Accompanying the launch of their share offer, the Stokes Croft Land Trust bring you an evening of talks and discussion around the ways that community wealth building has been used as a tool by others to secure democratic control of everything from food to local services.
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.
With the economy tanking, the pound plummeting to an all-time low and a fresh round of austerity coming down the tracks many of us are asking “what the hell is going on with the economy?” Join Bristol Transformed, two speakers from Reteaching Economics, and other concerned Bristolians to talk it through and figure out what comes next.
On the first Friday of every month, the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft present a revolutionary event: the UK’s only sociopolitical comedy night, where Bristol’s satirists deconstruct the power paradigm to comedic effect, and the acts ACTUALLY get paid. A fantastic night of political, social and cultural comedy featuring some of the most exciting grassroots comedians of Bristol and beyond – come and join the revolution!
On the first Friday of every month, the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft present a revolutionary event: the UK’s only sociopolitical comedy night, where Bristol’s satirists deconstruct the power paradigm to comedic effect, and the acts ACTUALLY get paid. A fantastic night of political, social and cultural comedy featuring some of the most exciting grassroots comedians of Bristol and beyond – come and join the revolution!
On the first Friday of every month, the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft present a revolutionary event: the UK’s only sociopolitical comedy night, where Bristol’s satirists deconstruct the power paradigm to comedic effect, and the acts ACTUALLY get paid. A fantastic night of political, social and cultural comedy featuring some of the most exciting grassroots comedians of Bristol and beyond – come and join the revolution!
A special edition of our famous community-led comedy night – themed around anti-gentrification, land justice, this People’s Comedy sits in the middle of our amazing exhibition to launch the Stokes Croft Land Trust Community Share Offer. A fantastic night of political, social and cultural comedy featuring some of the most exciting grassroots comedians of Bristol and beyond – come and join the revolution!
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)