Edition 42

Beats, bars and belonging at ACE

Aspiration Creation Elevation (ACE) offers creative support and guidance to young people. With them, Adam explores the complex realities young people face today - and reflects on his own journey along the way

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Edition 42

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In conversation with Rising Arts Agency

For the past five years, Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan have co-directed Rising Arts Agency, an organisation empowering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. We sit down with them to talk about leadership, innovation, and the challenges of the cultural sector

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Edition 42

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‘Children are totally different here’

Since the pandemic, interest in outdoor learning has surged. We visit Bristol’s city farms and Forest Schools to explore why these alternatives to mainstream education are thriving

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Hope Is Around The Corner

Giving a shit is just the beginning

Reflections on the film ‘Steve’, the power of youth services and what we can all do for the young people of our city

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Temple Quarter chair Lyn Garner – can regeneration be inclusive?

The Temple Quarter redevelopment will transform a huge area of inner-city Bristol. What will it do for the city's big issues – housing, transport, jobs and education – and who will benefit?

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Features

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Protest outside Bristol arms firm as major prison hunger strike continues

In the face of the biggest hunger strike in a generation led by Palestine Action prisoners, Bristol campaigners call for action while mainstream media remains silent

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Photography

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Photo essay: Kitchen Table Photo Club

Children with analogue cameras explored the waterways of east Bristol over the summer. Here’s what they captured

Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 3, Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

At 10 years old, England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world. In the third episode of this investigative series, we challenge the ideology of punishment over prevention.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – taking wealth redistribution into your own hands, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe

Wealth taxes are in the news just now – but how much money is too much, what is DIY wealth redistribution & what difference can it make? Neil Maggs asks Frances Howe of Bristol Redistro.

Alex Turner Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Alex Turner and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Opinion

The destructive juggernaut of Black Friday reminds us why we should resist the advertising industry

Co-founder of Adblock Bristol, Robbie Gillett, reminds us of the true cost behind Amazon’s Black Friday, and how advertising shits in your head

Robbie Gillett

Hope Is Around The Corner

If you terrorise children, we have nothing in common

Following yet another anti-migrant hotel protest, Nikesh considers whether it’s even possible to engage with the other side

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 2, Can’t Meet His Needs

The role of school exclusions in serious youth violence, and what a safeguarding review tells us about the issue

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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