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Bristol and Bath Screen Summit 2023

In November 2023, leading filmmakers, producers and writers joined production companies, commissioners, and politicians at the second Bristol and Bath Screen Summit at Arnolfini to celebrate the rise of the screen …

Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Final Report

In October 2023, The Bristol+Bath Creative R+D team released their final report: Hopeful Futures for Creative Innovation. It is for anyone with an interest in thinking differently about how to …

Game Engines: Adoption and Adaptation

On 16th October 2023, we held a lively roundtable discussion exploring the impact of game engine technology on the ways in which media is made and experienced.

Hosted by the DCRC …

Urban Hosts’ 10th Anniversary

Urban Hosts is a practice-centred, public programme that provokes and promotes alternatives, to how we currently govern and live in cities. For the last 10 years the programme has been …

Patterns in Practice Artist Residence

October 2023 – January 2024

We are pleased to introduce you to the Patterns in Practice resident, Craig Scott.  Craig is a composer, improvising guitarist and sound artist. Working with human performers, robotics, …

Lunchtime Talk: Inhabiting The Lantern Room – Synchronised Theatre for Durational Narratives Patterns in Practice Artist Residency 

DCRC Member and Creative Director of Raucous, Sharon Clark hosted a lunchtime talk alongside Raucous and Toronto based company Lost & Gone, to consider a synchronised performance that spans an ocean and …

New project aims to use AI to help people with Type 2 Diabetes manage their health

Writer and maker of conversational systems and member of the DCRC, Rik Lander is developing a ground-breaking AI system designed with patients and their needs at its heart, to support people …

I am ECHOBORG 100 

Seven years since the very first audience test, we are extremely proud to present the 100th performance of I am Echoborg.

I am Echoborg is a funny, thought-provoking live show created …

Lunchtime Talk: From Bitter Ground – Form, Function and Creating the Uncanny Experience

DCRC Director and interdisciplinary artist working with print, mixed media, and immersion, Tom Abba, delivered a Pervasive Media Studio Lunchtime Talk in the studio and online in June 2023.

From Bitter Ground …

Launch of The Documentary Film Council

The Documentary Film Council launched at Sheffield DocFest on Saturday 17th June 2024.

The DFC is a new sector-wide organisation for the UK’s independent documentary film industry. It’s vision is to change …

Spoken Memories Project exhibit at Bristol Central Library

Every part of Bristol has a story to tell.

The Spoken Memories project exhibited 6th – 11th May 2023. The exhibition was a celebration of the experience and narratives of Bristol …

An immersive theatre experience co-created between Bristol and Canada

DCRC member, Creative Director, award-winning playwright and dramaturg Sharon Clark wrote a blog on their experience with remote creative collaboration between Bristol & Canada.

In the blog, Sharon looks back on Raucous’ …

CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies

CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies was dedicated to making visible different ways of ‘doing’ the creative economy. The conference aimed to draw on the experiences, narratives, research, thinking, and …