The School of Activism is a series of affordable workshops, events, exhibitions and talks designed to empower and galvanise people to make positive change in their local communities, and in the wider world.

We define activism as active citizenship; at the School of Activism special guests will run affordable sessions covering all our favourite topics of art, activism, community, music making, history, protest, spoken word and more.

School of Activism coordinator Lisa Furness explains: “The School of Activism celebrates the creative power that we have as citizens to influence and change our society. Bristol is a city filled with inspirational change-makers and activists, and the SOA offers a platform to share their stories of battles won and techniques developed.”

While the School of Activism is now occasional events spread out through the year, we’ve previously run it as a two week long syllabus over the Easter holidays. Check out what we got up to…