Southbank Bristol Arts

The SBA is a volunteer-run organisation, and relies mostly on membership fees for the funding of the Art Trail and other activities.
We have always allowed group memberships for bands, performance groups and craft groups who produce work together. We would ask, however, that the members of these groups consider joining individually.
This means each of you will get your own space in the Trail Map, and your own space on the website, where you can post news and examples of your work in the run-up to the Trail. Read more →

We're now calling all artists and makers to join the SBA for our anniversary trail on 19 and 20 May 2012.

Join here, or read more about becoming a member.

If you would like to put up a poster in your workplace, local shop, church, favourite pub or somewhere else click here for a full size, printable image.

You are invited to attend Southbank Bristol Arts' Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2011, which will be held in the Osborne Room at the Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1QG (Google map) on Thursday 6 October 2011 between 7 and 9 pm.

There will be wine and nibbles available. The event should be a relaxed and social one, with plenty of opportunities to talk to others and discuss this year's Arts Trail and ideas for future projects.

Please come along to find out more about joining in, have your say on current and future art projects and contribute to the vibrancy of your community. If you have any ideas of projects that you'd like to get involved in, or you could lend a hand with organising or running events, please come along to the AGM and join in. The Southbank Bristol Arts Trail, and other SBA events need your help to keep them going.

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Call for Films!
As part of the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail 2011, which will be held in May, we are calling for people to unleash the hidden director inside of them. Dig into your pocket, pull out your digital camera or smartphone and make us a small film. Films must be a maximum of two minutes long, and can be on any subject and fall into any category - experimental, comedy, drama, animation, documentary - its up to you! Set the world to rights with a documentary, make that funny short film, or create a mysterious experimental piece. Anything goes.

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As part of the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail 2011, which will be held in May, we are calling for people to unleash the hidden director inside of them. Dig into your pocket, pull out your digital camera or smartphone and make us a small film. A Films must be a maximum of two minutes long, and can be on any subject and fall into any category - experimental, comedy, drama, animation, documentary - its up to you! Set the world to rights with a documentary, make that funny short film, or create a mysterious experimental piece. Anything goes.

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The current SBA steering group would like to invite existing and prospective SBA members to its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2010.

The AGM will be held in the Osborne room at the Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1QG (Google map, centred the Southville Centre).

Please come along and have a chat to the current steering group, and join up if you feel you can help. The more people who join in, the easier it is to organise events.

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Southbank Bristol Arts will be holding an Art Market in the Main Hall of the Southville Centre on 30 October 2010, to kick off the Autumn Exhibition. There are still some spaces available if you would like to take part.

Spaces will be approximately 2m x 2m costing £10 for SBA members and £15 for non-members.

Event details

Date: Saturday 30 October 2010

Venue: Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1QG

Time: 10 am to 4 pm (set up from 9.30 am)

Please see the Autumn 2010 Art Market booking form (Word document, 373 KB) for more details.

Southbank Bristol Arts would like to invite you to submit work for an Autumn Exhibition that will be showing in the Southville Centre from 30 October to 30 November 2010. Work will be shown in the café and corridors of the Southville Centre, situated on Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol (see a Google map, centred the Southville Centre).

Artists are invited to submit work in any 2-dimensional, media (as work will be hung on walls), in response to the theme of “Autumn”.

Please forward this information on to any other Bristol-based artists that you think might be interested.

Details are provided in the exhibition brief and exhibition submission form documents, which can be downloaded and printed from the links given below. A PDF copy of the brochure is also available.

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We need your images of life in South Bristol!

The Southville Centre is planning to hide a time capsule in the loft to celebrate their 20th birthday and they need your help to collect a wide and varied visual record of the wonderful people and vibrant life of Bristol’s Southbank.

The Southville Centre would like as many members of the community as possible to contribute photos and/or drawings of family, friends, home, work, anything that will show future generations how we lived. Images will first be included in a display as part of the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail (May 8th and 9th), and then hidden in our treasure chest time capsule as our message to the future.

Photos and drawings can be dropped in the ‘Time Capsule’ box* at the Southville Centre between now and the 7th, or can be brought along and added to the display during the Trail.
There will also be a workshop at the Southville Centre during the trail where you can draw a self portrait to add to the display, or write a message to the people of South Bristol in one hundred years!

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Miguel Mendonca is seeking Bristol artists for a graphic novel project.

Miguel would like to co-create a graphic novel around contemporary social themes, and is seeking a local Bristol based artist and a co-writer.

Please contact Miguel for more details, on:

Tel: 07962 681735
Email: miguel.b.mendonca@gmail.com.