Articles

Exterior shot of Watershed building with a cloudy sky and a blue and yellow Bristol Ferry Boat passing on the water.
Photo by Toby Farrows Creative

Watershed Wild & Generous - Let's Begin

Posted on Mon 16 Dec by Clare Reddington

Clare Reddington, Watershed CEO talks about beginning work on Wild and Generous, a place-led redevelopment of our Grade II listed building.

Read more
Photo of Nida Manzoor as a guest for a Q&A screening.
Posted on Fri 25 Oct by Nida Manzoor
Article

Nida Manzoor, Guest Curator and director of Polite Society, delves into her curated season of action films, Chicks, Kicks & Flicks.

multi coloured heart
Posted on Wed 18 Sept by Helen Jaffa
Article

Helen Jaffa, Head of People at Watershed shares how Watershed's annual Balance & Belonging report impacts our wider people strategy and how it supports us to make change.

Film still of Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun
Posted on Fri 6 Sept
Article

Our Cinema programme team share some of the highlights we’ll be welcoming to Watershed’s cinema screens throughout Autumn.

× Close

Help us make our website work better for you

Allow analytics cookies Deny analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to gather information on how our website is used. This helps us to make changes to our website that improve the usefulness and overall experience for our visitors.

 Celebrating 20th anniversary of working at Watershed 

Posted on Mon 15 July by Clare Reddington

In this article Clare Reddington, CEO of Watershed shares some thoughts on the importance and joy of working in partnership and collaboration as she celebrates two milestones: 20 years of working at Watershed and being awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West England (UWE) in recognition of her leadership in the cultural sector and her contributions to Bristol’s creative ecology.

 Watershed and The Art of The Turnaround   

Posted on Thu 18 April by Clare Reddington

In light of the huge challenges that so many arts and culture organisations have faced in recent years, Clare Reddington , Watershed's CEO, shares five ‘rules’ for turning your organisation round.

 Watershed Wild and Generous 

Posted on Tue 12 March by Clare Reddington

What will the world want from a cultural venue in a climate crisis?  

 Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove, reflects on the changing nature of film exhibition 

Posted on Thu 30 Nov 2023 by Mark Cosgrove

On the day that one of the commercial cinema spaces in the city is sadly closing, Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator reflects on the changing cinema exhibition landscape...

  Watershed CEO's Response to Bristol City Council’s Openness funding proposal 

Posted on Tue 28 Nov 2023 by Clare Reddington

Clare Reddington, Watershed CEO, reflects on the proposal and shares the many ways we deliver on the city's mission

 Mujer with a Movie Camera: A season of films by female directors from Latin America 

Posted on Mon 23 Oct 2023 by Lorena Pino

In this article MA Curating placement student and Mujer with a Movie Camera Season Curator Lorena Pino Montilla explains the process behind creating her season.

 Watershed's Balance and Belonging Data 2023 

Posted on Thu 12 Oct 2023 by Helen Jaffa

Balance and Belonging is an approach we began in 2021 to understand the intersectional identities of the people who work at Watershed (Balance), and how their identities and backgrounds impact their experience of working with us (Belonging).

 Undershed - an immersive gallery for Watershed 

Posted on Wed 4 Oct 2023 by Clare Reddington

Clare Reddington, Watershed's CEO talks about the plans for Undershed - a new immersive gallery opening downstairs in Watershed in Spring 2024. 

 In memory of Trini 

Posted on Tue 1 Aug 2023 by Clare Reddington

With sad hearts we want to acknowledge the death of Adriene Layne or Trini as we knew her. Trini was a member of the Pervasive Media Studio community since 2017, having joined us on a micro residency to develop her Voice Letter prototype into a product, and quickly became a full resident.  

 X-rated: Crossing Fact and Fiction in Kamikaze Hearts 

Posted on Fri 28 July 2023 by Harriet Taylor

Guest writer Harriet Taylor from SWITCH offers a fresh take on Juliet Bashore's quasi-documentary Kamikaze Hearts, screening at Cinema Rediscovered 2023 on Thu 27 July and Sun 30 July.

 Film on Film: Morvern Callar revisited  

Posted on Wed 26 July 2023

20th Century Flicks' Daisy Steinhardt takes us through Lynne Ramsay’s Movern Callar (2002), which is being screened from a new BFI 35mm print as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2023.