Behind The Scenes: Women at Trinity

Team Trinity during our AGM in 2022

As we celebrate International Women's Day, we wanted to take a moment to shine a light on some of the incredible women in our own workforce and find out how they are challenging the sector, pushing for change and paving the way for a better future for all.

Esther

Esther is Trinity’s Combined Arts Producer, working to pull together all the different moving parts of an artistic project from concept to completion - whether it's an engagement programme or an arts festival or working with artists to create work. She’s been in the industry for about four years now, working in Bristol for public events, art projects, venues such as Trinity as well as recently programming stages at festivals around the UK.

Esther is currently working on a BBC 1XTRA funded project Speak Out which is a creative development programme for 16 - 18yr olds, giving them a supported platform to learn an art form of their choice to express how they feel about issues they face.

Alongside this, Esther helps to programme Afrika Eye, the South West’s biggest annual festival of African film, music and arts, creating amazing expanded events with talented artists in some of Bristol's best cultural institutions.

Jenny B

Youth Programme Manager, Jenny joined the Trinity team in December 2022, bringing her rich experience in working with children aged 0-25yrs and their families.

Having worked in the community for many years, Jenny understands the barriers to engagement and is working hard to overcome challenges. Since starting, Jenny has been developing a programme of work to give children, young people and their families the opportunity to be creative, including our new music education programme 'Next-Gen Sounds'.

Jenny believes that everyone is an artist and is passionate about creativity and giving voice to those who are quietened by society and giving them a platform to amplify their voices.

In her spare time, Jenny enjoys singing in a community choir and is involved in ACTA production ‘Silent Heroines’.

Aysha

Trinity’s Production Coordinator, Aysha, started her journey at Trinity in 2019 on a three-month internship. Since then, she has become a core part of Team Trinity, dealing with important relationships between the venue and promoters, as well as leading on EDI, anti-harassment, and mental health and wellbeing across the organisation.

Passionate about diversifying the live events industry and increasing safety through doing so, Aysha’s work has led to 15% of Trinity’s live programme being operated by female/non-binary technicians. Learning alongside our in-house technicians and enrolling on Saffron’s Sound Engineering course, she has built her way to becoming the venue’s first Black technician.

Aysha recently led a successful application for Music Venues Trust funding, providing much needed investment into production equipment such as adding to our lighting rig and making our outdoor venue, The Den, fully self-sufficient.

Aysha has used her position to speak out on sexual harassment within the music industry and wider night-time economy. Subsequently, she has been selected to be part of the Bristol Nights Advisory Board, working with organisations across the city to deliver campaigns focussing on harm reduction, safety, and anti-harassment within the night-time economy.

Sarah

Initially taking on a fixed-term contract in 2016 Sarah now manages and oversees Trinity’s comms and development.

Sarah is interested in community-led action and solutions and recently successfully secured a grant from Power to Change so Trinity can invest further in developing community tech. She has also worked extensively across the community and arts sectors, once featuring in the Guardian due to getting ‘pretty annoyed’ by ‘arts speak’ and recently supporting arts organisation gentle/radical during their Turner Prize nomination.

In her spare time, Sarah offers small grassroots organisations pro-rata comms and marketing support and is currently working with a volunteer-led SEND organisation to strengthen their offer. Sarah was diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dyspraxia in primary school.