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...
Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – the key part of the city’s economic growth over the next 25 years – plays host to an unusual live art event this evening when 30 local artists will be set a unique challenge. The writers, musicians, visual artists, designers and photographers will...
Businesses that go the extra mile to support the arts in the South West are being recognised today at a reception staged by Arts & Business (A&B), the organisation that brings together the cultural and corporate worlds. The Business Cultural Champions programme – a sister initiative of A&B’s successful Cultural Champions...
Millions of passengers going through Bristol Airport are to get a larger-than-life view of some of the individuals who are helping to make Airbus’s Filton plant a world centre for aerospace engineering. A 43-metre long poster stretching the length of the corridor leading to the departure gates features 25...
Bristol Post owner Northcliffe Media, the regional publishing arm of the Daily Mail group (DMGT), has been sold to a consortium led by former Mirror Group boss David Montgomery. New owner Local World said it “intends to transform regional publishing to create a one-stop shop for local content to...
Bristol Business News travel writer Anne Gorringe has been named as one of the winners of the prestigious Business Travel Awards, collecting her trophy last night at a glittering ceremony in the heart of London. Anne scooped the Best Newcomer title for two articles which appeared on Bristol Business...
The region’s top public relations and communications professionals were rewarded for their work over the past 12 months at the CIPR West of England PRide Awards. More than 150 people from across the regional PR industry gathered at Bristol’s Grand Hotel to celebrate the achievements at a glittering awards...
The region’s top PR agencies and practitioners go head to head this evening at the 2012 West of England CIPR PRide Awards. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony and dinner at the Grand Hotel, Bristol. Bristol Business News will carry full details of all the winners...
