The first half of the show explores the idea that although we often strive for the same things, we each must find our own way. The dancers have been invited to think about their own journeys, their future opportunities and the decisions they may make.

This year RISE is 10 years old and the second half of the show celebrates the achievements of the company and the young people that have been part of its journey. We have revived some of our favourite pieces from the last 10 years, and invited previous company members on their own journeys, some working as professional dancers or training professionally, to join with the 2018 company.

Please note there are mulitple performances: Click the links below to book a specific time and date.

7.00pm, Friday 27th April: Book Tickets

2.00pm, Saturday 28th April: Book Tickets

7.00pm, Saturday 28th April: Book Tickets

2.00pm, Sunday 29th April: Book Tickets

Times and details to be updated.

NB The website currently shows details from the festival in 2017: www.bsf.co.uk

Lullabies workshop at Easton Community Centre. Photo @ Alexa Ledecky

Roxana is a multi-award winning Iranian/British multi-disciplinary artist working with music, storytelling, film and live performance in a participatory context for over 20 years. Core to Roxana’s work is a desire to connect with the human stories that unite us, using a multi art approach to tackle issues of racism, discrimination and belonging.

In 2018 Roxana joined the Trinity team developing her project, Lullabies, during her IGNiTE residency. Lullabies, was inspired by Roxana signing traditional Iranian lullabies to her children at night. Here she began to imagine how many others might be singing songs in different languages to their children and the stories behind them.

During her pilot project Roxana worked with local communities and schools to collect lullabies from families. She recorded interviews and songs from communities across Bristol, including Somali, Kurdish, Irish, Israeli, Iranian, Hungarian, German and Afro-Cuban songs.

In 2020 the project was selected to be part of Here and Now, a national project celebrating of 25 years of National Lottery Funding and showcasing everyday culture.

With the support of Trinity Roxana is continuing to develop Lullabies and in 2021 and will deliver online Zoom workshops. There is an open call for the public to submit their Lullabies and there are a series of adaptive podcasts with BBC R+D.

The program will also feature a very special performance from a community cast of people aged 16 – 60, who will work with TrashDollys leading up to the event to create a short piece to be performed on the night. If you are aged 16 or over with an interest in movement and performing you can take part. No experience in dance or performance is necessary and it's free to participate! To find out more read our news article here and register your interest by emailing participation@trashdollys.com.

The performance is FREE to attend but please register here to guarantee your seat.

Please show your support by spreading the word, we look forward to seeing you there!

5 Days Of Falling has been made possible by the Bristol Creative Seed Fund. For more information on TrashDollys, go to www.TrashDollys.com.

7:00pm: A discussion panel with speakers from Pavilion Dance South West, LinkAge and Lea Anderson, talking about dance for older people.

7:30pm: Interval

8:00pm: Come and see a dazzling performance showcasing the tireless work of Gerry’s Attic Dance company, including a new piece by renowned choreographer, Lea Anderson with guest performances from Yama ad Striking Attitudes.

Prices and Admission: Tickets for the evening performance are £7. This evening's performances are part of the Full Bloom Festival which includes daytime workshops.

For more info on the workshops and activities during the daytime please click here.

Full Bloom Festival – join Gerry’s Attic over 55’s Dance Company for an afternoon of workshops followed by an evening of discussion and performance.

Festival daytime schedule:

3pm-4pm: Contemporary dance workshop, led by Julia Thorneycroft, Director of Julia Thorneycroft Dance and lead in Gerry's Attic Dance. Julia's work focuses on creating accessible dance theatre that explores current social themes and human nature, engaging the core human emotions of its audience.

To register on the 3pm workshop please click here

4pm-5pm: Contemporary dance workshop, led by Vicki Hearne, Director of Untold Dance Theatre and co-lead in Gerry's Attic Dance. Vicki's work explores confidence and self-esteem in women of varying ages. This workshop will build on your creativity with the chance to learn a range of different movement phrases.

To register on the 4pm workshop please click here

Free dance workshops are available for over-55s of any ability.

These workshops are Free and presented as part of the Full Bloom Festival. They are followed by a ticketed evening of discussion and performances. To find out more click here.

ATTACK! Pro Wrestling returns for more spooks and scares from the Weird and Wonderful World of ATTACK!

Featuring all your favourites on Sunday, 29th October 2017!

Come join us in witnessing the October spooktacular, the Halloween party you will not want to miss! As always we'll be holding a costume contest so get raiding those fancy dress boxes and show us what you've got!

Doors 6PM / Start 6:30PM

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Schedule:

1.00: Doors Open Our events tend to fill up early, so we will be opening the doors and stamping people's hands for entrance from 1pm. (Your stamp is your entrance ticket) If you would like to tell a story on stage, put your name in the hat! If not, just take a seat and wait for the show to begin.

2pm - 4.30pm : Story Time

We pull names from the hat at random, and whoever’s name is pulled tells us a 5 minute story from their life! We laugh, we cry, we drink, we have another one! (20 minute interval at 3pm). After the slam people tend to hang around have a drink, and chat about the stories they didn't have a chance to tell on stage. Our usual venue is the Old Market assembly just down the road, which is the perfect place for a pint or Sunday lunch afterwards!

Story Rules

• They must be *stories*! No rants, stand-up routines or monologues. We want a beginning, middle and end, and some change and conflict to occur.

• They must be told in 5 minutes.

• They have to be true

•They need to be genuinely 1st person. You should be a major player in the story and we want to hear your perspective.

• Preferably no notes. This is about the good ol’ fashioned art of storytelling. Tell it to us like we're round a campfire, or at a sleep over

The rules are just there to make sure we get to hear as many awesome stories as possible. :) They’re not meant to be restricting, so if you’re unsure about anything just drop us a message or ask on the day.

Content Warning: In the interest of making the story slam a safer and more comfortable place, we give people the option of putting content warnings before their stories. We read them out before each story and give people a chance to leave the room. If you do want to leave the main room at any time please feel free!

Safer Spaces: We want to try and create a place where people feel safe and confortable to share stories. We're continucally trying to make our events better places to be and our aim is to hear stories that we don’t get to hear anywhere else. We want to make Story Slam better than the world around it. So to help us achieve this, we have our own safer spaces policy. Feel free to have a read at the following link: http://www.storyslam.co.uk/safer-spaces/

Accesibility: We want our events to be as accessible as possible. The venue has full step free access to the theatre and the stage. If you think that you may need to use it please let us know beforehand (via Facebook message) so we can get thing prepared.

Detailed information about accesibility can be found here: https://www.3ca.org.uk/activities/renovation/accessibility

Last year we very excitedly launched our in- house Theatre and Dance and programme - IGNiTE. Our aim - to curate  an exciting programme of work that would resonate with everyone who uses and lives around Trinity.

Thanks to funding from Arts Council, an amazing team,  our programming forum (who have helped steer the programme throughout the year) and every artist, audience member and participant our first step into the world of programming world class theatre and dance , supporting artists to crete new work and ensuring our community benefits from artistic excellence .... has been great.

So while we sit back and make plans for our next programme we thought we'd share some of the best moments and successes.

1.Vicki Igbokwe talking to us about the power of dance

2.  Cardboard Citizens challenging us all in the Forum Theatre section of Cathy.

3. Selling nearly half of all our ticket at concessions rate

4. Meaning that our audiences are reflective of Bristol's inclusive and diverse communities

5. Rider Shafique blowing us away with his solo performance of I-Dentity

6. 1500+ people watching, taking part, dancing, asking questions and celebrating with us

7.  Afreena Islam's honest performance to a room full of our regular centre users

8. Supporting six artists and companies with community & participation at the core of their practice to develop work and deliver workshops at Trinity

9. All the people who stayed for the Q+A's and took part in sometimes difficult but always provoking conversations

Read more about IGNiTE here

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Running time: 90 mins

When people ask me about my brother I usually give them the short answer: he has severe learning disabilities, epilepsy and autism. He Ain’t Heavy is the long answer. As Sean cannot go on a national tour due to a love of routine and no concept of theatre, we are going to bring him into the room in other ways.

Performer Grania Pickard returns to Bristol's Trinity Centre to tell the story of growing up with her brother Sean. Using physical theatre, aerial circus, audience interaction and storytelling she brings the world they share to life. Through puppetry the audience see how Sean walks, talks and interacts with the world and how his unique take on life has shaped and influenced Grania.

“You have to see Grania in action: she is a highly skilled circus performer, storyteller and connector, lighting up the entire stage.” LucyLovesCircus

Please note: there will be a relaxed performance at the 3pm performance on the 26th October

Circus feats to swingin' beat! Come join the swing circus for a day.

You’ll meet specialist Charleston choreographers from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and get a chance to have a go yourself, you'll also see the incredible skills of top UK circus performers including high level hulahoop, cyr wheel and juggling.

Swing Circus is passionate about representation and diversity, this means acknowledging the African American roots of Swing as a cultural response to oppression. By working with this joyous artform we seek to bring power to marginalised histories and pleasure to the audiences we share it with.

It’s impossible to hear swing music without a smile on your face or tapping your feet. We want to harness that playful energy to create uplifting, energetic circus and dance shows. Get those happy feet a-movin’, and swing your booty in a hulahoop - guaranteed to leave a smile on your face and a spring on your step, it’s the Swing Circus!

Dress code: vintage swing/circus

Please note: tickets for Swing Circus on Saturday and Sunday include both a workshop and an evening performance, which will start at 4pm. If you wish to only attend the performance, please book for Friday.

You can also book a meal ticket to get some delicious food on Saturday and Sunday!

Running time: 105 mins (Fri - performance only) & 285 mins (Sat/Sun including break)

Paradise City

Over ten days IGNiTE summer residents Back in 5 Minutes Squad and Art in Motion will be creating an evolving installation up in our Fyfle Hall.

This is super exciting as Spike Island Residents  - Back in 5 Minutes Squad and emerging not-for-profit participatory arts organisation Art in Motion (AIM) will be collaborating for the first time for this project.

Evolving over the ten days of the residency these two diverse groups will collaborate to portray their vision of an ideal, egalitarian future in which humans of all types and abilities coexist peacefully and purposefully together - the fabric of this future city will reflect the diverse and idiosyncratic interests of all the artists involved.

From Monday 19 the artists invite you to visit during this exciting process and Paradise City will be open to everyone for a celebration event from 5-7pm in the Graffiti Room at Trinity on Thursday 29 June.

Paradise City is supported by Arts Council England via Grants for the Arts and by Trinity Community Arts.

- No physical tickets will be distributed for this event. Print or screen grab your receipt or alternatively present your name and transaction number on the door. 
- This event will be filmed for VOD release. Filming the event is strictly prohibited! 
- Card subject to change. 
- Ticket sales are non-refundable.