We accept CDs from any music genre and would love to ensure that we have lots of music playing here all the time so please do pop in to the Trinity Centre Arts West Side, or post one through the Arts West Side letterbox!

Make sure to include a bit about yourself as an artist - what you've been up to in terms of gigging, who your influences, contact details - and every month, we'll review one our favourite newfound artists and promote them via our website. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to promote your work to a new audience.

Contact jamell@3ca.org.uk for more info.

In preparation for our opening we will be celebrating pancake day at Westside on Tuesday 21st of February.

We are inviting local tossers to come to Westside and receive a battering.

Pancakes available from 11am till 6pm.

The Trinity Centre, formerly the Holy Trinity Church, was opened on 17 February 1832 by the Bishop of Bristol. The former Holy Trinity Church, is now a vibrant hub for all communities and faiths today.

To mark this epic milestone, we have plans for lots of FREE celebration events throughout the year. Our annual Garden Party, Sun 13 May will be jam-packed with bands and lots of activities, arts and crafts and fun for the whole family.

On Sat 30 June we will be working with the Old Market Community Association as part of a local arts festival. We will provide a 'Faux-Glasto' from the Trinity grounds, with lots of festival-themed frivolities such as flag making, welly-wanging, music and games.

On Sat 28 July we will be hosting the fabulous 'Bristolympics', with our partners in crime, The Love of It. We will provide a day of alternative games and sporting activities with a twist, so please come and join in the creative fun!

More details to come soon on the Events area of our website.

We are also planning to launch a commemorative T-Shirt which we will make available for purchase online and during our events. If you have a particular interest in our history and heritage, we have a book which encapsulates just some of Trinity's past - "The Trinity Centre - Culture and Change in Urban Bristol" which was produced as part of our Heritage Lottery Funded project, What's Your Trinity Story?

The Horrors open the show with Changing The Rain. Its stomping parade beats and euphoric synth-heavy choruses was also the opening track of 2011’s Skying, the album that elevated Faris Badwan and co out of semi-underground attention to put them firmly in the limelight. In fact, Skying makes up most of tonight’s show; other colourful offerings include I Can See Through You, Endless Blue and the colossal pre-encore Still Life. They all work phenomenally well. A signifier, perhaps, to the longevity The Horrors are likely to enjoy.

There is little in the way of material from their earlier years tonight and the band focus on tracks from their second and third albums, Primary Colours and Skying. Mirrors Image, Sea Within a Sea and Who Can Say all provide the evening’s noisier interludes while the decidedly upbeat sounds of Skying contrast nicely with the more amorphous feel of its predecessor.

The Horrors are on form tonight. Faris Badwan towers over the mic stand while shaggy-haired guitarist Joshua Hayward rocks the feral beats of The Horrors’ back catalogue, rattling Trinity to its core. The Horrors haven’t got lost in the euphoria of their success and, to the delight on the leather-heavy crowd, it doesn’t look likely that they ever will.

The Horrors close the show with the haunting crescendo of Moving Further Away where they exercise their talent for creating a scratchy, freeform jam – it works despite its distance from the more polished album version.

Everyone in this crowd has been waiting a long time to see The Horrors and they haven’t disappointed. Their focus, songwriting and creative endurance is indisputable. Much as they may shy from attention - it isn’t going anywhere soon.

Duncan Harrison

For more on both artists head to www.myspace.com/tremblingbells and www.bonnieprincebilly.com.

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As a consequence Trinity Community Arts applied for and has been granted funding from English Heritage to carry out an Architectural Feasibility Study and undertake emergency roof repairs.

Trinity Community Arts has appointed Project Manager Mark Gundry from Bristol City Council to manage the delivery of the project, with lead architects gcp Chartered Architects and Simon Cartlidge a conservation accredited architect who previously worked with Trinity as part of the 2009 Conditions Survey.

The Trinity Centre is a community arts centre and independent music venue run by Trinity Community Arts - a not-for-profit charity group operating in the heart of three of the most ethnically diverse and economically deprived wards in the City of Bristol - Easton, Ashley and Lawrence Hill. The Trinity Centre is held by Trinity Community Arts on a lease from Bristol City Council and is protected by a covenant, placed on it by the Church, outlining it can only be used for Youth, Arts, Community and Education purposes.

Since the church was made redundant most of the internal fittings have been removed and a floor inserted near the top of the tall nave arcade. Consent was granted for the repair and conversion of the building in 1987, including the installation of the mezzanine floor by Bristol City Council.

The project forms part of a wider programme of renovation and development works which Trinity is currently seeking funding for, to help improve space for both existing and potential new users.

Support Trinity's Roof Repair Appeal.

An article by A G Taylor produced for the Assendon e-Museum outlines how Henley-on-Thames had various professional photographers at the end of the 19th century: “In the 1880s and 1890s, Cartes de Visites (CDVs) became popular. People would have their own portraits taken and presented on a card measuring 2.5 inches by 4 inches. Collecting CDVs of celebrities was also a popular pastime. ”

How the photo ended up under the floorboards of a shop along the high street of Old Market we will just have to leave to speculation.

If you love anonymous and unusual found images take a look at thefoundphoto gallery which specialises in vernacular and extraordinary photographs.

The Trinity Centre can boast a rich history of hosting musical events (check out our Archive) as well regular dance classes, arts workshops, creative courses for young people and community-led events such as this year’s innovative Bridges project.

“Gaining charity status is great in terms of providing us with access to more funding for activities and exciting projects as well as helping us to raise funds for building improvement works,” says centre manager Emma Harvey.

Trinity Community Arts will also be aiming to achieve VISIBLE accreditation. This is a quality kite mark for community centres providing a set of standards that will help the Trinity Centre gain more funding and give its users confidence in its policies and procedures.

More details here.

During 2011 a number of additional Directors were recruited in order to strengthen the governance of the organisation. The enlarged Board is busy settling in and has recently held two “away days” in order to assess how best to operate in order to serve Trinity.

One long awaited success has been gaining charitable status for Trinity. This is important because it will enable us to access a wider range of potential funds and to achieve greater financial stability. As part of this initiative we have set up a trading company to operate our non charitable activities, with all surpluses gifted to the charity.

For the first time we have been awarded a grant from the Arts Council - £65,000 for the Bridges Project - an important recognition of the high quality work being delivered at Trinity. The Bridges project will provide a programme of accessible arts workshops using spoken word, creative writing, performing and visual arts, to draw out personal stories of local people and to use the arts to build bridges between communities and celebrate the rich cultural diversity of inner-city Bristol.

We are working very closely with English Heritage as part of ongoing repairs to the roof, assisted by project management skills from Bristol City Council. The Council have also committed to a 35 year lease through their Community Asset Transfer Policy. We are very grateful for the assistance of all our partners.

Our newest venture in West Street is nearly ready to be launched, with building works almost complete and enthusiastic volunteers exploring how best to use all the new facilities.

This is a very exciting time to be involved with Trinity. I’m delighted to be able to report positive progress on so many fronts. I look forward to even more progress in 2012 and in subsequent years.

Check out our Annual Report for more information.

The project is a visual and performing arts project exploring the theme "bridges". Throughout the project we will be working with local people to share stories and create artworks together.

We will look at barriers dividing inner-city Bristol - including physical barriers such as the M32 as well as cultural and language differences - and the bridges communities create to overcome these. Working with different art forms, we will help people in the community to share their stories, through language, images and interactions.

During collaborative workshop sessions, participants will be supported by professional artists from a range of backgrounds to develop their own individual projects using different mediums, so that their story can be told through multiple media. Individuals will be encouraged to share work with their communities and the wider city. We will work with people to create performances, an exhibition and a booklet celebrating the rich diversity of inner-city Bristol. The project will culminate in a large-scale final performance in the beginning of 2013 inspired by the stories and works produced throughout the year.

The project will be led by Edson Burton, an acclaimed writer of both literate and script who worked with us on the recent What's Your Trinity Story? Project, and Nick Young, who delivered our sell-out performance At Tether's End as part of the Bristol Sound Project in 2008.

We will be launching a full programme of activities in the new year. If you would like any further information about the project, please contact edson@3ca.org.uk or sign up to our e-newsletter for updates.

Louise and The Pins sang their country-tinged, harmony enriched songs with a lot of style and a friendly reception from an attentive crowd. It's unusual for a tour to have such a well-considered balance in the support slot and this vocal trio fitted the bill perfectly.

Fionn Regan had a very positive response to his first album, The End of History, followed by a bit of backlash against the second, the band-enhanced Shadow Empire. Tonight we were back to a tousled, lone troubadour show: one man on stage playing acoustic guitars and singing distinctive, poetic songs in a rich melodious voice. New songs from his third opus, 100 Acres of Sycamore, dominated the show with three in a row to open and a couple as encores. Be Good Or Be Gone from The End of History got the biggest shout but all the new songs were well-received. From Shadow Empire only the disturbing and powerful Violent Demeanour was performed. For me, it was the striking high point, a stark expression of something personal and real.

Given the minimal one guitar/one voice show, Regan did very little outside the songs themselves to engage with his audience. The crowd nevertheless was content with the deal. He's a very serious artist who pours his poetic spirit into the songs themselves, giving little of himself away between them. "I've always had a thing for dangerous women" was a notably strong line from new song, Sow Mare Bitch Vixen, which also stood out for its deep guitar tuning and consequent bass line. Hunters Map and Put A Penny In The Slot from The End Of History were also highlights of an enjoyable evening.

Sam Saunders

For more on Trinity's rich history of hosting live music head to the Archive section of the site

As part of the funding we are able to offer FREE accredited short courses in Health & Safety, First Aid, and Food Safety for volunteers who are participating in the volunteer-led café project, run by Trinity Community Arts.

There are a limited number of course places available and priority will be given to local residents and those who are committed to volunteering long-term as part of the project.

If you are interested in volunteering to help develop our café and would like to find out more, please contact 0117 935 1200 or email info@3ca.org.uk