Two women lean against metal banisters in a stairwell

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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

Giving a shit is just the beginning

Photo essay: Kitchen Table Photo Club

Music

Sisterhood of sound: 10 years of Saffron

Founded in Bristol in 2015, Saffron is a non-profit organisation working towards gender equality in the music industry. A decade on, its founder and one of its alumni reflect on its successes and what still needs to be done

Mural Artwork by Bristol Refugee Artists Collective

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What does belonging mean to you?

A woman and standing and smiling on a balcony, wearing a yellow jacket and black trousers. A bright red tour is on the ground floor.

Voices

‘Theatre should belong to everyone’: The Bristol artist exploring social change on stage

After the crowdfunder: how can cultural spaces not just survive, but thrive?

In Bristol and elsewhere, campaigns to safeguard arts venues’ future are commonplace – and regularly smash fundraising targets. But the hard work doesn’t stop there.

‘Speaking is a political act’: Bristol artists push Arnolfini for action over Palestine controversy

The prominent gallery has apologised for cancelling two events from the Palestine Film Festival in November – but an emerging artists-led campaign says it doesn’t go far enough.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts

As Bristol City Council slashes spending on venues including arthouse cinema Watershed, Neil asks its boss Clare why funding the arts matters, and whether the sector's reputation as catering mainly to the well-heeled is justified.

Darin J Sallam on what shaped her creative life, her film Farha and the controversy it sparked from the Middle East to Bristol

Sallam’s film has been praised for its bravery in choosing to tackle the events of the Nakba – one of very few films to do so – but was also heavily criticised by Israeli authorities and prompted a boycott campaign

‘Silence is complicity’: director of landmark Palestinian film slams Arnolfini for cancelling screening

In a move that sparked outrage and protest, the Bristol gallery claimed hosting the showing of Farha would risk breaking charity rules on political activity.

How starting an arts festival helped me find community in Bristol

Grassroots groups have birthed a movement that celebrates and represents people from East and South East Asian communities. It has unleashed a ‘warm, communitarian energy’, writes the co-founder of MOON FEST, which takes place this weekend at the Trinity Centre.