Full list of acts welcoming Little Amal to Bristol announced today

Bristol Old Vic today announced the full line up of artists and community groups who are performing throughout Little Amal’s walk through Bristol on 24 Jun.

At 4pm, the first artists perform as Syrian musicians Dijwar Khalil and Soufian Saihi welcome Little Amal to King Street, followed by Bristol's first Poet Laureate Miles Chambers and the Bristol Community Choir.

DMAC drummers, (based at Hamilton House) take over with their high energy welcome on Welsh Back, before Little Amal walks on to meet Doorstep Arts and acta Community Theatre on High Street. Corn Street will also have market stalls open representing some of the refugee organisations running in the city, including Sari, project mama, Borderlands, Ashley Housing Association and City of Sanctuary.

Made in Bristol theatre company and Circomedia acrobats continue the party on Corn Street before she makes her way to the centre, Broad Quay for performances by Bristol Samba and Bristol Old Vic Street Theatre Company. 

In 2021, Little Amal, the giant puppet of a young Syrian refugee child, captured the world’s imagination by travelling 8,000 km across Europe to focus our attention on the urgent needs of young refugees.

That attention is now even more urgent and on Friday 24 June, to mark refugee week and Bristol as a City of Sanctuary, Little Amal - whose name means "hope" in Arabic - comes to Bristol, just one of the host locations on Little Amal’s journey across the UK.

This family event will introduce Little Amal to the sites and sounds of Bristol, and give Bristol communities the chance to meet her in person as she walks around Bristol’s historic centre.

The Walk: New Steps New Friends is produced by The Walk Productions in association with Handspring Puppet Company.  Little Amal is being delivered as one of the activities under the City Centre and High Streets Recovery and Renewal programme, funded by Bristol City Council and the West of England Combined Authority’s Love Our High Street project.