The discussion is hosted by Art of Resistance curator, writer, and historian Dr Edson Burton.

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

Vibronics:

The future sound of dub have been vibrating the world with bass since 1996. Their music is at the forefront of the UK dub scene, proven by over 70 releases of their own legendary SCOOPS label, and a myriad of other labels. In the studio they have worked with a seemingly endless list of dub and reggae luminaries, including Michael Prophet, Iration Steppas, Aba Shanti, and Gaudi.

Lioness:

DJ Lioness has represented reggae music for over 30 years. In that time she has interviewed reggae legends such as Buju Banton, Morgan Heritage, John Holt, and Sugar Minott amongst many more.

DJ Stryda:

Since 1996, DJ Stryda has been uplifting the masses with his Sufferah’s Choice radio show. He is one half of the duo Dubkasm, who release top-quality productions on their Sufferah’s Choice Recordings label. He is responsible for bringing many of the top soundsystems and stage shows to Bristol, always filling up Trinity with his internationally renowned Teachings in Dub event.

Big D (Jah Lokko sound):

Jah Lokko have been in the sound system business for close to 30 years and you might recognize their speaker boxes from St Paul's carnival as the alias they also play as (Unique Star) have had a spot at the top of Campbell St every year since the 90's.

About Trinity Presents
Trinity Presents is our in house programme bringing innovative world-class live music and arts to inner-city audiences.. Trinity Presents is supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

The Pleasure of Resistance is a free online workshop with award winning Bristol City poet Caleb Parkin  exploring ways in which creative writing can be used to amplify messages.

In the workshop you will explore resources you need to 'resist', you’ll be invited to think about joyous, creative ‘marks of resistance’ in your day-to-day life, celebrating their details. Participants are encouraged to bring magazine articles or other forms of writing for inspiration.

This workshop is for writers at all stages, ages and abilities. If you would like to take part please sign up using the ticket link.  A Zoom link will be supplied closer to the event. The workshop is free but spaces are limited.

About Caleb Parkin

The works of Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, have been published widely in journals. He has also won/been shortlisted in major writing competitions across the UK. Caleb tutors for Poetry Society, Poetry School and Cheltenham Festivals, and holds an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. His debut pamphlet, Wasted Rainbow was published with Tall Lighthouse in February 2021 and his debut collection, This Fruiting Body, with Nine Arches this October.

About Art of Resistance

Art of Resistance is a two year Heritage Lottery Funded Project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest and civil disobedience in Bristol and the art that underpinned each movement.

Peaches, Trinity, 2016 Credit: Jessica Bartolini

Resonators, Trinity, 2018, Khali Ackford

Alesandra Seutin I Vocab Dance Company, Trinity, 2018, Jessica Bartolini

Kiesha Thompson, Trinity, 2018, Jessica Bartolini

This gallery is part of Art of Resistance, a two year project documenting creative responses to resistance movements in Bristol. The women featured in this exhibition are known for their creative power and for their commitment to changing society.

Using music as their platform, Peaches takes a bold and unexpected approach to the topics of sex, feminism, queerness, gender, and new millennium politics. Fronted by Faye Houston and Kassia Zermon, Brighton reggae band, Resonators, draw influences from original Jamaican sounds and riddims.

Keisha Thompson and Alesandra Seutin both use performance to explore race, identity, and gender issues, often creating highly personal and thought provoking work.

Protest history and the art it has created is both formal and informally documented. It is held within memories, private collections, people’s art, posters, music, and poetry. We hope these pictures inspire you to remember your own creative acts of protest, large or small, to share them with us and be part of building a people’s archive.

Art of Resistance is funded by Heritage Lottery Fund

1985 Oct 25 International Time Off for Women

March 8 marks International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

The origins of International Women’s Day can be traced to the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. Delegates approved a motion calling for a celebration of women every year in every country. Today International Women’s Day is a month-long celebration and the struggle for equal access and opportunity, are as relevant today as it was in 1910.

Throughout the month of March, we have a programme of activities to celebrate, to take part in and to learn more about women’s history.

Associate Artist Roxanna Vilk has teamed up with charity Bristol Women’s Voice to offer a free Lullabies workshop (Mar 10). The Workshop is open to families and carers and is an opportunity to learn Iranian, Slovenian and Cuban Lullabies. Sign up here.

As part of Art of Resistance we will be exploring the ways that women have creatively responded to the struggle for equality across the world. Our outdoor gallery, Snapshots of Resistance, will have a selection of photographs documenting women protestors & pioneering artists – with a wider selection of photographs from our archive will be accessible online. We will also be releasing an inspirational interview with Bristol treasure singer songwriter Rita Lynch. We are also calling out for stories and art to be part of the project. Submit yours online here.

There are more activities planned, keep an eye out on our website, sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to keep-up-to-date and to #GetInvolved.

Image Colin Moody

Art of Resistance is a 2-year project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest, and civil disobedience in Bristol, and the art that underpinned each movement.

We're looking for people who have artifacts or stories they would like to share to help build this picture of Bristol as a city of art and activism.

Whether your #resist story or art relates to Workers Rights, Women’s Equality, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism - or something else we haven't thought of - we'd love to hear from you.

In particular, we're really interested if any artwork, including poetry, textiles, posters, banners and ephemera, music and performing arts that were used to support and capture the spirit of different movements throughout the ages.

#GetInvolved

If you have digital material you can upload it here: Art Of Resistance Submission form.

If you have a physical item or would like to discus taking part in an interview to tell your own story, please contact info@trinitybristol.org.uk

Keep up to do with the project and other Trinity news and event sign up to our mailing list here.

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Prolific and versatile academic Dr Madge Dresser has used oral history throughout her extensive career. In an introduction to oral history she explores the value of oral history, and how best to use oral testimonies.

This session provides excellent preparation for new researchers who are looking to conduct interviews. It is also a good practice reminder for established researchers.

This session is tailored for current volunteers on Art of Resistance, if you are interested in volunteering for the project, please contact esther@trinitybristol.org.uk.

Art of Resistance is a 2-year project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest, and civil disobedience in Bristol, and the art that underpinned each movement. Click here for more information about the project or to contribute content.

Dr Madge Dresser Biog

Dr. Madge Dresser, F.R.H.S., R.S.A., has lived in Bristol since 1972 and retired as Associate Professor in History at the University of the West of England in 2016. She has since been appointed Honorary Professor in Historical Studies at the University of Bristol. She has published and broadcast widely on various aspects of Britain and America’s social and cultural history including the history of Bristol in which she is passionately interested She has worked with people and organisations outside academia including local history groups, schools, family history societies, and various community centres in Bristol and further afield. . She was a founder member of Bristol Broadsides in the 1980s, a worker-writer cooperative which published local writers and alternative histories of the city. She has advised museums, public bodies and voluntary organisations throughout the world. Her Bristol-related publications include various edited works and articles on aspects of Bristol’s religious life; Black and White on the Buses; The Making of Modern Bristol; ’Peoples Housing in Bristol’ in Bristol’s Other History; Slavery Obscured: the Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol; Ethnic Minorities and the City: Bristol 1000-2000, Pero’s Afterlife: emembering an enslaved African in Bristol’ (in Gretchen Gerzina’s Britain’s lack Past), “The elusive Lady Apsley: rethinking a post war M.P.” in Women’s History Review, and profiles of Thomas Daniel and Sarah Guppy for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

In this online session, led by pioneering researcher and curator D-M Withers, you will find out more about using and accessing online sources. By the end of the session you will be able to start your own research as part of Art of Resistance or, for your own personal project.

D-M Withers is a researcher and curator with expertise in the history of Twentieth century feminist social movements and radical archives. D-M recently acted as Curatorial Consultant on the British Library's exhibition Unfinished Business: the Fight for Women's Rights and is co-author of The Feminist Revolution: the Struggle for Women's Liberation and a forthcoming book about the publishing activism of Virago Press.

If you would to attend the session, please email esther@trinitybristol.org.uk to register

A link to attend the session will be sent out closer to the time

You do not need to have attended a previous Art of Resistance event to attend this session.

If you are unable to attend the session but would like to take part in the project, please contact esther@trinitybristol.org.uk.

Art of Resistance is a 2-year project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest, and civil disobedience in Bristol, and the art that underpinned each movement. Click here for more information about the project or to contribute content.

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Do you want to learn how heritage events are planned and delivered?

Would you like to find out more about the history of Women’s Rights,  Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism Workers Rights, Counter Culture movements?

Sign up to this online event to find out more about getting involved. At this meeting the project curator Historian Dr Edson Burton and the wider team will take you through the story of the project, the wider programme and give you a chance to decide how you may want to get involved.

Art of Resistance is a two year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Project charting 100 years of creative responses to the resistance movements above.

We are looking for volunteers to help us deliver this exciting project. There are a number of ways in which you could get involved.

We need help with the following

Research: archives, media, books, online & online, and private

Interview: Conducting audio/and or film interviews with activists and creatives.

Transcription: Writing up interviews (see above Editing: Video, & audio content as described above. Events: Planning, facilitating, stewarding a range of activities.

Volunteers will receive: Training in research methods The opportunity to work with experienced researchers, Expenses allowance. Free entry to ticketed project events

The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Dancers from Gerry's Attic, a dance group for the over 55's take part in a workshop (photo @ Sarah Koury).

Trinity Community Initiative supported community and voluntary groups with over 4000 hours free and subsidised hall space.

Keisha Thompson delivers a workshop to young people as part of our IGNiTE programme (photo @Khali Ackford).

Over 100 people took part in one of the professional workshops delivered by touring companies and artists programmed as part of our IGNiTE theatre and dance programme. Highlights included students from Making Tracks taking part in a vocal looping workshop with Keisha Thompson and Rise Youth Dance taking part in Uchenna Dance’s workshop.

This year we earned a Bronze Attitude is Everything Award, and secured £5,000 funding from the Hedley Foundation and Bruce Wake Charitable Trust to pay for a mobile accessible lift to enable wheelchair users to access our Main Stage.

Josh attends regular 121 music sessions at Trinity's collaborative music making project (photo @ Alistair Brookes).

Our collaborative music making project Making Tracks provided over 400 music sessions for 101 young people, many of whom (85%) struggle with confidence, behaviour, health, well-being or other challenging personal circumstances.  Making Tracks makes a difference in peoples lives.

We are committed to conserving and protecting the Trinity Centre for ours and future generations (photo Khali Ackford).

With generous donations from the public, an uplift grant from Historic England and support from Heritage Lottery Fund and, other charitable Trusts & Foundations we raised the much needed funds to complete the major repairs to the fabric of the building.

Trinity's annual Festival of Light along with the Garden Party attract over 3k visitors and feature a line up of the best local musical talent (photo @Khali Ackford).

You can read more about the work we do by downloading our annual report here, or you can find out how you can continue to support the work we do here.

We couldn’t do this without your support, thank you.

We wish everyone the best over the festive season.

Workers hand carved new stone - even during the snow! Photo@Khali Ackford

#1 Emma Harvey, Centre Director

“It has to be when we did some researching into the last wedding that happened on the 26th March 1976 at Trinity. We managed to find someone whose name matched the couples on social media and decided to direct message them. It was moment of high anxiety to see the icon that they where messaging us back!

Thankfully it was to say that they where still happily married and that they were super happy we had contacted them. Cheers from us to them for 42 years together!”

Our Heart & Soul project took place alongside major repairs to Trinity. Here a participant creates woodcuts, inspired by Trinity's history. Photo@Khali Ackford

#2 Fidel Meraz, Trinity Board Member

“Sharing pizza and drinks during an afternoon with the staff and the stonemasons who were doing most of the the material work on the building, is such a wonderful memory.”

#3&4 Karina Castro, Project Manager

“ I am going to choose two .. if that is allowed … first up has to be 'A Waltz Down Memory Lane' (20 April) - a great afternoon of dancing, cakes and memory sharing attended by over 40 people over 55. This was made even more amazing by having Norma's Groovers back at Trinity entertaining our friends.

Dr McClymont's talk looked at how we repurpose old buildings. Photo@Khali Ackford

Then, Dr Katie McClymont's 'and the spirit lingered on' (19 June) - a really engaging talk that got everybody involved (inc Khali, the photographer!) about how historic buildings, particularly former churches, are now used as sites of secular worship and as community hubs."

Centre Director Emma Harvey shares the floor with TCA founder Matthew Hewitt and long standing DM and former Centre Manager Derreck Sterling. Photo@Khali Ackford

#5 Glyn Everett, Chair of Trustees
“I really enjoyed the talk 'Reconstructing Trinity from Disrepair to Glory' (31 July) - A wonderful conversation around the different moments of history that the Trinity has seen, and all the heartfelt effort that has gone into keeping the building open, safe and working for the communities that surround it."

About Heart & Soul

From January to October 2018 we celebrated Trinity's place at the heart of the community through a programme of accessible heritage activities, workshops and events. The activities took place alongside our most recent capital works to conserve and renovate the building and where funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic England, Bristol City Council and other charitable Trusts & Foundations.

Abi & Jack's Wedding at Trinity Centre

"Everybody wanted to get married there at that Trinity Church. My Auntie Marge and Auntie Iris got married there, I was bridesmaid there. What I do remember is where the vicar used to stand, it was a lovely eagle that he had the Bible on that he used to read the service from." Gloria, recorded on 22nd August 2018

Designed by our awesome intern Tess Sieling (who alongside her archive work has spent the year blogging about the Heart & Soul project) the booklet presents a sample of weddings, wakes and parties spanning the life of Trinity. View the booklet in its full glory here, or you can pick up one of the limited printed copies from Trinity. Previous heritage projects include What's Your Trinity Story and Vice & Virtue.

We welcomed Wilbert Smith from Heritage Lottery Fund to the celebration

Andy Council's Trinity Fox finds a home in the main hall

We opened up Trinity so all could have a look around - here participants from The Democratic Set check out The Visible Girls exhibition

Heart & Soul intern Tess chats with attendees at the celebration

Trinity member Stacey from Up Our Street places her vote

Trinity Centre Director Emma Harvey talks about the Heart & Soul project

Simi from Awaz, a weekly community group held at Trinity takes a moment to say thank you

Volunteer Rob's History of Trinity music set awed us all

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Trinity Centre, finally revealed photo @ Sarah Koury

After nearly a year of being covered by scaffolding we are finally set to reveal our iconic towers again after completing our programme of critical repair works.

“We have been overwhelmed by people’s support, generosity and love of Trinity,Support from funders and members of the public means that we’ve been able to secure the building’s future for generations to come and we want to say a big thank you to everyone involved. We will continue to work hard to make Trinity the diverse and pioneering community venue that the city deserves” Emma Harvey, Trinity Centre Director

Works to the centre, a Grade II* listed building, began in October 2017 as part of our long-term plan to conserve and renovate The Trinity Centre and protect its future, both as a community arts hub and also one Bristol’s most respected live-music venues.

In January 2018, investigations revealed extensive historic damage to the building, leaving the us to raise further funds to stop the building from further deterioration and prevent the former-church from being placed back onto Historic England’s ‘At Risk’ Register.

Following a public appeal to help secure Trinity’s past, present and future, we were fortunate to receive an uplift grant from Historic England, alongside support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Bristol City Council, other charitable Trusts & Foundations as well as generous donations from the public.

A 51 week critical work programme has been undertaken, overseen by Bristol-based Ferguson Mann Architects and construction firm Carrek – locally based specialists in historic conservation. Works included repairs to the roofing, stained glass windows and iconic ‘Trinity towers’, as well as intricate repair of the historic Bath-stone fabric of the building.

After a year long programme of conservation works the Trinity Centre awaits the removal of the final scaffolding (photo credit @Khali Ackford)

Since 2008, we have invested over £2 million in repairing and restoring the Trinity Centre - which is owned by Bristol City Council - transforming it from a dilapidated space into a thriving participatory arts centre for inner-city residents. These latest repair works are the final phase of repairs to restore the fabric of the building and further improvement works are planned, to increase the centre’s usability and sustainability.

Stonemasons take a break after inspecting their work, with East Bristol in the background (photo credit @Khali Ackford)

We had to prioritise what works we undertook meaning that we had to omit some of the planned sustainability improvements, such a second solar PV installation and solar battery storage as well as some additional sound proofing measures.

With Trinity Road Police Station earmarked for a possible residential development, we are aware how important these improvements are both for existing and potential new residents. Therefore we are committed to continuing to ensure there is investment in venue improvements in order to maximise use and sustain the building’s future.

Improvements to the building mean that centre we can continue to be home to over 160 community and voluntary groups who run a range of regular activities from dance classes for older people to the monthly Rhythm of the Night, a nightclub for adults with learning difficulties. We support community groups with over 1400 hours of free and subsidised hall space each year to ensure that the centre continues to provide invaluable public benefit. Activities like these are made possible in part through income generated through our car park and support from public donations.

“I’m 75 and still dancing – this means so much in term of fitness, socialising and even mental fitness. This wouldn’t be possible without Trinity – who provide amazing spaces for classes” says Adrian Longstaffe who attends Gerry’s Attic, a dance group held weekly at Trinity.

The Trinity Towers awaiting their big reveal (photo credit @Khali Ackford)

We will be celebrating the completion of these works at our celebratory ‘Heart & Soul’ event and AGM and warmly invite all to attend-  on 4 October.

You can play your part in Trinity’s future, by donating to Trinity and help support groups like Gerry’s Attic to find community, happiness and opportunity.  Donate online www.3ca.org.uk/donatenow, or text TR1N13 £5 to 70070