Seeking business sponsors for the 2008 Arts Trail

'Some of the thousands of people who attended the 2007 Southbank Bristol Arts Trail enjoying a singing recital

Photo: Laurence Ketteringham

We are currently looking for business sponsors for the sixth annual Southbank Bristol Arts Trail, which is taking place on 10 and 11 May 2008.

If you decide to support this event to the value of £100 or more, the benefits to your business will include:

  • Your company’s logo will appear on our Arts Trail guide. 10,000 copies of this will be distributed around Bristol and Bath.
  • Your company’s logo will appear on the Arts Trail page of our popular website.
  • We can also provide a link from your logo to your own website if you wish.

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Southbank Bristol Arts Newsletter - February 2008 - Issue 12

Information in this newsletter includes:
  • Next Artist Forum – Wed 5 March
  • Southbank Bristol Arts Trail 2008 Registration
  • Venue Information for Trail Guide (paper version)
  • Uploading Information onto Website by Individual Participants and Venues
  • Moving Image Festival during Southbank Bristol Arts Trail 2008
  • Cut, Fold, Slot Workshop
  • Public Art Collaboration – Stapleton Road
  • Through the Lens: First RWA Open Photography exhibition – call for entries
  • Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom
  • Spring Art Market at Paintworks – 16 March 2008

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Southbank Bristol Arts Trail 2008

'Time to act!' image

Photo: Laurence Ketteringham

10 and 11 May 2008, 11 am to 6 pm

Southbank Bristol Arts invites all artists, performers, musicians and makers to take part in the 2008 Arts Trail.

Whether you want to be a venue, host a venue with space for other artists and musicians, or are an artist, musician, etc. who would simply like to take part but doesn't know where or how please get in touch.

For further information email communication@sbaweb.co.uk.

Closing date for applications is 14 February 2008.

Sign up soon! The closing date for applying to participate is not far away. More information will be posted on this site soon, but for now, please get registering!

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Design a logo

Greater Bedminster Community Partnership is currently developing its website. They are looking for logo designs that would go on the website and would be used on letterheads.

If you are interested in designing a logo for the Partnership, please contact Derek DiGiovanni at derek@idew.co.uk for more information.

A prize of £100 will be awarded for the design chosen by the Partnership.

The deadline for submission of ideas is 26 November 2007.

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Selected artists for the Homecoming Exhibition

Image of the Homecoming Exhibition Postcard (Front)

Graphic design: Mark Cleave

Original brief

Homecoming is an Open Exhibition inviting all Bristol artists to submit works which respond to the idea of 'Home'. For more information on the exhibition, please see the Homecoming Exhibition Brief page.

Selected artists

Artists have now been selected from the submissions to the Homecoming exhibition. The selections can be seen on the Homecoming artists page, in alphabetical order by artist name.

Brief details of the works and thumbnail images are shown in the list. To find more information on any of the works or to see a larger version of the image, select an artist name or the thumbnail image.

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Visit the Big Draw drawing installation

Image of the logo for The Big Draw 2007 event, © Quentin Blake

The Big Draw 2007 logo, © Quentin Blake

The Big Draw Event at South Bristol Swimming Pool, which was supported by the SBA, was a great success last Sunday, with about 150 participants.

You are invited, with kind permission of the pool manager, to view the drawing installation upstairs on the balcony at the pool during normal pool hours, until next Tuesday, 23 October 2007.

Please feel free to invite anyone else you think might be interested.

The Bristol South Swimming Pool, is located on Dean Lane (see a Google map of the pool or a map (PDF document, 94 KB) on Bristol City Council's website).

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Artist opportunity

It has been brought to the attention of the SBA that there is an opportunity to work on the Blackout Bristol project.

This project is looking for artists and performers to work on the second Blackout Bristol event (31 October 2007), where they are asking for the lights of many of the city’s iconic structures and buildings to be turned out to highlight the issues of Global Climate Change and energy saving.

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FAUST: silent film + live music

image showing Visible Music's logo

Visible Music logo, © Visible Music

Bristol Silents presents

FAUST: silent film + live music

Bristol Silents presents a silent film + live music performance in Bristol and London in October 2007.

A new music score by composer Jean Hasse will accompany screenings of the magnificent 1926 silent film, FAUST (Dir. F.W. Murnau, 106 minutes).

Dates are:

  • 13 October 2007 (premiere) at the Victoria Rooms, Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1SA, 7:30 pm
  • 21 October 2007 at the Barbican (Cinema 1), Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, 3 pm (part of their Silent Film and Live Music Series).

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The Big Draw 2007

Image of the logo for The Big Draw 2007 event, © Quentin Blake

The Big Draw 2007 logo, © Quentin Blake

All shapes and sizes – make a splash

The Big Draw 2007 comes to Bristol South Swimming Pool

The unlikely setting of Bristol South Swimming Pool, Dean Lane (see a Google map of the pool or a map (PDF document, 94 KB) on Bristol City Council's website) is to be the venue for an innovative drawing event linked with The Big Draw 2007.

Artists from Bristol’s DRAW group will hold a number of free drawing activities at the pool on Sunday 14 October 2007 between 11 am and 4 pm.

All are welcome, especially families. Come and watch the magic of your drawings unfold in a special liquid bath or have your shape drawn and emblazoned with colour and be included in a huge mural drawing.

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Upcoming events

The following are some events happening in the near future that you might wish to visit or get involved in.

  • Video Cuts at Windows 204, Thursday 27th September 2007
  • Mivart Street Open Studios, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October 2007
  • 'Art Bazaar' at Windows 204, Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th December 2007

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