by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | Adblock Bristol, Art, Visual city
PRSC’s regular People’s Art Club have installed a billboard sized collage of work on Adblock Bristol’s Burg Arts Community Billboard!
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | Art, Blog, Politics, Turbo Island, Voice
Saturday saw a party on Turbo Island, just days before the fateful auction scheduled for 5:30 this evening. The party saw a lush new paint job on Turbo from Rowdy, Ryder and Dazcat, the Free Shop, food and some of the BASE Infoshop out alongside some acoustic acts,...
by Benoit Bennett | Thursday, October 3, 2024 | Turbo Island
Fundraising, Asset of Community Value and Village Green status. Donate now to Save Turbo Island!
by Benoit Bennett | Thursday, September 26, 2024 | Art, Turbo Island
An update from the third meeting, and the official Save Turbo Island crowdfunder goes live!
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Art, Turbo Island
Many strands of work are under way. Working groups have been formed. Work is being done! The second meeting had some new faces with lots of brilliant contacts and ideas, and as always, memories and stories of Turbo Island and it’s importance to various locals...
by Benoit Bennett | Friday, September 6, 2024 | Art, Turbo Island
On Thursday 5th September a public meeting was called, in response to news the previous weekend that Turbo Island is going to be put up for auction. The main aim of the meeting was to assess interest in, and coordinate a combined community bid for Turbo.
by Benoit Bennett | Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | Art, Turbo Island
The sudden fencing off of Turbo Island has got the rumour mill grinding, and the usual reactionaries mouthing off, but what’s actually going on? After months of rumours of all kinds, from spoof planning applications to talk of fencing it all off, we were pleased to be...
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, October 6, 2021 | Blog, Politics, Visual city, Voice
Anyone walking through the Croft over the last week or so should have noticed – the scaffolding has come down from the replacement of Westmoreland House, and the Carriageworks development. We’re finally seeing something of how it will affect the look of our...
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, May 5, 2021 | Art, Bearpit, Blog, Our Walls, Politics, Visual city, Voice
Thank you to the group Our Air, Our City (AOAC) and the XR Bristol arts group for our beautiful new mural! It’s pretty dissapointing though that we still need to push our council to sort this out, and it’s not like people haven’t been trying to make...
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | Blog, Voice
The new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill threatens to remove our right to peaceful protest, but Bristol’s not having a bit of it.
(Image credit: Colin Moody)
by Benoit Bennett | Thursday, December 17, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Press
The Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft has been awarded £63,000 from central Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help us weather the economic storms of Covid and the havoc that has been unleashed.
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, November 4, 2020 | Art, Blog, Visual city, Voice
On the 12th June a graffiti artist was detained by police in St Werburghs for painting in the Mina Road Tunnel. Anyone who knows the area would probably be surprised to hear this- the tunnel has been one of the few tolerated (if not officially sanctioned) painting spots in the city for more than a decade.
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | Blog, Economics
Re-use, repair, salvage and reclamation are guiding principles here at PRSC
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | Art, Blog, Visual city
A look at tagging, graffiti and decoding the streets…
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | Blog, Voice
Over the harshest first months of lockdown I felt a growing anger at the failures of government at all levels to protect the most vulnerable, but recently, looking at the growing cooperation and solidarity between local people, mutual aid groups and charities, hope...
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | Blog, Voice
An account from Benoit about our experiences supporting people on the front line through lockdown. We’ve been running weekly drop-in sessions for the local homeless community for a while now, mostly distributing information, sleeping bags and tents, and...
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, May 27, 2020 | Art, Blog, Voice
As the gentrification of Stokes Croft and St Pauls continues apace, looking at the gap in the high street makes me wonder where the symbols of resistance and underground culture will be allowed to survive.
by Benoit Bennett | Wednesday, July 3, 2019 | Art, Bearpit, Blog, Press
At the end of last week the occupants of the Bearpit were suddenly evicted, and the whole space fenced off. We at the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft were as surprised as anyone. Maybe more so, as Bristol City Council had signed documents with us, including...