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Lunchtime Talk

Dramatic Conversational AI

Fri 27 May 2022 13:00-14:00

In this talk, participatory dramatist, Rik Lander and conversational AI designer, Phil D Hall discuss their live show I am Echoborg which adapts each time based on audience conversations with an artificial intelligence.

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Lunchtime Talk

Audience Psychology

Fri 20 May 2022 13:00-14:00

In this Lunchtime Talk Professors Danae Stanton Fraser and Iain Gilchrist will discuss the range of methods available to measure audience response to performances and share ideas on how to enhance your current practice.

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Lunchtime Talk

The Department of Dreams

Fri 13 May 2022 13:00-14:00

In this talk, Mathilde Petford, Department of Dreams Lead at Civic Square Birmingham shares how the team use play, imagination and story, to tap into the minds of dreamers to explore regenerative futures & civic life.

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Event

May First Friday

Fri 6 May 2022 17:00-18:00

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.

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Event

Come meet Watershed's Research Team

Fri 6 May 2022 13:00-14:00

Come get to know Watershed’s research team. In this talk they’ll be sharing the types of research they do in the Pervasive Media Studio, how the team was formed, research themes of interest and how you can work with them.

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Event

Make Shift

Tue 3 May 2022 17:30-19:30

Make Shift is a space for 18-30 year old creatives to come together in the Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed on the first Tuesday evening of each month

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Lunchtime Talk

PoliNations – the idea

Fri 29 Apr 2022 13:00-14:00

In this Lunchtime Talk, PoliNations Design Director Carl Robertshaw discusses the Trigger Collective’s latest project – an epic multi-artform project created in response to Colston’s fall, greening cities, and gardening.

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Lunchtime Talk

We Don’t Bite

Fri 22 Apr 2022 13:00-14:00

In this week’s Lunchtime Talk Studio Resident Joe Hill and Sumaya Hassan-Murphy ask ‘how can the PM Studio become a more equitable and educational space for young people?’

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Event

Connected Constellations

Fri 8 Apr 2022 13:00-14:00

In this Lunchtime Talk, award winning immersive theatre director Annette Mees will explore how her work believes in the power of the collective imagination, working together & culture as a laboratory for the future.