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Urbanimals 2015 Award Winner (photo by Paul Blakemore)

Fourth international Playable City Award Shortlist Revealed

Posted on Thu 22 Sept 2016

From emotionally responsive signposts to mischievous footprints, the Playable City Award’s eight shortlisted projects place journeys at the heart of the future city. Now open for your comments.

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“ Embrace Your Black Star ”

Posted on Thu 22 Sept 2016 by Edson Burton

Come The Revolution Curator Edson Burton on the Bristol season, and why we should all - regardless of race or background - learn to embrace our inner Black Star...

Image by Max McClure

Open Sourcing our Approach to Creative R&D

Posted on Thu 22 Sept 2016

Today we are sharing two pieces of work, a guide to running a Watershed Sandbox and the REACT Report which distills the learning from our collaboration with five Universities over the past four years.

Watershed Sandbox: A How To Guide

  Watershed Sandbox: A How To Guide

Thu 22 Sept 2016

Over the last eight years Watershed has shaped and refined a talent development programme that supports brilliant people to try out new ideas with generosity and rigour. We call it a Sandbox. This guide sets out the approach, tools, values and methodologies of Sandbox - for others to share, copy, edit or clone.

react report

  The REACT Report

Sat 1 July 2006

The REACT Report details four years of our work with five Universities to establish an innovative collaborative network of academics and creative companies. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, REACT was a Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy.

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  Watershed Board of Trustees Report 2017

Report of Watershed's Board of Trustees and consolidated financial statements – Year ended 31 March 2017.

‘A small film with a big heart’ – Esther May Campbell’s first feature opens at Watershed

Posted on Tue 20 Sept 2016

Light Years opens at Watershed with a special preview screening at Encounters Short Film Festival and is the first feature from Bristol-based Esther May Campbell, starring singer-songwriter Beth Orton. A lyrical drama about family relationships wilting in the late summer heat, Light Years is Beth Orton’s big screen acting debut.

Jono Sandilands' work

New Talent Residencies

Posted on Tue 6 Sept 2016

Playable prints, curious playgrounds and a treasure hunt of Britain's steel towns... these are the brilliant ideas from the recipients of Watershed's New Talent Residencies. We thought we’d find out how they are getting on so far…

Bait - one of the DepicT! '16 shortlisted films

DepicT! '16 Shortlist is live!

Posted on Fri 2 Sept 2016

With this year’s DepicT! film entries numbering a record breaking 700 films from 63 different countries, we had an especially exciting and diverse pool of mini movies to whittle down to our shortlist of just fifteen films: the shortlist is now live on depict.org and awaiting your votes and comments.

No Offense, But... Daniel Savage

Unfixed 2.0 - Challenging Perceptions of Disability

Posted on Thu 1 Sept 2016

Unfixed is a creative research project bringing together UK and Australian disabled artists to explore notions of the 'fixed' and 'unfixed' body through the lens of art and technology. If disabled people are able to access ways of being in the world that the ‘able-bodied’ are not, who exactly is disabled?

REACT logo - overlapping coloured circles

REACT

Project Ended in September 2016

A development scheme which enabled companies to research possibilities in digital media, create new ideas and deliver innovation to market.