How will inclusion on the UK’s National Register and the UNESCO Register occur?
We would like to promote and push the BICHC campaign for the whole of 2025, gathering pace and collecting more and more signatures.
An outline of 2025
Achieving our goal.
Large Institiutions
- Support by by organisations like the Arnolfini and Watershed will carry much weight.
- It’s 40 years this year since the Arnolfini curated Graffiti Art show
- Other large organisations that have been known to use street art as part of their marketing: Bristol University, UWE, Temple Meads Staion, We The Curious,
Schools & Colleges
- Support for the campaign will be strong in education.
- Teacher’s use this artform on many levels for teaching a number of subjects.
- All local Bristol schools will be informed of the campaign.
Local Bristol Public
- Through social media, the local Bristol people will be informed of the campaign.
- A high volume of support will be crucial to convince the locally elected Bristol members of parliament, to propose the campaign in Westminster in order to be added to the National Register of Intangible Culture.
Proposing the campaign to locally elected politicians to support the application in Westminster.
Once the process to securely gather support via the email campaign has finished (end of 2025), the locally elected politicians will be contacted via their surgeries, to ask them to propose in Westminster that Bristol Street Art should be admitted to the Nation Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Reasons to propose Bristol
Benefits To Bristol
The commercial benefits to Bristol of having a thriving and impressive stret art scene is worth billions from hotels, to restaurants, cafes to street art tours. Bristol has the identity and the history and it’s unique to this city.
Education
Teachers can continue to use street art and graffiti culture as a contemporary learning tool.
Community Murals
To encourage the continued desire of local communities to create community murals in order to regenerate shared living spaces and create communities around the neighbourhood paintings, at a fraction of the costs of a prohibition policy.
Local Feeling
Without doublt, if you asked the Bristol people a majority would say that Bristol and street art go together, and should remain that way. 40 years of culture has grown on the local people and generations now have expectations of seeing the art.
Urban Regeneration at a fraction of the cost
Most people will tell you that large street art and graffiti art pieces make an area feel safe, creative and exciting, whereas grey painted walls create a sense of fear and emptiness. The cost in public funds for the grey wall approach is wasteful and foolish, and costs many times more than a community mural or a large colourful piece by one of Bristol’s many high class street artist’s.
Local People’s love of art
It may seem a surprise to the people who are removing paintings for grey walls, but most Bristol people like to see colourful painted walls.
Especially the people who live around them.
“Once accepted onto the UK National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage, what next?
How does Bristol get onto the UNESCO Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage?”
A good question…….
How to be accepted by Unesco onto the worldwide Intangible Cultural Heritage Register
Reasons to propose Bristol
Benefits To Bristol
The commercial benefits to Bristol of having a thriving and impressive stret art scene is worth billions from hotels, to restaurants, cafes to street art tours. Bristol has the identity and the history and it’s unique to this city.
Education
Teachers can continue to use street art and graffiti culture as a contemporary learning tool.
Community Murals
To encourage the continued desire of local communities to create community murals in order to regenerate shared living spaces and create communities around the neighbourhood paintings, at a fraction of the costs of a prohibition policy.
Local Feeling
Without doublt, if you asked the Bristol people a majority would say that Bristol and street art go together, and should remain that way. 40 years of culture has grown on the local people and generations now have expectations of seeing the art.
Urban Regeneration at a fraction of the cost
Most people will tell you that large street art and graffiti art pieces make an area feel safe, creative and exciting, whereas grey painted walls create a sense of fear and emptiness. The cost in public funds for the grey wall approach is wasteful and foolish, and costs many times more than a community mural or a large colourful piece by one of Bristol’s many high class street artist’s.
Local People’s love of art
It may seem a surprise to the people who are removing paintings for grey walls, but most Bristol people like to see colourful painted walls.
Especially the people who live around them.
How to be accepted by Unesco onto the worldwide Intangible Cultural Heritage Register
Register your support
Just your name and email is needed to support the campaign.