After our highly successful Creative Play Day back in April, we are getting ready to launch a weekly drop in session for the under 5’s and their carers, in partnership with 'Parents for Play' and 'Children’s Scrapstore', this summer.

We are looking for a core group of volunteers to help lead and run these sessions, launching on Wednesday 9th July. Sessions will run 10 am - 12.30pm with the structure of an organized activity followed by ‘freeplay’.

This summer Arts West Side will also run a pilot project to offer adults with learning difficulties informal arts activities. We are looking for volunteers to help run and deliver these sessions.

We are looking for volunteers who have experience in the arts or working with vulnerable adults. The pilot is set to launch later in August.

All our volunteers are fully supported by the Arts West Side Project Coordinator.

For an informal chat about these roles, please call Sarah 0771403 6505 or email bentleg@3ca.org.uk

Roger's talk on the 1932 Riots was full of surprises. After a clear and incisive contextualization of the Riot, Roger gave us a lively and provocative story of the clashes between the Police and the unemployed workers. Along the way he revealed the fractures in the Labour movement which led to the marginalisation of the Unemployed Workers, the sheer brutality of the police attacks, and the resilience of the unemployed workers as they continued to protest despite sustained harassment.

Although Old Market was a crucial point, this was in fact a Bristol story as crowds of Bristolians came out to support the unemployed workers, sometimes even joining in the riots on the side of the rioters.

In the Q & A that followed, it became clear there were striking continuities & differences between the public response to austerity then and now.

Roger was the first of our talks for the Vice & Virtue project. See here the full list of upcoming talks and details of the project.

Following a spate of incidents, we are calling on all forces to gather together to help us tidy and repair our Trinity Community Garden, this Sunday 29 June from 11am onwards.

Over the past few weeks our much-loved project - which provides a unique inner-city oasis and is a base for activities with children and families, adults with mental health issues and refugee groups - has been hit by a spate of vandalism attempts and fires, one of which has caused serious damage to our Outdoor Kitchen.

Following these incidents, many people have come forward to show their support. We would like to give thanks to all those who have offered to help. Special thanks must go to Incredible Edible Bristol who have generously donated £200 towards repairing the kitchen, as well as The Bristol Wood Recycling Project who have offered to donate wood needed for the rebuild.

We are calling on willing and able volunteers to take part in the mass volunteering day this Sunday, to help clear the site ready for the kitchen-rebuild. Come along, lend a helping hand and share in a celebratory communal lunch made from home-grown ingredients.

If you are unable to help out on the day but would like to show your support you can Text TGDN13 £[the amount you want to donate] to 70070 to make a donation to the Trinity Garden Project.

We are also looking for donations of the following materials to repair the Outdoor Kitchen:

• 15 x straw bales
• sand clay
• 2 x 4m long 4'' diameter round posts
• short self-tapping screws
• 2 x double glazed doors
• 4 x wood shutters
• 12 good hinges
• and a partridge in a pear tree!

We are also hosting Our Big Gig Sunday 13 July with all donations collected on the day going towards the garden project.

Our Community Garden was the victim of vandalism, after the outdoor kitchen was set on fire on the early hours of Tuesday 17th June.

Bristol Fire Brigade were called to The Trinity Centre (where the community garden is based) at 3:16 am. They said no-one was believed to have been inside the single-storey outdoor building when the fire started.

Police will investigate the incident, but the cause of the fire is unknown.

The space was built as an outdoor kitchen with the help of an Awards for All grant in 2012 and volunteers had been working on it over the last 2 years, giving their time and resources to improve the space.

Trinity Centre's Manager said "The Community Garden volunteers have done a tremendous amount of work and we feel really sad for them. There is quite a lot of damage."

One of the Community Garden volunteers said "It's really sad to see something like this happen, after we have all worked so hard over the years to keep a welcoming space for the community"

She also said she hoped activities by the groups who used the outdoor kitchen and garden could continue as normal, adding: "It is going to be a lot of work to get everything back to normal but we will hopefully get the support of the community and the people who care about the space"

It will cost the community group hundreds to repair the damage done to the space.

The Trinity Community Garden is a community led, beautiful food growing space which aims to connect people with nature in their own community. The garden also has an orchard, poly-tunnel, a naturally built playground with an outdoor stage and a compost toilet.

The community projects that use the garden grow, forage and cook in the space so that participants get to experience truly sustainable living and the complete food cycle. The space also provides a place for workshops, children's quests, community events and gatherings.

The Trinity Centre will be dedicating the next community event, The Big Gig on Sun 13^th July, to the Community Garden, to help raise funds to repair the damage done.

The Community Garden group will be putting out a list of resources they need to re-build in the next couple of days and are already planing a few days to do the work, so please let us know if you can help.

If you would like to donate funds, please text TGDN13 [the amount you want to donate] to 70070 to donate to the Trinity Community Garden Project or donate to our Garden Appeal

Arts West Side is getting ready to deliver new and improved Healthy Eating sessions in August.

Our 'Herbs for a Healthy Tasty Life!' sessions will teach you all there is to learn about herbs growing habits, properties & different culinary and medicinal uses.

We will run 2 different sessions, the first one on Wed 13th August and the second one on Wed 20th August, both 10.30am to 12.30pm at The Trinity Community Gardens, with each session looking at different herbs.

The sessions are free and suitable for children 5+ and we will run whatever the weather so please bring your waterproofs!

Places are limited, so please book a place in advance  with Sarah Bentley: bentleg@3ca.org.uk or call: 07714036505

Trinity Community Garden, Trinity Road, BS2 0NW.

This is a project funded by Awards for All

This gig really was something for the dedicated Damonite. Tickets sold out in 3 minutes as a fan club only event, and he did not disappoint his core following. Starting with two new tracks - Lonely Press Play and the album title Everyday Robots, Albarn then took his audience through a back catalogue tour of Blur, Gorrilaz, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, as well as the joyous Rock Juice and The Moon Song.

Damon Albarn is a master of smaller, independent, venues. His engaging style and warmth fills even the cosiest of venues, but you never get the feeling his ego or acoustic prowess will extend beyond the walls of this intimate, gothic, Bristol setting. This engagement did however extend into the consciousness of the audience that night, with everyone a riding high on a sense that the former Blur frontman will remember the evening as much as the punters as he blasted out Last Living Souls accompanied by his band, The Heavy Seas.

Next came the dedication of the Gorrilaz’s number Slow Country to Massive Attack which harked back to not only the venues status as the birthplace of the Bristol Sound, but also to alluring atmosphere that has drawn in the aforementioned trip-hop artists and The Prodigy amongst others. Securing these acts is a result of Trinity’s strong musical heritage, and the passion for the intimate, incognito, atmosphere that artists of the calibre of Damon Albarn obviously have.

His crowd pleasing encore involved an 8 strong gospel choir from East London, who supported 2 new songs; Mr Tembo and Heavy Seas of Love. But what got the crowd romping and jumping was a version of Gorillaz’s Clint Eastwood that featured Bristol-based paramedic K*Ners, who when he is not rescuing the sick, rescued the hip-hop sections of the song due to a last minute drop out of Damon’s preferred Snoop Dogg wannabe.

It was refreshing to see Albarn finish on the soporifically sombre - This is a Low, which was both the low note, and the high point, of this particular performance.

Review by John Barker, Trinity Trustee

Image by www.lifelivephotography.com

Vice & Virtue: Discovering the History of Old Market 1900-2005 - invites you to a series of talks by local and national experts on the many aspects of Old Market's History. We will be looking beneath the area's reputation and exploring the many cultures that have lived here, its national significance as an area of architectural conservation and key moments of historical interest.

Tue 24^th June, 7.30pm-9.30pm - Bread & Batons?: Dr Roger Ball explores clashes between National Union of Unemployed Workers.

Wed 9^th July, 6.00pm-8.00pm – Coming Out in Rainbow Colours: Berkeley Wilde (Diversity Trust) explores services and clubs that have given the street it's unique character. Event delivered in partnership with the LGBT Forum.

Tue 22^nd July, 6.30pm-8.30pm – Sex Work: Myths and Facts: For some Old Market is synonymous with the sex industry. Representatives of the English Collective of Prostitutes provide an insiders view of sex work in Britain challenging public perceptions & sharing information in the process.

Tue 26^th Aug, 6.30pm-8.30pm – A Night at the Cinema: The ABC Old Market had a particularly unique history. Using rarely seen film, armed with wit and charm, authors John Penny & Clive Burlton recreate the cinema experience of the 1950s & 1960s.

Tue 2^nd Sept, 6.30pm-8.30pm – Methodist Central Hall: A vital part of a Methodist mission to the new industrial classes. With special reference to Old Market's Methodist Central Hall Dr Angela Connelly explores the rise, role and decline of this vital Methodist institution.

Tue 30^th Sept, 6.30pm-8.30pm – Remaking Bristol: Post war Slum clearance and road developments reshaped the communities of Bristol. Through illustrated case-studies local historian Mike Hooper explores the impact of urban planning decisions on ordinary lives.

Tue 28^th Oct, 6.30pm-8.30pm - Black GI's in Britain: 1943 Bristol tensions in the racially segregated US army spill over into full blown fighting on the streets of Old Market between Black and White GIs. Using Bristol as a case study Professor Neil Wynn explores the impact of US racial politics on war time Britain.

Tue 25^th Nov, 6.30pm-8.30pm – Old Market Uncovered: Secret service investigations, Emily Pankhurst, retail dynasties, charity and under the counter sex. Vice & Virtue archival researcher, historian and novelist, Mike Manson rewrites our understanding of Old Market. Expect the unexpected.

*Suggested donation £2.00

For more information about the talks or the project contact Edson on story@3ca.org.uk or www.3ca.org.uk/archiveheritage

Vice & Virtue is aproject funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, Quartet Community Foundation and the Old Market Community Association

Introduction

Trinity operates a CTV system across the site, used for maintaining public safety, the security of property and premises and for preventing and investigating crime.

Our system is owned and managed by the Trinity Community Arts Ltd and operated by Trinity Facilities Team.  The responsible manager is the Facilities Coordinator.

CCTV at Trinity

Cameras are located at strategic points throughout the site, principally at entrance and exit points and public spaces.

Signage is placed at site entry points to inform staff, visitors and members of the public that a CCTV installation is in use.

Our CCTV system is registered with the Information Commissioner.

Storage

CCTV is stored securely with restricted access and only retained for a limited period.

Disclosure

Trinity will only disclose CCTV images to the following sources in the following instances -

Crime

• Law enforcement agencies to assist in a specific criminal enquiry
• Prosecution agencies and relevant legal representatives
• The media, where approved by the above agents, in relation to a specific criminal incident

If you are investigating a crime, please contact us via info@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200 or visit the Office.

Personal data

• People whose images have been recorded and retained can make a request to see this data - please see our Privacy Policy for information about how to make a Data Subject Access Request.
• If your enquiry relates to a crime that you feel may have been committed, please contact the police in the first instance. They will issue you with a crime reference number so that we are able to provide them with any relevant images. We cannot provide individuals with access to this data.
• If your enquiry relates to an insurance claim, please contact your insurer in the first instance.
• Please note, that CCTV images are only stored for a maximum 30 days before being automatically deleted.

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We are currently seeking a little support for our next FREE community event coming up Sunday 13 July from 2pm in the Garden. As part of this year's Our Big Gig Trinity will be hosting an afternoon of fun and celebration for all the family.

We're providing an afternoon of free music and entertainment featuring some of the best of Bristol's up and coming young performers and emerging talent from our local community. We're also offering
workshops, taster sessions and activities for all ages, as well as food stalls and refreshments - fun for all the family!

We are looking for a range of young performers to take part - if you would like to get involved to or to help out on the day please get in touch! info@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200

In 2013 Our Big Gig hosted over 336 events last year, with over 200,00 attending across the UK. Our Big Gig 2014 at Trinity will provide a platform for young performers based here at our Youth Music Makers project as well as project opportunity for performers from across the city to come together on World Cup final day to celebrate and stage their talents.

We need you!

To make this happen we need to YOU to pledge your support - click here to make a donation today and make this project a reality! Thankyou!

Watch our promo video here...

Our line-up features some of Bristol's best music acts, including our headliner, Gorgon Sound whose unique reggae vibe is guaranteed to get you on your feet. The line-up also includes Mr Woodnote ft Lil Rhys, a notorious duo with loop machines beat-boxing and bass, Baraka, musicians with an afro-beat sound, The Fantasy Orchestra and much, much more.

All the workshops throughout the day are completely free. Sessions include mask-making, storytelling, poetry writing, retro gaming, gardening and other fun activities for all children and families. We will also have a parade so that children can show everything they have made during the day. There is also our new children's play area, designed and built by The Green Play Project who specialise in uniquely exciting play-scapes inspired by nature, built to promote creative and interactive play.

The event runs between 12pm-9pm. There are still some spaces available if you would like a stall, or if you would like to help by volunteering at the event. Get in touch or click here to find out more.

Following two sold-out London shows to coincide with the release of Everyday Robots, Damon will play two additional UK shows at Trinity Bristol on May 30th and the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth on May 31st.

Tickets are sold-out. Trinity is a 600 capacity venue and most tickets were pre-sold exclusively for these intimate shows via the Damon Albarn website.

Fans secured tickets by pre-ordering and purchasing the new album, with a ticket limit of two per-person. A limited number of tickets went on sale to the general public Friday 25 April 2014 at 9am but sold out within three-minutes.

Damon Albarn has performed at Trinity Bristol on previous occasions with The Good, The Bad And The Queen and, most recently in 2010 as part of a Gorillaz fan-club tour.

We are very excited to share great news from the Hype Dance crew who have recently won 1st place at the XM British Open Street Dance Weekend 2014.

The competition for all ages and abilities took place at Haven Golden Sands Holiday Park (Lincolnshire) from the 28th to the 30th March.

Hype smashed it even though they had 1 man down because of an injury and changed the mix 10 minutes before showtime! We are proud of all of you, coming back to Bristol with 37 trophies, so much talent from age 7 all the way to 17. You all have represented Hype Dance Company to the fullest, so well done!

See their amazing routine on their youtube channel

If you are inspired after seeing that, then join the crew! Hype Dance classes at Trinity are on Wednesdays from 6pm.

Contact Natasha Benjamin for more info or check out the class page here

TARIFFS**

Monday to Saturday:

Up to 30min - £1.50

30min to 1hr - £3

1hr to 2hrs - £4

2hrs to 3hrs - £5

3hrs to 4hrs - £6

4hrs to 5hrs - £7

5hrs to 6hrs - £8

6hrs to 12hrs - £9

Sunday & Bank Holidays:

1hr - £1.5

12hrs - £5

48hr bus tariff - £60

Please note Trinity operates an ANPR system - please ensure you pay and display for the duration of your stay or you will receive an automatic Parking Charge Notice (PCN) from our car park management company, Carflow.

Who needs to pay?

Our car park is 24hr Pay & Display and all visitors are required to pay and display, including staff, volunteers, hirers, Centre visitors and Blue Badge Holders*

How do I pay for parking?

Payments for parking tariffs can be made on two parking payment terminals within the car park using credit and debit cards. Please enter your full registration when paying for parking. Payments may also be made using the RingGo parking app using the car park code 46600.

Who operates the car park?

The car park is operated by Carflow Car Park Management

Is accessible parking available?

There are four accessible parking bays located next to the new daytime entrance, which is situated on the left-hand side of the building.

Can we reserve a space?

Parking is managed on a first-come first-served basis. If you are running a large event or private function, please contact your Bookings Coordinator for further information.

How many parking spaces are available?

The car park can fit approximately 45 vehicles.

Can I park overnight?

You will be able to park any-time and the car park will be open and monitored 24hrs. If you come for an evening event, you are able to park for up to 12hrs. Please do not leave valuables within your car or in plain sight. If you overstay, you are also able to top up your stay before leaving the site.

Why does Trinity charge for parking?

Trinity is a charity and we run the Trinity Centre almost entirely on the income we generate from hire of the premises and events, via our trading subsidiary, Trinity Community Enterprises.

Revenue from our car park helps to fund Trinity Centre running costs and our programme of community activities.

This is a vital source of income and helps to sustain our community centre and maintain and repair the listed building. It allows us to offer free and subsidised use of our hall-space for community activities and helps to match fund projects such as our heritage, arts and youth activities.

Parking Charge Notices (PCNs)

Trinity operates an ANPR system - please ensure you pay and display for the duration of your stay or you will receive an automatic Parking Charge Notice (PCN) from our car park management company, Carflow.

Trinity is unable to take forward individual appeals against PCNs issued, nor do we receive any revenue from PCN charges. To query or appeal a PCN, please contact appeals@carflow.co.uk or visit their website.

*If you are taking part in a project activity run by Trinity Community Arts, you may be able to claim back your expenses - please speak your Trinity Event Organiser for more info. Click here to find out more about accessibility at Trinity. **Prices subject to variation - please check on site.

Inspired by the campaign to install a water-slide on Park Street, plans are under way to install an external slide around the Trinity Centre building. The special 'rainbow' slide measures almost 22m in height and will take centre users on a journey from the rooftop of the grade II* listed building, all the way to the bottom.

Centre Manager, Emma Harvey said: "We've been thinking of an easier way to get people down from the upstairs of Trinity for some time - we explored options such as fireman's poles and conventional escalators - this option seemed the most in-keeping with the building and organisation."

As well as the new slide, the second phase of development works will also include installation of loud-speakers on the towers - replacing the toll of the bells in the tower, the speakers will play Jimmy Cliff's I Can See Clearly Now on the hour as a way of keeping everyone aware of the time of day.

Thu 20^th March 2014

LA’s Banks ploughs a polished furrow in deeply personal themes delivered as powerful sultry vocals over often fervently moody electronica.

On this UK tour she has been joined by LuckyMe’s resident DJ and darling of Rinse FM and Radio One, Eclair Fifi, here ushering in the audience with a selection that mines the seam where r’n’b meets bleeding edge, post-dubstep production. It’s an at once accessible and thrilling alliance - and the perfect fanfare for a visiting artist that has leant so heavily on the production values of the UK’s taste-making underground.

Taking the stage to sinister scene-setter Before I Ever Met You, backlit and misted in dry ice, the slight American cuts a gothic silhouette as she sashays back and forth from the shadows.

On stage, Banks is flanked by two musicians, one at a drum kit, the other alternating between keys and guitar, augmenting the backing track. There is a synergy at play here, and with a lighting production that perfectly encapsulates the intensity of her sound, the show is at once intimate and powerful.

Following the haunting This Is What It Feels Like Now the more upbeat Change reveals a little of the true vocal power our host can wield. Then just when it seems the whole evening might be trotted out in the same vain she lets rip on Brain.

Perhaps because this is the first night of the tour, from this point we see a more relaxed and confident performance. We are treated to a debut airing and a little more in the way of conversation as the mood gradually lightens through Warm Water towards something of a soulful, even sunny, groove.

The dark and light of ‘Waiting Game’ brings the night full circle before our host announces her last of the evening is to be another 'world premier', a mild disappointment of crude r’n’b-informed pop, perhaps hinting at a more American aesthetic for the forthcoming album.

This would be a shame, for us in the UK at least, as it is through the unapologetic intelligence and atmospherics of her material to date that she stands a greater longevity in hearts and minds over here.

by Mark Edmundson

Spring is a sign of the harvest to come, but a harvest requires many hands. After a highly competitive application process we recruited local historian, writer and publicist Mike Mason to the role of archival researcher. Mike will look through the local and wider archives to find those buried documents that contextualise the oral history of Old Market.

Since January the number has risen to 14 - Edson has supported and encouraged the volunteers to identify their own mini research projects in Old Market.

Vice & Virtue is committed to give all our volunteers as much support as possible to pursue their research. With this mind we are running research sessions during the course of the project.

Dr Madge Dresser led our first training session on a sunny day in March at Arts West Side. Madge gave a brilliant introduction to the value of oral history – what it can and, as importantly what it cannot always tell us.

Our next training session will be an introduction to the hidden gems at Bristol Central Library on the 22 of March - please get in touch to register your interest.

The research is gaining momentum. The team has gathered a wealth of anecdotes and have begun conducting formal interviews. Members of the public have also shared posters from the hey day of the former Empire Theatre. More material will undoubtedly follow.

We are planning a series of events and talks to spread the History of Old Market. Our first event a partnership with the LGBT Forum held on the 20 February provided a number of leads as well as strengthening our connections with the Forum.

Since our first meeting we have established a regular weekly drop-in session for volunteers and members of the public (Tuesdays). The vibe is chilled and supportive, informative and fun. We are still looking for volunteers, so if you would still like to be involved in this exciting project email story@3ca.org.uk or call Edson on 9351200 Mon- Weds to find out more.

@EdsonBurton

200 friends of Trinity turned out for the official opening of our new upstairs hall - including Presenter Susan Osman and Lord Mayor Faruk Choudhury.

The event gave people in the community and users of the Centre the opportunity to see all the improvements made to the building, thanks to funding from Big Lottery Reaching Communities Buildings and Ibstock Cory Environmental Trust.

'Bristol Reggae Orchestra' gave an outstanding performance - the first musicians to perform in the renovated upstairs hall. Other acts included a special performance from resident dance-troupe Hype. Bristol Samba closed the evening, with a drumming and dancing performance.

Thanks to all those who attended for the re-launch of this much-loved community arts venue.

Don't miss our public launch gig - Adrian Utley (Portishead) bringing together an orchestra of electric guitar players to interpret Terry Riley's 'In C', Saturday 8 March - performing in the intimate setting of our new upstairs hall. Also chance to catch an exhibition by the fabulous Alberto Seveso plus after-party downstairs with Smith & Mighty.

Delivered as part of a new partnership with Weston College, our new programme of learning for young people - Makin' It - will provide courses in Art & Music.

The arts sessions for young people 16-18yrs (not in education, training or employment) will teach skills in areas including graffiti art, graphic & textile design - it will give those taking part a chance to realise their ideas within a medium of their choice. This will be alongside our established music training course - offered since 2005 - where young people get to learn about music composition, lyric-writing, sequencing, production, instrumental study and live performance - as well as how to best market themselves and their music effectively.

All our courses are accredited and are FREE, with travel expenses and food provided. Course lengths are between 6-12weeks.

Whether you are a young person looking to sign up, or you are looking to make a referral - or just to find out more - contact: training@3ca.org.uk 0117 935 1200