In 2019, ADF reissued their Mercury Prize-nominated 1998 classic, Rafi’s Revenge garnering ecstatic reviews and the messages within it seeming as relevant today as the day they were written. The group released their ninth studio album, Access Denied, in 2020 The album showcases ADF in full-spectrum mode; with tracks going from tough, jungle punk to meditative orchestras. With guest spots from Greta Thunberg, 47Soul, Ana Tijoux, and Stewart Lee, ADF continue their sonic opposition to the powers that be and kick harder and higher than ever.

Ticket on sale: 03 Nov 2021, 10am

Please note, this is a standing show

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Dance activities at Trinity

Moving Bristol

Moving Bristol is a two-year project 2019-21 by Bristol Dance Futures aiming to connect and increase dance activities across the city.

The project focuses on two key areas - developing dance practice and new and existing audiences and developing an ecology of dance across Bristol.

Three Dance Hubs will focus on the development of Dance within Health, Young People and Audiences and placing artists in residence across the city to inspire dance practice.

About Bristol Dance Futures

Bristol Dance Futures is a consortium of organisations and independent dance practitioners committed to making Bristol a place where everybody can move and be moved by dance, set up by in 2016 by Theatre Bristol, Pavilion Dance South West, Bristol City Council and independents, including dancer Laïla Diallo.

Between 2016-2018 the consortia undertook research and consultation with the sector, mapping Bristol’s professional dance network and carrying out research into the thousands of people who take part in and watch dance in the city.

Aims

• Nurture the talent of artists of all dance types

• Grow audiences and participation in dance

• Promote Bristol’s diverse dance identity

Consortia members 2020-21

Organisations: Arnolfini, Circomedia, In Between Time, Theatre Bristol, Trinity Community Arts.

Artists & practitioners: Gabrielle Cook, Deepraj Singh and Lauren Scholey

We welcome new artist representatives who reflect the breadth of Bristol’s practice and communities.

Please get in touch for more information.

Illustrated portraits of participant of Lullabies are displayed in the Graffiti Room as part of Roxana Vilk's Lullabies takeover. Photo Khali Ackford

Trinity have been awarded a prestigious Bristol Life Award, coming first in the 2021 Arts category.

“A truly one-of-a-kind art space that this year engaged 60,000+ people across over 1,000 events and cultural experiences.” Judges, Bristol Life Awards

We were nominated alongside Bristol Old Vic, St George’s Bristol, Bristol Beacon, and Brave Bold Drama, who received a highly commended award for their achievements over the last year.

When the building closed due to COVID-19, our programme went online, featuring live streams and workshops. We teamed up with leading circus company Cirque Bijou to host a 'Day of Dance’ to celebrate what would have been Bristol Harbour Festival. We commissioned live experiences including: Social Muscle Club (in partnership with Shambala), Learning To Swim On An Ironing Board, and What Words Are Ours?, in partnership with The Gulbenkian Theatre (both BSL interpreted).

Partnering with St Paul’s Carnival, we live-streamed carnival in a UK first - and, with the support of Carnival Elders, commissioned a poem by Bristol poet Malaika Kegode. As well as this, we worked with community organisation Eastside Community Trust to distribute over 900 family activity packs to local school children and families.

We commissioned Split Ink Theatre Company to devise a new piece of work for young audiences. Artist Tink Flaherty was awarded a D/deaf/Disabled commission to create a new piece of digital work. Roxana Vilk’s Lullabies project, initially developed as part of our IGNiTE arts development programme, connected 100s of families across Bristol and beyond through online workshops.

We are so proud of the team who worked hard to adapt delivery over the pandemic and want to say a huge thank you to all our funders and supporters and, of course, everyone who took part in the programme and helped make the magic happen.

Want to take part in activity at Trinity? Click here to see what is coming up.

Locality, an organisation that supports community businesses to be strong and successful, came down to Trinity for a day to film a short video focusing on Trinity's role as a community arts hub.

"In a physical space when you’re enjoying something, whether you’re having fun just getting down, having a dance or making something and being really proud of that thing that you made – art is just quite magical". Emma Harvey, Trinity CEO

Featuring Trinity regulars Hype Dance as well as CEO Emma Harvey, the film shines a light on the range of community activities at the centre, from neighbourhood celebrations to accessible and affordable dance and music events, as well as nurturing emerging artists.

Trinity is one of the few remaining truly independent community arts venues in the city so it felt fitting to launch the film on Venues Day, 5th October 2021. To mark the film's launch, Trinity took over Locality's social media to celebrate the charity's role as a hub for community arts.

The film was part of a wider set of films showcasing the many great activities that take place across the community and voluntary sector. You can find out more about the work Locality do by visiting their website.

Across the evenings of 19th and 20th November, we invite some of the UK’s finest djs and sharpest dance music provocateurs to raise the roof for our final dance of the year.

Joining Ben UFO on the Friday night are Anz, Shanti Celeste and Toma Kami.

Anz is one of the breakout stars of the past year in UK dance music with her Loos in Twos EP on Hessle Audio followed by the launch of her OTMI label and the band new All Hours EP on Ninja Tune.

Peach Discs boss Shanti Celeste is surely one of the best DJs in the UK. Known for her contemporary U.K. takes on the classic Motor City sound combined with the visions of the early Techno pioneers, she is guaranteed to bring the heat the dance floor.

Warming up the boards on Friday night is Toma Kami who’s releases on Livity Sound and his own Man Band label have gained him a well earned reputation not only as an innovator and visionary producer but also a killer dj.

Saturday night sees a change in pace with Club Fitness, Laksa and Equinox joining Ben UFO on the decks.

Club Fitness is one of the hottest names in the London dance scene known for her high energy house and techno sets and occasional guest slots on NTS.

Laksa returns to his hometown of Bristol, bringing his signature cutting edge sound to the dance. If you’re familiar with his releases on Hessle Audio, Time Dance and Illian Tape, you’ll know what to expect.

Equinox is a legend of the UK Jungle scene having been there from the very start and releasing some absolute classics along the way. An incredible DJ, Equinox is going to rip the roof off.

This is a sound system event with Full VOID arcline 8 system with 12 subs and will be loud, please bring ear plugs!

Friday 19th

• Anz
• Ben UFO
• Shanti Celeste
• Toma Kami

Saturday 20th

• Ben UFO
• Hodge
• Equinox
• Laksa

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Confirmed acts

Line up:

• KRUST
• Laid Blak DJ set with live PA performance from Joe Peng and Bunjy
• Kahn
• DJ Queen Bee
• DJ Hannza from Booty Bass
• Lawrence Hoo, poet and co-founder of the Cargo project

Plus more acts to be announced!

Laid Blak are recognised as pillars of Bristol’s urban reggae and Jungle scenes, the pair spent the 90's causing havoc on dance floors in the biggest raves around the country, performing for era defining parties...

Lawerence Hoo is a legendary spoken word poet known for throwing a powerful light onto the overlooked experiences of those living in Bristol’s under supported communities.

£10 a ticket - all profits pay for the defendants costs. Bring your friends, neighbours and cousins!

Crowdfunder link

Trinity seeks to uphold the right of all to experience and express diverse visions and views, in line with our free speech policy. Though seeking to amplify the voices of diverse artists and under-represented groups, this can sometimes mean moral positions on key issues of those using the Centre will not always align with the views of Trinity or of other artists and groups. We will not censor artist or communities in response to competing moral interests or political or ideological pressure.

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Films from the Front Line is selection of short films that highlight different issues which affect us all and that demand our action and resistance against the neoliberal assault. Films include The Battle of Denham Ford and Precarity Story

The Battle of Denham Ford

The Battle of Denham Ford tells the story of attempts by HS2 contractors to fell a tree that overhung their compound. A protest camp sits adjacent to the compound, and, hearing of the plan, the activists installed a climber in the tree.

Precarity Story

A short documentary that tells the work story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher, and researcher in the same British university. Her story stands as an example of the increasing casualisation of university labour and its human consequences.

As a community arts space, Trinity is committed to our core values of being a ‘Centre for the People’ and platforming work as part of our programme that represents and reflects our diverse communities. Please read our free speech policy for more information

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The 8th tells the story of Irish womenʼs campaign to remove the 8th Amendment – a constitutional ban on abortion. After a 35-year struggle the pro-choice side must radically shift tactics to try and bring this historically conservative electorate over the line. It shows a countryʼs ongoing transformation from a conservative state in thrall to the Catholic church to a more liberal secular society.

Content Warning: This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.

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La Commune is an attempt to challenge existing notions of documentary film, as well as the notions of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' so beloved by the mass media today. We travel back in time to 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.

The telling of this story rests primarily on depicting the people of the Commune, and those who suppressed them. “I hope that the open form of ʻLa Communeʼ, and especially the process of discussion and community activity which can accompany the film screening, will help to forge the kind of collectivity, and frontal resistance to globalization and its satellite mass media which is now needed” (Peter Watkins).

The film lasts 345 mins and will have a 30 minute intermission between parts 1 and 2.

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A psychological portrait of a fascinating individual and his experience of the country that houses him and the State that seeks to evict him. Set against the backdrop of the Irish Supreme Court legal action between Kildare farmer Thomas Reid and the Irish Industrial Development Agency over its attempt to seize his farm for a multinational company; this film is a searching examination of the tension between a high-tech, low-tax globalised Ireland and the right of an individual citizen to continue living and working the lands of his ancestors.

Beyond the walls of Thomas Reid 17th century farm looms a vast American factory - vital to the national economy but long an unsettling presence in Thomas' life. Suspicious of intrusion, Thomas does not welcome the State agents who come to forcibly purchase his house and lands. He vows to resist.

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The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody. The silence over the police killings of Black people is now broken. Since 1969, over two thousand people have died at the hands of the police in the UK. Shootings, chokeholds, batons, gassing, suffocation, restraint and brutal beatings are some of the methods used. The numbers of deaths is escalating. Inevitably police officers involved are not convicted for these killings.

In this documentary, the families of the victims of police violence demand justice. They ask why society ignores human rights abuses by agents of the state. This reflection on resistance is poignant and political, capturing the brutality and trauma as well as the unrelenting fightback of those who will not be silent about state violence.

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The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston resonated around the world and has sparked similar actions in the United States and in many countries in Latin America. People around the world still feel and suffer the consequences of slavery, racism, and colonialism. But where do we go from here? How should Bristol remember and recognise its past? What do we do with the statue? Should the plinth remain empty? Is acknowledging the past enough? The Felling of Colston may have been only the beginning but the beginning of what? Join the discussion with the presence of Countering Colston campaigner Ros Martin and Arthur Cauty.

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The result of the collaboration between Nicola Mai and the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective – a grassroots association defending the rights of trans Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. Caught mixes collaborative ethno-fiction methods with an observational documentary, to involve its participants throughout its production.

Written and performed by members of the Collective, the film follows Rosa and Paloma as they face transphobic violence, persecution from the police, and fight against a hostile political environment in the US, while also expressing their identities in positive ways during a drag show that allows them to counter their marginalisation and stigmatisation.

As a community arts space, Trinity is committed to our core values of being a ‘Centre for the People’ and platforming work as part of our programme that represents and reflects our diverse communities. Please read our free speech policy for more information

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Underground music royalty DJ Grooverider with a career that spans decades, genres, and moments that encompass Drum and Bass, House, Techno and UK Rave Culture, we couldn’t ask for a more perfect guest…hold on tight it's going to one helluva ride.

Chloe Robinson (FKA DJ Barely Legal) has built a glowing reputation for solid selections and mixing across genres with ease and finesse. She has played across the globe, runs a record label Pretty Weird Records, and is now beginning to release her own productions, which you will be hearing at raves on festivals in the not too distant future.

Completing our bill we have 3 Bristol selectors, A for Alpha (SWU FM), Dr Dubplate (Ec2a) and Roy Bar (CNCPT). They represent the Bristol sound across the country, playing gigs, releasing music, hosting radio shows and they have their fingers fixed firmly on the pulse of fresh sounds.

Please note this is a standing show

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This is a celebration to say thank you to all of the Bristol Locals who have made great contributions to their communities. This will take place at the Trinity Centre.

All guests are encouraged to bring along a dish from their heritage and material which can be used as a head wrap if they can. There will also be some exciting prizes to give away!

Guest talkers include Joy Gardener - Johnson and Poetry from the artist Zed Regal. There will also be an open mic for people to share, give appreciation for life and celebrate healthy living.

Music and refreshments will also be available on the day.

Please come along to celebrate and support Black History Month.

If you are bringing a dish along could you please list the ingredients/allergy information and send this to stefan@trinitybristol.org.uk

Please follow this link to register your FREE ticket - https://my.trinitybristol.org.uk/unsung-heroes-give-thankz-celebration/