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Bristol turns into a Playable City with Hello Lamp Post
This summer, Bristol residents and visitors will be able to spark up conversations with the city, using any mobile phone. As the first commission of Bristol’s Playable City Award produced by Watershed, Hello Lamp Post invites you to try a new way of communicating through lamp posts, post boxes and other familiar street furniture, by texting the unique codes found on each object.
French film, food and fizz
Calling all Francophiles! Get your fix of all things French at Watershed this month. Two things the French are absolutely brilliant at are making films and cooking food. Get in the mood for our French films coming soon by tasting some tempting French menu classics in the Café/Bar. To ease you in, if you order two French specials as main meals you can enjoy £5.00 off a bottle of French house wine or even a bottle of Champagne!
Another Day in Paradise - Ulrich Seidl Returns
Our favourite Austrian provocateur (and there's a couple of them) Ulrich Seidl could be described, as Time Out recently stated, as 'the kind of cinematic misanthrope who makes Lars Von Trier seem like Pollyanna'. Even Werner Herzog has said 'never before in cinema have I been able to look straight into hell'. This month we welcome not one, but three new films from the great director, but our relationship with him stretches back to 2007 - read more on this history and his new films here.
Bristol Proms: Getting closer to classical thanks to digital technology
Digital technologies are increasingly used to distribute to and engage people with classical music: Touch Press' massively popular Orchestra app is an exploration of orchestral music with oodles of interactivity, and Glyndebourne has been streaming live opera to worldwide audiences, for free, for years. But how can we use new technologies to bring audiences closer to classical performance? How can we let the audience feel the music in new ways?
Loud, lavish and luxurious: just who was Liberace?
Behind The Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas as entertainer Liberace, opens on Friday on a wave of praise and plaudits from Cannes. If you're under a certain age, however, you'd be forgiven for not having any knowledge or awareness of Liberace. So who was he, why was he one of the most famous people on earth, and how did he come to influence the likes of Elvis and Elton John?
Welcoming the sunshine with a new summer menu and a bit of fizz
It's been a long, long winter (did Spring even get a look in?) but, touch wood, Summer is finally here and it looks like the weather is cooperating with us this year. To celebrate its welcome arrival we are launching our brand new Summer Menu, packed full of fresh, seasonal, lighter food for you to enjoy – whatever the weather!
We've got Shakespeare covered...
We’ve got Shakespeare covered in June thanks to Joss Whedon’s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Avengers) delightful adaptation of the Bard’s much loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing and five brilliant adaptations that make up this month’s Bard Sunday Brunches.
Byzantium returns to Watershed
Opening this week at Watershed is Byzantium, produced by Oscar®-winning Stephen Woolley (Interview With The Vampire), who returns to the world of vampires with his latest, a deliciously depraved supernatural drama.
BikeTAG Play Test: Colour Keepers is officially a huge success
Check out the pictures and tweets from the teams who played BikeTAG Colour Keepers, a brilliant new street game played on bikes that lit up Bristol’s Enterprise Zone.
National Theatre Wales & Watershed work together to develop talent
Watershed and National Theatre Wales are delighted to announce a new programme targeting creative Digital Producers to help develop and foster Welsh talent. In the first scheme of it’s kind in Wales, Watershed’s Digital Lab, will train twelve Digital Producers, to develop creative technology projects in Wales and present audiences with extraordinary new cultural experiences.
