"What does protest look like once it’s been filed away? And how can we document it without flattening its complexity? This insightful collaboration between visual storytellers and independent media collective The Bristol Cable spans digital fragments, photographs, testimonies and group discussion, hosted alongside Error 404’s urgent images of Nepal’s youth-led uprising."
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A event on Wednesday 1st July. The event starts at 18:30.
How do we remember protest, activism and the movements they become part of?
At a time when rights, representation and public trust are under pressure, this evening takes an honest look at journalism, media and archive to explore how stories of resistance, identity and social change are documented, shared and remembered.
With contributions from Bristol-based social documentary photographer Mark Simmons, activist filmmaker Ollie Ley, The Bristol Cable and Nepal Point Collective.
Moving between past and present, and drawing on a rare look through Mark’s four-decade archive of social documentary photography, we’ll ask how truth, voice and visibility are shaped within today’s media landscape, and what images can hold, reveal and carry forward.
Held in the presence of Error 404, a social archive of Nepal’s September 2025 youth-led anti-corruption protests, the evening invites you to sit with how resistance is witnessed, how power is challenged, and how memory is held.
Join the discussion and consider what can be learnt, what can be carried forward, and how media, visual arts and collective action might respond today.
This event is part of the Bristol Pride 2026 Program. Check out the full program at bristolpride.co.uk
Image credit: Burning of Poll Tax demands, College Green, April 1990 © Mark Simmons Photography
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Tickets
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale from £6 - £8. Please choose the price that feels right for you.
We want this to be accessible, so low-income tickets are available for anyone who needs one.
All proceeds go to Bristol Pride.
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Accessibility
Level access and wheelchair accessible toilet facilities.
If you have any access requirements please contact [email protected].
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Mark Simmons is a Bristol-based social documentary photographer whose work documents people, communities, arts organisations and political life across the city.
Ollie Ley is a filmmaker and creative practitioner exploring storytelling, identity and the role of media in community voice, agency and social change.
Nepal Point Collective has created a photographic archive of Nepal’s September 2025 youth-led protest movement.
The Bristol Cable is a pioneering investigative local news media co-operative, owned by thousands of people in Bristol.
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Created by Spatula with IC Visual Lab as part of the Bristol Pride Programme 2026.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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