A look back on some of the highlights of 2023

Alongside other colleagues across the city, we are hugely disappointed to hear that Bristol City Council are not recommending us for renewed funding for the next three years.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Verity Standen. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Verity and spoke about her upcoming Confluence project There You Go, Lovely.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Travis Alabanza.

Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Ryan Convery-Moroney. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Ryan and discussed his upcoming project.

As part of Confluence’s weekend programme, multidisciplinary artist Asmaa Jama will be presenting A Song for the Slippages - a live performance exploring the idea of a hidden or parallel world and converging tales in the city. For MAYK’s blog, we did a quick artist profile with Asmaa discussing their project.

In geography, a confluence occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. Bristol is a city of literal and metaphorical confluences. Each day our lives merge.

Bristol is a city which seems to be in a perpetual state of physical reinvention. Cranes dominate the skyline. We are constantly being asked to reassess our relationship to the topography of the city as new buildings spring up.

Early this autumn, we collaborated with Unlimited to support Jamie Hale and their team to spend some focused time developing their work Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome in our MAYKing Space.

Four artists explore the ever-changing landscape of Bristol city centre in new residency programme, ‘Confluence’.