Our next meeting is on Monday 6th February at 7.30pm in The Bowling Club. Everyone including non members are always welcome to come along to our monthly meetings where you can hear about  things happening in the park, the issues we're dealing with and have your say.


Climbing Wall Comes to Park
Scores of young people (and some adults) had fun climbing a 24-foot wall as part of an activity day organised by the Victoria Park Action Group on October 30th.

The activity day marked the official opening of the new basketball court and surrounding teen area, which was refurbished with funding from Community Spaces and Bristol City Council.

VPAG wants to encourage teenagers and young people to respect the space and to use it in a positive way. The group will be arranging two more activity days in the school holidays next year, and is also organising sports coaching on the basketball court during the winter.

The mobile climbing wall, which was hired from Climb Vertigo, can accommodate four climbers at a time on routes with varying degrees of difficulty. Climbers wear a harness which is attached to an automatic hydraulic belay, so that if they fall off the wall they are lowered safely to the ground.

As well as the climbing wall, there was street cricket and basketball coaching on the court, a music-mixing workshop and a youth activity bus to keep young people entertained, while many people just enjoyed watching street artist Wei Ong at work on a spray-painted mural inside the teen shelter.

Teen Shelter Work of Art

The teen shelter next to St Luke's Road is now a work of art in its own right thanks to the amazing talent of street artist Wei Ong.

Wei, who is also known as Silent Hobo, painted a mural on the inside of the shelter as part of an activity day organised by the Victoria Park Action Group on October 30th. The shelter had been tagged and damaged by fire, and was looking scruffy and run-down before Wei got to work and gave it a new lease of life.

The work took about five hours to complete, and Wei set up a time-lapse camera to photograph him as he painted. The result can be seen at his website, www.silenthobo.co.uk

As well as work in the streets and parks of Montpelier, St George's, Stoke's Croft and Barton Hill, Bristol-based Wei has also carried out commissions for the 2012 Olympics, Coca Cola and Levis.