Watershed is delighted to be confirmed as a continuing part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio and looks forward to sustaining Watershed’s leadership and innovation role in the cultural ecosystem. With a focus on collaboration and partnership, Watershed is recognised for its internationally distinctive programme of invention and talent development; as a leading centre for…
The British Council’s ELEVATE StartWell™ initiative is transforming how parents, teachers, local communities and national governments view the importance of play A future that features temporary pop-up parks where they’re needed most, safe urban areas for children to play in developing parts of Asia, a contemporary city hub to research how parents and children can…
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 over the world to propose new and distinctive ideas that put people and play at…
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 already set to be a truly international line-up. The two days of lively and fascinating…
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 by London-based designers Pan Studio that invites people to strike up conversations with familiar street…
As more and more community centres and town halls are closing down, and libraries are being re-branded as ‘Ideas Stores’, designer, social innovator and creator of The Civic Shop Cassie Robinson, asks, what role should public and social institutions play in 2015 and how do they relate to civic life? Today the world of commerce is encroaching irrevocably on our civic spaces. Our post-war…
“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 working with a consortium of cultural organisations for the second year running to deliver the…
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 passers-by to record and engage with their own shadows and with those who’ve passed before. …
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 Spring Gardens. This is culture in flux… Blurring the Lines is brilliant, it’s about new…
Clare Reddington, Exec Producer, Playable City Award describes Shadowing, the winner of the 2014 £30,000 international Playable City Award, to get Bristol residents dancing with shadows This week the Watershed in Bristol unveiled the 2014 winner of the £30,000 international Playable City Award, design duoJonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, based in New York and Treviso,…
The second international £30,000 Playable City Award was launched by Watershed (www.watershed.co.uk/playablecity) in February this year to invite artists, designers, architects, technologists and creative practitioners from all over the world to propose new ideas that will challenge the screen-based clichés of a smart city, and respond instead to cities as playable, open, and configurable spaces….