Trinity Community Arts

Help us showcase the value of Bristol’s community spaces! We're teaming up with Eastside Community Trust and Windmill Hill City Farm to highlight the vital role of community spaces in Bristol. If you manage a community building, we would appreciate your input. Please complete our short survey and help us gather essential data for a report that will support the case for long-term investment in these spaces. Take part in the survey here: https://lnkd.in/e_EwU-Wy Thank you for your support

Reflecting on UK Charity Week last week, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate our many local charity partners and celebrate our recent charitable achievements. Did you know Trinity Community Arts is a charity? Our mission is to make the arts accessible for all. We provide space for a diverse programme of community activities - from dance classes for older people, to garden activities for children, to supporting the next generation of artists on their creative journey. Some of our highlights over the last year, working with other charities in the city: ⭐ We launched the Cultural Alliance in 3 primary schools within walking distance from Trinity - giving every Key Stage 2 pupil weekly art classes, working with Movema and Acta and made possible through funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation ⭐ We run outdoor play-based activities for children wanting to learn more about nature in Trinity's garden, delivered with funding from Children In Need ⭐ We offer free, weekly music-making workshops for young people, delivered with mental health charity Off The Record ⭐ We connected with our local community in East Bristol, running a series of Nature Filmmaking workshops in Newtown, in collaboration with Newtown Network ⭐ We started a choir in partnership with In Hope Centre for vulnerable adults to sing together each week at The Wild Goose Cafe ⭐ We ran weekly gardening and cooking in our Community Garden, delivered in partnership with Coexist Community Kitchen ⭐ We support Bristol's thriving music and arts scene platforming up and coming talent through Trinity Presents If you’d like to find out more about the impact of our work - check out our Annual Report for 2023/24: https://lnkd.in/e8_29xeZ All of this is only possible thanks to the generous support of our community - please consider donating to Trinity today: https://lnkd.in/eswSHyd3

As we shape up plans for the 2025 Citizens’ Assembly for culture, we’re connecting with people who have been part of the journey so far to ask them how they are exploring inclusive decision-making processes. In this piece, Martha King, co-director of Knowle West Media Centre, shares their reflections on how the Bristol based arts organisation are embracing different ways of ‘organising’. Read the opinion piece here: https://lnkd.in/eXbRyUBq

"Few individuals have been so widely regarded across their lifetime as Civil Rights activist Sir Paul Stephenson" Trinity's curator Dr Edson Burton remembers the late Sir Paul Stephenson, from his role in the Bristol Bus Boycott, to his commitment to grassroots activists to his part in securing the future of Trinity as a community space. Read in full on our website: https://lnkd.in/evFUnRdJ 📸 Paul Stephenson, credit: Khali Ackford

In September 2024 we launched the ‘Cultural Alliance’, a two-year tailored arts-based learning programme delivered in partnership with three Bristol inner-city primary schools, Easton CE Primary, ST Nicholas Of Tolentine Primary and Hannah More Primary. This new programme is a first of its kind in the local area and has been co-designed to meet the needs of each school. The primary schools in the Alliance are based within a half-mile radius of the Trinity Centre with many of the children who attend facing challenges due to health, learning needs, and socioeconomic factors. The Alliance has been developed via initial seed funding from Van Neste Foundation and Nisbet Trust secured in 2023 to test and refine the programme through free-to-access arts-based provision for primary-aged children that included Forest School activities as well as embedding a dance programme, World in a Box, in partner schools. Building on learning from these pilot activities, the launch of the Cultural Alliance, back in September 2024, made possible through a two-year grant from Paul Hamlyn Foundation marking a significant step forward in local investment in children's access to arts and culture. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/enAN-c6x Film by Prince Taylor, Latent Pictures

Really pleased to see our youth social action project, Speak Out, feature on BBC Xtra's website. Through Speak Out  young people aged 16-18 year olds used the arts to amplify their voices, and to advocate for issues around social action. Through interactive workshops young people to explored creative tools to tackle subjects that matter to them and to develop solutions to issues they and their local communities face. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dr_5Q7kt

Over the summer, we teamed up with local charity Wild Goose to host the Wild Goose Choir, weekly singing sessions at their café on Stapleton Road. Led by experienced choir leaders, the sessions brought people together to share songs from around the world, enjoy refreshments, and connect in a supportive environment. Wild Goose provides vital services to help people rebuild their lives, and this project offered participants a chance to boost confidence, build resilience, and create lasting connections. Over 14 people took part, with many returning each week. Thanks to its success, we’re excited to expand the programme, working with partners to run a regular choir for people accessing services in Trinity’s neighbourhood. Click the link below to find out more about our programme of events and activities for the local community: https://lnkd.in/eEJPXx6U Image Credit: Alastair Brookes

Are you making and shaping culture in Bristol? Are you part of an organisation working in the culture sector in Bristol? On Thursday 05 Dec come along to an in-person session hosted by Arts Development officers from Bristol City Council to find out more about the new Cultural Impact Survey, what it is, the benefits of it and why it’s important as many organisations fill it in as possible. 📸Alastair Brookes, Destination Old Market 2024 Link to sign up: https://lnkd.in/e-pV7fK4

A few weeks back, we wrapped up our Destination Old Market project with the second instalment of A Sound Odyssey, transforming shops and businesses in the area into pop-up music venues. We came down to talk to some of the incredible artists performing about what they thought of the project. We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported Destination Old Market and made the project such a success. Film by Sam Walton Destination Old Market was supported by funding from Bristol City Council and West of England Combined Authority City Centre and High Streets Culture and Events Programme

Over the summer, Trinity’s Community Connector Shanti Plant hosted ‘Nature in Newtown’, a free project exploring the natural environment in Newtown. Following this project, the participants took part in a series of workshops to create short films inspired by nature. The filmmaking sessions were facilitated by Bristol-based filmmaker Jon Aitkin, and Shanti Sherson. Across the sessions, the group learned simple filmmaking techniques, and explored different methods of creative expression, such as haikus, poetry and painting. Newtown is one of the three local neighbourhoods that we are working with to develop a greater understanding of residents’ interests and experiences, and how Trinity can support grassroots creative activity. Film by Jon Aitkin