There may still be just under 300 days until Christmas but Bristol-based event Hype Agency is already working on its plans for its annual festive party – one of the largest and best-attended in the region. Every year Hype transforms Brunel’s Passenger Shed at Temple Meads into a magical...
Aardman Animation Oscar winners Wallace & Gromit have been drafted in by the English tourist board VisitEngland. to choose the best attractions England has to offer for a new app aimed at persuading travellers to holiday at home rather than venturing abroad. VisitEngland’s 101 Things To Do Before You...
Bristol-based Creative England finance director Mehjabeen Price has been shortlisted in the prestigious Business Finance Awards 2013. Mehjabeen, who was finance director of South West Screen in Bristol before joining Creative England, is in the running for the UK finance director of the year, public sector and voluntary, award....
Portishead-based design and print business BurleighPortishead has become North Somerset’s first sustainable design and print supplier by converting to 100% renewable green electricity. The business is now solely powered by electricity from green energy supplier Good Energy. This is in addition to its other environmental commitments using vegetable oil...
The BBC’s Bristol-based Features department has swept the board with 17 nominations at this year’s RTS West of England awards. The BBC is shortlisted across a number of categories including best male and female on-screen talent and best features and factual entertainment programme. Eleven nominations go to feature films...
Creative agency McCann has appointed Mark Williams and Julian Burrett as creative directors in its Bristol office. Between them Mark and Julian have notched up a wealth of experience working on a multitude of major brands and campaigns over the past decade, including Microsoft, Google, Volvo, Samsung, Toshiba, Stella,...
Artists are being sought to create a ‘gateway’ to Bristol Temple Meads station as part of a wider scheme to put art at the heart of the city’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The project is launched this morning with the unveiling of two new artworks by internationally-renowned Bristol artists...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Simon and Garfunkel may have sung about happily chatting to New York street furniture back in the 1960s, but this summer Bristol will get its chance to feel groovy on the city streets. Lamp posts, as well as bus stops and pillar boxes, will soon...
Bristol PR agency Spirit has been appointed by Bristol Green Capital Partnership to support its bid to earn the city the title of European Green Capital 2015. Spirit’s work will initially involve stakeholder research to identify the best approach to use with prospective partners to secure sponsorship. It will...
Bristol animators Aardman is aiming for its fifth Oscar victory with its feature film The Pirates! Band of Misfits nominated for an Academy Award. The film, released in cinemas last year, is Aardman’s first full-length 3D stop-motion production. Aardman has received six Oscar Nominations and has won four times....
Nash Partnership, the architectural practice with an office in Bristol, is to sponsor this year’s Independent Bath Literature Festival as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. The practice, which expanded into Bristol recently, was started in Bath in 1988 by Edward Nash and has grown over a quarter of...
Watershed, Bristol’s ground-breaking media centre and café/bar, has appointed James Taljaard to the new senior position of general manager. James, pictured, who joins after 11 years at Arts & Business (A&B), will focus on further developing the venue’s award-winning conference and events service. He began his working life as...
A former block of Edwardian public toilets in Bristol is to be reopened as a temporary art gallery and winter shop. Antlers Gallery, which has produced similar shows in London, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire, is working with Bristol City Council, which owns the disused cloakroom building on the corner of...
