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My Bristol Favourites: Helen Cole
Helen Cole is the artistic director and CEO of In Between Time, which returns to Bristol from October 11 to 13.
Through performances, disruptions, workshops and conversations, the In Between Time Summit will bring people together from local, national and global communities hoping to fight for a fairer, more equal world.
These are Helen’s top-five Bristol favourites:
is needed now More than ever
Arnolfini
Dangling your legs over the docks by the Arnolfini is a summertime ritual in Bristol
“I worked here for over 10 years in the 2000s. I have sat there so many times when the sun is setting with a group of friends sitting on the dockside with our feet dangling over the edge.”
DJ Derek at The Plough
The legendary Derek Serpell-Morris sadly died in 2015 – photo by Shotaway
“This was my seminal first gig in the first week I moved to Bristol in the summer of 1998. I danced.”
Leigh Woods
Leigh Woods is a peaceful oasis of calm just the other side of the Clifton Suspension Bridge
“The green, the quiet, the getting lost and taking a different path every time I go.”
The Lazy Dog
The beer garden of the Lazy Dog pub on Ashley Down Road
“Our local pub. The home of great bloody Marys, good food and the annual Lazy Dog dog show in which my small Jack Russell chihuahua cross Finch came last in the prettiest bitch contest a few weeks ago because she tried to bite two other contestants.”
Art in unexpected places
Pete Barrett’s ‘Pave’ at IBT 2013 – photo by Paul Blakemore
“At IBT we have put art in so many unexpected places over our 18 years. I have to mention two very different ones. In 2015, for the European Green Capital celebrations, IBT swathed Pero’s Bridge in fog for Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog Bridge. And whenever I walk past the archway in St John on the Wall leading from Nelson Street to Broad Street, I remember when one of my friends and favourite Bristol artists, Pete Barrett, covered an entire section of the road that runs through here with gold leaf in 2013. So we really did turn the streets to gold.”
Read more: Pero’s Bridge disappears in fog
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