Reclamation Month at SHOP!

August is Reclamation Month at SHOP! This is the month to take stuff back, be it time, the land around you, an old hair dryer, or that black tee shirt. Confused? Intrigued? Then read on and all shall become clear! If you are short on time to read then it’s basically a bit like recycling but with a more philosophical bent. But, hang on, if you don’t have time to read on then that’s just bubbish and you obviously need a holiday…

EXHIBITION
2nd August – 31st August 11am – 7pm (excluding Sundays)
Let’s Do Nice Things
Art Club: Reclamation
Last month SHOP was thoroughly taken over by the lovely art collective, Let’s Do Nice Things. At the monthly art club as part of that take over, everyone made a piece of art on the theme of Reclamation and the results from the art club are being exhibited all month.

MARKET
7th August 11am – 4pm Free
Christmas Steps Arts Quarter: Artisan Market
The monthly SHOP-organised Artisan Market returns. Local makers sell their wares in amongst the other independent traders of the Arts Quarter, in the charmingly irregular setting of the Christmas Steps.

WorkSHOP
14th August 11am – 7pm Free
Fix it Don’t Chuck It
Everyone has an old something or other hidden in the back of the wardrobe that we would chuck out if it were for the guilt, but is generally useless as it doesn’t work anymore and most likely we don’t know how to fix it. Well, guilt-be-gone! As you can bring it to SHOP and get it fixed by our expert and even get some tips so you can DIY it next time.

PICNIC
19th August 7.30pm onwards Free
Reclaim nature with SHOP: Planting Picnic in the new CSAQ Community Garden
We now have a key to the community part of the garden at the school on St. Michaels Hill and we have our own planter to use as we wish. If you want to donate some plants to the garden then they would be very welcome.

We will be filling our planter with soil and planting the first bits and bobs on the 19th and to celebrate will be having a picnic there too.

GUERILLA GARDENING
21st August WorkSHOP: 11am – 7pm / Seed Bomb Disengagement: 7pm
Seed Bombing
Once upon a time, someone had a beautiful and civically minded idea to provide city centre residents and traders of the Christmas Steps with a shared Community Garden . Not only was this a kind and people-centred idea, but the location was beautiful too; the old St Bartholemew Court . However, when the building nearby were redeveloped, sadly the developers stuck a ruddy great gate with an even bigger lock on the garden, leaving the garden inaccessible to the community and the people living around it. Well, no longer, the time has come to reclaim the community garden! Come and make seed bombs with us during the day on the 21st and then launch them into the garden in the evening when there’s no one around to catch us!

CineSHOP
26th August 7.30pm – 9.30pm Free
Be Kind Rewind (with The Story of Stuff)
A Michel Gondry film, hapless Jerry (Jack Black) accidentally magnetises his brain whilst sabotaging the local power plant and as an unexpected result his magnetic waves manage to wipe out the contents of the independent video store where his best friend works. The two hatch a plan to fox customers by remaking the films and a cult of home-remade films sweeps the town. Based on a true story from 20th Century Flicks. Ha ha, not really.

SHOPStock!
29th – 30th August Free
Reclaiming the city!
No this isn’t the bit where we tell you we have loads of new stock; this is a mini SHOP festival! Reclaim the roads from the cars and the fields from the cows, by coming on a cycle and camping trip with SHOP!

Meeting at SHOP on Sunday the 29th August at midday, the plan is then going to cycle to Walnut Tree Farm, 9 miles from the centre of Bristol following a Sustrans cycle route, camping at the farm overnight before cycling home the next day. There might even be a BBQ and some laughs. The idea is to do something different that doesn’t involve too much cost to the earth or the pocket and maybe make some new friends along the way! For more information, drop us a mail.

LET’S DO NICE THINGS
www.bentleg.co.uk
After a great week of takeover events with Let’s Do Nice Things in July, SHOP and Bentleg are going to continue their romancing of each other with more events this month!

17th August 7.30pm – 9pm £5 Life Drawing
Naked people in a shop to draw.

24th August 7.30pm – 9pm £5 Art Club
Making things what we are told to make (Task Me Up)

Please RSVP to Let’s Do Nice Things if you would like to attend, you can do this here: art@bentleg.co.uk or here: 07513 021840

NEWS
Art Space at 18
We now have official use of number 18 Christmas Steps, next door to SHOP! We have been housing the Zine Library in there for a few weeks, but now would also like to offer the space as a hireable gallery-cum-events space. The space will be available for as little as £10 per day, or evening. Get in touch for more info.

Zine Library
Thank you to those who have contributed to and visited our new Zine Library through our secret door! For those of you who are too far away, or armchair SHOP, fear not – you can visit www.thingsihavezine.tumblr.com to see the online catalogue and review site.

Reclaiming Time
SHOP is just like you: needing a wee rest every now and then, so SHOP will be closed on Monday 9th August until Wednesday 11th for general idleness. We have to rest our gigantic brains in order to come up with such great events for you, alright? SHOP will reopen at 11am on Thursday 12th August.

HireSHOP
37th Chamber
Search for ‘37th Chamber’ on Facebook
The 37th Chamber return to SHOP on Saturday 14th for another night of kung fu and samurai grindhouse classics.

CHARITY EVENTS
FAN Network
www.thefancharity.org
Don’t forget FAN meets monthly at SHOP, the second Wednesday of the month at 6pm. FAN means, Friends and Neighbours and it’s a chance to meet to talk others in the community.