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. This is an opportunity to meet other creatives in the city, use one of our hot desk spaces, seek advice on your creative project or next steps in your career in a welcoming environment.



Each month we have a guest from the Pervasive Media Studio who works professionally in the creative industries who will speak about their work and can give advice. Guest speakers will be experts in their field, from VR film makers to finance professionals.



Our guest in November is Queer Engineer, Bellydancer and Refugee Shrouk El-Attar who will be talking about the way they combine arts and electronics within their career. Shrouk was one of the Pervasive Media Studio's Winter Resident Artists in 2022 and is an award winning electronics engineer. Shrouk combines her passion for electronics with her passion for activism and performance making, specifically their show Dancing Queer where she performs belly dancing in a beard-wearing drag persona as a form of protest and activism.

Why come to Make Shift?

  • Find out about Watershed, the Pervasive Media Studio and what we offer to South West based creatives.
  • It's a chilled space where you can hot-desk for an evening.
  • You can use the meeting spaces to speak about creative projects.
  • Listen to talks from experts on anything from finding funds for your project to how to do your tax return.

You are welcome to arrive from 17:30. The hosted element of the event will start at 18:00 and finish at 19:30. Thereafter, you are invited to continue conversations or use our hot desks to do your own work in the Pervasive Media Studio until 21:00. Don't worry if you can't make it for the beginning of the session or stay for the whole session.

About the 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.