Hamilton House BlogNewshttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2013-05-28T11:43:30ZSquarespaceHamilton House Open Dayhttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2013/5/28/hamilton-house-open-day.htmlEditor2013-05-28T11:07:00Z2013-05-28T11:07:00Z

On the sunny Sunday 9th of June, Hamilton House will throw open its doors for our annual Open Day!

This is an opportunity to sample a few of the amazing things that go on, check out the artists’ studios and see where the magic happens…

Dance Workshops

DMAC UK Dance Studios will be running free dance taster sessions on the day from 12 to 5, including Tango, Ballates, Capoeira, Astanga Yoga, Flamenco and Drumming, and will be performing in the evening in the Canteen. Classes will be totally free and open to everyone, kids and venerables welcome. Each class will run for 45 minutes.

Workshop Times

  • 12.00 - Flamenco
  • 12.50 - Ballates
  • 1.40 - Astanga Yoga
  • 2.30 - Drumming
  • 3.20 - Capoeira
  • 4.10 - Tango
  • 5.00 - Bellyfit

Bike Culture

The Bristol Bike Project will be teaming up with Roll for the Soul – Bristol's community bike café. Once again they'll be working with Coexist's Community Kitchen to bring you hearty veggie food, delicious drinks, and Dr Bike sessions – check-ups and minor bike surgery for donation!

Wellbeing

Our Wellbeing team will be offering taster sessions in various forms of massage and plying their amazing skills in a cosy chill-out space. The amazing Love Chefs will be accompanying them to provide you with exquisite and delicious healthy treats while you relax and take in the vibes.

Artists Studios

You’ll also get access to go and visit artist studios and explore the warrens and corridors of creativity throughout the building.

The Canteen

Amongst various musical delights The Canteen will be presenting Hillfolk Noir from the states and providing some sizzle on the front deck with a BBQ from 5pm. hillfolknoir.com

In House

The Open day will be the culmination of our inaugural pop-up shop In-House. Staffed by the artists and displaying a range of amazing creations, In House

Cinema Space

Our Community Arts Space will play host to screenings of artists’ work, films from a myriad of incredible projects within the building and showcasing the amazing festivals that are organised from within our walls. Watch this space for more details!

]]>A Quick Kitchen Questionnaire...http://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2013/1/14/a-quick-kitchen-questionnaire.htmlEditor2013-01-14T13:54:28Z2013-01-14T13:54:28Z The Coexist Community Kitchen will be hosting a range of workshops in 2013, Please take a couple of minutes to let us know what you would be interested in: CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our questionnaire it is a great help!

]]>Have your say on Coexist?http://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/12/10/have-your-say-on-coexist-1.htmlEditor2012-12-10T15:34:23Z2012-12-10T15:34:23ZThe opportunity exists to voice your opinion on the future of Hamilton House and Coexist through a short survey that takes a matter of minutes.

The survey is available online at tiny.cc/hamiltonhouse

Thank you for your support!
Feel free to change around the wording. It is for the masters research study group who are looking to get some data...
Thanks!

]]>The Coexist AGM - Have Your Say About Hamilton Househttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/10/22/the-coexist-agm-have-your-say-about-hamilton-house.htmlEditor2012-10-22T10:33:25Z2012-10-22T10:33:25Z
'What do you want from Coexist in 2013?'

The Coexist AGM is a golden opportunity for YOU the people of our community, in Hamilton House or Bristol wide, to contribute your ideas, solutions and preferences to Coexist's aims and objectives for 2013. Therefore we would like to encourage and welcome you to make your mark on this day, to take part, share openly your feedback, challenges, successes, solutions and ideas for the benefit of Coexistence next year.

Below is the format for the afternoon:

1pm: TENANTS LUNCH: (Events space) 
There will be a beautiful lunch provided by our in-house Kino Chef Jenny and her amazing team of volunteers to warm the community spirit.
1.30pm: COEXIST TEAM PRESENTATION. (Conference space 5th Floor)
Do you know the full diversity of amazing things that Coexist does? There will be a short presentation to inform you of the challenges and successes of 2012
1.45pm: OPEN SPACE:
A break-out session where you can ask questions and contribute to different areas of the project.
Finish: 2.30pm
]]>Pitches available at the Hamilton House Art Market September 8th!!!http://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/8/31/pitches-available-at-the-hamilton-house-art-market-september.htmlEditor2012-08-31T15:51:35Z2012-08-31T15:51:35Z 

]]>Cycle to Cloud Cuckoo Land - Leaving from Hamilton House next Fridayhttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/7/27/cycle-to-cloud-cuckoo-land-leaving-from-hamilton-house-next.htmlEditor2012-07-27T10:36:17Z2012-07-27T10:36:17Z 

Roll Up On Bikes for Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival 2012!

Join Roll Up On Bikes next weekend on a 15 mile amble through the rolling hills of Somerset, all the way to the Clouds!

http://rolluponbikes.com

Cloud Cuckoo Land is delighted to announce that spaces remain abundant for this year's cycle scheme.

http://cloudcuckooland.org

Meet Roll Up On Bikes at Hamilton House in Bristol's Stokes Croft between 11am and 12 noon on Friday 3rd August. The ride will return on Monday 6th.

  •  Every bike will be checked over by a fully qualified Dr. Bike mechanic, courtesy of the Bristol Bike Project, who'll accompany the tour all the way to the Clouds!
  •  Every tent and bag will be loaded into a support vehicle, which will be waiting for you upon your arrival!
  •  Every cyclist will be treated to a FREE ice cold pint in the Clouds, as well as a FREE solar powered shower to recover for the weekend of dancing and merriment ahead!

The best thing is that the ride is completely FREE - all you need is to turn up with a bike and a smile! Don't worry if you're not Bradley Wiggins, we'll be taking it nice and relaxed.

For more information and booking please email rolluponbikes@gmail.com, or phone Luci on 07522 437064.

]]>Stokes Croft Markethttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/7/8/stokes-croft-market-1.htmlEditor2012-07-08T21:38:09Z2012-07-08T21:38:09Z

Stokes Croft has come a long way in the past decade; from somewhat grimy beginnings, the neighbourhood has continually undergone various transformations, becoming a colourful and energetic hub thanks to the efforts of the local community and some very hard working individuals.

The latest addition to this vibrant area is The Stokes Croft Market. Born from the ‘No Tesco’ campaign in 2011, this volunteer run market falls on the second Saturday of every month and currently spans three main venues: Boston Tea Party hosts a selection of all things vintage while The Full Moon provides stalls catering to food, arts and crafts. Hamilton House also has a collection of arts and crafts stalls with additional delicious fare from the Community Kitchen stall outside.

The committee behind the market are working with Bristol City Council in order to eventually expand the current framework and encourage sprawling street-side stalls offering an even wider selection of goods, turning Stokes Croft into a trendy shopping destination for both locals and tourists alike.

One of the main aims of the Stokes Croft Market was to introduce a greater selection of affordable fresh food into the area and with it, the philosophy of responsible buying. Jake Smith, Chairman of the committee behind the enterprise said, “After the campaign against Tesco, we realised we couldn’t just sit around and wait for something to happen - we wanted to offer an alternative to all the larger stores, where shopping can be so impersonal.”

As well as providing quality produce for the locals, the market is also set to create a platform for the area’s artistic delegates to showcase their talents. Stokes Croft is famous for its impressive and usually politically charged street art, so with the introduction of the Stokes Croft Market, the creativity of talented local artists can spill out onto the street from the scores of art studios in the neighbourhood.

The next Stokes Croft Market will be held on Saturday 14th July and runs from 11am – 6pm, so come along and support your local independent traders. For those still raring to go later on in the evening, the Attic Bar will be regularly hosting a fundraising event for the market on the same night, with fantastic music from all around the South West. If you are interested in hiring a stall and being a part of this new movement, please contact the venues below:

 

Full Moon: marketatthemoon@mail.com

Hamilton House: events@coexistuk.org

Boston Tea Party: cheltenhamroad@bostonteaparty.co.uk

]]>Stokes Croft Market 12th May Stalls availablehttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/4/17/stokes-croft-market-12th-may-stalls-available.htmlEditor2012-04-17T16:28:39Z2012-04-17T16:28:39Z

The first date of the monthly Stokes Croft Market has been announced! On Saturday the 12th of March venues across Stokes Croft will host markets from food to arts, crafts and vintage.

So if you are interested in selling your handmade treats at this summer, and being part of a new movement supporting the independent economy in Stokes Croft, then please fill-out the attached form and return to us ASAP.

The market will be continuing every second saturday of the month!

Pitches are £15 with table provided

]]>The Future's Green for Stokes Crofthttp://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/3/28/the-futures-green-for-stokes-croft.htmlEditor2012-03-28T12:58:52Z2012-03-28T12:58:52ZJak and Robert Ollett of Eudaimon urban sustainable design practice talk to Rachel Johnstone about being at Hamilton House since its early ‘desolate, squat-like’ days, their part in the area’s re-development, and their vision for the future. 

Plants reach from all directions towards the sunlight. The air is an oxygen-heavy fug. This oasis of jungly greenery is like a capsule of rainforest, except that amongst the leaves are hi-spec computers and visible beyond them is the concrete greyness of City Road. Welcome to the headquarters of Eudaimon, Jak and Robert Ollett’s base since they moved into Hamilton House in 2009.

 

When they first arrived the building was boarded-up, uninhabited for years and sheltering street-drinkers. Inside it was ‘desolate and cold’. Jak remembers how ‘nothing worked and the bathrooms were caked in pigeon shit’. Yet founders Jamie Pike and Ollie Wells were persuasive in their vision for the project, and the Olletts grasped the opportunity to set up in a vast empty space, and be part of the regeneration.   

The Hamilton House community grew, with everyone pitching in to transform the building into a functioning workspace. Once the only tenants on their deserted floor, Jak now finds ‘unexpected meetings, happenings and opportunities around every corner'.

From their office-come-horticultural laboratory the Ollets spread their unique vision of urban living. Whilst it’s tempting to dream of countryside idylls, they face the realities of city-life head on, and refuse to retreat. With a projected 80% of the world’s population living in cities by 2030 (up from 50% now) Robert describes their aim to make our streets ‘a more positive mental landscape and to affect institutions that already exist rather than saying “screw the institutions”’. 

 

With their ‘Urban Watering Hole’ design Eudaimon won the vote to re-develop the triangle of waste-strewn land at the junction of Stokes Croft and City Road. Their vision for the new space has an evergreen vertical garden and art display area, as well as Bristol’s only public water fountain and manual bicycle pump. It’s an exciting, prestigious job, the first substantial pot of money the council is spending on the area. The Olletts foresee all varieties of local life being drawn to the spot – wildlife to inhabit and feed on the plants, people to use the resources and have ‘new levels of dialogue around interesting, inspiring things’. The corner project has been two years in development, and with final approvals will become a reality this summer.

 Eudaimon’s ongoing vision is to create a Stokes Croft ‘corridor of biodiversity’, developing under-used areas to create a matrix of healthy green spaces. City life doesn’t have to be concrete-coloured: from their urban jungle Eudaimon show that the future of Stokes Croft can be an inviting shade of green.

]]>Fancy a Delicious Lunch for £2...http://www.hamiltonhouse.org/news/2012/2/1/fancy-a-delicious-lunch-for-2.htmlEditor2012-02-01T15:38:53Z2012-02-01T15:38:53ZTenant’s lunch has been thriving recently with delicious hot food now being served every Thursday lunchtime in the events space at Hamilton House. At the end of the last year the team went out with a bang serving up a lovely nut roast to 80 tenants.

The aim of tenants lunch is to give all the tenants of Hamilton House a chance to come together and enjoy each other’s company over healthy, tasty food. This is an example menu (available this Thursday!):

  • Vegetable Tagine with juicy apricots
  • Coriander cous-cous
  • Roast pumpkin with butterbeans and sweet sesame drizzle
  • Shredded cabbage, apple and celery salad

And the team are also happy to cater for gluten free and any other dietary requirements. Tickets are available for tenant’s lunch on the front desk, £2.50 on the day and £2 before. Lunch is served in the events space on the third floor at 1pm.

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