Bristol Indymedia has taken the decision to cease operating as it currently does not have the capacity to maintain the site due to a lack of volunteers and to also rethink how to take the project forward. If you wish to get involved with Bristol Indymedia then please get in touch using the contact form here and we will contact you once we have arranged a meeting date. We are putting on a film night that discusses the past, present and future of Indymedia, you could also come along to that and meetup with us. Thanks for being patient with us, hopefully we will be back in a new and improved form later this year.

Here are the details of the Cube night.

Indymedia Past, Present & Future

Monday 7th October 8pm The Cube, Dove Street, Bristol. Entry £5/£4 (But nobody turned away due to lack of funds)
Indymedia started life during the anti-summit protest in Seattle in 1999 as an alternative to the corporate driven mainstream media and its business-as-usual, politician-friendly willful ignorance. Demonstrating that it was indeed possible to develop our own channels of communication that bypassed those owned and controlled by the ruling class, Independent Media Centres (IMCs) spread around the planet at an unprecedented rate, and Indymedia became an inspiring phenomenon known the world over.


Since that time the political and technological context has changed dramatically. Today self-publishing is the norm and the mass adoption of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other tools for curation and sharing have empowered the production, organisation and distribution of content as never before. Along with other IMCs around the world, it’s time to rethink what Bristol Indymedia can and should be about.


We’ll be showing a selection of clips from some key moments in Indymedia’s history, but this event is primarily to discuss the future of Bristol Indymedia. All welcome!

Thursday September 5th, The Christmas Steps Arts Quarter presents the screening of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925, 75 mins) with live musical accompaniment.

Satiating your thirst for revolutionary propaganda with extra cinematic wonders bought to you by Geneva Stop. - Outdoor cider bar and food stall; babies and prams optional. - Starts at 7pm (feature plays at 8pm).

Monday 2nd September 8pm The Cube, Dove Street, Bristol.  Entry £4/£5 (But nobody turned away due to lack of funds)

Get the Frack Out of Somerset  is a documentary, produced by independent film maker Marco Jackson in collaboration with local campaign coalition, Frack Free Somerset. The film looks at the potential impact of fracking and coal bed methane extraction in Somerset, and the social, health and environmental consequences associated with these methods of unconventional gas drilling. With the majority of Somerset covered by licenses sold my the Government for drilling, it sets the scene for community resistance to defend local villages from becoming gasfields. Running time 25 minutes.

Film will be followed by Q&A with film makers and Frack Free Somerset.