Join us Tuesday 17 October at Watershed for the Connecting Though Culture as We Age showcase as part of The Festival of The Future City (Bristol Ideas). As the project enters the last stage of this three-year project, the team is excited to share and invite wider audiences into their journey, learnings, creative outputs and impacts from our participatory research. 

In the morning immerse yourself in a series of short talks, conversations and project films from the project in Cinema One. In the afternoon drop in to Waterside and discover the six commissioned prototypes. Booking required for the morning session which consists of a variety of short talks, conversations and project films.

Booking required for the morning session - Book tickets here / No booking required for the afternoon. 

In the afternoon (from 13.30) be transported to another place through a multisensory dining experience with Tabletop Travels. Browse stories that re-enforce and invigorate the message of vibrancy and value that older women hold in society with Retirement Reloaded: Wonderful Women of Words. Uncover elder stories and memories from the wash house and bath house through zines and soundscape with Anyone Remember the Washhouse? Use off-the-shelf technology to create a wearable, interactive patch with Expressive Pockets. Discover more about Recycle City, a speculative city founded on the values of creativity, community, opportunity and welfare. Or immerse yourself in Murmurations, an installation and collection of experiences and languages that share the hidden words of older people, queer people and the crip community.  

About Connecting Through Culture As We Age 

Connecting Through Culture As We Age (CTC) research project, part of the Healthy Ageing Challenge funded by UK Research and Innovation, led by the University of Bristol. Established in 2021, this three year UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge funded project is exploring how and why we take part in arts and culture as we get older. CTCAW is interested in how participation in all forms of arts and culture, particularly those accessed digitally, can influence our wellbeing and feelings of social connection as we age. 

Working alongside disabled older adults and those that identify as socioeconomically and racially minoritised, CTC has co-designed a range of new arts and cultural experiences to support healthy ageing. At the end of 2022, six teams, form of co-designers and co-researcher, were commissioned to transform new ideas into new prototypes that create connections to arts and culture using creative technology.