Very thought provoking and moving – a diverse range of personal experiences.

You should have tissues in all the rooms!

Really cool to see our friends’ paintings on show! (Behnaz and Suzan) they were both great.

Good variety. Sand mandala amazing. Particularly liked the videos on 2 nd floor.

Thankyou. I appreciate the time and care given to this exhibition. Well worth a visit.

A very interesting and thought provoking and moving exhibition. I hope that this message will circulate and be recognised.

Fantastic haven here!

Very good art. Interesting pictures. Lots of colour and style.

A moving collection of artists and peoples’ lives, passions, grief and humanity. I enjoyed my hour here just taking in the diversity of media. Thanking you.

Loved the artwork and coffee was gorgeous. Ricky’s work very complicated but thought-provoking.

Stunning, thought provoking and highly emotive – thank you one and all.

I loved the exhibition, it was informative and thought-provoking.

Wonderful art.

Very good – opens your eyes.

What a lovely, inspiring place.

Beautifully moving exhibition, very sense inspiring, so many people.

Wonderful space- nice feeling around the place.

Meeting Annie was good, peaceful painting Mandala. Thanks to Suzan for inviting me.

I loved painting the mandala, it cleared my mind.

I particularly enjoyed the work by K148, the vibrancy and comment offered by street art generally goes by unnoticed. ‘ Bristol is beautiful’.

This is a really excellent exhibition – so many people, art forms, energies, visual and spiritual themes. Well done the participants, curators, Pierian Centre people, all involved. I really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Very visually effective.

It is really an excellent exhibition. All the abstract paints are lovely. It is my first time to come to such kind of exhibition during my three years stay in this country. I am really excited much appreciate for everything.

Very emotional and thought provoking.

The whole exhibition has been exceptional and I think everyone should experience it to understand others. Thank you.

Very thought provoking. Emotional info. Great building, is it accessible so all especially those who are less mobile and agile. By the way, Happy Birthday, long may you continue.

Happy birthday – you’re a glowing light.

Thankyou.

Comments on Behnaz’s work:

What wonderful paintings – and how resourceful to use coffee as paint! I think all the paintings are very moving.

Thank you for being true and honest with your work as well as to share it with us. All the best.

Beautiful, touching and evocative – keep up the good work.

Coffee on paper works very well! The project is amazing.

Lovely, delicate and beautiful work, especially ‘Forgotten Memory’ and ‘Lonely Cry’. Thanks for sharing it.

I never would have thought of using coffee! Beautiful pictures.

So beautiful and haunting. Please continue to enrich us all.

Behnaz, this is beautiful! Well done!

Strong work. Thankyou.

Hi Behnaz, so very beautiful, enchanting.

I think you have done a great job, with coffee in a paper. They come out really well together. And I wish you best of luck in the future.

Lonely Cry is beautiful in its simplicity and Forgotten Memory truly captures the emotion

Beautiful, evocative and tender.

We are delighted to buy your ’21 women’ – what is its proper title? They are all powerful or very lovely (or both) paintings. Thankyou.

Behnaz, I really like your work – coffee is such an unusual medium, and it works so well. I wish you all the very best in your career as an artist.

Absolutely beautiful, rich soft and strong – good luck.

Behnaz, Your work has deeply affected many of our visitors – as well as myself. With love and good luck for your future.

Behnaz, a very talented artist with a very real message and a unique and accomplished style. Hopefully the first of many exhibitions.

Comments for Urbanalaguna

A fascinating exhibition – a taste of ordinary life lived in different cultural ways.

Really enjoyable, wonderful ordinary life

Very interesting liked how the space/videos shown

Fascinating beautiful vision

Wonderful way of putting all the material together and reflecting the everyday life. Great work

Very insightful, I’m assuming the change sound volume on the films is done purposely – clever – I like!

One of the most enjoyable exhibits that I have experienced in over five years. Absolutely fantastic

Re Blind Flight:

Wonderful film about two remarkable people together in a remarkable situation … thought provoking.

A privilege to see a moving film about humanity.

A wonderful insight and very informative. Thank you.

Zimbabwe Day:

Enjoyed Zimbabwean food and interesting exhibition. Here briefly but very good visit. Thankyou.

Thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, as well as engaging in the serious issues.

Thanks for the food, yummy. I love the way everything is laid out… the space is beautiful anyway but you have made it even more beautiful.

This centre is very important for this area. It is something we would like everywhere in Bristol.

I found the AIDS workshop very interesting and informative and friendly. The food was delicious and the gumboot dancing energetic and fun. Thanks for an excellent and well organised day.

I enjoyed doing the gumboot dancing and couldn’t quite get the rhythm of the drumming.

Sound with food. Good vibe and activities.

A relaxing and harmonious afternoon. Thankyou.

Gum boot bit too energetic for me to do, but great to watch, managed some drumming though and mbira was beautiful sounds, great to sing along. Noone could go to war on that music.

Stunning! Wonderful, moving exhibition, scrummy food, great music. EVERYONE around Bristol should know about this.

7pm talk very sobering! (Gabriel Shumba’s talk).

Excellent debate.

Sobering talk. Terrifying statistics.

Had a very nice and informative time.

Good very inter/educated.

Brilliant day. More publicity next year will see more people flocking in!! Well done. Keep up the good work.

We love June and this place. Thanks so much.

Thank you. Was fantastic.

Thank you, it is very interesting. Good luck.

I stayed half and hour and that was not enuff. Very interesting and calm place. Plenty interest in many topics. Thanks again. All the best.

Very interesting, I might come back and finish looking.

Very powerful and moving exhibition. Well done for all your work in making this happen.

Very meditative and dignified space – ideal context for drawing attention to the refugees and disadvantaged in society.

NEVER give up!

Glad to have come. Interesting. Thankyou.

Thanks for the chance to get the other side.

Really good. Keep it up!

Thanks again for an excellent exhibition – it’s very powerful and moving!!

Good pictures. Amazing.

Really exciting and valuable exhibition in wonderful venue. Enjoyed it very much – makes the difficulties of these people more real to me.

Very interesting and well presented in lovely building . Will come back for other events.

Wonderful space and inspired variety of exhibitions and presentations (more publicity would allow more to benefit from it?)

Thank you! An amazing collection of life in all its colour. Presented in beautiful surroundings.