About the Forge
The Forge is a unique creative event space in the heart of Bristol's Arts Quarter. We curate an ever changing series of events and workshops, celebrating people and their passions. The Forge is also available to privately hire, somewhere to meet, work, create, share and celebrate, surrounded by a beautiful backdrop. A space for friends and family, ideas, imagination and endless possibility.
A space to make your own.
Story
A historic industrial space built in the mid 1800s in central Bristol, the Forge was originally a coach house and then a blacksmiths. It was a working forge until it was bought and renovated in 2015 by musician Si John and photographer Silkie Lloyd. Accessed via a small back lane just off Colston Street, it sits high above the old Bristol city centre on huge Victorian buttresses with a view of St. Johns Gate and the old city wall. Sensitively renovated, The Forge holds onto its historic provenance and its recent additions feel like they've been there forever. By day the space is filled with light and by night the gentle sound of the city surrounds it.
