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Watershed building with the date it opened across the image.

Watershed celebrates 30 years of media, music and magic on Thu 7 June

Posted on Tue 22 May 2012

The world was a very different place 30 years ago. No mobile phones, no internet, no iPhone apps, Facebook or touchscreen technology, not even digital cameras or video game consoles. Yet with an uncanny sense of foresight, Watershed media centre was established in 1982, the same year that Channel 4 and the Barbican Arts Centre were born, the year that saw the launch of the Commodore 64 and Sony’s first CD player, and the only year in history that Time Magazine’s Person of The Year was a computer.

The 65th Cannes Film Festival

Live from the Croisette

Posted on Thu 17 May 2012

Nick Harkaway - 'The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World'

  Nick Harkaway - 'The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World'

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Novelist Nick Harkaway discusses his work as a writer, and the impact that technology has had on the book world.

Angela Carter on Film: The Company of Wolves Q&A

  Angela Carter on Film: The Company of Wolves Q&A

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Producer Stephen Woolley discusses his work on 'The Company of Wolves', the feature-length film adaptation of Carter's novel.

Nick Cohen: You Can't Read This Book

  Nick Cohen: You Can't Read This Book

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Author Nick Cohen discusses censorship in our 'age of freedom', and the effect this is having on freedom of speech.

Dickens on Screen

  Dickens on Screen

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Adrian Wootton explores Charles Dickens' work in film, discussing various adaptations and asking how well cinema has treated the author’s work.

colourful number 30 on waves of coloured lines

Made in Bristol

Posted on Wed 2 May 2012

Balloon mapping aerial photography in 'Walking the Sky'

Maps Created by Everybody

Project Ended in May 2012

What if cities were mapped by the people who lived there? Two workshops invited the Guimarães public to map their city.

Photo of steam train

Bristol Stories from the Railways

Project Ended in May 2012

A collection of films focusing on Bristol's railways which were created for Bristol Stories, Watershed's creative digital storytelling project.

Watershed's February 1989 brochure

We are 30 on Thu 7 June

Posted on Mon 30 April 2012

Tim Bassford's DepicT! '11 short The Launderette

Hollywood beckons for DepicT! '11 Winner

Posted on Thu 26 April 2012