easton arts trail

Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 June 2010, 11am – 6pm

 

This year the EAT Team came up with a blooming marvelous theme for the trail: Art & Flowers Up Front, featuring our very own Chelsea Flower Show and a brand new Front Garden Competition too. The event was a huge success with visitors numbers of up to 300 on Sunday at some of the houses in the centre of the arts trail, visitor numbers were down on Saturday as the arts trail unfortunately clashed with St Werburgh’s Farm Festival – even though EAT organisers do their best to choose a weekend that didn’t clash with other major events, it is unfortunate that many events clash in the Summer in Bristol.

My highlights include the Chelsea Flower Show, the beautiful artist’s garden on Hinton Road, the amazing range of work on show at St Mark’s Baptist Church, the Somali Meal at Muller Hall, sitting in the sunshine listening to the Easton Community Choir and African Sambistas at St Anne’s Church and having a pint, hanging out with friends and wandering round the exhibition at the Greenbank Pub.

The Easton Arts Trail 2010 took place in 30 different venues, including open houses, local churches, community venues, cafes and pubs, with over 55 artists and arts groups exhibiting artwork, performing and running workshops and other activities.

Front Garden Competition Winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of the first Easton Arts Trail Front Garden Competition:

First Prize goes to the Chapel Collective (9 Hinton Rd) with 42 votes
Second Prize goes to Debs Tylee at 78 Chelsea Park with 39 votes

Garden Centre gift vouchers will be sent to both the winning houses.

All other garden entries received between 3 and 25 votes, with special mention to 15 Gratitude Rd, 15 Lawrence Avenue and 16 Turley Rd which all received a large number of votes. Well done to all the entries – photos of the winning gardens will be published on this website shortly…

Also we’re pleased to report that the Easton Arts Trail raffle draw raised a total of £177 (money to be used for next year’s event). A list of winners is available on request – and all prize winners have now been contacted. Thanks to official draw masters Carol, Philipe, Lucy, Patrick, Lisa and friends.

Highlights of the Easton Arts Trail 2010

This year there were three big group exhibitions that took place at St Mark’s Baptist Church on St Mark’s Road, upstairs in the Greenbank Pub on the corner of Bellevue Road and Greenbank Road, and at St Anne’s Church on St Leonard’s Road. The Trinity Arts Centre, at the other end of Easton down near Old Market, opened it’s doors too hosting a mixture of exciting workshops and exhibits from local artists and LinkAge ran a day celebrating the creativity of the older people in Easton at Hassle Drive, by the Lawrence Hill Roundabout.

There were guided walks from Eastside Roots down at Stapleton Road Railway Station and screen printing workshops at the Kebele Cooperative on Robertson Road. And at the heart of the arts trail there were 21 open houses stretching from Fountaine Court over near the Fishponds Road to Vicarage Road over near Whitehall and from Lena Street near Chelsea Park to Camelford Road in Greenbank and everywhere in between.

Arts & Flowers Up Front!

The Chelsea Flower Show at the Chelsea Inn on Chelsea Road was a great success with flower making workshops taking place all weekend.

We will be posted a show reel of photographs from this years event over the next week or two so pop back to have a look soon.

Credits & Thanks

The Easton Arts Trail is organised by volunteers from the local community who work hard throughout the year to coordinate this annual community event that celebrates the quality and diversity of the creative talent in Easton. We are an artist-led organisation, founded in December 2006, with the aim of showcasing the broad range of creative talent in Easton by providing a platform for local artists, makers and performers to promote and develop their work in the community.

This year we would like to say a big thank you to joint chairs, Julie Begen and Joanna Waterfall, to Lisa Furness who coordinated the arts trail, Jane Titley – membership secretary, to Lucy Richley – secretary, Patrick Winch – treasurer and to Shelly Abrahams – fundraising. Also a big thank you to Sally Reay who founded the Easton Arts Trail who’s tireless work made this event possible. We are always looking for volunteers to help coordinate the event and for more artists and performers to take part, so if you are interested in getting involved please email info@eastonartstrail.co.uk

Big thanks also go to our funders, sponsors and supporters:

Bristol City Council’s Arts, Festivals & Events Team for grant funding through the Community Festival & Event Fund and Quartet Community Foundation for awarding us a Grassroots Grant.

The Sugarloaf Pub
Sweet Mart – Spices & Ethnic Foods
Bhogal Chemist
Big Saver Off Licence
Universal Travel & Money Exchange, St Mark’s Road

We’d also like to thank the following local businesses who haven donated prizes for the EAT10 raffle – tickets will be on sale at the monthly fund raising events and during the arts trail on Saturday 12 June 2010:

Thali Cafe – One tiffin tin and voucher for two takeaways, and a meal voucher for two
Sally Reay Contemporary Jewellery – Silver Pendant (worth £45)
Cafe Maitreya – bottle of wine
Monte Carlo Cafe – meal voucher for 2
Selcan Pharmacy -2 Yardley gift boxes
R. Jenkins Butchers, 240 Stapleton Rd, BS5 0NT, 0117 952 1014 – Quality Meat Every Time – Retail & Catering – 2 boxes of meat for the BBQ at the bank holiday fundraiser

How to get here if you don’t live here already:

We are really keen to encourage visitors from far and wide, so please invite your friends and family who live outside the area and tell them they can jump on the train, on the bus or get on their bikes to come and explore Easton during this year’s arts trail.

By Bus – get either 48 or 49 from Bristol Town Centre or from Fishponds, both buses run along Stapleton Road, ask the driver to let you off near St Mark’s Road.

By Train - there’s an hourly service from Bristol Temple Meads and Clifton Downs to Stapleton Road Railway Station.

By Bicycle – you can also get to Easton via the Bristol to Bath cyclepath and either park up at the Easton Community Centre or at Bruce Road for best access to the Easton Arts Trail.

Meeting Minutes Archive

If you want to find out more about the Easton Arts Trail you can also download minutes from the Easton Arts Trail AGM which took place on Tuesday 24 November 2009 here. and minutes from the meeting that was held on 20 January 2010 here and minutes from the planning meetings which took place on Wednesday 24 February here and on Wednesday 24 March here.