The Crazy About You Street Party kicks off the Bank Holiday Weekend of free performances and activities around Broadmead.

9am - 2pm: Broadmead Baptist Church Tours: enjoy this sneak peak into one Bristol's most stunning hidden gems. If you ain't seen indie, now is your chance!

12pm onwards: The Climbing Hangar Participatory Art Installation, celebrating Bristol's nature and th love of climbing! Drop-IN, open to everyone, all day (Union Street)

4-6pm: Performances from Bristol Ballroom Community in Unit One and special live broadcast in Unit Ujima (located in The Galleries on the first floor by Boots)

6-7pm: Break Dancing, Skateboarding Show and Activated Art Installations
Performances from Bristol Breakers (the Almshouse (former Jack Wills Shop) Merchant Street), Shredenhams Skaters (the Podium, Broadmead) and Strangebrew Artists (Sparks Window, Broadmead entrance)

7 - 11pm: Decks! Decks! Beats! (The Crazy About You Street Party : Afterparty)*
Party at Shredenhams! All the orgs involved take an hour on the decks!

ON THE DECKS....
7-8pm : Shredenhams (Bob Wire - funk/soul/boogie)
8-9pm : Ujima (DJ Mega + Selecta Duck - R&B, Soca, Afrobeats, Dancehall))
9-10pm : Sparks' Window Artists bring Strangebrew's Musical Eclecticism
10-11pm : Strangebrew Club Sounds (Medis - Deep Detroit techno with a grime and UK rap influence)

Location: The Horsefair in the old Debenhams building
* this event requires a £5 refundable ticket.

Come along to Unit One and Unit Ujima between 4pm and 6pm, from where we will lead you around the performance activations, before taking you to Shredenhams for a party.

More about the DJs

Medis
Manoeuvring through UKs major cities, Medis has developed a distinctly unique approach to her production and sets, constantly pushing the boundaries of the UK club scene. Having found a home in Bristol's booming underground scene, Medis has become a respected household name. Gaining support from Fabric, RinseFM, KeepHush and Hör she’s "A artist you need to know" - said by Alix Perez, Khan, Addison Groove and other artists alike who have supported her rise.

UK Rap, Memphis rap, Footwork, Phonk, Alternative Hip-hop, Grime and Dub form the basis of her musical expertise and inform the direction and style of all her creative endeavours

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A Love Letter to Broadmead events are all free to attend, however for some events we ask for a refundable deposit of £5 to secure your place. Your £5 can be fully refunded after your attendance of the event, or it can be spent in a selection of participating businesses in Broadmead, or at the Unit One bar. If the £5 deposit is a barrier, please contact [email protected] and we will give you a free ticket. Further event info will be emailed to ticket holders ahead of the event. 

You can find Unit One on the first floor of The Galleries opposite Boots, in Broadmead, Bristol. Unit One is an accessible venue, with lifts and accessible toilets located on the opposite side of the escalators by the lifts. To get to us, the ground floor lifts are located towards the Merchant Street end of the centre, situated between Bonmarché and Claire's.

Please let us know in advance if you will be attending in a wheelchair, with a pushchair, or have specific access needs, so that we can plan ahead and ensure a smooth experience for you. The contact for this, and any other enquiry, is [email protected]. 

This show is part of Compass Presents‘ A Love Letter to Broadmead project. 

About A Love Letter To Broadmead

Unfolding across April and culminating over the early May Bank Holiday weekend, A Love Letter to Broadmead will see a takeover of empty units and shop windows, bringing fresh energy into the city centre; a growing invitation to experience Broadmead in a different light, through creativity, connection, performance and unexpected moments in the heart of the city.

The project has been born out of conversations with local people. Pounding the pavements across December and early Jan, the Compass team visited every business in Broadmead and had exciting chats with the cultural organisations in the area, ultimately recruiting a pool of young people to lead and deliver the project alongside us. 

The heartbeat of the project is the first floor of the galleries, in the old Captain Kandy (check spelling) shop, now “Unit Ujima” with its cool tiled flooring and floor to ceiling widows, and the old Vertigo VR shop (now “Unit One”, with tons of space for hangouts and performances. Plus hangout and chilling space in the wide area outside Boots.

Spaces are limited so snap them up early - they are all Free!

We are reimagining the city. It is Broadmead, but not as you know it.

https://compasspresents.com/a-love-letter-to-broadmead/

A Love Letter to Broadmead has been commissioned by Bristol City Council and is funded by the UK government through UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and funding from the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.