They will guide you through a night full of debaucherous dancing, and tantalising circus shows as we party the night away to Disco, Funk, House, a touch of 90's Classics and whatever falls in-between. Boogielands have got a lovely, lovely party in store for you all.

• Circus Performers
• Immersive full venue decor
• State of the Art Lasers
• Crowd Participation Games
• Interactive Performance
• L-Acoustics Sound System
• Dance off Competition

Their latest album, For the Sake of Bethel Woods, released in March 2022, is packed with immersive warmth and mystery, from a band of ardent seekers. A band that once had feared they had lost themselves is back with a revived freshness and constancy of intent.

Tickets on sale: Fri 29 Apr, 10am

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Over 12 weeks children and families from local school Hannah More primary took part Trinity’s ‘Art Club’ project, in partnership with Take A Part. During one session we headed down to Hannah More to chat with the children and families to ask them what they thought of 'Art Club', press play above to hear what they had to say!

"When I was their age, we didn't get the possibility to draw - we couldn't afford it" Baktiar and Asenat's Mum

In total 25 children and families came along to ‘Art Club’. During the sessions they explored different art-forms, such as clay making, model making using with different types of art materials.

The group also went on ‘go see’ visits to arts organisations and museums in the city. This included a trip to see the Grayson Perry exhibition in the Bristol Museum and a visit to the newly established arts organisations 'St Anne’s House' where they met resident artist Rachel Clarke.

‘Art Club’ is a Trinity commission, delivered by Take a Part in partnership with Hannah More Primary and made possible through funding from the Cultural Recovery Fund

Her powerful, soulful, and bleakly humorous post-punk gives way to an insightful and honest performance. There are no superfluous details just hard truths. She is armed with little more than a sticky, five-key synth and a brilliantly barbed couplet, ready to take to the stage.

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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.

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.

Ozric Tentacles are regarded as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene. Formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983, they went on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals. Ozric's music is created from uniquely trippy soundscapes and moves into progressive rock, psychedelia and dance music culture. Ozric Tentacles and Gong have a long history together, with Gong bringing shades of psychedelia, space rock, jazz, avant-garde, krautrock and surreal soundscapes to the mix.

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Photo credit Zack Henry

Photo credit Zack Henry

Photo credit Khali Ackford

Dr Edson Burton, curator of Art of Resistance, reflects on curating weekend of activity exploring creative and activism

The Final Frontier was a two-day festival, programmed as part of Art of Resistance, that celebrated the rich history of activism that has happened in Bristol. The festival, and the wider project, explored creative expression in relationship to political movements, ideologies and philosophies.

As the festival curator I have a conceptual oversight of the project and work closely with the wonderful team at Trinity to help build the relationships and coordinate the activities and also problem-solve the things that don’t go according to plan.

"...artefacts, they’re not just Benin Bronzes, they’re simple manifestations of a time"

Dr Edson Burton on 'Art of Resistance'

For the Final Frontier we wanted to curate a 'conference style' event to explore how creative outputs have been integral to particular protest movements. We invited contemporary artists and activists who use creativity as a form of protest to take part in Keynotes addresses, panel discussions and lead workshops. Guests included environmental activist Mikaela Loach, Bristol ‘artists and activists’ Doug Francis (Invisible Circus) Chris Chalkley (PRCS) and Michelle Curtis, plus comedian, programmer and tutor Angie Belcher (Aftermirth) whose recent calls for ‘comedy on prescription’ made headlines, and many, many more.

As part of the weekend, we curated a 'pop-up' mini exhibition that pulled together artworks that used different forms, textures and mediums that celebrated the different kinds of protest that have happened in Bristol. These drew upon the key themes of the wider project including workers' rights, anti-racism, anti-fascism, women’s equality and counter-culture (people breaking out of the mainstream, expressions of living that counter the societal norm). We picked those movements because what was key with a project like this is trying to look at a broader span of mass participation.

We were able to display pull-out banners from The Central Library that charted the history of the suffragette’s movement in Bristol alongside a number of placards from the Black Lives Matter March of 2020 that the Mshed had collected following the protests of 2020. These are simple wood and cardboard placards on posts - that’s the irony of artefacts, they’re not just Benin Bronzes, they’re simple manifestations of a time and when put together with other kinds of sources tell us about what we were thinking and the immediacy of what we were expressing.

People’s Republic of Stokes Croft has been a wonderful ally throughout the project, and it was through them we were introduced to Jamie Gillman who was the artist behind the Bristol Bear, that sat in the Bear Pit and was the herald of the City, the soul of the city. As it was so large, we were only able to display the head and arms!

We had some provocative work by Tamatha-Ann Harris, whose an artist who looks at women’s bodies, sexuality. There was some really evocative work there but I think at the same time for many of us who are looking at these issues it's celebratory rather than offensive.

Through Final Frontier, we’re really keen to, and what I hope we did, honour and acknowledge other communities, and other forms of protest that haven’t had mass participatory scope but nonetheless have been a critical part of activism in the last 20-30 years. We also want to celebrate and engage and honour the activism of movements that are to some extent outside of our chronology, hence we had the banners by Vince Laws hung from a wonderful rope structure that allowed us to display various kinds of disability rights banners charting the history of the disability movement and some of the awful, shocking cases of exclusion that have happened over the years.

Click here to watch a (very) quick tour of the Final Frontier 'pop-up' exhibition

About Art of Resistance

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

Formed of Jim (vocals), Daniel (acoustic guitar), Ben (drums), Reeve (bass) and Dan Lee (electric guitar), Kawala recently released their new album, Better With You, bringing the guitar back to itself and providing a juicy entertaining show with a relaxed, joyful, and get ready for life performance.

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Pearson strives for the bittersweetness of music and takes classic, timeless ideas and spins them into new forms. Her new project, Sound of the Morning, sees the artist push herself into new water, musically and lyrically, to create a record that is increasingly unafraid to explore the darker side of life with an openness that is full of light.

Tickets on sale: Tue 29 Mar, 11am

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Trinity believes that the best art is created and experienced by the 67 million voices that make up UK society today. This is why we support and nurture creative communities, creating opportunities for artists and communities to co-create and experience culture together.

"I can't tell you how much we enjoyed it. It was perfectly pitched for this age group. This is exactly what we need more of” - Head Teacher from school’s audience group

Collaborating with communities

In March 2021 we launched an ambitious community arts project, 'What I Want To Be, What I Want To See' that asked communities to share their hopes and dreams for the future, post-pandemic. From this initial idea we commissioned community arts practitioner Michelle Roche to collaborate Newton Network and the local community to programme a series of ‘creative happenings’.

Throughout 2021 Michelle, Newtown Network and local residents created a programme of activities including a weekly 'coffee morning and lantern making' session that culminated with a mid-winter Dolphin Parade. Residents also took part in a series of collective actions – a community painting day and a public playlist of their favourite songs – sharing the unique identity of this vibrant corner of Bristol.

Creating opportunities for children and families to access and shape culture

Spilt Ink Theatre Company was awarded the Young Audiences Commission, which was introduced following a consultation, to offer more young people and family activities. Through our on-going partnership with local school St Nicholas of Tolentine, the company delivered a series of workshops collaborating with over 60 children to devise a new work, ‘Home’ that culminated in a public sharing in May 2021.

Trinity joined forces with Take a Part and Hannah Moore primary school to deliver 'Art Club', a project for children and their families to explore what culture they enjoy and what issues matter to them. Art Club took place for 12 weeks after school and included group trips to visit organisations such as Spike Island and The Bristol Museum, meeting staff and volunteers and having an opportunity to ask questions and see behind the scenes of some of the biggest cultural venues in the city. We will also be hosting a pop-up exhibition of artworks created by children and families who took part in the project.

Supporting the development and sharing of new and exciting work

In the summer we welcomed a range of performances in our pop-up outdoor venue, in the community garden and, for the first-time since Mar 2020, inside the building. This included a Trinity ‘take-over’ by associate artist Roxana Vilk, The Vilk Collective and immersive tech-artists Squid Ink with their 'Lullabies Celebration' celebrating the culmination of Roxana’s Lullabies project. The project collected and responded to songs from the many languages spoken in Bristol and beyond. Roxana is continuing to develop her creative practise including performing at St Georges Hall and through her residency at Watershed’s PM Studio.

Through micro-commissions and subsidised space we continued to support the creation and development of new work, including Houston Dance Company who devised Like Mercury in the Fyfe Hall. The show was selected to be programmed as part of the spring season of theatre and dance in 2022 and premiered to sell-out audiences. The show explored gender, sexuality and identity and positive feedback from audiences included people commenting that the show ‘taught me to embody and celebrate my sexuality’. The company will be touring the performance in the UK throughout 2022.

Trailblazers for modern, Irish, alternative music; their cataclysmic sound avoids consignment to any single genre. Their thrusting noise-rock guitars, heavy techno drum beats, and wailing vocals create a ferocious, electrifying show. Like the last rave before the apocalypse.

Tickets on sale: Sun 16th Oct, 10am

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Joining forces with Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin, Soccer Mommy's new sound breaks way into a fusion of empathetic love and hope.

Tickets on sale: Wed 30 Mar, 9am

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Our annual, free, music and arts event features a fantastic mix of local artists, bands, and performers. Garden Party is family friendly with workshops and activities running throughout the day.

Access - if you have access requirements please let one of our team know how we can help

Please note that no alcohol & no dogs can be brought on site. Bag searches will take place.

Line up:

• LCY
• Adeevah
• t l k
• MĀDŁY
• MoYah
• Yemz
• Mohamed Errebbaa
• The Co-Operators & Friends
• Young Musicians

Art of Resistance takeover - Heritage Lottery funded project exploring 100 years of activism in Bristol

• 'Wordz of Resistance' - Raise the Bar, the South West's leading spoken word poetry event lead this workshop exploring the power of spoken word poetry as a weapon of resistance with a Hip Hop workshop led by Craft D and performances featuring two talented headline poets Deanna Rodger and Muneera Pilgrim. This workshop will also feature an open mic hosted by Saili Katebe.

• 'Visions of Resistance' - Design and create a mural that captures Bristol's rich history of protest and depicts a vision for a better future. This workshop will explore elements of mural design such as collaging and print making as well as a discussion of the role of art in activism. Facilitated by Tanith Gould, an experienced mural artist part of Bristol Womxn's Collective.

Workshops & performances:

• Cirque De Silk
• Drumming Workshops
• Hype Dance
• Making Tracks Showcase
• Craft area

Play your part in Trinity's future and support events like Garden Party with a suggested donation of £3 per person.

About Trinity Presents

This is part of Trinity Presents - our in-house programme of music and performance, bringing world-class artists and emerging talent to inner-city audiences. Celebrating Trinity's 190th year.

Click play to watch Stokes Croft Lands Trust's campaign video

As part of our continued commitment to advocating for shared community and cultural spaces, we have pledged £1,000 to become a shareholder in the Stokes Croft Land Trust, matching the pledges of grassroots arts groups, The Invisible Circus and Artspace Lifespace.

“PRSC is a contemporary example of radical art in Bristol that represents the themes we’re exploring in our heritage project. Though this pledge, we hope to strengthen our ability more closely with PRSC and create shared outcomes for communities in relation to the art of resistance theme.” Rhiannon Jones, Programme Director

In early 2022, Trinity published the ‘100 Beacons’ report: A Community Canvas - building the case for community infrastructure, to shine a light on the importance of – and understand the risks posed to – Bristol's community and cultural assets. This report identified sustained underinvestment in civic assets coupled with the city’s rapid regeneration, poses a risk to Bristol’s unique identity that has led to it regularly topping the list of the "best places to live in Britain."

Bristol is a city renowned for its cultural offer and its activist spirit. However, parts of the city such as Stokes Croft that have historically shaped this identity have seen a huge growth in private development, which has already impacted on the cultural offer of this locality, with artists leaving Hamilton House in 2018, due to increased rents.

In response to this, the Stokes Croft Land Trust (SCLT) has been created to purchase 17-25 Jamaica St, Stokes Croft, which is home to the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft HQ (PRSC), in order to protect one of the area’s remaining cultural landmarks. Through a community shares offer, members of the community and like-minded organisations are able to come together to help ensure the building stays in the hands and ownership of artists, protecting its use for the benefit of the community. This is a model much like the Cube Cinema, which secured its building back in 2012 through community fundraising.

“Stokes Croft is a significant artistic destination in Bristol. With the scale of redevelopment happening and in the interests of social welfare, Trinity wants to help ensure our city’s cultural spirit and radical identity is nurtured. We’re working with the PRSC team to celebrate Bristol’s history of art in protest and we want to pledge our support for the Stokes Croft Land Trust so future generations of misfits have a space to call home.” Emma Harvey, CEO, Trinity Community Arts.

The Fundsurfer set up to help the SCLT purchase its first building and bring it into community ownership is already over 50% of the way towards their minimum target of £272,000.

Trinity’s commitment also supports our current work to document and celebrate 100 years of art and activism in Bristol through the National Lottery Heritage funded project, Art of Resistance.

Click here to pledge your support to Stokes Croft Land Trust today