Following the tremendous success of the relaunch of major exhibitions in September…

A guest blog post from Josh Matthews of Taxi Studio, our friends who designed our eye catching relaunch campaign.

We’ve had such an incredible response from visitors to Still I Rise and wanted to share a few with you.

As part of our mission to become more accessible and age friendly we launched Perry’s Shorts and Perry’s Tours to provide participatory experiences for local older people and GCSE drama students working with the themes and styles of Grayson Perry’s ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!’

Following the departure of Kate Brindley at the end of December, who left to take up a new post as Director of Collections and Exhibitions at Chatsworth House, it is with huge pleasure and excitement that we are able to announce that we have made the appointment of Claire Doherty as the new Director of Arnolfini. This followed a rigorous national and internal selection process facilitated by recruitment consultants Liz Amos Associates and the Board of Trustees led by our Chair Anna Southall.

Be Part of Young Arnolfini and create ambitious art projects with other young people from across the city.

Ahead of the next Dune Series event on Friday 13th January, we asked Satsumas boss Charlie Harrison to provide us with a soundtrack of the music we are likely to hear on the night. He will be joined by Dirtytalk’s Kerry Patterson aka Jackin Patz and they will play all night long from 7pm-midnight. Their record collections span a range of genres, with a large section of their record bags saved especially for Italo. Here are links to five records that live in both of their separate collections.

2016 has been a monumental year! Without dwelling on Brexit, Trump or funding cuts we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the city for continuing what we all do best – making Bristol a unique and enduring cultural destination of great dynamism and diversity. Whilst we may or may not have much influence on the bigger global stories unfolding round us, we are always free to express our response to those and more.

If you were unlucky enough to miss our fourth installment of #DUNEseries then listen back here. We were joined by Bodygurn and special guest Chris Seddon for a masterclass in house, techno and electronica.