On the Outdoor Gallery and the Bearpit Cube, this time it’s all about voting, democracy and electoral reform.
Bristol elections
For the June election, after a dreadful Tory campaign, our Outdoor Gallery was adorned with the political opposition colours.
BEAR PIT OPEN AIR THEATRE – Back for one day only!
“A slut is a slut, all this bullshit about choice.”
Things We Do Not Know is an exploration of female street sex workers in Bristol.
The Bearpit Outdoor Gallery, Stokes Croft, Bristol hosts its first major international exhibition, “Resiste” commencing Saturday 15th October.
For the last 10 years ASARO have created political woodcut and lino print street art as part of their local protests, and in solidarity with international struggle.
INVITATION
An Exhibition of original lino and woodcut prints from Oaxaca, Mexico at Hamilton House.
In the days leading up to October 15th, The Bearpit was transformed by artists from The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft and Kiptik, primarily using artwork sent to Bristol by The Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca.
Anita MacCallum from Misfits, based at Hamilton House, has been working on a little project with The Misfits Theatre Company CIO in conjunction with PRSC at the Bearpit Bristol
A group of adults who have learning difficulties have been creating poetry with Anita.
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.
On Friday evening Mayor George Ferguson will unveil “Ursa”, a major new work by Jamie Gillman. Symbolic of the Bottom up approach to regeneration for which Stokes Croft is increasingly renowned, the bear stands on the roof of the men’s toilets in the Bearpit, a potent emblem for the Bearpit and the City.
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The first sculpture on the Bristol BearPit Plinth is by Patrick Joyce. Patrick was a key figure in Bristol’s independent art scene of the 1990’s and 2000’s.
On the night of October 14th, PRSC put up 20 panels in the subways of the Bear Pit. The materials were funded by Destination Bristol, who, to their credit, had no control of the content of the work, which was decided by local artists working to the loosest of briefs.
The Bear Pit (aka the sunken pedestrian precinct in the centre of the St James Barton Roundabout) is not just ugly and neglected – it is contagious.