RESTFUL CITY RETURNS!
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RESTFUL CITY RETURNS! 〰️
Rest Improvised, Arnolfini August 2021. Event co-curated by Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Gaylene Gould, Artistic Director of The Space to Come. Photo Credit: Lisa Whiting
We begin Restful City 26/27 with a bespoke Resting Space at the People’s Republic of Stoke’s Croft for En Masse 2026. The Resting Space extends a warm welcome to our Bristol chronically ill community and makes it more possible to be part of the event and manage pain or fatigue.
“Resting Collectively in a practice. We do it so that when we need to rest alone, it doesn’t feel quite so strange and so the world gets used to seeing resting and horizontal bodies in public.”
We are inviting venues, community centres and cultural centres to sign up to Restful City 26/27 by declaring themselves rest friendly, creating a resting space or offering an horizontal event in partnership with us in January - May 2027.
We’ll publish a few list of Restful City events in early January 2027. Use the form below to sign up to our mailing list or to get in touch about signing up to Restful City.
If We Could Rest Awhile workshop and public action as part of the Horizontal Festival 2026, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum de Charité. Photo Credit Dorotea Tuch
Restful project is made possible by a Bristol City Council Culture Fund Grant 26/27.