Connection through Sound: An Interfaith Gig for Raise Money for Bridges for Communities

An intimate evening sharing faith, community and culture. Stripped back music and spoken word to invoke thought and connection with an art workshop to get creativity flowing. This event will also be raising money for the amazing Bridges for Communities, a Bristol based charity that brings people together across divides. Come along for a cosy evening of creativity, community and warmth.

Doors are at 7pm Event starts with a paper puppet art workshop at 7.45pm

If you are refugee or asylum seeker and would like to attend the event free of charge, then feel free to turn up without a ticket.

MERLE GREANY

Merle is an artist who makes sculpture stories from paper, clay, thread or paint. Their two hands are useful and they like to spot things on the floor. In an all ability art workshop, make your very own paper puppet. Cover your figure in images of the
places you go, the people you gather and the things you seek.

VICKI BURKE
Vicki is a Jewish Harpist and sound healer based in Frome. Starting as a saxophone and music teacher, she then began writing songs for harp and voice and using it for healing alongside her Reiki sessions.

YU SHAO HUAN
Yu Shao Huan is a Daoist Chinese flute player, and current student at the University of Bristol. Alongside his soaring flute playing, he will also perform the chanting of the

Tao Te Ching.

AGNES SALES & RAFA ALLPORT
Agnes and Rafa are Bristol based musicians who also happen to be Quakers. Vocalist Agnes has an obsession with all things medieval and mystical and alongside saxophonist Rafa’s love of the natural world, the two will play original music, medieval chants and some other stuff along the way.

ASMAA JAMA
Asmaa Jama is a Somali-Danish artist who works across text, painting, moving image and performance. Their work draws from Islamic cosmology and explores beings made of fire to reckon with migration, loss, and the complexities of diaspora.

They are concerned with the reworking of myths, particularly those rooted in East African tales, examining what myth and ritual reveal about the human condition.

Tickets for refugees and those seeking asylum are free - please email admin@bristolfolkhouse.co.uk and we will put you on the list.