Wonderful Water Festival – April 2025
For Easter 2025, Broadmead BID teamed up with Sparks Bristol and John Wesley’s New Room, to produce Wonderful Water, a community arts festival that ran from 9 to 12 and 16 to 19 April (Wednesdays to Saturdays).
Wonderful Water celebrated the power of water to sustain life, nourish nature, and inspire wellbeing and invited all ages to enjoy exhibitions and allow creativity to flourish with craft sessions, dance workshops, talks, and more, including street performances by mermaids and deep-sea divers! All activities were FREE.
The event was planned with sustainability, creativity, and the importance of water at its heart, with children, families, community groups, and local artists involved in making artwork for the exhibitions using recycled and sustainable materials.
Workshops to create artwork for the exhibitions took place at both Sparks and John Wesley’s New Room during the February half term school holidays.
Marketing and promotion
In addition to featuring on the Bristol Shopping Quarter, Sparks Bristol, and John Wesley’s New Room websites and social media accounts, and being added to many relevant Facebook pages and groups, Wonderful Water was advertised in the Easter edition of Primary Times, a free magazine distributed to families of primary school children via their schools; it was published on 17 March. It was also be promoted via Bristol 24/7 in one of their daily newsletters, and in the 7 April edition of the ‘Things to do in Bristol this week’ newsletter, as well as in their Instagram story. Finally, it was added to the ‘What’s on’ guide on the Visit Bristol website.
