Film Screening – Beyond the Scars: Guy Bailey’s Impact on Bristol

Bristol Museums is delighted to announce the premiere of a new documentary about Guy Bailey, one of the heroes of the Bristol Bus Boycott.

Beyond the Scars: Guy Bailey’s Impact on Bristol is the latest release from local filmmaker and veteran community activist Clive Smith, under his AS IT IS TV banner. Clive moved to Bristol from Jamaica in 1962, and has cemented himself in the heart of the city’s Afrikan-Caribbean community ever since. Over the years, Clive has been a footballer, dancer, musician, actor, and agent. However, documentary cinema has been his defining passion of late, and he has won multiple awards for his work.

The film will show what Guy has achieved for Bristol, and for England, in the years since he went for that now-infamous job interview. Besides his lifelong pursuit of civil rights activism, Guy has secured housing for community elders, helped give youths a future through sport, and has been one of the pillars of Bristol’s Afrikan-Caribbean community for over sixty years.

This event will feature a screening of the film, followed by a Q+A and panel discussion featuring Jacqui Wilson, University of Bristol’s Dr Marie-Annick Gournet, Clive Smith, and Dr Guy Bailey OBE himself, moderated by Rodney Wilson. There will then be a performance by singer-songwriter and poet Nia Bimkubwa. DJ Style and Donovan City Rockas will end the night on a high, and catering will be provided by the institution that is Nadine’s Caribbean Cafe. There will even be discussion of a new, ambitious, ongoing project which will use Guy’s life as a way to bring the rich history of the community into the limelight, where it belongs.

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