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It's Bristol Cider & Sausage Festival's 5th birthday, so it's going to be a big one! And this year it’s at Trinity!

As ever, there will be over 40 varieties of the new season’s very best cider and perry on offer, plus cider-fuelled music, a cider-themed BBQ, and lots of cider prizes to be won.

Plus, this year, we’re holding a competition to find the best sausage in Bristol!

The two events are split into afternoon (12-6) and evening (7-12) sessions. The afternoons are more relaxed whereas the evenings are all about dancing!

More details to follow plus all the bands etc but don’t hang about getting your tickets because they always sell out!

Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd May

+ support from Jim Evans

C.W Stoneking, a musician who draws influence from pre-war blues, jazz, 1920s calypso, folklore, and personal experience to produce his unique original songs. He accompanies himself with National Reso-Phonic guitar and tenor banjo, and with his amazing brass band the 'Primitive Horn Orchestra'. Stoneking's songs range in style from lonesome field holler blues, to hokum blues duets, to full blown jungle epics.

Visiting the Trinity Centre again we expect more elaborate stories in amongst his excellent music.

CW Stoneking 9pm / Jim Evans 8pm

As with all our events, no physical tickets will be printed. Bring your PayPal receipt/transaction number as proof of purchase on the night!

Doors 7:00PM - Show Starts 7:30PM

Tickets cost just £10 and go on sale Thursday, 28th January at 8PM

Saint Raymond **

Swim Deep**

Hudson Taylor // Best Coast** // Fat White Family** // The Wytches** 

Prides // Laura Doggett  //  Honeyblood  //  Hinds**  //  Josef Salvat

Alex Burey / Alfie Connor / The Amazons / April Towers / Cairobi / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Delamere / Flesh / Francisco The Man / The Griswolds / Holy Holy / The Hotelier / Laurel / Little May / Man Made / Menace Beach / Model Aeroplanes / Neon Waltz / Oscar and the Wolf / Pixel Fix / Pretty Vicious / REMI / The Riptide Movement / Racing Glaciers / Single Mothers / Sugarmen / Tei Shi / VANT / VÉRITÉ / Vitamin / Walking on Cars

More Bristol Bands announced!

Alex Lipinski Band / Aztecs / Bad News / Bad Sounds / Boa / Brockley Forest / Caravaggio / Confectionery / Ed Penfold / Ema Sierra / Emi Mcdade / Fenne lily / Flower Fellow / Foreign Affairs / Forgery lit / Fossette / Hanging Tree / Harriet Rock / High Climbers / Joe Probert / Karma Repair Kit / Liberto Wolf / Little Dusty / Natalie Holmes / New Palace Talkies / Nicholson Heal Band / October Drift / Robin Mitchell’s Featherweight Soul / Rozelle / Sam Brockington / Saskia Maxwell / Sienna Chorus / Something Anorak / Sons / Tamu Massif / The Blunderbuss Press / The Death of Pop / The Jesuits / The Rupees / The Travis Waltons / Twin Falls / White Parker / Why We Love

At Bristol O2 Academy, Thekla, The Fleece, The Exchange, The Louisiana, Trinity Centre, Start the Bus, The Birdcage

(** indicates guaranteed 14+, under 18s will only have access to o2 Academy and Trinity)

Winner of ‘Best Metropolitan Festival’ at UK Festival Awards 2013
'Dot to Dot offers a unique experience for festival-goers and artists alike’ – efestivals
‘With a stunning bill and venues within yards of one another we’ll leave you to join the dots’ - Clash

Dot To Dot Festival is established as the UKs premier festival for unearthing the hottest new talent around, alongside established acts from all over the globe. 2015 marks the festival’s 10th year and will see it returning to Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham from the 22nd to 24th May. Dot To Dot’s ever eclectic line-up is set to make this landmark year the biggest and best in the festival’s history.

With lots of exciting announcements to follow, this is just the first wave of artists to play this year’s Festival:

Following a stand out set at last year’s festival, headlining this year’s festival will be Saint Raymond, Nottingham’s latest success story. It’s been an incredible year for the singer-songwriter, which has seen him embark on an arena tour with Ed Sheeran as well as a take on a sell-out headline tour of his own. Twenty-one year old Rae Morris also joins the festival in Manchester and Nottingham following a sold out UK tour and top 10 critically acclaimed album “Unguarded’. Irish pop folk duo Hudson Taylor, comprising of brothers Harry and Alfie join the bill, along with The Wytches who bring their blend of critically acclaimed surf-psych to the festival. Also joining Dot To Dot 2015 are Canadian punk-rock band Single Mothers and New York based indie-rockers, Cymbals Eat Guitars.

Glaswegian duo Honeyblood bring their brand of grunge-pop to the festival alongside the folk infused Haim-esque harmonies from Australian trio Little May and Hinds (formerly known as Deers), the garage rock up and comers from Madrid. Laura Doggett (whose music you may recognise from ITV Series Broadchurch) will also perform with her distinctive soulful sound along with the hotly tipped pop fuzz of Menace Beach. Further along the line up, Dot To Dot fans can expect to hear sensual R&B pop courtesy of Brooklyn based singer Tei Shi, atmospheric indie sounds from Racing Glaciers and 4-piece Welsh rock band Pretty Vicious who’ll perform their angsty anthems at the Bristol and Nottingham dates. The full line-up also features Alex Burey’s tenderly emotional pop music, the ‘80s infused electro pop of April Towers and the playful bohemian indie tunes of Vitamin as well as many, many more incredible acts yet to be announced!

Dot To Dot Organiser Anton Lockwood (of DHP Family) said: ‘We’re very excited to be celebrating our 10th birthday here at Dot To Dot and can’t wait to bring the festival back to Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham! We’re proud of the reputation we’ve developed over the last 10 years for promoting new, up and coming talent by giving artists their first chance in front of a festival crowd, and this year’s line-up is no different. Having seen so many previous Dot To Dot artists become huge successes in recent years
we can’t wait to watch some of the emerging talent that the music scene has to offer at this year’s festival. This announcement is only the start of it!’

Previous Dot to Dot line-ups have seen performances from The xx, Mumford and Sons, The 1975, London Grammar, Jake Bugg, SBTKRT, The Cribs, Peace and many, many more. With the emphasis on showcasing the hottest new talent on the planet, there will be lots more exciting additions to be announced for Dot To Dot’s 2015 line-up.

Make sure you keep checking www.dottodotfestival.co.uk/ for all the latest news and ticket info.
www.facebook.com/dottodotfestival
www.twitter.com/d2dbristol
www.instagram/d2dfest

More upcoming gig highlights include Drenge - successfully relying on the heavily distorted guitar riffs of the grunge era; Babes in Toyland - original late 80s post punk band whose raw live show "captured a musical and cultural moment; angry, talented and unfettered by societal norms"; Dunkelbunt + The Secret Swing Society - " labelled “a wizard of tone colours“ and “specialist for exquisite music & spice blends" are also new to the listings.

This month we still have Honeyfeet, Bombs, Simon Panrucker, Count Bobo,Eva Lazarus & Snareophobe + more all playing live Saturday 14th February and Teachings in Dub finally announce their line up for Deep Medi including Commodo, Kaiju, Kahn, Gantz and Compa. This goes on sale Thursday so get in quick as guaranteed to sell out.

For those interested in performance check out Get Lucky - fantastic triple bill from Julia Thorneycroft dance or SOLO Forum Showcase - two evenings of new shows including four premiers from artists Alice Human, Ale Marzotto, Bella Fortune, Hannah Sullivan and Jo Hellier all happening in March.

We have plenty more up on the events pages so check them out.

+ Support from Bellatrix vs Maggie Nichols

Kassia Zermon aka 'Bunty' is a unique force best known for pioneering underground experimental vocal loop shows and fronting UK leading Dub act Resonators. Bunty's distinctive voice and powerful avant-pop orchestra has been compared to FKA Twiggs and Tune-Yards and championed by likes of Rodigan, Mark Lamar and BBC6 taste makers Tom Robinson and Lauren Laverne.

She combines the rawness of early M.I.A with the lyrical espionage of Tom Waits and a voice that can sound as sweet as Ella Fitzgerald (on Acid).

To celebrate the launch of Bunty's new album 'Multimos' (11/14 Beatabet records), she has created a brand new ensemble and dazzling AV live show, which she will be presenting LIVE at Trinity. Join us for an epic audio visual feast, featuring stunning bespoke visuals of VJ metaLuna, performers Poppy Kay and Zoe Padley, megalithic beats from Dave the Machine and an audience choir.

Complete with its own home-made light show, special FX and a lot of helium to suck you into a raucous avant - pop party!

Hard to fit into any box this lady's influences are huge, bringing her Morrocan Londoner roots to create her own blend of raw avant – pop music. She has performed her boundlessly creative live shows at all the main UK festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival,and Secret Garden. Bunty has supported an eclectic mix of acts including Jamie Woon, scroobius pip, Kate tempest and Susheela Raman. She has collaborated with world class beatboxers Dub FX, Shlomo and Beardy man and some of UK's top vocal improvisers such as Maggie Nichols.

Live Bunty uses her synths, toys, ukulele, voice, effects pedals and a mash of real and made-up languages. She whispers, bellows, beatboxes, claps and stamps producing impressive vocal harmonies for her hook heavy tunes.

'Somewhere between a rave, a piece of theatre ,a workshop and a game ...but primarily an awesome pop gig' Rebecca Fiddler, Brighton Dome.

'Ha! We've never had such a visual music show on radio' BBC radio4 Clive Anderson

'...a musical and visual feat' Brighton Digital Festival 2014

'Great Voice' BBC radio 6 Tom Robinson

'Brighton's Rising star' BBC radio 3 Nick Luscombe

Multimos Taster Video

Maggie Nichols has performed internationally for several decades, for instance at the Zürich and the Frankfurt "Canaille" festivals and Moers, Grenoble,Mulhouse, Vancouver and Victoriaville Festivals.

She has also given solo performances at the Moers Music Festival, the Cologne Triennale, and a number of other creative and improvised music festivals. She has worked with a great many improvisers from all over the world including drummer Günter "Baby" Sommer, British musicians,soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill, guitarist John Russell, Dutch trombonist and violinist Annemarie Roelofs, the Australian Relative Band (with Jim Denley), tuba player Pinguin Moschner, and prolific songwriting bands Loverly and Cats Cradle.

Vocalist Maggie Nicols has been an active participant in the European improvisational community since joining the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the late '60s. As a co-founder of the Feminist Improvising Group, she has also worked to further women in improvised music, dancing and other creative arts not only by example, but through workshops and extensive collaborating.

Tickets available from:

Bristol Ticket Shop / 0870 44 44 400 or 0117 929 9008

Skiddle / Crack Magazine

Through Trinity providing subsidized hall space for us, we have been able to put on social events for people with learning disabilities over the last 8 years.

It is very hard for someone with a learning disability to have a normal social life. So with Trinity helping us put on full on monthly nightclubs is amazing. We have nearly  200 people dancing the night away at each Rhythm of the Night event and it is getting bigger and better. Join us on the last Thursday of the month and see for yourself...everybody is welcome!

2017 has been the best so far and we are thinking of inviting DJs and musicians with disabilities to perform at these social events, as we did with Plymouth's Funky Llama in 2016.

Trinity has supported these successful nightclubs with staff time, facilities and equipment. This partnership approach has been rewarding for everyone.

We have also seen from their wider community work that Trinity is committed to being a centre for the people of Bristol. Trinity has made a fantastic use of a valuable building and given it a new lease of life.

Tony Holdom, Creative Director, Misfits Theatre Company UK.

Your customers are the centre of your business, and our community is the centre of our work at Trinity.

We welcome involvement from corporate partners to support our charitable work.

Our corporate partners get involved in a variety of ways, including donating time, expertise and funding so that we can do more for our communities. Check out this case study of corporate partners GL Hearn who took part in a volunteer garden day to create a new polytunnel for our community gardening programme.

We can offer corporate partners access to the diverse audiences who interact with our building, exciting volunteering opportunities for your staff, free tickets to shows and visible brand recognition opportunities. A partnership with Trinity offers businesses the perfect opportunity to grow your brand recognition and loyalty with the people of Bristol, and fun and unique volunteering day for your team.

We would love to work with you and have a flexible approach to building partnerships. For more information please contact us or download our Corporate Volunteering pack here.

"I was expelled from my college course at Circomedia when I was 16 because of my poor participation, which was mainly due to my crippling anxiety and non-existent confidence.

I found out about Trinity's courses for young people online and signed up for some free classes and workshops as part of the 2007 Bristol Sound Project led by Nick Young. I took part in a mixing class with Souljah Clique, a scratching class with Dutty Girl, amazing singing workshops with the fantastically talented Kizzy Morrell from Studio 7, theatre sessions with director Dave Lovatt and a graffiti workshop with Bristol street-artist Silent Hobo.

I then went on to re-do the college course at Circomedia I was expelled from and received a triple distinction.

After one year of their professional course I went on to study at a well known circus school in Montpellier, France, where I had wanted to go for years. I've been working with a circus in France and now plan on coming back to Bristol to continue training and hopefully spend some time volunteering at the place which helped me gain my confidence.

The Trinity Centre is a truly unique organisation filled with talented people driven to encourage young aspiring creatives and support those who need it. My time there was special and even as a lost moody teenager I didn't feel judged or belittled - totally the opposite. I can't recommend their courses enough."

Each year Trinity works with 60 young people from challenging circumstances across our learning programme and activities. We work with young people who have fallen out of education, helping them to can gain confidence, develop skills and find routes back into education or employment.

If you would like to support our work with young people, visit our Just Giving page or text TYTP99 £[the amount you want to donate] to 70070 to donate to the Trinity Youth Training Project today.

Aims

• To get new ideas off the ground
• To help community groups develop and grow
• To provide a wider range of services for our local community
• To support activities that promote social cohesion and inclusion
• To promote and foster partnerships between groups

Who is it for?

• Local, community, charity and voluntary organisations running a free public event or activity
• Individuals who are looking to establish a new community project or activity
• In order to qualify for the scheme your organisation must be a Member and pay the standard annual membership fee (£10 concessions / £20 individuals / £50 groups & organisations) - click here for details about Membership

What space is available?

• Main Hall, Fyfe Hall, Graffiti Room, Meeting Room and/or Garden

TCI subsidises the use of the space only. If you have any other requirements, like equipment (PA, projector, screen) or refreshments, this may incur a fee. See space hire for more information on rates.

How long can an activity run for?

• It will depend on what you're doing, our availability and the demand from other groups wishing to benefit from the scheme*.
• If we need to change your booking, we’ll give as much notice as possible, and try to find other suitable spaces or dates

*Access to TCI is cap at 24 hrs per year. Concessionary rates apply after cap.

How to apply?

Please send us a brief proposal (no more than two pages) outlining:

• An introduction to you/your organisation's mission/purpose
• What activity you’d like to run, and who it’s for
• What space/s you would like to use
• The best dates and times for your activity – if known (including set up and take down times)
• Any other information in support of your proposal

Email your proposal to info@trinitybristol.org.uk with the subject header 'TCI proposal'.

If your proposal is successful, we ask that you become a Trinity Member and to publicly acknowledge Trinity's support by including our logo in all your publicity (i.e. flyers, posters, website).

Please note that in order to overcome any issues surrounding liability to TCA, we request groups a 'peppercorn fee' of £1 for the duration of the activity.