Join artist and set designer, Alexia Dobre, for a playful hands-on workshop where everyday discarded materials are transformed into imaginative miniature worlds.

Participants will explore the basics of theatre design and storytelling through model-making, building their own tiny dream spaces. Rooted in the idea of “giving old objects a new life,” the workshop encourages audiences to reimagine Broadmead’s spaces, histories, and identities by creating small-scale sculptural worlds inspired by the neighbourhood.

This workshop is part of Diverse Artist Network's DIASPORA! Festival, and Compass Presents‘ A Love Letter to Broadmead project. 

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A Love Letter to Broadmead events are all free to attend. If you can no longer make it, please release your ticket so that we can give your space to someone else!

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]. 

About Alexia

Alexia is a Bristol-based artist, maker and set and costume designer from Romania. She works across theatre, festivals and immersive installations. Her practice is guided by the simple idea of giving objects a new life, transforming discarded, recycled and natural materials into playful visual worlds, costumes and installations that invite curiosity and imagination.

She’s worked with organisations like Team Love, Wake The Tiger, Super Culture and Creative Youth Network, creating spaces where creativity, sustainability and community come together.

IG: @alexia.scenography

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/

https://www.diverseartistsnetwork.com/2026-festival/

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