The last two weeks in the Studio have fallen into a few natural categories, so for the sheer joy of a tidy format - here they are all laid out nice and neatly for your delectation: 

Awards:


Festivals and events:

  • Following on from a triumphant Cuisine + Colour event a couple of weeks ago at Watershed, Sabrina Shirazi is now preparing to run Edible Face Mask events at this year's Bestival in the Isle of Wight, 11 - 13 September. Foodie beauty experts will be on hand to help festival-goers whip up a mouth-watering face mask from a buffet of healthy ingredients. 

  • On Monday 7 September, the doors will open for the first time on Raucous' The Stick House, a dark gothic fable told through a new type of immersive theatre. The Stick House runs from 7 Sept - 17 Oct and many of the shows have sold out already so grab your tickets quickly.


  • More of the programme for the No Boundaries symposium on the role of Arts and Culture has been announced, and we are delighted to share that Studio residents Circumstance will be running A Folded Path for delegates in Manchester.


Testing, testing, testing

  • In just 12 days time, a pack of Urbanimals will be unleashed onto the streets of Bristol, this Playable City Award winning project by LAX is entering into the final stages of development and testing and artists Sebastian and Anna from LAX, and the production team here at the Studio are working flat out to bring cheeky kangaroos, enthusiastic dolphins, shy rabbits and diligent dung beetles to a series of secret locations around the city from 15 September.

  • Pete Bennett is half way through his residency exploring resonant interfaces. This week he has been collaborating with origami artist Coco Sato to create beautifully folded paper lanterns that respond to your breath as you blow into a phone. Check out some test footage I took of Studio resident Jon Aitken learning to resonate with the lanterns here: 


  • And finally, we have worked with the brilliant Molly Price on and off for a few years, but these last couple of weeks we have been delighted to count her amongst our full time resident community. Molly is joining us predominantly to develop and test a proof of concept application as part of the European project, Creativ, a three year programme exploring smart fabrics and printed technologies. To get a sense of what she is up to, imagine that you could print touch sensors and active light directly on fabric – if your fabric could be turned into an interactive surface with different inputs and outputs printed in one go, on one surface. That is something that Molly, along with collaborators Diffus, Zaha Hadid Architects and others intend to make a reality within the next year.