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How many unicorns will you discover?
BRISTOL is going unicorn crazy this summer as a new charity art trail gets into full swing.
Sixty statues of the mythical creatures have been sited across the city for Unicornfest, which is raising money for Leukaemia Care.
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They have been decorated by local artists as part of Bristol’s 650th anniversary celebrations.
Dozens of smaller unicorn ‘foals’ painted by school children have also gone on display.
In the first days of the trail, several of the unicorns, including Nova in Gloucester Road near The Arches, were damaged but organisers have acted swiftly to repair them.
Visitors have been urged not to climb on the statues or touch their horns but simply to look at or take photos. Every breakage takes away from money being raised to help leukaemia patients and their families.
The trail lasts nine weeks, until early September. Paper maps are available at a number of sites across the city and a pdf copy can be downloaded from the Unicornfest website. There is an app too.
Donations can be made by scanning QR codes on the unicorns or by texting the word UNICORNFEST to 70580 to donate £5.
Among the unicorns in our area are those at the cricket ground and Memorial Stadium, and on Gloucester Road near the Berkeley Road junction.
Foals, including those from Sefton Park, Cotham, Elmlea and Henleaze Junior schools are on display at IKEA. Others can be found in The Galleries and Sparks in Broadmead.
Golden Hill WI opens
A NEW Women’s Institute has opened in BS6. It meets on the first Wednesday of the month at Golden Hill Sports Ground, BS6 7YA from 1-3pm.
An afternoon slot was chosen to fit with school hours and encourage those who find evening meetings difficult to attend.
Here is the unicorn at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. We'd love to see photos of our readers with this and other unicorns around the area. Send your pics to news@ bishopstonvoice.co.uk and we will publish as many as we can in our September edition.
The September speaker is Jacqs Graham from Tread Softly Productions. She is also a member of the local Kelvin Players group and an English teacher and will be doing interactive drama. Visitors are welcome. They can try a meeting for £6. Membership costs £46 for a year.
To find out more email president Pam Scull at goldenhillwi@gmail.com
