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BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck unveils The Waiting Room – a new documentary and virtual reality project tracing her breast cancer journey from diagnosis to recovery

When Victoria Mapplebeck was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to record each step of her journey from diagnosis to recovery. Shot entirely on an iPhone X, Victoria filmed her time in waiting rooms, surgery, consultations, CT scans and chemotherapy. The Waiting Room is an unflinching portrait of the blood, sweat and tears of cancer…

Award-winning female-led creative company Anagram, launch innovative public art project, which looks to the future of Shakespeare’s hometown

For centuries, Stratford-upon-Avon has celebrated its illustrious status as the hometown of William Shakespeare. But what’s it like to be a local resident, sharing a town with millions of visitors from all over the world? What might the future look like? The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Royal Shakespeare Company have commissioned an innovative artistic…

Winner of the first Smart Oxford Playable City® Commission ‘Star Light, Star Bright’ maps the night sky onto the streets of Oxford

Smart Oxford Playable City Commission reveals the first winner of the commission which places shared experience firmly at the heart of the future city. Friday 4 August 2017: Today Watershed and Smart Oxford are delighted to announce the winner of the first Smart Oxford Playable City Commission is UK based, award winning Guerilla Dance Project,…

First Smart Oxford Playable City® Commission Shortlist announced

Smart Oxford Playable City Commission Shortlist reveals six innovative projects placing shared experience at the heart of the future city. Tuesday 11 July 2017: Today Watershed and Smart Oxford are delighted to announce the shortlist for the very first Smart Oxford Playable City Commission 2017. From mysterious creatures appearing on city streets eager to make…

Congratulations Watershed on receiving continuing Arts Council England National Portfolio Funding until 2022

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…

Ambulante Beyond…

Groundbreaking Mexican film festival, Ambulante, comes to the UK as part of The Royal Anthropological Institute’s (RAI) 14th International Festival of Ethnographic Film On Tuesday 16 June 2015 the Royal Anthropological Institute will launch its 14th International Festival of Ethnographic Film, which for the first time will be held at Bristol’s celebrated cultural arts centre,…

Ashley wants to make you smile…..

Watershed’s new Studio Artist in Residence is creative technologist Ashley James Brown Creative coder, technologist, sound artist and electronic musician Ashley James Brown has just been announced as the new Studio Artist in Residence at Watershed. He’ll be spending two months over the summer exploring and expanding his own creative practice in amongst the Pervasive…

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 over the world to propose new and distinctive ideas that put people and play at…

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 Spring Gardens. This is culture in flux… Blurring the Lines is brilliant, it’s about new…