Learn new skills and make new friends
As part of Trinity's Heritage Conservation Project we are hosting Free Taster Sessions in
Stained Glass, Wood Carving and Sewing Crafts (textiles)
on Tuesday 28 June 2016
2 sessions available: 1.30pm-4pm or 6.30pm-9pm
For all abilities; ages 14+; Limited spaces available!
For more information or to register your interest, contact Dr Edson Burton:
edson@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200
present the sequel to the enormous RaffleMania; RAFFLEMANIA II: STRIPWRECKED.
Feat. YxB Pete Dunne, IMPACT Wrestling's Mandrews, Wild Boar, Eddie Dennis, Nixon Newell, #CCK, Chief Deputy Dunne, Love Making Demon and all the characters of the Weird & Wonderful World of ATTACK!
Bring your PayPal receipt/transaction number as proof of purchase on the night!
Doors 7:00PM - Show Starts 7:30PM
]]>Neighbourhood Walkabout & Meeting
Led by residents of Newtown
Tuesday 28 June
Newtown residents walkabout - 5pm
Meet at Junction of Trinity Street/Clarence Road for walkabout with representatives of Bristol City Council including; parks/landscaping, housing, waste management and street scene enforcement.
Residents meeting 6pm-8pm
All residents from around the Trinity Centre are welcome to attend.
Please join us to share your ideas for the community.
Refreshments provided.
]]>Sales of two ales - One Love Pale Ale and Derek Ale - both launched in the memory of the renowned DJ, will help to support Trinity’s work with young people, helping them re-engage with learning through making music.
This support is part of the wider work of Sweet Memory Sounds - set up by Derek’s family and friends to keep Derek’s musical legacy going. The group are donating funds raised to Trinity to help with young people get into music, who commented; “we feel this is perfect and what Derek would of wanted.”
Festival organisers of Positive Vibration: Festival of Reggae - taking place in Liverpool this weekend, 10 and 11 June - have collaborated with Black Lodge Brewery, to commemorate Derek and the wonderful life he led.
‘One Love Pale Ale’ will be sold throughout the festival, with proceeds donated to the Trinity Community Arts - a charity running the Trinity Centre, Lawrence Hill - in support of our youth music programme.
The family-friendly reggae festival will feature Mad Professor, Trojan Soundsystem, Don Letts, DJ Vadim and much more.
In honour of the late Bristol legend DJ Derek, Wetherspoons have also released a Bristol-brewed ale called ‘Derek’, with 5p for each pint sold being donated to the Trinity charity.
Wetherspoons was Derek’s favourite pub chain and he was also known for enjoying dark ales. So GWB Brewery have paid tribute to the local DJ by releasing an ale to celebrate his life.
Derek ale was released in April this year, to coincide with the date of Derek’s public funeral - and pays honour to his lifelong ambition of visiting every Wetherspoons in the country.
DJ Derek loved playing in Wetherspoons pubs up and down the country, including the Commercial Rooms in Bristol, where the idea to launch a tribute ale in his memory first came about.
The ale has been going very well and can be found in may Bristol pubs. GWB Brewery have decided to produce the ale in 500ml bottles which will hopefully be available at the beginning of July 2016.
Read more about how Sweet Memory Sounds are supporting Trinity here.
Please support Trinity through purchasing these ales and please drink responsibly.
]]>Sweet Memory Sounds - set up by the family and friends of Derek Serpell-Morris in memory of Bristol’s legendary reggae DJ - have generously supported Trinity Community Arts, Old Market, with a donation of £2,000 towards the charity’s youth music programme.
Following a fundraising event hosted at The Farm, St Werburghs, there was an amazing response as people pledged their support in DJ Derek’s memory.
As part of the recent BBC 6 Music Festival, the event featured exclusive screening extracts of Ring The Alarm: The DJ Derek Story, which saw Derek being honoured by Massive Attack's Daddy G and BBC presenter Don Letts.
As a prominent feature of Bristol’s music scene for over 50 years, Derek’s family were keen to ensure that, as part of his legacy, they could help to realise the musical aspirations of young people in the city.
Derek’s great-niece, Jennifer Griffiths - who was pivotal in leading the eight-month search for the missing DJ - said; “We are so happy to be part of the Trinity and to carry Derek’s legacy on, this is what he would of wanted so it's great to be able to get involved and help out a great cause.”
A friend of Derek’s family, local artist Mat Kauhanen, helped set up Sweet Memory Sounds to support fundraising efforts to create a huge mural of the local legend on a wall in Montpelier, near The Star & Garter, where Derek cut his teeth as a DJ. The mural - planned to help raise the profile of the search for him - will now be as a commemorative work and will be created in July this year to mark one year on from when Derek initially went missing.
The additional funds raised through the tireless efforts of Sweet Memory Sounds will help to support Trinity’s work with disengaged young people, including young offenders and those with other health and behavioural issues.
The donation is part of a wider programme of support from the memorial charity, which will also see an ale being sold in his honour, with a proportion of the proceeds going towards the local arts charity to continue their work with young people.
Trinity has been working with young people from challenging circumstances to help them to make music since 2005. They work with over 60 young people each year, helping them to find positive ways to express themselves, gain confidence and develop their musical ability.
Recently, this has seen the charity provide a successful series of exclusive ‘Industry Insights’ sessions with artists including Devin Townsend, Jack Garratt and Nitin Sawnhney.
Emma Harvey, Centre Manager from Trinity said; “To receive a donation like this is just amazing, not least because it’s connected with Derek’s memory. Derek was a favourite at Trinity back in the day and everyone has a memory of seeing him perform. We’re glad to work with his family to realise a lasting legacy in the city that he would be proud of.”
There will be a press event held at the Trinity Centre, 10am Friday 10 June to find out more about the the planned DJ Derek mural, Sweet Memory Sounds and their work with the Trinity youth music programme. To pledge your support for DJ Derek mural visit GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/ndfqcqek
Click here to read more about Trinity's youth music programme, the work supported by Sweet Memory Sounds and the stories of the young people who benefit. Read more about how Sweet Memory Sounds are supporting Trinity here.
Trinity are setting up a memorial page here on our website. Please get in touch with edson@3ca.org.uk if you have any stories or images you would like to share with us.
]]>Explore the versatility of clay in a free taster workshop led by Joanna Espiner, supported by
Trinity's Heritage Conservation Project
Tuesday 6 September 2016
2 sessions available: 2pm-4.30pm or 6pm-8.30pm (evening session now full)
Inspired by the heritage and architecture of the Trinity Centre, join us to create tiles!
Clay was traditionally used in religious buildings to create elaborate patterns for floor tiles. Learn the traditional 'encaustic slip' technique with a modern thematic twist. We will develop our designs through drawing and photos of Trinity's features.
Plaster moulds were used to make ceiling and cornice decorations and plaster craftsmen used clay to create the initial models from which to make the moulds. We will create sculptural tiles by making plaster moulds to create repeated tile pieces and decorate with different colours.
For all abilities; ages 14+; Limited spaces available!
For more information or to book your place, contact Dr Edson Burton:
edson@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200
It aims to bring those with coding and technical skills, social media and web skills together with those who have experience of the asylum system and the needs of refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol; to use digital technology to help refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol and beyond.
“We want to plant the seeds to develop digital tools to help with some of the issues that asylum seekers and refugees in Bristol, and those who work to support them, face in their day to day lives.”
They are looking for people with relevant skills to attend and pooling their time, knowledge and skills, to work together in teams on new ways to address issues faced by asylum seekers, refugees and organisations that support them in the digital era.
These skills include
Hackdays or Hackathons are events that bring people with different skills together to develop digital projects around an issue or theme and usually take place over a weekend.
Around the world Hackathons to support refugees have generally been very successful, we believe Bristol has the skills, assets and organisational infrastructure to create something that can be useful in Bristol and beyond.
The Hackday is currently being supported by Trinity Community Initiatives and Connecting Bristol, but is looking for further sponsorship for this event and for follow on activities to build on the hackday.
]]>M&S stores across Bristol are calling on local people to roll up their sleeves and Spark Something Good by joining over 100 M&S employees in a week of volunteering that will positively impact 24 projects at the heart of local communities.
Spark Something Good will take place across 24 cities in the UK and Ireland over the course of 24 months and will see 24 projects benefit in each location. Bristol has been selected as the next city to host the event as part of the retailer’s commitment to Big Green Week...and the Trinity Community Garden is one of their selected projects!
From Saturday 11th to Friday 17th June 2016, Spark Something Good will form a focal point of Big Green Week Bristol with M&S employees and customers coming together to donate their time to improving local community spaces.
Different volunteering projects will take place each day. Trinity will be welcoming volunteers on Thursday 16th June to help us improve the outdoor kitchen in the garden. Activities will involve clearing the site, sawing wood, levelling ground and compacting with gravel to create a clean and smooth floor surface where we can cook and eat safely. This will help make the space more accessible and inviting for participants of all ages and abilities. We'd love your help to make it happen!
If you would like to sign-up to take part in our project or find out more, visit the dedicated website, www.neighbourly.com/mandsvolunteer, developed by Neighbourly (the social network for social good) and look for our project. Sign up for a full day or half day of volunteering here.
Rob Bailey, Store Manager at Marks & Spencer Bristol Broadmead, said: “M&S is really proud to be the Community Champion for Big Green Week and this year promises to be extra special with the addition of Spark Something Good. It was difficult to choose just 24 projects but we have some really worthy causes on board. With M&S employees and the Bristol community working together to volunteer with organisations that really matter, we know we can achieve something great. Getting stuck in and helping others can make a profound difference to the services so many people across the city rely on, and we can’t wait to get started on June 11th.”
Spark Something Good is part of Plan A, M&S’s ground-breaking eco and ethical programme. It was developed following extensive research and dialogue which revealed that getting involved in community projects enhanced people’s lives. M&S aims to spark Bristol residents into action by showing just what can be achieved when people come together united by a common goal.
Volunteers can also sign up for Spark Something Good Bristol by calling 0117 915 1279.
]]>The New Era UnoBat System is a tried and tested sports, dance and multi-purpose flooring.
Junckers has carried out extensive development and testing work to develop a high performance levelling system which meets the current EN standard for sports flooring.
It is also the first choice for sports halls, dance studios, performance spaces and multi-purpose halls. The system has a very good load bearing capability whilst maintaining its excellent shock absorption characteristics.
The system meets the highest level of performance under EN 14904 and is Class A4 rated. This standard sets out the required level of performance of area elastic floors including ball bounce, vertical deformation and shock absorption. This makes it ideal for sports and dance floors.
To find out more, please download the Junckers New Era Levelling Systems full specification.
]]>The PE Class is an ongoing series of workshops exploring the essentials of ensemble theatre practice. They are a space for theatre-makers to experiment, to practice, to share ideas, and to meet.
Each session will be led by a different Bristol-based Director who is asked to try something new, to facilitate an extended practical exercise for the duration of the session.
This season’s facilitators:
Tue 24 May – George Mann (Theatre Ad Infinitum)
Tue 31 May – Laura Dannequin (lauradannequin.co.uk)
Tue 7 June – Helena Middleton and Tom Brennan (The Wardrobe Ensemble)
Tue 14 June – Lucinka Eisler (Inspector Sands)
Every Tuesday evening, 24 May – 14 June
6.30pm – 9.30pm (doors open at 6.15pm)
Trinity Centre, Bristol, BS2 0NW
£7.50 per session (or £25 if all four booked in advance)
What will I get out of the classes?
As well as getting to develop skills and try out new approaches, learning from some of the best practitioners making work right now, PE Classes are a great way to meet other local theatre-makers, and to introduce yourself to a range of Directors developing work in Bristol and beyond.
Are the classes right for me?
PE Classes are aimed at active theatre-makers who want to collaborate to tell stories for their audience. They are peer led sessions, pitched at fellow practitioners who work professionally in the theatre, or who aspire to.
Actors, dancers, clowns and circus artists… performers from any discipline are all welcome, as are teachers/workshop leaders and current theatre/performing arts students (HE and 18+ only).
Other Directors are particularly encouraged to attend as participants. Award-winning acting talent is not required, only openness, generosity, and an ability to support the groups’ improvisation and play.
Nuts and bolts
Places are limited and class size capped. Please note that you cannot pay on the door so places must be booked in advance, and that Trinity Arts do not sell tickets for these workshops. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or in person at Tobacco Factory Theatres up until 4pm latest on the day of each session. As long as you’ve paid-up by then, no need to bring paper-ticket with you to Trinity Centre.
PE Classes take place in Fyfe Hall, upstairs at Trinity Centre. Doors open at 6.15pm for informal chat, finishing coffee, wandering in, stretching if you want. Class starts 6.30 sharp.
Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Bring appropriate soft indoor footwear or be prepared to work bare foot.
Hosted by The Plasticine Men
Supported by Bristol City Council Creative Seed Fund
]]>Control and Calculation : Inheriting Liberation : Improvised Publics
Emergenc(i)es is two week series of free workshops, performances, talks, films and exhibits from some of the most exciting thinkers and creatives.
Emergenc(i)es challenges how we learn? How we are (mis) informed. Does our online, algorithm driven world teach us detachment. What if we could learn, share and transform our lives in another way.
Writer, activist curator Deborah Withers wants to provoke us. She wants to take nothing for granted. Together, speakers, artists and participants will learn how we can radically transform our lives.
Inspiring live performances:
Anushiye Yarnell performs Nest a performance which has accumulated over a period of 4 years since the early stages of her pregnancy.
Cellist Bela Emerson invites the audience to become live co-creators in her piece in this innovative and inclusive work.
Abher behn presents a solo performance that uses sound and video improvisation, performance, composition and collage in a response to our experience of The City.
Ben Owen’s Goldf” will gather range performers in clusters across the floor of Fyfe Hall producing a sprawling live soundtrack to accompany his expanded film work.
Workshops and thought provoking discussions:
Shannon Woodcock presents a gentle and provocative engagement with how history can affect and inform us today as we time travel to meet colonial Australia’s first cook book writer, Cooking the Books of Genocide in Australia.
Madhu Krishnan examines how a radical politics might intersect with notions of resilience in the context of oppression under late capitalism in the twenty-first century.
Celebrated improv vocalist Maggie Nicols uses creative exercises to facilitate an inspiring group dynamic which reassure the nervous and challenge complacency to enable you to release your inner voice.
Should we be demanding Wages for Digital Labour? How do we, as everyday users of digital technologies, help to create wealth for large multinational companies?
Corey Mwamba looks types of silence as a palpable musical event within totally improvised music.
Bristol's favourite poet, playright, historian and general all rounder Edson Burton will respond to ‘Concerning the Poem’s Information’ from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation.
Martin Crowley’s presentation explores theory of participation in relation to culture, what it means to be truly involved and how what happens if we are not.
Charlotte Cooper, author of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, will challenge you to generate your own ideas for research and publishing tactics that demolish unethical and unequal power systems.
Per-forming Pharmacy - considering the emergency of the current historical moment through the collecting, categorising, collaging and sharing of words.
Transgender: Cultural and historical developments and the “case” of James Miranda Barry - Anne Heilmann explore how have perceptions and understandings of gender, sex and sexuality developed through history.
If you would like to learn more about repairing how we are portrayed in our public spaces, and if you’d like to take collective action to repair how we are portrayed in our public spaces, then join Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias and Isabelle Cox as they Dismantle the Master's Museum.
The week will culminate with one last final performance to end on - watch this space for details.
]]>Learn more about—and TAKE ACTION AGAINST—Bristol’s celebration of enslavement and Bristol’s whitewashing of history! Bristol, in both its public art and museums, still celebrates the legacy of eurocentric enslavement of African persons. This ugly celebration runs alongside Bristol’s gross social and economic oppression of its communities of African descent—alongside poor representations of, and poor engagement with, African history, African heritage, and African people, in Bristol’s public museums and galleries, in Bristol’s public squares and streets. These public spaces are owned by us—citizens who contribute to society in various ways, including by paying taxes. These public spaces are funded in our name, to serve our communities and our children.
This interactive workshop will include short film screenings, collective debate, and a sharing of resources and action-based toolkits. If you would like to learn more about repairing how we are portrayed in our public spaces, and if you’d like to take collective action to repair how we are portrayed in our public spaces, then please join us, on Friday 10th June, between 2 and 5pm, in Bristol’s Trinity Centre. The session is open to all, but we explicitly and unapologetically extend a special invitation to Bristol’s communities of African descent and to people who do not usually engage with museums. This is your opportunity to make your voice heard, listened to, and put into action.
The session will be led by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman a scholar-activist from Birmingham, where he works closely with the Black Studies Research Cluster at Birmingham City University’s Centre for Critical Social Research, and Isabelle Cox, a scholar-activist and mother from Manchester, who is passionate about children, young people, and Black liberation.
Researcher/word hoarder Alex Wardrop and careful artist and Arts psychotherapist Georgina Huntley are per/forming pharmacy. Through mixing inscription potions we will ease, balance, disrupt, agitate, heal, hurt, cure and/or poison.
In our interactive arts installation we consider the emergency of the current historical moment through the collecting, categorising, collaging and sharing of words. Inscription positions will emerge to cure or poison the emergencies of this moment that you will share with us.
We will mix up a remedy – or a poison – for your nastiest ailments, existential angsts, calcified blockages of power, silly woes, serious worries, calm thoughts, political grief, beastly hurts, bad feelings or too obvious forgettings.
Our pharmacy is per/formed through our interactions with you. In sending us a word or short sentence of the emergency you want to be cured or poisoned, you become part of the formation of new meanings and maybe the de/re-formation of old ones.
Any healing emerging from our performance/art/pharmacy will be participatory and, sometimes, ambivalent.
For help with your emergency, please send us a word or sentence to: makinglearning@gmail.com
Alternatively come down to Trinity on 9th June between 14:00-17:00 and join in on the day.
We will mix up your remedy, or position, and put it in a bottle for collection at the Trinity Centre between 14:00 -17:00 on 9th June 2016.