First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. These events are somewhere between the last meeting of the week and the first event of your weekend. You might meet an artist or an engineer, a school teacher or a city leader. It is a place to connect with someone you might not otherwise meet, and hear about stuff you didn’t already know. All are welcome - from inside and outside the city, online or in the Watershed building.

 

May 2023 event

The next First Friday will take place both in Pervasive Media Studio and online on Fri 5 May 17:00-18:00.

People joining online can participate in short speed networking conversations, facilitated by our chat roulette style software. You will be paired up at random for a series of five minute conversations, one-to-one with other guests. There is an option to take a break between each chat and you are welcome to pop in and out whenever you like. It's fine to join the event late and leave the event early.

People joining us in person will have the opportunity to have a look around Pervasive Media Studio and to find out more about some of the work that happens here. There will also be some equipment set up to chat with people joining the event remotely.

Attendees joining the event in person will get to see work by CLUMP Collective and the team behind Interment.

  • CLUMP Collective is a creative production company based in Bristol. Amongst them are videographers, editors, graphic designers, prop and costume makers, each bringing their individual training and experience together to make music videos for bands and artists. Clump will be sharing a selection of their most recent videos.
  • The team behind Interment, a narrative puzzle game for Windows and Mac, will be sharing the game for First Friday attendees to find out more about and play. Interment won the Grand Prize at the Bristol Games Hub Global Game Jam 2023, whose theme was 'roots', and the game explores the connections between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today.
  • Poet Deanna Rodger will be sharing WONDERFULL: The Poetic Fortune Teller Machine, a project she developed during her Winter Residency at Pervasive Media Studio.
  • v buckenham is a maker of creative tools and a generative artist. They will be playtesting their easy to use game-making app Downpour, slated to come out later this year.

The hosted element of the event will finish at 6pm. After that, in person attendees are welcome to continue conversations in Watershed's cafe bar area.

 

Booking info

To join us online sign up here. You will be asked for your email address so we can send you your personal link. Please try and use either Chrome or Firefox on your computer (rather than a mobile device).

If you are attending in person, there is no need to pre-book. Head to our main bar area, buy a drink if you want to, and then follow directions down to Pervasive Media Studio.

 

About Pervasive Media Studio

The Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 100 artists, companies, technologists, and academics exploring experience design and creative technology. We are a space for risk taking and early ideas; for the kind of projects and questions that inhabit the meeting points of art, technology, and society.

Our projects span play, robotics, location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary, new forms of performance and more.

We have an open plan studio with a culture if generosity, curiosity, and interruptibility. We believe that by clustering people together from a broad range of backgrounds, with differing skills, experience, and opinions, all of our ideas become better.

Join the First Friday mailing list here.

This event is supported by MyWorld.