KOAN Sound are part of the 100+ line up across the city during the FightBack Bristol Festival. They play Trinity 14 Feb & 16 Feb (sold out)

Trinity joins 14 other venues this February (4-18 Feb) for Fightback Bristol – a new campaign headed by the Music Venue Trust that encourages audiences to visit their local grassroots music venue and promote the Bristol’s emerging and existing musical talent.

“These venues are the backbone of the live music scene in Bristol, providing spaces where artists can take their first steps, develop and grow. Fightback Bristol provides an opportunity to showcase the fantastic range of artists and venues that Bristol enjoys, celebrating the history of our music scene and supporting its future." Gary Prosser, Music Venue Trust

Events at Trinity during the festival include:

7 Feb Slum Village

9 Feb – Krank94

14 Feb – KOAN Sound

Plus more to be announced.

We will be selling Fightback Lager , Music Venues Trust’s new project to raise money to help grassroots venues throughout the country, providing venues with an affordable beer that financially helps the whole sector. Find out more about Fightback Bristol and other events across the city here.

This public exhibition is being held in the Graffiti Room at the Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, BS2 0NW, on Wednesday 30th January between 15:00-19:00.

The public exhibition will give local residents and stakeholders an opportunity to view the proposals in more detail, including technical plans and imagery of the initial designs, and allow them to ask the project team any questions that they might have at this stage. The exhibition event will also enable local residents to provide their feedback on the plans so far, which will be reviewed by the project team and, where possible, incorporated in to the scheme prior to a planning application being submitted to Bristol City Council in the coming months.

Should you not be able to attend the event, you can find out more information on the proposals from the dedicated project website here www.unitystreet-consultation.co.uk. You can also call the team using the freephone number available on 0800 148 8911, or email us on info@unitystreet-consultation.co.uk.

Come and....

• Meet and network with likeminded people
• Share your story of community action
• Be inspired by other peoples stories
• Discuss themes of your own choosing
• Join a growing network of active-residents across the city

Community Development Workers are welcome but please bring a resident with you.

Please note - registration is from 10am - the event starts promptly at 10:30 and will finish at 12:30.

You've seen it on Facebook, YouTube & Instagram.....now to try it for yourself! Welcome to the South West's FIRST drum and bass workout class - H!!T the FLOOR!

** TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW VIA THE LINK **

H!!T The Floor incorporates the massively popular HIIT style training and high energy moves all tied together by the deep beautiful tones of Drum & Bass.

With a BPM of 160-180 expect a full body workout that will shape and tone your body while providing you with a chance to have some fun, enjoy exclusive mixes and essentially get fit whilst raving!!

H!!T The Floor is a brand new fitness class inspired by my passion for high intensity workouts and the heavy beats of Drum & Bass.

Bring your trainers, comfy workout clothes, a drink & some mates and I'll bring the fire!

For any questions or enquiries please contact me on 07792 181 966

See you on the floor!

*** PLEASE NOTE ***

Spaces for this class are LIMITED so please ensure you click attending and purchase an advanced ticket from the ticket link.

All design credit to waynemorrishdesign@gmail.com

Please note: Trinity operates a 24hr Pay & Display Car Park and all visitors are required to Pay & Display.

The Making Tracks Showcase is an opportunity for young people from Trinity, Basement and ACE to  showcase their talents in-front of a live audience. Over the day 21 young people performed to an audience of over 100! Attendees to the event included Adam Devonshire of the band Idles who said of the showcase:

"To see youth projects like this, giving young people the opportunity to learn and grow as musicians, was truly amazing and inspiring. The confidence that comes from being given the tools to create music is immeasurable and projects like this are truly something to cherish. Long may it continue."

Dancers from Gerry's Attic, a dance group for the over 55's take part in a workshop (photo @ Sarah Koury).

Trinity Community Initiative supported community and voluntary groups with over 4000 hours free and subsidised hall space.

Keisha Thompson delivers a workshop to young people as part of our IGNiTE programme (photo @Khali Ackford).

Over 100 people took part in one of the professional workshops delivered by touring companies and artists programmed as part of our IGNiTE theatre and dance programme. Highlights included students from Making Tracks taking part in a vocal looping workshop with Keisha Thompson and Rise Youth Dance taking part in Uchenna Dance’s workshop.

This year we earned a Bronze Attitude is Everything Award, and secured £5,000 funding from the Hedley Foundation and Bruce Wake Charitable Trust to pay for a mobile accessible lift to enable wheelchair users to access our Main Stage.

Josh attends regular 121 music sessions at Trinity's collaborative music making project (photo @ Alistair Brookes).

Our collaborative music making project Making Tracks provided over 400 music sessions for 101 young people, many of whom (85%) struggle with confidence, behaviour, health, well-being or other challenging personal circumstances.  Making Tracks makes a difference in peoples lives.

We are committed to conserving and protecting the Trinity Centre for ours and future generations (photo Khali Ackford).

With generous donations from the public, an uplift grant from Historic England and support from Heritage Lottery Fund and, other charitable Trusts & Foundations we raised the much needed funds to complete the major repairs to the fabric of the building.

Trinity's annual Festival of Light along with the Garden Party attract over 3k visitors and feature a line up of the best local musical talent (photo @Khali Ackford).

You can read more about the work we do by downloading our annual report here, or you can find out how you can continue to support the work we do here.

We couldn’t do this without your support, thank you.

We wish everyone the best over the festive season.

Xyzelle, Sealvia and Chantaleaze - students from project partners ACE perform at Trinity's Festival of Light. Photo Khali Ackford

1. Playing at the Unity stage at St Pauls Carnival

"The Carnival Stage provided an excellent opportunity for young people to perform at one of the City's most significant and historic cultural events. It was great to have staff and  young people across the Making Tracks programme there on the day." Darren Alexander, ACE.

Josh Carter practices singing in one of our recording studios during the Summer Sessions at Trinity (photo @ Alastair Brookes)

2. Summer Sessions at Trinity

"Trinity's in house annual summer workshop and live performance event. Held over two days in August. Working in partnership with Access Creative College Bristol, who delivered bespoke DJ and Film sound workshops." Dave Thomas, Trinity Community Arts

Making Tracks showcase at Trinity's Festival of Light (photo @ Khali Ackford)

3. Youth Music Showcase at Festival of Light

"The Festival of Light provided our young people with the biggest audience of their music journeys so far. The sound quality was amazing and the experience provided a taste of what a professional performance feels like." Darren Alexander, ACE.

Area of Effect play on the main stage at Trinity's annual Garden Party (photo @ Jesscia Bartolini)

4. Youth Music Stage, Trinity Garden Party

"Area of Effect rock band opening on main stage. Seeing these three 15 year-olds rise to the amazing opportunity of performing their set with hi spec stage and PA  and at such a public event was so exciting. It really upped their expectations and motivation in terms of performance, and it also opened them up to 1:2:1: music development and support." Troy Tanska, Basement Studios

5. End of Year Showcase Party, Trinity

"I was really proud of the range of performances - from those who'd never made music in front of others, to performances good enough to charge for. They were really respectful and supportive of each other - even though there were such varied genres and skills. It was a massive highlight seeing a young person who had such a difficult time in the past, but who turned their life around since being part of Making Tracks in the summer and is now at music college, absolutely smash it centre-stage. Such an honour to see the power of music in action." Troy Tanska, Basement Studios

Our objection relates to the absence of community consultation in relation to the proposals and that the Noise Impact Statement makes no reference to the development’s proximity to Trinity.

We understand there is a critical need to build new homes in the city and welcome conversations with developers wishing to invest in the area around us. Conversations with existing businesses are a standard part of any planning process and help to inform plans, limit the number of objections to any project and give developments the best chance of success.

We believe people not only need places to live, but also spaces to come together, socialise and celebrate. A development less than 200 yards from an existing live music venue - which has not taken any action to mitigate against noise impact on new tenants - must be challenged.

Trinity is member of newly formed Bristol@Night Board which has been set up to respond to issues affecting the city’s nightlife. We will be working with this board - which also involves Save Bristol Nightlife - in the new year, to ensure as a city we continue to support and protect what makes Bristol a great place to live, work and visit.

If you would like to make your own objection to the proposed development, please visit Bristol’s Planning Portal and make your own objections, or cut and paste the following:

I would like to object to the recently resubmitted planning application reference 18/06186/F (previous reference: 17/04953/F) for the following reason:-

Insufficient Mitigation of Noise for New Dwellings (Agent of Change principle)

The Noise Impact Statement is from Nov 2016 and there have been no revisions of this report since this application was last submitted. The report makes no reference to the fact that the development will be right next to an existing live music venue (est. 1976).

Therefore, no mitigating actions have been taken in relation to its proximity to the Trinity Centre and there is no acknowledgement or awareness of the proposed Agent of Change Principle.

For Caring at Christmas 2018 we are excited to be partnering with the Trinity Centre for the first time. We will be running a day centre for homeless and vulnerable people at Trinity between 24th and 28th December 2018, from 10am until 6pm. Our amazing team of volunteers will help us provide food, warmth, company and shelter to 150 guests each day. We will also be providing additional support and wellbeing services including haircuts, massage, first aid and support from the Samaritans.

In addition to this day centre we will be running a separate night shelter based at the Julian Trust Night Shelter on Wilder Street in St Pauls. Volunteers there will help us provide accommodation as well as an evening meal and breakfast for up to 50 guests over the Christmas period.

We rely on the support of hundreds of volunteers to help make this project happen. If you want to get involved we’d love to hear from you. For more information please visit: https://caringinbristol.co.uk/project/caring-at-christmas/

Caring in Bristol are a local charity delivering projects that support homeless and vulnerable people in our city, 365 days a year.

www.caringinbristol.co.uk

In this extra special two hour class we’ll salute the sun as it sets on another Christmas Eve eve, move our bodies to some seasonal crackers & perhaps most importantly, find a moment of balance, peace & quiet before the big day!

Sunday 23rd of December
3:30 - 5:30pm
£20pp (adv tickets, inc goodie bag)
Fyfe Hall, Trinity Centre BS2 0NW

Tickets @ www.fluxsakeyoga.com/book-online

We'll be opening up doors at 3:30pm with the first match beginning at 4:00pm to give you enough time to settle in before we start!

No physical tickets will be distributed for this event. Print off your PayPal receipt or present your transaction number on the door.

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This event will be recorded for On Demand. No filming permitted.

All tickets are nonrefundable and sold as general seating, no reserved brackets.

Trinity presents: is our in house programme of live music and club nights inspired by Trinity’s rich music history;  presenting the best of local and national artists whose sounds push new ideas in music.

Internationally revered poet, writer and socio-political commentator Benjamin Zephaniah returns to Trinity on his Spring tour of the re-release of his: Revolutionary Minds album.

Benjamin Zepahaniah is widely celebrated as one of the greatest poets of his generation, Zephaniah is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls “street politics”. His poetry, books and plays have captivated hearts and minds, fuelling imaginations and winning him a legion of fans all over the world.

Though his music is lesser known than his written work it is no less fervent. Created alongside his accomplished producer and collaborator The Sea, Revolutionary Minds album is a deep selection of dub-reggae juggernauts, the essence and style of which fully reinforce the messages projected through Zephaniah’s powerful lyrics

At a seemingly tumultuous and divisive period in our society, Revolutionary Minds revitalises the neglected art of the protest song. By reviving this discipline at this particular point in time, Zephaniah shines a critical light on to a range of activity that currently is taking place around the globe, providing a strong voice to the disenfranchised and displaced.

Revolutionary Minds is a chance to experience Zephaniah’s innovative talent in full force; a triumphant creation of emotional songs that highlight the poignant global issues faced by society today.

Support from Amy True

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