Join us for co-produced research training with artist Hannah Mumby next week!
Whether you are an artist, academic or volunteer at a charity, EVERYONE is welcome. Come and explore this collaborative research method in an interactive session.
Register for free:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Brigstow’s Connections funding is to develop and solidify growing ideas, partnerships and plans for interdisciplinary and co-produced research with the aim of preparing teams to apply for external funding to support the next stage of the research.
We are excited to share that we currently have two Connections funding competitions OPEN!
Apply for up to £1500
💰 Open Connections Funding. Deadline 19 Feb.
💰 Thematic Connections Funding: From Harms to Harmonies. Deadline 12 March
bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/open-calls/
Brigstow Institute will leave the office at 3.30pm on the 23 December 2025 for the winter break, and return on the 5 January 2026.
Whether you are curled up with a sketchbook, on a dog walk, or tobogganing with children, we wish you a winter break full of peace, joy and good health. We look forward to connecting with you again in 2026!
Season's Greetings and best wishes from,
The Brigstow Team,
Debbie, Gail, Will, Julia & Ceri
2025 has been a wonderful year getting to know new artists & community partners, delving into unexpected research topics & ideas, & holding training with enthusiastic groups. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our community - your contributions help all of us grow & develop our practices.
So excited to see this article come out of Brigstow Seedcorn funded project "The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century"
So exciting to see this! A fantastic co-produced project and films from the journey that can help us all to learn about working equitably and inclusively.
From Harms to Harmonies: Ideation Workshop
Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-harms...
🌊 Currents for Change – a boat tour exploring the hidden histories of psychoactive substances and global systems.
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
We have now extended this deadline until the 27th November!
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
🌍 Racism & climate crisis—what’s the link?
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov.
Free tickets 👉www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolon...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Join @hellobrigstow.bsky.social & @cabot-institute.bsky.social for The Joy of Activism – a conversation about finding hope & creativity in climate & disability activism with Polly Meyrick & Emma Geen.
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-a...
Are you interested in our "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme?
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Brigstow’s "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme is live!
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
If you are interested in this opportunity join us for a webinar to ask your questions and find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
🚨 Funding Alert!
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
A fantastic showcase of our 2025 seedcorn projects this week. Each of them shared their fantastic outputs and learning.
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
How can Bristol communities support migrant families better?
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
🌿🤖 Nature and AI Workshop
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
📢 Join us for an Ideas Lunch on children’s engagements with digital technologies and media practices and the impact of these on outdoor play and mobilities.
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Thrilled to Lead: “Exhausted lives: The bitter juice of the cane never tasted”. Exploring human and environmental exhaustion in Caribbean Nevis during rum production 17th & 18th centuries.
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 5 brilliant projects connections funding around the theme of ‘Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices’.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!
