In Bristol, conflict prompts responses on streets, on stage and at home

On 25 September, two Bristol outlets covered political conflict in separate but connected forms. Bristol 24/7 reported that a group had gathered for songs and poems in protest at the bombing in Yemen [1]. The same outlet’s review of Application 39 at Bristol Old Vic described the production as ‘a defiant conception of Gaza’s future, rendered with radical imagination and hope’ [2]. The Bristol Cable’s Nikesh asked whether it is better to engage or ignore a far-right YouTuber and how to have hard conversations with those closest to us [3].

Read together, the pieces point to a pattern: public protest, theatre and private conversation all appeared as ways of responding to conflict and far-right provocation. Bristol 24/7 covered the Yemen gathering and the Gaza-future play [1][2]; The Bristol Cable addressed how to talk about a far-right YouTuber with loved ones [3].