Come along for comics, prints, zines, books, stickers, merch, ceramics and more. You can also get stuck in and messy with programmes of workshops and talks from local creatives.

Applications to table at Zinezilla will be open from Mon 10th Mar to Sun 20th Apr. Applications to screen films will be be open via Animinspo. You can find out more here.

Science Fair, 2025; image by Alistair Brookes

After years of consultation, experimentation and refinement, we’re now seeing the impact of our work come together; strengthening our ambition to be a nationally celebrated hub for socially engaged arts. By joining the dots across multiple projects, partners and communities, we’re reaching more people than ever and embedding creativity into everyday life.

At the heart of this transformation is our for, by, with methodology, which ensures that everything we do is created for communities, shaped by those with lived experience, and developed with the people and partners who help bring it to life. Through this approach, we’ve secured major multi-year funding, providing the stability needed to invest in long-term change and build deeper relationships that ensure our work is truly relevant and impactful.

Partnerships with Bristol Drugs Project and Bristol School of Art are creating new pathways for adults to engage with creativity as a tool for health, wellbeing and personal development. Through targeted workshops by expert facilitators and with individuals who may not otherwise access creative spaces, we are providing opportunities to build confidence, express identity, and develop new skills - whether in music or performance.

Our Cultural Alliance and after-school programmes are ensuring that creative opportunities exist for local children - many of whom are engaging with the arts for the first time. By embedding arts provision within schools and community settings, we’re developing work by and with young people that helps them discover their creative potential, make new connections, and gain valuable life skills.

Trinity's combined arts programme continues to flourish, bringing an exciting mix of dance, theatre and live performance from emerging artists both local and touring to allow new audiences to access this exciting work at Trinity and beyond. Alongside this, our Seeding Sessions are platforming some of the most exciting new sounds offering an enchanting and experimental evenings for true music enthusiasts.

By expanding our work for audiences in schools, community spaces, and public spaces, we are ensuring culture is more accessible than ever. Whether through powerful theatre performances by local artists, high-energy dance workshops with community groups, or participatory projects that put people at the centre of the creative process, we are bringing communities together in meaningful ways.

This progress has been made possible by an ambitious, empowered, and dedicated team whose passion for socially engaged arts is driving change. With strong foundations in place and an exciting future ahead, we’re ready to take our work even further - expanding our reach, deepening our impact, and ensuring that culture and creativity remain at the heart of community life for, by, and with the people who need it most.

By Adam Gallacher, Deputy CEO

This is for the Filipino-British Community and for everyone else who would like to join us and see and celebrate the Filipino Culture.

People can expect Tradition food and drinks. Filipino music, Traditional dances as well. There will be Filipino Artists coming along and perform as well.

In attendance: The lord Mayor of Bristol

Trinity Garden Party photo: Sophia Stefelle

We caught up with new member of the Trinity team, Jen Farmer, who has been in the post of Arts Engagement and Outreach Manager since September 2023. We wanted to find out more about what Jen will be focusing on and what she is looking forward to.

Q. Tells us about you:

A: Hi I’m Jen, the Arts Engagement and Outreach Manager here at Trinity. This is a new role, created to support the organisation as we increase our commitment to working with local neighbourhoods and community groups. I started this role in September after eight years working as Outreach Programme Manager at Easton Community Children’s Centre, and for many years before that managing and delivering education, outreach and community arts programmes with schools, theatres and arts organisations.

Q. What will you be focussing on within this role?

Over the next two years I’ll be working closely with cross-sector partners – charities, community groups, social enterprises, grassroot creative organisations and local residents and artists – with three key aims; to design and deliver a targeted programme of place-based activity, to support and add value to our community groups, and to build on and integrate our combined arts offer. We will be working in co-creation with our most local neighbourhoods, responding to, and supporting, their interests.

Q. What are you working on now?

The first step involves understanding community connections within our locality. To do this, we’ve partnered with social enterprise, Onion Collective and gaming technology company, Free Ice Cream.

We are inviting a wide range of local cross-sector organisations to participate in 'Understory', a workshop in which we will create a unique digital network map. Answering a series of questions, participants will see, in real time, the map build, allowing us to explore the relationships between people and organisations.

This map will become an important tool that informs Trinity’s plans as we go forward, and for all the other organisations who participate too.

Q. How can someone take part in Understory?

The workshop will take place on Tuesday 31 Oct 10.30am - 12 midday at Trinity., If someone would like to take part they can email me on Jen@trinitybristol.org.uk for more information.

Q. What else is Trinity doing at the moment?

We are currently working in partnership with St Pauls Carnival and David Jubb (Citizens in Power) to develop a model for a Citizens' Assembly for Culture in 2024. The idea of this is to creates ways for citizens to shape cultural offers for the WECCA region. We are also working with key community partners to help restore Jacobs Wells Baths and re-open the building to be a community hub.

Hype's mission is to use dance and movement to help young people excel. The award winning urban dance company for 5yrs- young adult, runs weekly all year round (apart from the six-week summer) holiday and runs an open door policy so new dancers can join any time.

Class times:

• 6pm - 7pm 5yrs-11yrs (primary school age)
• 7pm - 8pm Teen/young Adults classes-(For 12+)

Cost:

• £8 pay as you go weekly. Classes can be paid on the door via card/contactless payment or exact cash each week .

Further information

• New starters can start on any Wednesday as its new routines each week at our open for all classes so there is no need for a trail class.
• First session is half price classes are 'closed classes' which means parents are unable to sit and watch as it is more comfortable for the students to progress and be themselves.

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