We visit the stunning light and sound installation at Redcliffe Caves

Redcliffe Caves have temporarily become the home of an ever growing constellation of lights as part of We Are Warriors.

The caves are made up of a human-made network of caverns and catacombs that run underneath the city and are usually closed to the public.

We Are Warriors is a stunning sound and light installation containing thousands of tiny flickering lights and the voices of 130 women and girls from Bristol aged 8 to 80.

The installation, which is running until June 2, was originally commissioned by Bristol Women’s Voice for their Deeds Not Words programme to mark the 100th anniversary of the first time women were allowed to vote.

We Are Warriors plays tribute to anyone who has felt their voice or presence muffled, silenced or suppressed as the voices lure visitors to the main cavern, which has been adorned with a constellation of LED lights.

The soundscape was created by a series of workshops with diverse women from Bristol brought together with Breathing Fire, Black Women’s Playback Theatre Company.  Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Group, Bristol Drugs Project, Montpelier High School, Eastwood Park Women’s Prison, Gloucester Road Women’s Institute, Integrate UK (a youth-led charity based in Easton), Redmaid’s Junior School and the Wellbeing Group at Wellspring Healthy Living are among the groups and organisations that contributed to the workshops.

Tickets cost £10.80 (with booking fees) per adult, £5.50 (with booking fees) for ages 5 to 17, £9.96 (with booking fees) for students, NHS and Low Income, and free for carers and ages 0 to 4, and can be booked here. The last entry is at 6.15pm.

As visitors enter the installation, they will have the opportunity to add their own LED light (provided at the entrance) to the trail. Earplugs are also available upon request.

Visitors are also only allowed within the lit-up trails since the rest of the cavern has holes due to its mining history.