by Micha | Saturday, September 15, 2018 | Art, Bearpit, Voice
This should make you laugh. This film was first on 27th June in Bristol. Save Bearpit made it in defence of civil liberty and general survival in a climate of brutal gentrification, with particular reference to The Bearpit, an historically “outsider” area....
by Micha | Wednesday, September 12, 2018 | Adblock Bristol, Art, Bearpit, Our Walls, Visual city, Voice
Just before Whitsun, on the quietest news day of the year, the Cube sculpture in the Bearpit was pulled down by Bristol Waste, under the instruction of Deputy Mayor, Asher Craig. A number of people, including Asher Craig (Bristol Labour Councillor), Martin Fodor...
by Micha | Friday, June 15, 2018 | Art, Bearpit, Blog, Our Walls, Visual city
The Cube sculpture in the Bearpit has been removed without consultation or proper process. This is suppression of a bold community experiment in common public space and cultural expression. This is a fight for the soul of our City. Could the Bear be next? An uncommon...
by Micha | Monday, March 19, 2018 | Art, Bearpit, Our Walls
Bristol City Council rules out large charging Clean Air Zone: reaction from Friends of the Earth Bristol City Council rules out the option of large Clean Air Zone to tackle the city’s dangerously polluted air Commenting on the decision to rule out the option of...
by Micha | Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | Bearpit, Blog, Our Walls
Advertising in our parks? As if there weren’t enough billboard concerns now Bristol City Council have raised the possibility of billboards and signs in our parks and green spaces to make a bit of money to compensate for the cuts. We agree with Bristol City...
by Micha | Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | Bearpit, Event
The Bearpit Improvement Group and the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft are delighted to be working with Witness the Wild to help deliver this amazing event on Saturday 30 September and 1 October 2017 in the Bearpit. This will be the second year in a row...
by chrisc | Monday, January 18, 2016 | Art, Bearpit
The artist writes: “This piece was something I wanted to paint following the disappointing news at the start of December that the Government would begin bombing Syria. Like most people, I’m strongly against this and the whole thing made me extremely sad...
by PRSC | Monday, December 28, 2015 | Art, Bearpit
Public art installation “I’m Staying” has been travelling around Bristol via democratic vote since May 2014. A “statement of both provocation and affirmation”, Shaun C Badham’s neon artwork comments on our relationship to place, community...
by PRSC | Thursday, August 20, 2015 | Art, Bearpit
Protests against TTIP, the free-trade deals which would prioritise profits of corporations over protection of the environment, are hotting up in Bristol. Initiated by Greater Bristol Alliance and supported by PRSC as part of Bristol’s European Green Capital...
by PRSC | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | Art, Bearpit
The Bristol scroll will be well known to anybody over forty. The City’s name was carried in this form by every bus in the city and its surrounding areas from 1965 until the mid 1980s. Created by an artist unknown, this beautiful rendition of Bristol was first...
