An incredible new mural is being unveiled at People's Republic of Stokes Croft.
The 19-metre mural celebrates a new initiative helping Big Issue sellers boost their income using Billy Chip's award winning currency.
The stunning piece is being brought to life by four of Bristol's most respected artists: Jody, Melo, Conrico and AimesWasHere.
It forms part of a wider awareness campaign for BillyChip Live - a one night only charity concert at Bristol Beacon on November 22 headlined by international DJ James Hayes.
All proceeds will go towards building three micro homes in the city for people experiencing homelessness, and will be delivered in partnership with Help Bristol's Homelessness
Azul Amos ( co-founder of Art Sync), Jasper (CEO of Help Bristol’s Homeless) and Jody (mural artist) tell us more.
00:01An incredible new mural is being unveiled at People's Republic of Stokes Craft.
00:06The 19 metre mural celebrates a new initiative, helping big issue sellers boost their income using Billy Chip's award winning currency.
00:15The stunning piece is being brought to life by four of Bristol's most respected artists.
00:20Jody, Melo, Conrico and Ames was here. We're at the site to find out more.
00:25We initially started working with Billy Chip. We reached out to them because we wanted to offer a free mural.
00:31We got a little bit of funding to go towards it and then we found out that they're working with big issues celebrating a new partnership.
00:38So that's how this begun and the stories developed from there. They're hosting a fundraiser with James Hype as you can see behind me.
00:46So the idea is we've got big issue on the end showing the new collaboration with Billy Chip
00:52and then we've got James Hype to represent the fundraiser and the fundraiser is going towards help Bristol's homeless
00:59and building real micro homes for the homeless to make a real impact.
01:03So this is a mural of the DJ James Hype. He is doing a collaboration with Big Issue.
01:10He is doing an event on the 22nd November at Beacon to raise money for the Help The Homeless charity which houses homeless people in Bristol in these really cool containers.
01:25And what has it been like working on this piece?
01:29I always enjoy doing this kind of work because I think street art, graffiti, Bristol, kind of music, it's all a kind of really interesting melting pot.
01:38And I think this definitely captures people's attention. There will be people coming by, stopping by, what's this, taking photos, this kind of thing.
01:45So I think it has a really great draw. It has a lot of currency, particularly in Bristol.
01:49And it's a really great kind of mashup of the entire with all of these various different people for the Help The Homeless charity.
01:56Billy Chip, we've been working with them for a few years now.
01:59And they've been great supporters of help Bristol's homeless, you know.
02:04It's nice to collaborate with other people when it comes to homelessness because we can't do it all on our own.
02:11And neither can Bristol City Council. So an event like this keeps that awareness going, foot on the pedal of homelessness.
02:19Great funding which we're looking forward to, to help us to, you know, build more units or convert more units
02:28so we can help to get more people off the streets.
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