It's Our Birthday, Rising Turns THREE!

Rising recently celebrated its third birthday with three dedicated events. In this blog post, we reflect on our journey, and tell you all about what we did!

Wow. It really is that time again. On Sunday 16th June Rising officially celebrated it’s third birthday. THIRD. We thought our second year was good, but oh boy has this year been sweet. Some of this year’s achievements have been our Why Are We Not Here? exhibition, The Re/Imagine Libraries Project and the development of our Whose Culture cohort.  So, for our third birthday, we decided to go hard and do three different events to celebrate.

On 16th June, we had a low-key family drink – this was a really chilled get together to celebrate the community we have created over the past three years.

On Monday 24th June, we ran an evening lab for our community of artists at Illustrate Café. We spent the time there reflecting on our own individual professional journeys over the past three years, and exploring what our community need from us to live their best lives. It was great for us to get a better sense of where everybody is at, document what causes our community care about and make a plan of action for the future.

Credit: @shamphat for Rising Arts Agency.

On 30th June, we did something we’ve never done before and gathered a large group of young artists on College Green in front of City Hall. Armed with materials, food and good vibes, we made banners about causes we care about. This was to show Bristol that we are here and that the city’s young creative community have a voice. This was our first public art intervention and it will not be our last.