In the Agenda:

Councillor surgery – 12pm to 1pm
Come along early for the chance to meet your local Councillors and raise any neighbourhood issues.

Residents’ parking six month review
If you live in the residents’ parking zone come along and tell the council how you’ve been finding it.

Green Capital 2015
What’s it all about? If you are confused or interested come and find out more about funding and what 2015 has in store.

Join us for a mystery ‘rubbish’ surprise after the meeting, 3pm.

Agenda and papers are available from Stacy Yelland: stacy@eastonandlawrencehill.org.uk

The theme for this competition is TRINITY COOL.

Trinity Community Arts are inviting artists to join in our festive Winter Art Market taking place between 11am – 5pm on Saturday 6^th December 2014 at the Trinity Centre.

Situated in our iconic Main Hall, Fyfe Hall and Graffiti Room, and only a 10 minute walk from the city centre, Trinity will be playing host to all things creative, providing opportunities for local artists to exhibit and sell their work to the public. This year, we have expanded our market to include an entire room dedicated to artisan food and edible gifts.

With a range of activities including live acoustic music, mulled wine and cider as well as mince pies, cake and hot food to get everyone in the festive spirit! We are expecting a wide range of artists, crafts, makers and styles. The more the merrier!

If you would like to have a stall to sell your goods, please download a booking form.

Completed booking forms must be returned by Friday 28th November (extended deadline)

Entry on the day is free to the public.

Images courtesy of Cat Mac Glass, Jan Martin Illustration, Cristina Valladares, Tinkan Designs

Celebrating Age Festival celebrates older people. Our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers and mentors, neighbours and colleagues. Their lives built our lives, their work built our world, their aspirations, efforts, hopes and dreams were the seeds of our present.

Come and join us for a friendly and relaxed afternoon of grown up dancing and socialising, with live music from Chris Woodchuck, bar and afternoon tea.

Everyone is welcome, no partner is needed & the dance floor is open to absolute beginners!

Tickets £4 - inc hot drink and cake - available on the door

For more information call:

Raj Lalla on 0117 955 5881

An event in partnership with LinkAge

Warm your hands on the bonfire, enjoy the spectacular fireworks display and taste some delicious winter treats.

Then finish off with a storming set from Bristol's very own 12 piece of top jazz musicians, Bristol Afrobeat Project - “Driving percussion and brass encrusted rhythms catch the timeless quality of that ancestral funk sound.” Music from 9pm.

If you'd like to get involved in creating a spectacular bonfire, then bring along unneeded (and untreated!) wood in the run-up to the Fireworks Party! Contact us for more information.

Suggested donation £2

Please note priority will be given to those with flyers which are used as tickets - these can be picked up from local shops and cafes as well as from the Trinity Centre 

And the drama continues! 'Tangled Roots', a spoken word performance exploring the untold story of the UK's mixed-race population, will be preceded by a life-writing workshop – your writing will become part of the story that evening! Join in on 19^th October. Alternatively, on 24^th October, take a journey through the dub-driven rhythm of the universe via film, spoken-word and music with 'Reggae Inna Space'. Presented as part of the Sci-fi Afrofuturism Season, in partnership with Watershed and Film Hub South West & West Midlands.

Tomorrow's Warriors, a jazz collective that has helped to kickstart the careers of some of the most talked about jazz artists in the UK, will be holding a jazz jam taster session on 26^th October, 'Tomorrow's Warriors Connexions' Bring your instrument for this practical workshop!

Finally, on 28^th October, we have seventh instalment in the brilliant 'Vice & Virtue' series, which has been revealing the hidden history of Old Market. 'Black GIs in Britain' will discuss the impact of US racial politics on wartime Britain.

www.teachingsindub.co.uk

INFO:

DUB JUDAH

One of the pioneers of the UK dub sound Judah, often referred to as ‘Dubbers’ by those close to him, made his mark on the scene releasing tracks on his own Dub Jockey label. His most famous release; Babylon is a Trap was an instant classic and has since been regularly included in selectors all time top ten favourite records! His Dubtech studio is instantly recognisable with its trademark sound, deep, dread and rootical.

This show is perhaps a first for the UK and promises to be something very special. Dub Judah will be mixing his own tracks live & direct, on the fly dubbing, original style! We can expect some of his classic songs performed live plus, being the Basie for the world famous Twinkle Brothers, Judah is sure to bring along his bass guitar as well as the melodica. Strictly grass roots talent every time from this humble and spiritual rastaman.

IRATION STEPPAS Feat MURRAY MAN

Needing little introduction, this sound is one of the top dub sounds in the country if not the world. Always coming heavyweight we can look forward to vintage revival, rubadub selection, plus of course year 3000 dubplate pressure. Fresh from another summer of touring Europe they aim to come and unleash some serious bass line on the Trinity Centre shaking the very foundations and filling the dance with vibes. For this occassion; Iration has called in the mighty Murray Man on microphone duties. An artist always full of lyrics and a veteran on roots soundsystems all around the globe Murray will be sure to blaze some lyrical fire live n direct in Bristol!

8pm Doors open

8.30pm-9pm Little Mountain

9.30pm-10.30pm MORCHEEBA

11pm Curfew

14+

Featuring groundbreaking presentations, powerful performances and interactive breakout sessions with leading eco and spiritual pioneers Satish Kumar, Peter Owen Jones, Tim Freke, Chloe Goodchild and Joe Hoare – interspersed with sacred sounds and chants - Future NOW calls for an Inner Revolution.

It’s a call to become more mindful, more peaceful, more connected and more loving to ourselves, to each other and to the Earth.It urges us to change our “Descartes” inherited philosophical perspective of ourselves as separate from each other and the Earth and embrace our interconnectedness.It calls for us to grow beyond the selfish drives of our materialistic society and create a new way – moving from self interest to mutual interest, reciprocity and interdependence.

Throughout the day, conference participants are invited to explore how we can each make a difference and take urgent action to be the change in our daily lives. The breakout discussion sessions continuously echo and reflect on the question, “What am I going to do differently?”

Future NOW is an invitation to have a voice, to help shape our collective future and to take an active role in propagating the New Consciousness Revolution.

10 very earlybird tickets are now available starting at £30, till 21st August, rising to £55.

Featuring: “Earth Pilgrim” Satish Kumar / “Extreme Pilgrim” Peter Owen Jones / “Big Love Philosopher” Tim Freke / “Sacred Voice Pioneer” Chloe Goodchild / “Laughing Yogi” Joe Hoare

Henrietta Lacks was a young African-American mother from Baltimore who died in 1951 of unusually aggressive cervical cancer. Henrietta is remarkable because a sample of her cancer cells became the first cells to survive and multiply outside the human body, forming an ‘immortal’ cell line known as HeLa.

HeLa have been grown in laboratories around the world and millions of people have benefitted medically from the advances they enabled. Research using HeLa cells has led to some of the most important developments in medical history including the Polio vaccine, cloning and gene sequencing.

Working closely with Bristol scientists Professor Craig McArdle, Professor Jon Lane and Professor Harry Mellor, Helen Wilson-Roe has had unique access to the HeLa cells in the laboratory environment. Her project invites us to consider questions around permission, recognition and the role of the individual in large scientific projects.

Through her portraits of the Lacks family and the documentary Helen Wilson-Roe aims to bring their story to the fore and to make Henrietta’s image and her family’s pride at her legacy, visible beyond the scientific research community. Helen has gifted the Lacks family portraits, and copyright to the Lacks family.

Jeri Lacks Whye, Henrietta Lacks granddaughter, says, “Thanks again Helen.  We will finally have a very special piece that we, as Henrietta's descendants, can say we own (copyright).  I'm so excited - overfilled with joy and proud.  Words can't describe how I felt when I saw the wonderful portrait you have painted of Henrietta Lacks.

The display on Henrietta Lacks will run from 10^th October till October 17^th 2014 in Trinity’s upstairs gallery and is suitable for all ages. Access 9am - 5pm daily

Photo by Karen Brett

Workshop attendees will also have the opportunity to hear their own life experiences dramatised on stage as some of the life-writing produced in the workshop will be adapted by the team becoming part of the live performance.

In addition, attendees can browse an exhibition of photographic portraits of mixed race writers, specially commissioned by Tangled Roots.

Bristol-based poet Katie Grant is a high-profile supporter of the Tangled Roots project. She is part of a mixed race family herself and, last year, presented a documentary ‘The Brown Camp’ about mixed families on Radio 4. “I am thrilled to be representing the Tangled Roots Project in the South West. The history and experiences of mixed race families has a direct relevance and resonance in my life - both as a writer and as a mother” says Grant. “The photographs commissioned by Tangled Roots really reflect the nature of this diverse new population.”

“Bristol's history at the centre of the UK slave trade is well-known, what isn't so well documented is the huge mixed population who call Bristol 'home'. 16% of our city's population* belongs to a black or minority ethnic group, but among under 15s the figure is 28%*. Rising numbers of people are forming relationships across different racial and ethnic groups. As a result, more families than ever before comprise of more than one race. These families - families like mine, in fact - never see their stories represented in the mainstream media. It is the experiences of mixed families in Bristol and the South West that the Tangled Roots project wants to highlight” Grant explained.

Workshop & Performance information

The writing workshop (2pm-5pm) is open to adults who wish to learn how to write about their own life experiences or anyone else's. You do NOT have to be mixed race to attend! The workshop theme will be “Home” and you must book your place in advance.

The evening performance (7pm- 8pm) is open to young people and adults (please note the performance is not suitable for under 12s). It is free and lasts approximately one hour.

To book your place on the workshop or to attend the performance please call Trinity on 0117 935 1200 or email: info@3ca.org.uk