Bristol's Forwards festival to tackle city-wide issues

Bristol's Forwards festival to tackle city-wide issues

A new festival in Bristol will tackle the city's "important" issues alongside its music offering.

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Acts including Charli XCX, The Chemical Brothers and Jamie XX are set to perform at Forwards festival on the Downs this weekend.

But the event will also feature talks on topics such as the housing crisis, sex positivity and drug support.

Curator Antonia Cross said it was about "making these conversations accessible to a wider audience".

Ms Cross, who works for homeless charity Caring in Bristol, added: "We really wanted the opinions and the ideas and the conversations that are currently happening in Bristol to really be at the forefront."

Festival organiser Tom Paine said the talks and panel discussions, which will also cover food poverty, climate change, racism and "breaking the music class ceiling", were "issues that we thought the city needed to tackle".

Mr Paine, founder of Team Love, which also runs music festival Love Save the Day, said: "With the explosion of the festival industry, there's a lot of purely commercial events out there.

"They're built and designed to be profit-making events. That's never really sat that easy with us.

"That's not why we do what we do."

He said following their Breaking Bread event on the Downs "we got real insight into the issues with food poverty in the city".