Applications are now open for a brand-new £6,000 Research and Development commission

Thanks to the Cultural Recovery Fund we are inviting Bristol based organisations or artists to apply for a new commission  to support a Young Audiences Research and Development project. The successful company/artist will work toward creating a live performance or experience made for Young Audiences aged 3-10 years. We welcome artists of any practice and working in any art-form to apply.

Trinity is a cultural-hub for the city, where people of all ages and backgrounds come together. As well as hosting 600 capacity live music performances we also programme theatre and dance in our flexible studio space.

Our building sits at the meeting point of three distinctive and diverse Bristol wards - Easton, Ashley (St Pauls) and Lawrence Hill - whose residents make up Trinity’s local community. In these difficult times, we believe that the arts can bring together communities and we want to commission a piece of work that will do just that.

We’re looking for a Bristol based (within a 20 mile radius of Trinity Centre) artist or organisation, who will Research and Develop/ Create an experience for young audiences that is welcoming and accessible to people from all walks of life including young audiences who may not speak English as a first language and young audiences with disabilities.

The Research and Development period must take place before 12th March 2021.

This commission is for R&D but we expect that the results of the R&D will be shared or showcased in some form.

We will provide:

-£6,000 commission fee (Please note that you must have a bank account in your organisation’s name or be registered as self-employed)

-Opportunity to use our Trinity building space as in-kind support to develop the project

-Advice and guidance from relevant members of staff at Trinity and relevant partners

-Opportunity to share progress of the project with community members, industry professionals and other artists. We particularly welcome applications from artists whose experiences are less visible in 'mainstream' arts programming.

Please note.

All work carried out as part of the commission must adhere to current Covid-19 regulations and guidelines.

We will be hosting a Zoom call on 8th December at 4pm for an informal Q&A session around the commission.

This opportunity is now closed

We are working to reschedule all upcoming events and will contact Trinity ticket holders once we have new dates in place.

All tickets will be valid for rescheduled dates however, if you would like to request a refund, please contact info@trinitybristol.org.uk with the event name, date and the email used to make the booking.

Garden Sessions

Working with some of the best artists and promoters in the city, our Garden Sessions bring you a series of socially distanced events in a way you've never experienced at Trinity before, in a new outdoor venue on our historic grounds.

We are very proud to welcome back the wonderful Brizzle Boyz, book your table now*

"The South West's premier queer punk drag king cabaret night and one of the largest and most successful king nights in the UK, Brizzle Boyz is an electrifying LGBTQIAAP+ variety performance night. A true melting pot of local and national talent, Brizzle Boyz brings together a carefully curated line up of some of the best and boldest drag performers in the country. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll leave wanting to wear a glittery moustache.

Joining us in the bunting clad Autumnal open airs of the Trinity Gardens will be:

• The practically perfect Pocket Rocket!
• The amazingly erudite Archibald Mystery, Bard of Queer History!
• The masterful Manly Mannington!

+ more performers to be announced soon!

Plus performances from your hosts Oliver Assets and Roddy Jodphurs!

Safe Space Policy:
Brizzle Boyz is an LGBTQIAAP+ event and we aim to promote a welcoming space for all that attend. Performers may tackle challenging subject matter on subjects such as, but not limited to, lived experience with racism, mental health, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. There will be a programme on the night to alert attendees to which acts contain potentially upsetting or controversial subject matter, or potential sensory issues. If you have any concerns on the night please find either Roddy, Oliver, the Brizzle Buddy or the person who checked your ticket and let us know so we can help you. The line up is subject to changes.

Accessibility:
If you would like a more comprehensive list of accessibility information, please have a look at the Trinity Centre's website: https://www.trinitybristol.org.uk/activities/renovation/accessibility
Seating is one household per table, 6 people per table. "

(Please note this is an outdoor event, under our new socially distanced stretch tent venue. This show has a limited capacity and all tables are sold in advance. Wrap up warm and enjoy)

*Tables are for up to 6 people (adhering to government guidelines). You'll be able to choose your own table on arrival however, to avoid the potential spread of Covid-19, we do ask that once you have selected your table you don't change your mind.

We will be providing table service, with all orders being made through Love My Local. Information on how to order food will be provided at your table.

Trinity are working with external artists, partners and organisations as part of Trinity Presents to provide exciting content, relevant to Trinity's diverse audiences and in line with our Equal Opportunities and Free Speech Policies. Click here for more information about our Policies.

The health and safety of those using our Centre, is our top priority. Please read our Visiting Trinity: Covid-19 Policy for information on what to do when visiting the venue.

Created and hosted by the “sublime” and “distinctive” Talia Randall this BSL interpreted and captioned poetry cabaret features a kaleidoscope of performances, from comedians, to sign language artists and rising stars of the spoken word scene.

Performed live on Zoom, What Words Are Ours will be hosted by poetry-clown Talia Randall. She’ll be reading her upfront poetry, popping out her signature silly humour and inviting some very special guests to join her:

Featured on Boiler Room, BBC Radio, Worldwide FM and multi-talented artist Belinda Zhawi will share her stunning poems with you on the night.

Multi slam winner Jasmine Gardosi will perform her electrifying, high energy spoken word, as well as writing an on-the-spot poem based on audience suggestions.

Raffie Julien is a dancer, actor and multi-talented Deaf performer. Raffie will be performing a stunning BSL piece on the night.

Poet and disability rights champion Stephen Lightbown will be sharing a brand new poetry film made especially for the show, as well as performing his captivating poetry.

What Words Are Ours will be BSL interpreted by Becky Bary and Mia Ward. The show will be captioned by Claire Hill.

How to watch: This edition of What Words Are Ours will take place online via Zoom. When you have booked you will be sent an E-Ticket to your registered email address (please check your spam folder), which will contain the Zoom link to enable you to access the event.

Please note that each device needs one ticket each (but you are welcoming to grab a bubble buddy and join on the same device!)

Price: This event is free with a limited capacity; we recommend booking in advance.

If you have any specific requirements, please contact the Box Office at info@trinitybristol.org.uk or  0117 935 1200

Trinity and The Gulbenkian have taken the decision to support artists by paying fees for performances even when we are not charging for tickets.

Please consider donating what you can for your ticket here, to support Gulbebkian and their work during this time.

Supported by Arts Council England using National Lottery Funds.

Lady Like by Ella Mesma, programmed as part of IGNiTE at Trinity.  Photo @Jessica Bartolini

Bristol Dance Futures are offering £8,000 for four Dance Connect Artist residencies. The residencies will see artists work in collaboration with Bristol based organisations, with the aim to see how dance practise could enrich a working environment and to exchange learning.

Dance Connect is an initiative by Bristol Dance Futures and aims to nurture talent, provide continuing professional development opportunities for dancers, and create a vibrant dance ecology so people of all ages can engage with high quality dance.

The Dance Connect initiative will embed four dance artists in Bristol’s arts, cultural and community organisations for 40 days, over a period of up to 11 months from November 2020

To apply now* please complete the Full Partnership Application form addressing the aims and the assessment criteria below.

(*Please note applications will only be accepted from those who have completed an Expression of Interest form. You can also download the Full Partnership Application form as a PDF here and the Guidelines and Assessment criteria here)

For more info please contact Deborah Baddoo - dancefutures@theatrebristol.net

Dance Connect Aims:

• Raise the profile of dance within individual organisations and more broadly within the cultural sector
• Embed the value of dance and the contribution dance artists can make within and across organisations - strengthen Bristol’s dance ecology and lever more support for dance
• Better equip organisations to work with dance artists
• Create opportunities for critical dialogue between organisations, dance artists and audiences
• Provide opportunities to test, grow and change the practice of individual dance artists, people working within organisations and the wider sector
• Create models of working which can be sustained beyond the period of this initiative

Criteria for Assessment:

• Experience in working within their chosen field of activity
• Imaginative and ambitious nature of the application
• Specificity of ideas
• Potential for impact of the residency
• What difference the residency will make to the artists' and organisations' practice
• Potential for legacy after the residency has ended
• Ideas on how they might share the impact of the Dance Connect residency

Full Partnership Application deadline 5pm 13th November 2020

Rachel James from The Original Spinners kindly sent us a lovely little video about Dance For Parkinson's.

The class is for people with Parkinson's, partners and carers and is all about creativity, fun, and an excellent playlist.

Rachel shares some of their highlights from gentle exercises to performances at Bristol Harbour Festival.

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Trinity are working with external artists, partners and organisations as part of Trinity Presents Online to provide exciting content, relevant to Trinity's diverse audiences and in line with our Equal Opportunities and Free Speech Policies. Click here for more information about our Policies. While we endeavour to ensure content we share is relevant and appropriate, Trinity is not responsible for individual content created by third parties.

This show was pre-recorded at Home in Manchester as part of their PUSH Festival. Thanks to Conor A and Hannah Woods for making this livestream possible.

Thanks to all our Digital Partners also live streaming tonight Disability Arts Online, I'm Here, Where Are You?, Cambridge Junction, Fibromyalgia Action UK - FMAUK, The Disabled People's Channel & Morecambe Fringe.

You can find out more about Theatre, Dance and Performance at Trinity here.

This is brought to you by Trinity Presents. Click here to see more arts, community, well-being and education content or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Trinity are working with external artists, partners and organisations as part of Trinity Presents Online to provide exciting content, relevant to Trinity's diverse audiences and in line with our Equal Opportunities and Free Speech Policies. Click here for more information about our Policies. While we endeavour to ensure content we share is relevant and appropriate, Trinity is not responsible for individual content created by third parties.

Sound on for this film of Let Us Dance....

Back last year we teamed up with Arnolfini and young female dancers to takeover institutional spaces. Running alongside the ‘Still I Rise’ exhibition, a large scale exhibition that documented women’s experiences and acts of resistance in the last 150 years, Let Us Dance invited young dancers from across the city to take over a space with Flash Mob style dances.

We will be continuing to programme dance activity throughout 2020 as part of the #MovingBristol Dance Hubs project. Keep an eye out on our website for activity you can get involved in, including Dance Classes for Women who have experienced or currently experiencing cancer.

Rise Youth Dance take part in a workshop with Uchenna Dance at Trinity as part of IGNiTE. Photo @ KoLAB Studios.

Arts Council England have awarded a grant to Bristol Dance Futures - a consortia of South West arts organisations and practitioners - to develop the city’s dance offer. The group is working together to grow investment in dance, and includes Mel Scaffold (Theatre Bristol), Rhiannon Jones (Trinity Community Arts), Kieran Swann (Arnolfini), Nic Young (Circomedia), Helen Cole (In Between Time) and independents Laïla Diallo, Katy Noakes and Lauren Scholey.

The partnership is pleased to announce Deborah Baddoo has joined the project as Producer to lead this development and develop Bristol’s regional and national profile as home for dance. Deborah is a performer and choreographer, also artistic director of State of Emergency productions - a performance and production company supporting the development of Black dance, choreography and performing arts nationally and internationally. In 2010 she was awarded an MBE for services to British dance. Talking of her appointment as project lead, Deborah said:

“I am delighted to take up the position of Producer with Bristol Dance Futures and to help to develop the impact of dance in the exciting city of Bristol. As an experienced producer in dance working nationally, but based in the South West, I have been aware of the breadth and quality of dance in Bristol for many years and of all the hard work that has gone before in order to reach the point we are at now. Dance in Bristol is now at a pivotal point and I embrace the challenge of working with Bristol Dance Futures Steering Committee to raise the profile of dance in Bristol and to deliver the exciting Moving Bristol dance programme” Deborah Baddoo

Mel Scaffold, CEO of Theatre Bristol who helped to launch the project said, “It is a joy to announce that we are working with Deborah Baddoo to deliver this exciting project. The city is home to a huge community of talented dancers, along with thousands of people who watch and take part in dance every year. Moving Bristol will build on the passion and commitment of these communities, and the organisations who nurture them, with the aim of creating a city where every body can move and be moved by dance.”

Through a two-year funded project, the partners will work together to develop a wide range of dance activity across Bristol. This will include the announcement of three focused Dance Hubs to support Dance & Health, Young People and Audience. There will also be opportunities for dancers to take on residencies in a range of cross-sector settings in 2020-2022.

Watch this space or get in touch with Deborah Baddoo on: dancefutures@theatrebristol.net for more information

In this performance people are invited to connect with Ania’s family in Venezuela and with the severe humanitarian crisis they live in, challenging the boundaries of acting and caring for one another, as mediums for survival, transformation and belonging.

Performances take place at 3pm & 7.30pm.

Upon arriving at Guayabo, audiences will be required to provide their phone number in order to participate in the event.

Please note: This work contains graphic description of violence and is recommended 16+

Guayabo is presented as part of IGNiTE, Trinity's in-house programme of theatre and dance and was developed by Ania during her IGNiTE residency 2018/2019. Find out more about IGNiTE here.

www.aniavarez.com

Guayabo Premiered at the SPILL Festival of Performance, 2018. Part of the SPILL OPEN, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. This work was made with the support of Trinity Community Arts through the IGNiTE Residency Programme and Arts Council England.

Image credit: Paul Samuel White

Photo Alexa Ledecky

Photo Alexa Ledecky

Trinity has been selected to be one of 40 community arts centres to take part in Here and Now, a national and local celebration of culture within communities running alongside the National Lottery’s 25 year anniversary.

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is bringing Auditions to Bristol’s The Trinity Centre on Mon 17th February and Sun 23rd February in 2020 as part of their search for talented young performers and creatives across the UK.

Are you a young performer aged 14-25? Auditions are now open to join The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, a company of talented actors, musicians, designers and technicians.

Take part in a 3 hour audition preparation workshop followed by a 1-2-1 audition with a monologue of your choice. Bursaries are available.

Please visit our website for more information: www.nyt.org.uk/apply

Successful auditionees will take part in a 2-4 week summer course in London and become members of the National Youth Theatre until they turn 26. National Youth Theatre members have access to professional castings, perform in our National Tours and West End Shows, gain free Creative Leadership and Inclusion training and more.

Be part of something bigger. Join the National Youth Theatre in 2020.

Find out what happens at an audition day: https://soundcloud.com/nytofgb/naitonal-youth-theatre-what-happens-at-an-audition-day

Image credit: To Kill A Mocking Bird, 2018 REP Company directed by Meghan Doyle, photo by Helen Murray

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is bringing Auditions to Bristol’s The Trinity Centre on Mon 17th February and Sun 23rd February in 2020 as part of their search for talented young performers and creatives across the UK.

Are you a young performer aged 14-25? Auditions are now open to join The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, a company of talented actors, musicians, designers and technicians.

Take part in a 3 hour audition preparation workshop followed by a 1-2-1 audition with a monologue of your choice. Bursaries are available.

Please visit our website for more information: www.nyt.org.uk/apply

Successful auditionees will take part in a 2-4 week summer course in London and become members of the National Youth Theatre until they turn 26. National Youth Theatre members have access to professional castings, perform in our National Tours and West End Shows, gain free Creative Leadership and Inclusion training and more.

Be part of something bigger. Join the National Youth Theatre in 2020.

Find out what happens at an audition day: https://soundcloud.com/nytofgb/naitonal-youth-theatre-what-happens-at-an-audition-day

Image credit: To Kill A Mocking Bird, 2018 REP Company directed by Meghan Doyle, photo by Helen Murray

A Spark and a Beating Heart

Devised by Firebird Theatre

Produced by MAYK

Presented in association with Bristol Old Vic

History. Myth. Remembering. What stories can we tell each other of our past?

Created and written by the company, A Spark and a Beating Heart is about us. Who we are, how we came here and why we do what we do. It’s a celebration and a love-letter, a party and an elegy. Mixing the many myths of the firebird with a collective reflection on lives lived. We are here to tell you our story.

Yes, a spark and a beating heart full of fire, just before the story starts or the lights come up, us small players become the main act.

Firebird Theatre are a unique group of disabled theatre-makers, spanning generations. They have been making theatre together for 25 years. Their experiences tell stories of shifting attitudes towards difference and disability; of understanding and ignorance.

Dates and times:

Thu 11th May (2pm & 7pm), Fri 12th May (7pm), Sat 13th May (7pm)

Show length 90 mins.

Bar and Box office will be open 40mins before performance start time.

Photo credit Paul Blakemore

ATTACK! Pro Wrestling return to the Trinity Centre, Bristol on Sunday 20th October for another night of Weird & Wonderful professional wrestling as we proudly present our annual spooktacular

We'll be opening up doors at 3:30pm with the first match beginning at 4pm to give you enough time to settle in before we start

No physical tickets will be distributed for this event. Print off your PayPal receipt or present your transaction number on the door.

This event will be recorded for On Demand. No filming permitted

A game of ever-changing rules. Outside the Club combines juggling, sculpture, and movement choreography to create a series of complex worlds which require extreme cooperation and competition to succeed.

The personal politics between the three characters, their objects, and their audience create moments of comedy and pain, and become representative of larger societal relationships. Performed to an uplifting soundtrack featuring Great British musicians, Outside the Club is a celebration of rhythm, playfulness, and visual satisfaction.

Broken Box are a collective of three graduates from the UK’s two circus schools: Circomedia and the National Centre for Circus Arts. They combine their distinctive juggling and performance styles to create emotive circus theatre. Outside the Club is their first show together.

Running time: 50 mins - Suitable for All Ages

Check out the rest of the Circus City 2019 programme here.