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Carriageworks: What Next? – Bristol Civic Society – Better Bristol magazine autumn 2017
WW1 ‘disrespectful’ artwork to be reinstated on Bristol wall – BBC News – 10/11/2017
The saga of Stokes Croft highlights Bristol’s battle with gentrification – CityMetric – 9/08/2017
Theatre comes to the Bearpit – Bristol 24/7 – 8/06/2017
Street artists hit back after M32 mural used to support Donald Trump – Bristol Post – 17/04/2017
Maker of the Month: Stokes Croft China – Bristol 24/7 – 2/03/2017
Kissing the NHS goodbye in Stokes Croft – Bristol 24/7 – 22/02/2017
Bristol street artists work with city on legal graffiti walls – The Guardian – 22/01/2017
This imagery can be used by students or news media in connection with any story or article regarding the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC). If you would have any further inquiries or requests, please get in touch.
The PRSC Outdoor Gallery with the adjacent Stokes Croft China shop on Jamaica Street. The PRSC Outdoor Gallery has been continuously repainted for over 9 years, adding up to over 100 paintings.
The PRSC HQ on Jamaica Street, with on the ground floor our venue SPACE, and upstairs the office, media rooms, and artist studios.
The Cube in the Bearpit, a community board for current and important messages.
The 90 metre wall on the M32/Gatton Road.
The Stokes Croft China gallery and shop.
Some of the ware in the Stokes Croft China gallery and shop.
Graffiti workshop in the Yard.
Social event in the SPACE.
Theatre performance in the Bearpit Open Air Theatre.
The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft and its core business has featured in a number of academic research papers, dissertations and project outlines:
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- Slum it in Style: The PRSC and Counter-Discursive Urban Development Strategy in Stokes Croft, Bristol. Leigh Dennis (2009).
- Creative Participation in Place-making. Antonia Layard, Jane Milling & Tom Wakeford.
- Creative Participation newsletter. Antonia Lanyard.
- Culture, Creativity and Regeneration in Bristol: Three Stories. Peter Boyden Consultants (2013).
- Banksy’s Graffiti: A Not-so simple Case of Criminal Damage? Ian Edwards (2009).
- Stokes Croft – A Community Economy? Joseph W. Hampson (2011).
- Are We All Archaeologists Now? Cornelius Holtorff (2015).
- ‘Self-renovating neighbourhoods’ – an alternative to gentrification? Jess Steele (2015).
- Public Archaeology and Landscape. John Schofield, Rachael Kiddey and Brett Lashua.
- The Role of Culture in developing Talent, Tourism and Trade. Dick Penny (2013).
- Value Struggles in the Creative City: A “People’s Republic of Stokes Croft”? Armin Beverungen, Fabian Frenzel.