Join us to raise a glass and mark the end of Confluence – our residency programme that’s been tracing the currents of a changing city.
Since autumn 2023, we’ve invited artists to tune in to Bristol’s shifting rhythms – to listen to the stories held in taxi rides and first kisses, in the wildness of forests, in memories of migration and our bodies as they move through the city.
Confluence has invited us to see the city in different ways– not as a fixed place, but as something alive and in motion. What do we absorb from the places we pass through? What marks do we leave on the city? What do we hope for?
For this final event, we’re taking over another empty unit in Redcliffe – animating it with some of the work that’s emerged over these past months. There’ll be a new live performance Body of Water by Iman Sultan West and band ft. Zayd Sultan, Luna Kali and Dan Johnson, whose work follows the flow of the river (further details below), alongside celebratory glimpses of the other projects that have unfolded over the past year as part of the programme. Expect interventions from Ramelle Williams, Fenton Fleming, Howl Yuan, Dhaqan Collective and Kitchen Table Photo Club.
It’s free to attend, just book via Headfirst. And if you fancy making a night of it, we’re laying on a special free ferry ride from Netham Lock to Redcliffe Back at 6pm, with our friends at Bristol Ferry Company.
Confluence is a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for Redcliffe Quarter with the support of Grainger plc
Wednesday 25 June
Optional Ferry Ride from Netham Lock: 6pm
Event begins at 7pm
Free welcome drink for early birds
Location: 5 Redcliffe Street, BS1 6HW
What Three Words: ///quite.itself.loads
Directions: Right near Basil & Co cafe. Look out for the Confluence branding on the windows out the front.
Parking:
Car Park: Portwell Road Car Park – 5 mins walk
A Body of Water – Iman Sultan West
A Body of Water is a performance and installation by Iman Sultan West & band ft. Zayd Sultan, Luna Kali and Dan Johnson. This piece explores Iman’s connection to the Bristol River, reflecting on the harmful histories that have taken place over the water and embodying the movement of ripples through words. This soundscape piece will capture the tender line between personal memory, environmental memory and the impact these have on our understanding of the changing city.
A Body of Water is a poetic reflection on place, memory, and connection. Inviting audiences to listen, engage and consider how our physical beings and stories are shaped by water. We invite you to build the soundscape with water gifted to us by the Bristol River, that we will then return, filled with a memory of our collective sound.
The confluence project has been a chance for Iman to connect with their poetry, to look inward at the meaning of their words and written reflections; to take note of how water flows through them literally and lineally. Iman has noticed that a continual theme of ancestral connection has been integral to their own understanding of the Bristol River.
A Wall. A Talker. A Ceiling. A Window. A Floor. A Door. A Sky. A Engine. A Bird. A Human. A Red. A Mover. A Sitter. A Frown. A Crack. A Stranger. A Sign. A Pipe. A Shaker. A Smile. A Reader. A Blue. A Star. A Hooter. A Dancer. A Ghost. A Floor. A Window. A Wall.
By Kitchen Table Photo Club
Images travel around the Confluence space care of prompts. This short piece of wayward event animation takes inspirations from Kitchen Table Photo Club's time at Nightingale Valley in St Annes (part of Mayfest's 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure) and a video of Kate dancing for Matthew.