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DJ Skitz

Buggsy

Revolutionary musical collective The Coup will release their new album Sorry To Bother You this October 29th via Anti Records and visit the Trinity Centre as part of their European Tour. The Coup consists of vocalist-writer and activist Boots Riley accompanied by a versatile cadre of musicians. To listen to the albums opening track, Magic Clap care of Huffington Post

Sorry To Bother You is an audacious new work by a visionary band. The tracks merge danceable beats, punk urgency and the astute social commentary of hip-hop to craft a refreshingly unique sound that draws from the past but never sounds anything but futuristic. “I think our albums are always really different than what else is being put out there at the time,” Riley says. “It’s why I think people can listen to the records and not know when they were made and it’s why our audience is constantly evolving.”

**FREE PERFORMANCE FOR UNDER 16's 5PM - 6PM**

Catch them here for this exclusive gig.

Tickets £10 adv + bf

Available from:

Also available in person from: Genesis Records (Stapleton Road), Rise Records (Clifton Triangle), Idle Hands (Stokes Croft) & Cooshti (Park Street)

With a range of festive activities including live acoustic music, mulled wine and cider as well as mince pies to get everyone in the Christmas Spirit! We are expecting a wide range of artists and styles, the more the merrier!

Entry is FREE to the public

If you would like to perform an acoustic set on the day, please get in touch!

*Please note pitches have sold out. Priority has been given to local artists who are selling affordable and original art pieces produced by the artist themselves. If you would like to be added to the waiting list or emailing list for future event, please email karina@3ca.org.uk

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Touring with her new album, 'Come Home to Mama'.

Doors: 7.30pm

Tickets: £20 adv + bf

Available from Friday 21st September:

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Join us for the exhibition launch Saturday 20th October 4pm - 7pm including introduction from Edson Burton

From Burning Spear in 1985 to Big Youth in 2011, this unique exhibition 'Reggae Kinda Sweet' documents how Reggae music in it's tributaries of sound, has changed and renewed itself over the decades.

To coincide with Black History Month and celebrating Jamaican Independence, The Trinity Centre and OOM Gallery Archive presents an exhibition by acclaimed photographer Pogus Caesar. Featuring largely unpublished images of musical icons and showcasing an exclusive exhibition of rare and nostalgic archive photographs of legendary Reggae musicians.

These images conjure up an alphabet of the music from Jamaica, connecting the UK, journeying from Dennis Brown, Mighty Diamonds and Jimmy Cliff to Augustus Pablo via the mighty Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Author and historian Paul Gilroy comments "From the outside, bubbling up from the under-ground, the music voiced demands for recognition. On the inside, the dubby, sinuous sounds of this bass culture nurtured a rebel mentality and celebrated love: militant and romantic, sexual and communal. Pogus Caesar's archive directs renewed attention to that history. A sequence of eventful moments is frozen. Our stars, our legends and our determinedly unknown are glimpsed on stage and off, by day and night. In motion and in action. Their militant activity pushes restlessly onwards, making spaces of healing and finding answers to suffering."

In a 30-year career of taking pictures, Pogus Caesar has uniquely captured moments of everyday life with a simple Canon 35mm film camera, spontaneously recording the unfamiliar, as well as the celebrated and the iconic.

The photographs selected from OOM Gallery Archive are also as much about the clubs and venues, as it is about the singers, producers and musicians, many venues now lost to regeneration or renewal, and only recalled through memory and imagery. Black Uhuru at The Tower Ballroom, Sly Dunbar at The Hummingbird Club,  Mad Professor and Maxi Priest at Reggae Sunsplash in London.

The exhibition will be open daily between Wednesday 17th October until Friday 2nd November (Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm / Sat - Sun 11am - 4pm)

An undated letter has been found (circa 1899) from the Holy Trinity Vicarage requesting to build an extension on the North West corner of the building to create a vestry for the Church's choir. The extension is now used as the Trinity office.

We venture to appeal to you on behalf of a scheme for the improvement of our church. We are confronted with two real needs involving an expenditure of £500, which we feel must be met without delay.

For nine years we have had a large choir of men and boys (average 40) with no vestry accommodation provided for them. They have been using, with the clergy, the small vestry designed for the needs of two or three clergy only. The late vicar the Rev. G. E. Ford strongly felt the need of a choir vestry, and he left a sum of £27 towards this object. Having to live [sic] with the overcrowding, which is not conducive to order of reverence for nine years, the congregation have decided to make an effort to erect a choir vestry. Plans have been drawn by W Gough (a sketch of which is subjoined) to provide the necessary accommodation in the simplest and least expensive manner, at the approximate cost of £300 and without in any way altering the present fabric.

At the same time the congregation have to face the expense of cleaning and redecorating the interior of our large church, which is now in a very unsatisfactory state involving an extra burden of at least £200. Twenty-two years have elapsed since the chancel was decorated and nine years since anything was done to the nave.

Our parish is large, populous and poor, and special efforts have to be made each year to keep existing agencies in an effective condition. Our congregation are prepared to do their utmost for the above-mentioned scheme, but they are quite unable to raise so substantial a sum without appealing to the generosity of churchmen outside the parish.

We beg to remain

Faithfully

T. A. Chapman R. D. Vicar

JHPea [sic]

G. E Fussell Churchwardens

W Carter Hon Sec to the Church Council

History of developments

The development and improvement of the Trinity Centre to maximise community benefit and potential revenue to ensure sustainability for any group running the space, has been a vision for many since as early as 1976 when the former Holy Trinity Church was de-consecrated and a convenant placed on the building to ensure its future use as a community centre.

Ambitions for the building's development can be seen in Bristol City Council's business plan for the Centre from 1989, which related to the installation of the existing second floor and proposals to install a mezzanine to create additional training spaces.

TCA current board and management have worked in line with some of these past visions for the Centre and have also embarked on several consultation exercises to explore how Trinity could best meet local needs and desires. TCA are applying for funding to carry out development and improvement works that help to realise some of these past ambitions for the Centre within the current context of what local people want.

Visit the Renovation area of our website for more information about current plans.

William Venn Gough (1842-1918)

William Venn Gough was born in Frome in Somerset in 1841 or 1842 and was baptised on 26 September of the latter year. He practised as an architect in Bristol, generally working for the Catholic Church.

Rev G Estwick Ford

Rev GE Ford was the vicar of the Holy Trinity Church for 13 years (1886-1899) and was presented with an illuminated address and a cheque for £200 at the last tea meeting he attended on January 19th 1899. It was reported that A J Nott presided in the hall which was full to overflowing and the vicar was also given a framed photo of the choir, churchwardens and clergy.

For a truly original Christmas party experience, look no further.

Visit the Christmas Parties area of our website or contact info@3ca.org.uk for more information.

To find out more and how you can get involved in the next stage, be sure to come along to the exhibition. Exhibition Preview and Performance Saturday 15th September, 6-9pm, featuring live dance performance, story telling and poetry (FREE ENTRY). The Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, BS2 0NW.

You can read more about the exhibition in a preview by Bristol Venue.

We hope that the bar extension will improve the experience for those using the Centre for gigs and private parties.

We also have enough counter space for caterers to use, and will be installing another sink so we can operate a café area alongside the bar in the future.

Trinity are now taking bookings for Christmas parties and are working in partnership with Pie Minister who will provide catering for the private functions.

If you are a company or an individual looking to host a Christmas party and would like to know more, visit the Christmas Parties area of our website or contact the office on info@3ca.org.uk 0117 935 1200.

Over 500 people completed our survey and 122 voluntary and community sector were also engaged as part of the process to share their views, representing over 14,000 service users and members.

Selection of responses from consultation May-August 2012

We were pleased to receive a lot of positive feedback from people who view Trinity as a place that brings communities from different backgrounds together.

Suggestions for improvement were directed toward the poor signage, building orientation, knowledge of Trinity’s events and services, coldness and acoustics of upstairs and the condition of the car-park.

What came through strongly from the feedback was that people are looking for a community space that is affordable, fully accessible, flexibly and adaptable for a variety of community activity, comfortable to use and easily identifiable as a community space.

The type of activities people were interested in seeing more of included extended youth provision, which is much needed with the locality, and feedback from young people also indicated that we need to focus more on reaching young people through our marketing and communication.

The feedback will provide a focus for the development of future projects and fund-raising.

The type of space people were most interested in was to have a large 'event space' suitable for large private functions, dance, theatre and rehearsals. People also felt that the garden was a particularly important space within the inner-city setting and there were several people who suggested developing a children’s play area within the space.

Several design options were presented to people as part of the consultation. We used this input and worked with English Heritage and Bristol City Council's Conservation Officer to develop a long-term redevelopment plan for the Centre. Click here to view the final plans proposed.

TCA have submitted an application to Big Lottery Fund to fund the first phase of works within this larger scheme and we hope to have a decision within the new year. To find out more about our plans for the future, you can attend one of our Consultation Feedback Events at the following venues (between 4pm-7pm):

Arts Westside Café - 17th September

Barton Hill Settlement - 18th September

Easton Community Centre - 19th September

The Trinity Centre - 20th September

This project has been supported by the Big Lottery Fund and English Heritage.

You can support the project directly here.

Lunch Served at 12:30pm - 2pm

BRING SNACKS TO SHARE

FREE activities:

Garden Tour - 11:30am

Whittling Spoons & Insects - 11am- 4pm

Wood burning cooker, design chat Q+A - 12pm - 12:30pm

Plant Identification & Foraging - 2:30pm

Clay Bowl Making with From The Earth- 2pm-4pm

Making Rocket Stoves - 12pm - 4pm

Mike Fiengold - talk about Permaculture 3pm - 3:45pm

For more info visit - www.3ca.org.uk

If wet event will move inside Trinity

Saturday 15th September, 6 - 9pm

Featuring live dance performance, story telling and poetry

Trinity invite you to BRIDGES – a 7-day exhibition plus opening launch event featuring live creative art performances inspired by the individual stories of the people of Bristol.

Since May 2012, an array of commissioned artists and practitioners have helped Bristolians, from all walks of life, to retell their personal stories using visual art, spoken word, dance, story telling and creative installations.

The resulting exhibition offers an exclusive glimpse into the private and sometimes mysterious world of the city of Bristol’s most important asset – its people.

The exhibition gives you the chance to share in these experiences, find common ground, explore new worlds and see the city in a new perspective as these divergent lives converge to assemble their own unique snap shot of our unique and wonderful city.

Bridges Project Exhibition continues 10am - 4pm daily until Friday 21st September

The exhibition was conceived and devised by participants in the following workshops:

Theatre Jukebox: Stand and Stare

Poetry & Prose: Andrew McMillan

Shoe Sculpture: Emma Myers

Folk with Flavour Dance: Cleo Lake

Peep Hole Model Boxes: Lou Gray

Middle Eastern Dance: Medea Mahdavi

Suitcase Story Altars: Marina Moreno

The Bridges exhibition marks the end of the second phase of this ground-breaking citywide project. The project will culminate in a spectacular site-specific show in April 2013 combining theatre, dance, music and art.

To find out more and how you can get involved in the finale, be sure to come along to the exhibition.

Cost: FREE (Refreshments included)

The workshop will enable participants to work together to create an ensemble dance piece based on their shared stories.

Medea’s workshops will start with a short storytelling session lead by writer Edson Burton. We will then work together to create an expressive dance piece based on our stories while having fun. Anyone with an interest in dance, storytelling and music is invited to take part. Composer Hans is creating a new composition specially for the workshop and will be accompanying the work with live guitar. An opportunity not to be missed.

Medea’s many collaborative dance theatre projects have tackled topical themes including adoption, censorship, and most recently refugees (www.footwork.org/medea).

The work made will feature as part of the Bridges Project exhibition at Trinity in September.

If you would like to book one of the few remaining places to participate, please contact: bridges@3ca.org.uk , or call 0117 935 1200 or pop into the office.

All ages, backgrounds and levels of experience welcome!

Cost: FREE (Refreshments included)

The workshops aim to playfully explore who we are and where we want to be by creating peep-hole model boxes of real and fantasy landscapes based on key stories and moments from participants lives.

The final model boxes will serve as a tantalising glimpse into a strangers past, their fears and desires, or their dreams for the future.

Lou has designed sets and costumes for over 40 productions for theatre companies all over the country including the Invisible Circus, English National Opera and the V&A. She is also an accomplished prop-maker whose work was integral to Trinity and The Wonder Club's 2008 show At Tether's End.

The art made in the workshops will feature as part of the Bridges Project exhibition at Trinity in September.

If you would like more information or to book a place on the workshop, please contact: bridges@3ca.org.uk , or call 0117 935 1200 or pop into the office.

All ages, backgrounds and levels of experience welcome!