In this workshop Bristol's favourite poet, playright, historian and general all rounder Edson Burton will respond to ‘Concerning the Poem’s Information’ from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Within the text Glissant contrasts the logic of computers or 'information' with poetic knowledge, in order to highlight differences between these modes of thinking/ being. What insights can poetry, and the poetic give us, that computers simply cannot? Does poetry, in some way, resist thinking that seeks to calculate and control outcomes? Or can similarities—and even alliances—be drawn between the unruly suggestiveness of poetic language, and the systematic world of computational prediction. This workshop will create time and space to respond to the short text in a collective setting, with reference to our current, historical reality.
If you are interested in exhibiting your scooter please get in touch here– Pre 1980 models only.
Last year, emerging photographers to take part in Capture FORWARDS. Four up-and-coming photographers took part in a workshop and mentorship programme with industry professionals, which culminated in a paid placement in the media team over the FORWARDS 2022 weekend. Each participant is now working as a photographer in the industry.
The exhibition will feature work from up-and-coming talents:
Speaking about Capture FORWARDS, Megan Tsz Kiu Ip said:
“Capture Forwards was my first opportunity at festival photography, and it was the perfect platform for me to stretch my photography skills and connect with fellow creatives. After Capture FORWARDS, I have gotten more opportunities to photograph events and I’m grateful to those who made the program possible.”
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However, people have been fighting back, through strikes and the taking up of arms. If capitalism collapsed tomorrow, we ask ourselves: would we be ready?
As anarchists, we have developed concepts around mutual aid, co-operation, and direct action, but how do we put these into practice?
At this year’s Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, we will create a space for people to explore these ideas. How will we create a better, more equal society? How will we hold people to account for their actions, if we abolish prisons and the police? If revolutions happen tomorrow, we won’t have all the answers, and an anarchist society will not occur overnight. But the core principles of anarchism offer us the building blocks for the future, and a roadmap on how to get there.
]]>Brexitannia is a film presented in a unique style which shows the people of a once powerful empire as they negotiate their identities in a world changing faster than ever. This is the first feature documentary portrait of the UK during these unpredictable times. From Aberdeen, to Belfast, to Clacton-by-Sea: Welcome to Brexitannia.
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history. Underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this historic and perplexing vote. Runtime: 1hr 20m Director: Timothy George Kelly
Watch the trailer here
]]>In 2 x120, cellist Bela Emerson invites the audience to become live co-creators. This forty-minute piece connects a series of spontaneous interactions between Emerson & individual audience members, who are invited to improvise with her for two minutes each. Participants are offered one of three specific ways of interacting (two sonic, one visual), to generate a unique collaborative flow of sound. Drawing together Emerson’s extensive experience as both improviser and community musician, this is innovative and inclusive work.
Bio: Bela Emerson is an innovative cellist who composes in the moment using electronic processing. She has performed residencies at Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as a solo performer, and releasing four solo albums. Her various collaborative works with artists such as filmmaker Tereza Buskova, acrobats Mimbre and musicians Sarah Angliss and Stephen Hiscock have been supported by PRS and Arts Council England and commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and the BFI. Bela also works as a community musician with Open Strings Music and Rhythmix’s Wishing Well, using music as a tool for connection, engagement and wellbeing.
Sue Mountstevens has been re-elected as Police and Crime Commissioner and this occasion is where she will set out publicly her continued commitment to serving the residents of Avon and Somerset with integrity and impartiality.
At the short event Sue will take an ‘oath of impartiality’ with the Police Area Returning Officer (PARO) Dr Jo Farrar OBE, who co-ordinated the election across Avon and Somerset. Sue will also set out her strategic vision for the Constabulary for the next four years of her PCC term.
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The Another England map and research which can be seen on the Another England website, will tell the story of our multicultural heritage through the cafes, churches, houses and workplaces where people gathered as communities have formed and settled in England.
Join us at the Trinity Centre from 1:30-5pm on Saturday 7th April to share your own local knowledge, memories and photos that we can add to the Another England map.
Entry is FREE and open to everyone.
Brought to you by Historic England and Pidgin Perfect.
]]>The Another England map and research which can be seen on the Another England website, will tell the story of our multicultural heritage through the cafes, churches, houses and workplaces where people gathered as communities have formed and settled in England.
Join us at the Trinity Centre from 1:30-5pm on Saturday 7th April to share your own local knowledge, memories and photos that we can add to the Another England map.
Entry is FREE and open to everyone.
Brought to you by Historic England and Pidgin Perfect.
]]>‘Life can express itself and realise its freedom only through forms yet forms must necessarily suffocate life and obstruct freedom’ Georg Simmel
Forms/Movement: sky maps, road signs, street zodiacs, framed cartographies, spatial signifiers- travel routes ruled and governed by collusive eras and monetary systems that collapse and repress; each is as ineffectual as the last. We recreate the monolithic and archaic, streets of repetitive movement, plan upon plan, layer upon layer of ash and bone ad infinitum, built upon the foundations of another immovable transitory flight of being, a swirling mass of margins where there is no guidance and we bear witness to transparent city walls that breathe, contract, grip and expel.
The City (Transition) is a solo performance that uses sound and video improvisation, performance, composition and collage.
Bio: abher behn‘s creative output spans over two decades of music and sound composition, writing and visual work alongside art/feminist activism and DIY/community organising. Her belief in the necessity of a politicised feminist community and autonomous space for self identified women, queers and people of colour alongside the creation and sustenance of a non-corporate DIY cultural ethic without compromise, has remained the backbone of her life and work.
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The question is, can humanity solve these problems, will we make it worse? Or have we found a new modern way to destroy lives?!
Come and have your say about what you think is missing from the 21st Century.
Exhibition open to the public 9am - 5pm // Tuesday 27th November - Monday 3rd December.
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