Whispering clouds & leaping dolphins
From Marimba benches to whispering clouds, Watershed unveiled the seven shortlisted projects last week, each in line to win the 2015 Playable City Award. The award launched earlier this year, inviting artists, designers, architects, technologists and creative practitioners from all … Continue reading
Read On
First speakers announced for No Boundaries 2015
Arts and culture industry’s annual conference takes place 29-30 September 2015 at Watershed, Bristol and HOME, Manchester With just over four months to go until this year’s No Boundaries conference, the first contributors have just been announced in what is … Continue reading
Read On
Hello Tokyo!
This Friday, 25 April 2O15, international public art project Hello Lamp Post will launch in Tokyo at the city’s Roppongi Art Night, a one-night, all-night, art extravaganza celebrating art in the everyday. Hello Lamp Post is a delightful system created … Continue reading
Read On
Sporting heroes Tim Henman & Tessa Sanderson-White CBE to join panel at second Andrew Reed Debate to discuss how sport can change lives of disadvantaged children
On Thursday 5 February 2015, Reed’s School will host its second Andrew Reed Debate at London’s Guildhall, in partnership with the Tessa Sanderson Foundation & Academy, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation and Harlequins Foundation. This year’s debate will focus on the power … Continue reading
Read On
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
Read On
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
Read On
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
Read On
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
Read On
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
Read On
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
Read On