community

Edition 19

Communities standing up: college students, skaters and migrant mums

News is so often depresseing and disempowering. But these Bristolians are making a difference across the city.

Matty Edwards Jess Connett
Matty Edwards and Jess Connett

Photography

Photos: The faces of Bristol’s Grand Iftar

Thousands of people from all over Bristol descended on Easton yesterday to celebrate a Grand Iftar meal as Muslims broke their fasting for Ramadan.

Samar Khan

Edition 19

Meet Kerry, the Hartcliffe community activist on a mission

“We’ve got so used to things being taken away from us, that a lot of people don’t know we’ve got rights.”

Sandi Dheensa

Edition 19

How child’s play is a serious matter

A year since the council cut play services, we visit an adventure playground in Southmead.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Photography

Photos: Voices from behind the counter

Those working in our city’s food joints have unique insights into their local communities and their own stories to tell.

Thomas Katan

Features

How disaster in the Caribbean affected the community in Bristol

18 months on from Hurricane Maria, reflections on life in the diaspora.

Jemal Toussaint and Georgia Edwards

Features

Saving Bristol’s suburban skate culture

Dan Lacey has been working for years to protect the skatepark he helped build as a teenager.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Photography

Photoessay: Luvvers in Bristol

Some snaps of beauty amid the bullshit.

Colin Moody

Ideas and Action

Inside a Bristol warehouse is a vast history of women’s fight for rights

The Cable explores the present day relevance of the Feminist Archive South.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Voices

Edson Burton: My hopes for Bristol’s scene in 2019

The writer, historian and curator on challenges and opportunities for the city’s arts.

Edson Burton

Voices

A passionate appeal to save one of the few working class pubs in Easton

Recently given a new lease of life under new management, this old school boozer could be the latest victim of gentrification.

Ben Bird

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Bristol’s recovery community: overcoming addiction together

In early September, Bristol hosted Recovery Festival - a celebration of people who have overcome addiction. Craig Johnson explains the importance of community when services are being stripped back.

Craig Johnson
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