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A full-scale Martian House, designed for future life on Mars has arrived in Bristol

Posted on Wed 17 Aug 2022

Local artists and Pervasive Media Studio residents Ella Good and Nicki Kent have built a Martian House.

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Creative Climate Action Toolkit: Small is beautiful, brilliant and vital

Posted on Tue 28 Jun 2022

Zoe Rasbash, Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher, introduces the Creative Climate Action Toolkit designed specifically to support smaller businesses, organisations, collectives and freelancers to act on climate.

Text Reads - Watershed 40 1982-2022 - Firing up the imagination

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Watershed 40 - a year of togetherness

Posted on Tue 31 May 2022

In June 2022 Watershed will mark 40 years since we opened the doors as the UK’s First Media Centre.

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Watershed as a funder

Posted on Mon 30 May 2022

Jo Lansdowne reflects on Watershed's role as a funder of research and development, what we have learned so far and what new questions we are asking.

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Studio blog

Meet the Research Team

Posted on Mon 25 Apr 2022

Watershed Research Team are taking over our Lunchtime Talks for the whole of May! Across four consecutive Fridays, they'll (re)introduce themselves and extend the lunchtime talk platform to some of their research partners.

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Meet The Future is Collective cohort

Posted on Thu 14 Apr 2022

Meet the eleven freelancers who have been appointed as part of The Future is Collective; a programme of work propelling community and climate activism by offering support and development to freelance creatives

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Midi Residency - Freddie Wulf

Posted on Tue 29 Mar 2022

We are delighted to announce the latest in our long running series of Midi Residencies. Funded places for artists who have an established practice and want to bring new technologies into their work

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Project blog

Dancing Queer in residence

Posted on Wed 16 Mar 2022

An update from Shrouk El-Attar on their Winter Residency - let's make a belly-dancing robot!

Project blog

British Fusion - augmented reality based on a weird discovery

Posted on Thu 10 Mar 2022

Alistair Gentry writes about his first few weeks as a Watershed Winter Resident

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Movement, Music, Martial Arts & Acts of Care

Posted on Tue 8 Mar 2022

A new, short term residency, at the Pervasive Media Studio. Exploring movement, music, martial arts and acts of care

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