Community

Spatula is working with Bristol photographer Mark Simmons to reopen an archive shaped by protest, community and social change across the city. For decades, Mark has photographed people as they gather, organise, resist, celebrate and claim space. His images offer more than a record of individual moments. Together, they reveal something of Bristol’s political and cultural life, and of the people who have continually remade it. Much of this work has remained unseen for years. No

Originally created as a space for queer people to come together through zine making, print, conversation and DIY publishing, Queer Zine Club has always carried the spirit of creative self-expression and community-led making. Spatula is now supporting the club as it begins to return, helping bring it back to life and develop it into a regular programme. @queerzineclub Zines have a long connection to queer culture, protest and self-expression. They give people a way to tell sto