From an app designed to tempt children away from the screen to flat pack cinemas – REACT Sandbox explores the future of Play
For the past three years we’ve been working on an incredible project called REACT Sandbox, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project that has a particular focus on bringing together collaborative teams of academics and creatives to work … Continue reading
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Date for the Diary: No Boundaries 2015
“No Boundaries’ eclecticism and sideways approach is part of its appeal” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian Looking ahead to next year, we have the date for No Boundaries 2015 firmly in our diary. On 29 & 30 September, Watershed will be … Continue reading
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Violence against women is one of the most tolerated violations of human rights that exists in the world today
“Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. Though some societies have made more progress than others, we must all work together to end it.” Baroness Northover, Permanent Under Secretary of State for International Development. This week the world … Continue reading
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Last chance to see what’s hiding in the light
Playable City Award winner, Shadowing, comes to an end on Halloween This Friday, on 31October 2014, marks the last day of Shadowing, the brilliant winner of this year’s Playable City Award that’s given memory to Bristol’s city lights, allowing … Continue reading
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Inside Out Festival presents Women Of The World and other stories…
Since Monday (20 October 2014) the 2014 Inside Out Festival has been running events all over London to explore the fascinating contribution made by London’s universities to the capital’s cultural life. The Festival comes at a time when universities are exploring … Continue reading
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Don’t miss Movements…
You learn something new every time you situate a piece of past knowledge in a new context (Prof. Stuart Hall at the ICA screening of The Stuart Hall Project, 2013) It was just one week ago when The June Givanni … Continue reading
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Do you remember the Moomins?
Roundish fairy tale characters with large noses that resembled hippopotamuses? The Moomins were the central characters in a series of books and comic strips by Finnish illustrator and writer Tover Jansoon released between 1945 and 1993. The Moomins have since … Continue reading
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Harvard Professor’s new interactive site uncovers hidden slave histories in Jamaica and Virginia
Betty was born in Jamaica in the summer of 1739. She married and had seven children. When Betty was 46 years old, Joseph Foster Barham, British absentee owner of a Jamaican sugar plantation, bought her for just £40 along with … Continue reading
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A navigation scheme for the Russian state library, drone shadow handbooks, hacked musical instruments, a heartfelt letter to Scotland, and the future of everything…
Brilliant, clever, fun, playful, surprising, inspiring, creative and beyond the imagination… this is Blurring the Lines; an exhibition curated and produced by Watershed for The British Council, which opened the other week, on 2 October 2014, at their headquarters on … Continue reading
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Passing Through
Ninian Gomez, freelance at Ladbury PR, on the willow wonders of artist Laura Ellen Bacon currently exhibiting at National Trust’s Mompesson House in Wiltshire I have always been fascinated by architecture and the merging of my organic sort of muscular … Continue reading
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