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Hawthorn berries and beechnuts

Wild Watershed: a weekend in the woods

Posted on Mon 26 Sept 2011

Our intrepid Exec Chef Oliver Pratt has just spent the weekend foraging in the Wye Valley for all the wild goodies he can find to add a genuine taste of autumn to our seasonal menu. Oliver makes this trip annually with his ecologist friend Ben and this year's trip resulted in a bumper haul of autumnal fruits, nuts and berries - not to mention buckets of inspiration! Oliver says:

Workshop image: A reminder of Nanna.

The Space Metronome is working!

Posted on Mon 19 Sept 2011

Angela Davies in The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

Celebrating Black History Month and Afrika Eye

Posted on Fri 16 Sept 2011

Number Games - Race, Equality, and the Big Society

  Number Games - Race, Equality, and the Big Society

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

This post-screening Q&A followed 'Number Games', a documentary that explores the question; can the Big Society be a racially just one?

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Culture 24: Let's Get Real - How to evaluate success online?

Posted on Tue 6 Sept 2011

How can arts organisations really gauge their success online? Does counting the visitors to our websites really tell us anything? Do we need all the social media channels we start? Is there evidence of real engagement happening online? Do we really know what we are trying to achieve and who it is for?

Waveshed by Joe Magee

Discover the new watershed.co.uk...

Posted on Wed 31 Aug 2011

Welcome to the new Watershed website! It’s been a long time coming. More than five years, to be exact. What was wrong with the old one, you may wonder.It was dated. It was becoming unwieldy. It had teeny tiny text. But most of all, it didn’t accurately reflect the vibrancy and passion of Watershed or the wide variety of activities and opportunities we offer that make us special.

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Embedded Artists Residency recipient announced

Posted on Tue 30 Aug 2011

5 men in lab coats and 3d glassess looking up

  Curating Innovation, an evaluation of Media Sandbox 2010

Wed 1 June 2011

An evaluation of Media Sandbox 2010 'Curating Innovation' by Annie Warburton. Media Sandbox 2010 centred on the creation of ideas that explore rich experiences augmented by open data or mobile, wireless & sensory technologies and commissioned seven projects.Find out more about Media Sandbox.

Sapphire: In Conversation

  Sapphire: In Conversation

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Author Sapphire talks about her novel 'The Kid', sequel to 'Push', which formed the basis for the critically-acclaimed film, 'Precious'.

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  'a different kind of economic model'

Sun 1 Oct 2006

A Watershed/iShed profile as part of an Arts Professional article by Clare Cooper and Roanne Dods of the Mission, Models, Money programme which looks at fresh thinking about management structures in the arts and how it's shaped business practice. Clare Cooper and Roanne Dods explain how the Mission, Models, Money programme has been supporting arts organisations attempting to change.  

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  Whose art is it anyway? by John Knell

Wed 1 March 2006

John Knell, Director, Intelligence Agency asks how far do the personalisation and choice agendas shaping other areas of publicly funded activity, such as health and education, have any resonance for the arts? Whose art is it anyway? was commissioned by Arts Council England.