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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
Entertainment
Aaliyah Miller

Inside Cargo Loft: The free, 24 hour Stokes Croft art studio that's a pillar of Bristol's African-Caribbean community

Bristol is a haven for artists and creatives, with big names such as Banksy known nationwide; putting the city on the map as a creative leader. The city is home to many multitalented artists who express their artistic abilities in a range of ways.

And it would seem necessary that a city that's home to so many brilliant budding artists would have plenty of spaces where they can nurture their craft. So this is exactly the mission that the Cargo Loft set out to fulfil.

Describing themselves as "a working studio space in the centre of Bristol, provided for free to emerging creatives of African and African Diaspora descent." They pride themselves in offering a "creative working environment for emerging creatives in the city and be able to offer them the freedom to come and go independently".

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