BBC features our growing campaign- creating Avona river spirit puppet

Rave On For The Avon, Conham Bathing and new arts collective The Avonas are gathering to create a river spirit puppet to continue the campaign for the Bristol Avon. This campaign, captured by feature-length documentary Rave On For The Avon is growing and taking new forms.

You can meet Avona at our final Bristol screening of the film Sat 27th Sep at Bristol Aquarium's Megascreen.

Rave On for the Avon is an independent wild swimming documentary that’s explores a community’s fight to save their bathing spot in unique, daring & distinctly Bristol ways. Seen by over 4,000 people at over 75 screenings the film has shown how loved the Bristol Avon is to those who want to protect it. For upcoming screenings visit our website.

The Guardian gave our film four stars saying ‘Campaigning never looked so fun and friendly as it does in this joyous documentary about Bristol’s clean water campaigners’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Outdoor Swimming Society wrote ‘Rave On for the Avon is a beautiful new film … it explores the importance of rivers in modern life – all set to a Bristol soundtrack.’