Bristol Business Improvement District: ‘Bristol is always a good idea’

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Bristol Business Improvement District: ‘Bristol is always a good idea’ is an art installation that will appear around the city this summer. But what will it entail?

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00:00Summer is always a busy time for us. We kind of go from one huge project to another, and

00:08then all of the projects that are going on in the background. So we've had a big sustainability

00:12drive recently, and kind of linking up all the sustainability projects that we're working

00:16on. We're working, we've got Old City Sounds coming up at the end of August, so that's

00:24a big one that we're working on at the moment. There's all sorts of things to do with cleansing

00:28and safety and all of the good stuff that makes Bristol a destination, basically. It

00:34makes it safe, approachable, and a lovely place to come to for everyone involved.

00:40And in terms of the Light Festival, tell me what is happening with that this summer?

00:45Yeah, so we had Bristol Light Festival at the beginning of February 2024, and we had an

00:50installation there called Bristol is Always a Good Idea that was installed at Valentine Bridge

00:55on Temple Quay. It went down really well with visitors, and Bristol is Always a Good Idea is

01:04just a lovely sentiment, and we thought it would work well with all of the good stuff that goes on

01:09during the summer months. So yeah, Bristol is Always a Good Idea, the installation was by an

01:15artist called Hackney Dave, a London-based artist, and he kind of plays with the idea of advertising

01:22language and propaganda within art. So Bristol is Always a Good Idea was born out of an idea that

01:30he had around some postcards. So we have now got this Bristol is Always a Good Idea sign,

01:36and we've installed it in Millennium Square, which is available to view just in front of

01:42the Planetarium at the moment, and will be there until the end of July. Around that we're doing a

01:48wider campaign to remind residents and visitors of Bristol that Bristol is Always a Good Idea,

01:55and there's all this fun stuff that goes on throughout the summer.

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