A year of making, experiencing and sharing ideas of home
part of Lunchtime Talks
In this Lunchtime Talk, join us as we bid farewell to Furaha Asani, who after nearly five years as Research Lead at Watershed, will be in conversation with Talent Development Producer Tony Bhajam.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
part of Lunchtime Talks
In this Lunchtime Talk, you'll hear from Action Hero, who create artworks that expand across multiple creative practices: performance, installation, sound, digital practice and work for public space. You’ll also have the chance to sit with them, try building some houses, and learn more about the ideas behind the project.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
We’re inviting Bristol’s poets to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place, created by Pervasive Media Studio resident Jack Lowe.
You can attend this event in person or tune in, wherever you are, online - please book using the option that suits you.
part of Lunchtime Talks
In this Lunchtime Talk, Professor Elena Marco discusses Home Made Visible, a study using her own home to explore how storage and domestic spaces affect wellbeing. The project suggests that rethinking our homes is key to building healthier and more inclusive cities.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
Please note: This was screened in April 2025
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Payne family live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. However, when tragedy strikes, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.
This preview screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the film's protagonist Nik Payne.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in July 2025
Undershed
Step into FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, a visually stunning installation that reveals the hidden rhythms of our changing world by pioneering award-winning artists ScanLAB Projects. Taking over the whole of the Undershed gallery, this artwork uses both groundbreaking visuals and beautifully designed sound.
part of Lunchtime Talks
Please note: This event ended on 2 May 2025
In this Lunchtime Talk we will explore Dhaqan Collective's journey with The House of Weaving Songs, a domed steel structure based on an Aqal, a nomadic home found in the arid landscapes of Somalia.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
Please note: This event took place in May 2025
Pervasive Media Studio
First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. This May's edition is a collaboration with Diverse Artists Network (DAN), who are a development agency for diversity in the arts and are hosting Mini-DIASPORA! themed events this Spring.
Please note: This event took place in May 2025
Pervasive Media Studio
Make Shift Meet-Ups are a space for early career creatives to come together. They take place on the first Tuesday evening of each month in the Pervasive Media Studio and this May has the special theme of home with Artist Nicki Kent.
Please note: This was screened in May 2025
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Payne family live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. However, when tragedy strikes, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in May 2025
Pervasive Media Studio
Award-winning creative studio ScanLAB Projects are hosting a series of hands-on 3D scanning workshops which give you an opportunity to think in 3D and explore the growing role of digital imaging in art, science, and environmental storytelling.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in May 2025
Pervasive Media Studio
Alongside their exhibition, ScanLABs Projects are hosting a series of hands-on 3D scanning workshops. This workshop is in collaboration with XR Diversity Initiative (XRDI) and is for underrepresented creatives.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in May 2025
Waterside 3 Event Space, Watershed
The first in a series of public talks called Stories We Tell, this event celebrates the opening of Only Expansion, a visceral and poetic audio walk that reflects on what it means to live on a planet in crisis.
The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in June 2025
Undershed
An award-winning augmented audio walk – Only Expansion invites you to sonically experience how your own life might change in the future.
Please note: This was screened in July 2025
The Salt Path is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.
part of Off The Beaten Track
Please note: This was screened in June 2025
The life and home of a solitary man in the highland forests of Scotland is gently observed in this intimate, experimental documentary.
Followed by a Q&A with director Ben Rivers.
part of Off The Beaten Track
Please note: This was screened in June 2025
Cult documentary which follows the eccentric lives of the Page family, living off-grid in the woodlands of Sussex.
Introduced by Siôn Marshall-Waters, director of the short film Forest Coal Pit.
part of Lunchtime Talks
Please note: This event ended on 13 June 2025
In this talk, Professor Shawn Sobers explores why Small Anthropology is a powerful and necessary methodology for interdisciplinary research.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
part of Off The Beaten Track
Please note: This was screened in June 2025
Charming documentary about a small farming community in mid-Wales, observing the unalterable rhythms of country life.
Please note: This was screened in July 2025
Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is a impassioned indictment of the current social-care system.
part of Off The Beaten Track
Please note: This was screened in June 2025
In the newly-restored alternative British road movie Gallivant, the director Andrew Kötting sets off on a wandering, eventful journey around the British coastline accompanied by his granny and young daughter Eden.
Followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Kötting.
part of Off The Beaten Track
Please note: This was screened in June 2025
A beautiful cinematic ode to the sights and sounds of the remote Irish landscape.
part of Lunchtime Talks
Please note: This event ended on 4 July 2025
In this Lunchtime Talk, studio resident Simon Moreton will reflect on his book, WHERE?, creative non-fiction about growing up in the countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the processes of grief and reflection that helped him tackle questions of belonging and home, as well as thinking critically about how we imagine and represent the countryside.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
part of Step to the Earth
Please note: This event took place in July 2025
This collection of audio works, curated by local sound maker and storyteller Christina Hardinge, explore time, landscape and the soil beneath our feet.
part of Lunchtime Talks
Please note: This event ended on 11 July 2025
In this Lunchtime Talk, Amelia Winger-Bearskin will share her experience of working in immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship.
Tune in, wherever you are, online (no need to book). If you want to take part in person please book in advance.
Please note: This was screened in Aug 2025
BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck’s (Missed Call) extraordinary feature doc is a video diary filmed over 20 years that charts the experience of raising her son Jim alone.
Followed by a Q&A with director Victoria Mapplebeck, hosted by Bristol Doc Club with Women in Film & TV UK.
Please note: This was screened in Aug 2025
BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck’s (Missed Call) extraordinary feature doc is a video diary filmed over 20 years that charts the experience of raising her son Jim alone.
