Laura Kriefman’s Bristol Crane Dance has been the hot topic of the past week, in the wake of the spectacle that occurred on Saturday 3 October. The 30-40 minute choreographed piece went without a hitch, with an unprecedented 10,000 Bristolians, crane enthusiasts and lovers of urban installation alike turning up for the one-off event. The dance was in preparation of a larger project involving the cranes of London Zone 1 – and a dedicated website has been set up at masscranedance.org. The official film has just been released:

Studio residents and Tribeca Film Festival Storyscape Award winners, Anagram, have just released information of their new commission. Between 29-31 October and 4-7 November, the producers of compelling and thought-provoking work will be running Nightwatchers: an immersive night-time experience at the Tower of London. This exciting piece explores state surveillance, global insecurity and the line between security and oppression. Find out more and access booking information. 

Chloe Meineck is currently in Japan, on a month’s residency at KIITO, The Design and Creative Centre in Kobe. Here she will be contributing to their ‘Life is Creative’ exhibition, which covers all aspects of creatively aging. Chloe’s Music Memory Box project, a personal keepsake box that enables older people in care homes to record and trigger music and audio using their existing previous objects, will be exhibited alongside the British Council. She will be collaborating with a local carpenter to create a Kobe Music Memory Box. More information.

Coincidently, Watershed Creative Director, Clare Reddington, is also currently in Japan - running a lab for Playable City in Tokyo. You can read a detailed documentation of her experience via the Playable City blog.

Earlier this year, resident Tim Kindberg went live with his project Time for Rights, marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta at 12:15 on 12 August. He designed an app calling for young people across the world to record themselves sharing the Human Right of highest significance for them as an individual. Collating the response, Tim has rendered a fabulous interactive ‘Sphere of Rights’ mosaic, representing the globe and the many contributing countries. Explore the Sphere of Rights.

Sabrina Shirazi of Cuisine + Colour concluded a series of mischievous dinners with a one-off exhibition of portraits of those who were lucky enough to attend the sold-out events. Diners were encouraged to transform their tablecloth into a work of art during their meal, which allowed for a colourful and untraditional display. Paired with tasty morsels from Moor Beer, GingerBeard's Preserves, and Polar Pops, alongside music from Gold Diggers, the event was well attended and offered a palatable celebration of the creativity put into Sabrina’s food and colour exploration.

We congratulate the Interactive Scientific team this week, as their Nano Simbox particle simulator has been awarded the Vocational Learning Tech Fund from the Ufi. Resident Dr. Becky Sage attended the launch event for the award at The Royal Society of Arts in London, giving demos of the system, and the team got the opportunity to meet other technology based vocational learning projects from around the UK.  The award will be used to develop the Nano Simbox system and it’s applications.