaye Cissokho.

Review: “Dobet Gnahore makes everything move” Chicago Tribune

Tickets: £12 advance, £15 on door

Party For The People & Bristol Ticket SHop

Suitable for all ages (under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult).

This event is brought to you by FORWARD the leading organisation working for over 30 years on harmful practices that affect the health, dignity and wellbeing of African girls and women.

www.forwarduk.org.uk Twitter: @FORWARDUK

Event hosted by Momentum. Trinity Community Arts is a registered charity with no religious or political affiliation. The Trinity Centre is an inclusive space for all and the events we host do not necessarily represent or endorse the views of Trinity Community Arts, the Trinity Team, or other contributors to this site.

Come The Revolution presents in Partnership with Bristol Radical Film Festival:

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

A film by Director Stanley Nelson

Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored—cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, and many others, THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

1hr 55mins

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Credits:

Directed, Produced, and Written By STANLEY NELSON

Producer LAURENS GRANT

Editor ALJERNON TUNSIL

Associate Producer NICOLE LONDON

Assistant Producer / Researcher SAM ALESHINLOYE

Assistant Editor REBECCA SHERWOOD

Cinematographers ANTONIO ROSSI /RICK BUTLER

Composer TOM PHILLIPS Sound JT TAKAGI

Animators MOLLY SCHWARTZ / GARRY WALLER

Krafty Kuts & Dynamite MC
Symphonica ft Mr Switch & Great Scott
Plus Great Scott Live PA
Howla b2b Bear Twists
Stitch
Twitch
Matt Ma G
Hosted by Twitchee Cordz & Trafic MC

Tickets on sale now

A full day of top quality workshops and master classes in a range of Latin dances, followed by an evening of shows and dancing to sizzling music with 4 dance floors until 4am!

In January 2016 the Trinity Centre opened its doors to the First Ever Bristol Salsa Congress. Our aim was to put together a fantastic weekend with some of the best salsa and Latin dance artists in the UK and abroad brought together under one roof in the South West, where you could benefit from their expert training and experience, enjoy their shows and party with them and other passionate salseros to some of the best DJs and live salsa music.

We are working hard to repeat and build on the success of the first Congress in 2017. In the meantime join us at Trinity Centre this summer for an entire day of top quality workshops, jaw-dropping shows, and your favourite DJ's who will keep you on the dance floor until 4am!! The Bristol Latino All Dayer is a celebration of Latin and African music and culture through dance. With a variety of classes from salsa (on1, on2, cuban), cha cha, rumba to tango and kizomba, the event will cater for different levels and tastes. Our venue, the Trinity Centre, offers a unqiue atmosphere and not one, not two but four dance floors!! Whatever your taste in Latin music might be, we have a floor and a DJ for it! This August make it a special one, make it to Bristol Latino All Dayer! We would love to see you there.

Classes: 10.50am -6pm
Party: 8pm -4am
Shows: midnight

Artists:

Gill and Shelley
Sam Mr Sleek
Marosh and Krisitina
Iris de Brito
Mauricio Reyes
Angus Peters
Stellan Jara
Ellwood and Angeliki
Alain Hernandez
Eduardo Bozzo
Tamba and Emanuela
Eddie Hunt
Fernando Traquino
Nigel May
Richard Down
Alex Driersprong

*Tickets: 
Evening pass (party and shows) - £20
All day pass - £45
Tickets will also be available on the door.

*booking fees apply if bought online

For more information and detailed programme please visit
http://www.bristolsalsacongress.uk/home

Wednesday 2nd November, 2pm-6pm

Free event suitable for dancers, movers, shakers, theatre practitioners, live artists, circus performers and anyone else who fancies it!

Join Karla Shacklock for an afternoon of tea and nice biscuits, which will include talking, reflecting, listening, and above all thinking about how performance artists can get out of their boxes.

An opportunity for artists, producers, programmers, funders and venues to come together, to have authentic conversations (no holds barred except moaning!), to play with thinking in new ways and to consider how we can work together in order to survive and thrive.

Karla will share her OOTB experience and you will hear a group of inspiring dance legends, such as Charlotte Vincent, Theo Clinkard, Jean Abreu, Liz Aggiss, Wendy Houston, Ben Duke, Lailla Diallo, talk about theirs. This is an opportunity to enjoy some safe time and space to think about your own journey.

Topics will include: touring, funding, health and wellbeing, networking, parenthood, and generally how to keep going when it starts to feel tough. Hopefully you'll leave feeling a bit safer, more empowered and like you are part of a wide and special world.

Free -RSVP via Eventbrite

This is one of five free and accessible OOTB events taking place across the UK at Pavilion South West, Yorkshire Dance, Dance4, South East Dance.

OOTB is a Karla Shacklock Company project, supported by Arts Council England, Theatre Bristol, Trinity Community Arts, Bath Dance, Bristol City Council, Yorkshire Dance, Pavilion Dance South West, Dance4, South East Dance and Barnsley Civic.

Image courtesy of Giulia Pecorari, designer and photographer.

3 1⁄2 Minutes: Ten Bullets

A Film by Marc Silver

In 3 1⁄2 Minutes, two lives intersected and were forever altered. On Black Friday in 2012, two cars parked next to each other at a Florida gas station. A white middle-aged male and a black teenager exchanged angry words over the volume of the music in the boy’s car. A gun entered the exchange, and one of them was left dead.

Michael Dunn fired 10 bullets at a car full of unarmed teenagers and then fled. Three of those bullets hit 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died at the scene. Arrested the next day, Dunn claimed he shot in self-defence. Thus began the long journey of un-ravelling the truth. 3 1⁄2 Minutes follows that journey, reconstructing the night of the murder and revealing how hidden racial prejudice can result in tragedy.

Directed by Marc Silver (Who is Dayani Cristal?), the documentary intercuts powerful exclusive footage from a riveting trial with intimate, observational scenes of Jordan’s parents, Ron and Lucy. We see first hand how difficult it is for them to grapple with unimaginable loss while fighting for justice for their son. The film integrates police interrogation footage, prison phone recordings and interviews with the others at the scene that night. The result is a powerful story about the devastating effects of racial bias, and the search for justice within the judicial system.

98 mins

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3 1/2 Minutes: Credits

Directed by Marc Silver
Produced by Minette Nelson, Carolyn Hepburn
Executive Producers Orlando Bagwell, Bonni Cohen, Julie Goldman, Jeff Skoll, Diane
Weyermann
Co-Executive Producer David Eckles
Edited by Emiliano Battista, Gideon Gold
Cinematography by Marc Silver
Original Music by Todd Boekelheide

What is it like to have your genome sequenced? How can we extract information from your DNA and what should be done to maintain its safety and privacy? Join our panel of experts from across Bristol in this Question Time style event that seeks to gain your opinion on who should have access to genetic data.

Future Debates events are part of the British Science Association's work to make science a fundamental part of British society and culture. We want to empower many more people – not just scientists – to constructively engage in debates over the applications and implications of science in their lives, their local economy and the UK’s future.

Tickets are free but please register!

The Misfits Theatre Company are joining forces with Plymouth’s Funky Llama for a special "Rhythm of the Night", a nightclub event for adults with learning disabilities, their families and friends.

A joint event as part of Doing Things Differently , it's all about celebrating, learning and talking about equality in the arts.

So put on your dancing shoes and come along to a fun night with guest DJ's all the way from Plymouth, DJ Joshie B & DJ Dolphin - great music and a chance to meet new people!

There will also be a flashmob performance at 8pm. If you like to dance and would like to be involved then join our rehearsals earlier on the day

Flashmob Rehearsals 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Disco starts at 7.30pm

Tickets £5 - 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.

Funky Llama Plymouth Theatre Royal offer innovative events and creative support for adults with different abilities. They believe in raising aspirations, creating opportunities, challenging perceptions and developing a regional and national network of creative activity.

Bristol based Misfits Theatre are a theatre and social group led for and by people with learning difficulties. Recognised for their role as providers of unique workshop and training solutions, they work with both private businesses and the public sector. Misfits aim to enable people with learning difficulties to be creative, have fun and reach their potential through participation, performance, volunteering and employment.

If you can't make it to this one, don't miss our next Rhythm of the Night on Thursday 29th September.

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 £1.50 (for 1hr) and go up to £4.50 for 12hrs. More info about Trinity's car park can be found here

On The Edge Of Me

On The Edge of Me is a solo dark comedy about the life of recent graduate, Remi, who confronts life as she knows it. The performances fuses storytelling, poetry, live music and audience participation to explore the themes of graduate blues, love, anxiety, unemployment and mental health.

“It’s a very familiar situation for a millennial crowd, and Mercy is so keen to talk about modern life and mental health with such honesty and warmth that you can’t help but leave this possibly pessimistic tale feeling optimistic.”
Oscar Balfour, ★★★★

“Brilliant, poignant and touching.’” International Youth Arts Festival Review

Exploring survival in the most fiercely competitive job market of all time, this piece is based on real-life testimony. Experience a play where the voice of one actress echoes the struggles of an entire generation of people facing unemployment, anxiety and depression.

The Artists
Written and performed by Yolanda Mercy, live music by Alex Leith, Directed by Jade Lewis, Produced by Gemma Lloyd and Dramaturgy by Jules Haworth. Supported by Arts Council England and O2 Think Big.

Why is this part of Doing Things Differently?
This one woman play, developed by Soho Theatre with groups of young women, explores unemployment, mental health and self worth. The play offers a platform to explore a range of resonant questions for today, with the express intention of changing people’s lives.

Age 14+

Doors open 6.30pm

Show length 1hr