Dear Bristol City Council, Since 2009, Residence, a Community Interest Company supporting performing artists in Bristol, has made its home in 11 St Nicholas Street. Residence holds the license to the building under Bristol City Council’s Capacity scheme, a pioneering arrangement which recognised the potential for cultural regeneration that artists bring, allowing artists to make … Continue reading
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SOLO Contemporary Performance Forum: OPEN CALL
CALLING ALL SOLO PERFORMANCE MAKERS SOLO is a South West based solo performance forum coordinated by Misri Dey and Ria Hartley, which has been set up for regional, national and international solo devisor/performers to develop, show or simply work in a non-isolated environment. It consists of dialogues, laboratories, platforms and residencies. SOLO seeks to create … Continue reading
Start Your Own Artist Led Space, The Workshop!
Are you based in Bristol and interested in forming an artist collective like Interval or Residence? If you are the get yourself down to Residence on the 7th of January 2014 at 8pm where you will met a bunch of people who want the same thing. Boom, you just started an artist collective. The workshop … Continue reading
Hideaway Artist Talk: Life of a Craphead
Sat 30 November 2013, 8pm The Milk Bar, 11 St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1UE Free event We at Residence are very excited to welcome Life of A Craphead to our second hideaway event taking place at The Milk Bar. The artist duo from Toronto, Canada, will be moving into the Residence studios for the … Continue reading
Residence is Open for New Members
Do you want to be part of a collective of theatre makers, live artists, performers, writers and directors? You might be a company or an individual and there are no judgements made about you or your practice, we’ll just see if we can actually help you and you can help us. We are open to … Continue reading
Hideaway with Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari
From the 1-3rd November we hosted Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari here at The Milk Bar, for a weekend hideaway. They began some work exploring initial ideas about beauty, and the idea of creating a work composed entirely of images. To that end they began to create a small, beautiful image, and installed it in … Continue reading
Residence Away Day at Home
Last week we had another away day, we meet and discussed Residence, what we are all up to and how we are working as a collective. At the moment these meetings happen about every 6 months. This time we decided that the Milk Bar needed a bit of care, and so instead of going away … Continue reading
