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Theatre Jukebox now serving tasty stories in the Café/Bar

Posted on Thu 2 May 2013

Why are couscous, Lithuanian beetroot soup and Shopska salad meaningful and full of passion? What happens when fifteen strangers, all from different countries, come together to make stories about food? Find out when you take a seat at Theatre Jukebox, a jukebox that plays stories instead of records, which is in Watershed's Café/Bar for the next two weeks.

Abracadabra! Watershed seeks Magician for unusual spell

Posted on Tue 30 April 2013

We are impossibly excited to have launched our search for a Magician in Residence! We are seeking an adventurous soul with an appetite for the unusual, an artistic temperament and an affinity for geek, with suggested skills of 'disappearing interfaces, conjuring circuits, pulling robotic rabbits out of haptic hats'.

Play Colour Keepers - a brand new game - this weekend only!

Posted on Tue 23 April 2013

Enter the Zone, battle with light, and then escape on your bike!Part exploration, part battle, part collaboration, Colour Keepers is a unique commission for Bristol Temple Quarter using the new artist-designed BikeTAG light system to create an innovative street game to light up Bristol’s Enterprise Zone.

Discover Egypt Now at Watershed

Posted on Wed 10 April 2013

Watershed explores the rich past and complicated present of Egypt in our April season Egypt Now (Tue 16 – Tue 30 April). Focusing on a recent surge in contemporary filmmaking in Egypt, we present five fascinating films providing an essential context to the momentous upheavals that led to the unfolding of the Arab Spring.

Digital doesn't mean losing the plot

Posted on Tue 9 April 2013

Bristol-made film Flying Blind opens at Watershed

Posted on Thu 4 April 2013

Bristol itself takes a starring role in Flying Blind, a passionate love story of an older woman and a young Muslim man, opening at Watershed on Fri 12 April. Filmed last year in the city centre, Harbourside, Clifton, the Downs, Easton and Stokes Croft, you will recognise some iconic Bristol locations. Helen McCrory (Hugo, Skyfall, Harry Potter) takes the lead role as Frankie, a high-flying aerospace engineer whose carefully controlled existence is thrillingly undone by a love affair.

A Music Memory Box for dementia

Posted on Thu 7 March 2013