Studio residents Tom Abba and Duncan Speakman from artists collective Circumstance, will be launching an extraordinary new project this Saturday. They have developed These Pages Fall Like Ash as part of the latest REACT Sandbox, exploring new ways of looking at Books and Print. This is your chance to be among the first to try it out.

These Pages Fall Like Ash suggests a brand new way of experiencing the joy of reading, that challenges the print/digital divide, featuring creative input from award winning authors Nick Harkaway and Neil Gaiman. Book fans are invited to take part in an experiment where their participation is key to the story. You can purchase your book to begin the adventure here. The experience will start its journey on Saturday 20 April and will continue for two and a half weeks in Bristol.

You will be invited to explore an unknown city, and a unique engagement between digital and physical in These Pages Fall Like Ash, which seeks to reimagine the relationship between conventional and digital reading; telling a single story across two books in two mediums.

Armed with a beautiful hand-crafted wooden book, readers will immerse themselves in a story of two cities that each overlap the other, exploring a serial fiction by accessing content on their mobiles as they move through the streets. They’ll learn new things about their city, and their participation becomes part of the story as it unfolds.

These Pages Fall Like Ash creator Tom Abba said:

“I want us all to see our city through new eyes – to learn things about the places we walk we were never aware of. These Pages Fall Like Ash is an exciting new reading experience that will invite people to not only explore all of these elements and more, but to become part of the narrative itself. I can’t wait to see what the participants bring to its story and what the final page will reveal.”

This is a unique experiment, a one of its kind experience only taking place in Bristol City Centre – places can be booked now at Watershed Box Office and cost £12 (£10 with concessions), which includes a limited edition of the beautifully hand crafted book to guide readers through the experience.