by Scruff | Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Bristol Transformed are very pleased to have the wonderful Owen Hatherley back in Bristol for a chat and Q+A to launch his new book, Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions. Great Britain has just left one Union. But might the island’s future lie in another Union altogether, with its former colonial “kith and kin” in a trans-oceanic super-state with Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of the “CANZUK Union”, the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the white-majority “Dominions” of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and climate change denialism.
by Scruff | Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Book Tickets Talk and Q&A with author and activist Sheila Rowbotham, to launch her new book Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Sheila will be in conversation with Sue Tate who is a freelance art historian, a Trustee of the Feminist Archive South, a socialist...
by Scruff | Tuesday, July 27, 2021
In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the vibrant, creative culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. It is a riveting personal history of second wave feminism from the front...
by Scruff | Monday, February 10, 2020
Join us for the Bristol book launch of Maya Goodfellow’s ‘Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats’. As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a ‘hostile environment’ for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that immigration is not damaging the economy or putting a strain on public services, migrants continue to be blamed for all the UK’s ills. How did we get here?
by Scruff | Thursday, January 23, 2020
Tory austerity has created suffering for millions, as well a generation beset with financial insecurity and crisis. Yet our TV, film, music, art and literature have never looked so rich, or so posh. During a period of immense struggle, the experiences of the majority have been pushed to the margins of our collective culture by the legacy media and its satellite industries – making it hard, if not impossible, to challenge those in power. Steal as Much as You Can is the story of how this happened, exploring the rise of affluence in mainstream storytelling, and the corrosive effects of neoliberal and postmodern culture.
by Scruff | Thursday, October 10, 2019
Raise the Bar’s popular ‘Spotlight’ open mic event is back for a special edition at PRSC, celebrating the launch of Tom Sastry’s ‘Complicity’ with Nine Arches Press. Spotlight focuses on the emerging talent pool of Bristol and its surrounding areas, providing a relaxed and welcoming environment for newbies, veterans and anybody in between to perform their work to a warm and intimate audience in the heart of Stokes Croft.
by Scruff | Wednesday, June 26, 2019
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.
by Lisa | Friday, October 26, 2018
We Are Zanna is a new international arts magazine from Bristol. Issue One is a go! We have 50+ artists from all over the world and we couldn’t be happier. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted, we were overwhelmed with the response and if you weren’t...
by Micha | Thursday, September 28, 2017
Book Club at PRSC with Tangent Books presents Politics & Protest and Naked Guide to Bristol book launch Author Q&A 7pm Join photographer and author Pete Maginnis and publisher Richard Jones to celebrate the launch of the third edition of Don Pedro...
by Micha | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
“The post-war consensus is breaking up. The general election result, the 2014 Scottish referendum and the Brexit vote all testify to an insurgent mood amongst swathes of the population. This book attempts to explain these dramatic developments and to show how...
