Bristol celebrates their anniversary with a big street graffiti paint
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00:00 We are doing a 650 paint jam, which is kind of like looking at what our first would have
00:05 been but without spray paint. Kind of looking back at the Renaissance period but also a
00:10 celebration of Bristol 650 and kind of where the city has come from and where it's going
00:15 to.
00:16 In proper Bristol fashion, the city is celebrating its 650th birthday in the only way appropriate
00:23 with some incredible street art. Brought to you by Bristol's City Centre bid and curated
00:28 and organised by world renowned street art festival Artfest, residents, visitors and
00:34 art fans alike can prepare to witness 10 street artists transform the city with a Renaissance
00:40 inspired paint jam. Let's find out more.
00:43 Great projects being funded by the Bristol City Centre bid and you know they're all about
00:48 sort of you know driving sort of like footfalls sort of like to the areas, supporting kind
00:52 of like traders which are here and so by sort of bringing us in and other sort of organisations
00:57 to do kind of cultural activity it makes it for a more interesting sort of like city centre.
01:02 I think it just you know it brings a brings even more creativity to this area and it also
01:08 sort of you know is here to sort of drive more sort of footfalls. This area is sort
01:12 of part of the street and sort of around here. The sort of creativity and bringing it onto
01:16 the street it's not like it's in a gallery or a museum it's you know it's free for people
01:20 to come and view which is kind of what street art's about really. People have to engage
01:26 with it you know whether it's positive or negative you know they get something to talk
01:29 about.
01:30 When walking around the city of Bristol one thing that can always be seen is street art
01:35 and big names such as Banksy has emerged as Bristol talent from the street art skill.
01:40 A hopefully pretty picture about the history of Bristol on this window which has been covered
01:47 in plastic. The brief was 650 years of Bristol so a little bit of research going back to
01:55 the 14th century seeing how the buildings and the houses were bringing it right up to
02:00 today. So my petition of peace will run from the left hand side in the 14th century all
02:06 the way through to the right hand side which will be up to today.
02:11 It's another string to the sort of Bristol bow of all the great things that we have here
02:15 to attract visitors you know so that's kind of like one element but equally it's just
02:19 that thing of sort of that mundane thing of walking to work every day and suddenly you
02:23 see something that's a bit different or makes you question you know what's going on in society
02:27 or whatever and it's about that basically it's just and ultimately just make people
02:31 have a little grin on their face as they walk past.
02:34 When people have problems like most of us have today walking through streets of concrete
02:42 walls, parking signs, prohibited this, prohibited that sign is just depressing. So if you can
02:51 get hold of what is just a grey wall and convert it into something that just might make someone
02:57 smile, personally I think it makes our cities look much more attractive.