Our next planning meeting is Tuesday 26 March, Hope House (Hope Rd, LS9 7DU), 6PM!

Thinking of organising a film screening in September?
This meeting is for you!

It's informal & friendly, we'll talk about how to get started & any ideas can be discussed! Hope to see you there!

Re-upping this for anyone who missed it last week: my writeup of the latest round of delivery strikes, with a particular focus on migration and Emmanuel Terray's theory of migrant labour, for the brilliant Vittles.

vittlesmagazine.com/p/long-days-lo…

Here's our full lineup for March 24th. Tickets are still available. Only £5. book here - broadway.org.uk/whats-on/short…

Cultural Famine: Austerity in the UK's Heritage Sector Cuts Deep – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/01/11/cul…

Book of the day, Culture Is Not An Industry by Justin O’Connor on Manchester University Press

Taking a look at the importance of culture and what it means to us as humans, how it has been commodified with the creation of the so-called creative industries and arguing for a radical realignment.

🔥

VICTORY! #MiamiSeaquarium ’s lease is being TERMINATED 🎉

The world can now cheer that this hellhole will be shut down 👏 peta.vg/3uft

Huge thanks to Isaac Rose, Justin O’Connor and host Abi Gilmore for a brilliant event tonight discussing the creative industries and the Manchester regeneration machine. Signed copies of THE RENTIER CITY and CULTURE IS NOT AN INDUSTRY will be available instore from tomorrow!

Invigorating discussion this evening at BlackwellsManchester brilliantly chaired by Dr Abi Gilmore bringing together powerful ideas from two new books:

The Rentier City by Isaac Rose
Culture is Not an Industry by Justin O'Connor

Important to know who you are dealing with if you use Deliveroo. Thank you Vittles for covering this.

#solidarity

Are you an emerging artist or designer? Design the artwork for our April Sunday Season, and have it platformed on our Cinema Screens, across the building and in print!

More: watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportuni…

Our digital installation Seeing in the Dark invites you to explore how cinema makes memories.
Now up on our website, take a look at the short film from Jonny Randall about how and why we made this piece:
1/3
imitatingthedog.co.uk/project/seeing…

A lovely welcome from Ross at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham!

We're here tonight to hear Justin O'Connor talking about his new book Culture is Not an Industry, with David Wright and a full house of lovely folks.

📌International Labor Film Festival expresses solidarity with KuirFest: “We refuse to acknowledge the ban order of the Ankara Governorship!”

kaosgl.org/en/single-news…

Really enjoyed last night's book launch in Bristol with Steve Presence from DCRC UK talking to Justin O'Connor at bookhaus

At this in-person book launch event in Leeds, Cultural Institute will be welcoming Justin O'Connor to talk about his book Culture Is Not An Industry.

Tickets are free, but please book in advance: ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-insti…

“I’ll expect you to feed me, bathe me, brush my hair, hold my hand, recognise me when I have ceased to recognise myself and be the last human touch I may feel before I die.

But I do not think, at the same time, that you deserve a family life.”

Justin O’Connor’s new book, Culture is Not an Industry, is flipping brilliant and he’s coming to Bristol on Feb 27 to launch it. Get your tickets here, folks: bookhausbristol.com/product/cultur… DCRC UK UWE Bristol Press Office uwefilmstudies Watershed Bristol Creative Industries Laura Ager

During the Covid pandemic, Thomas Randall joined NHS England as their in-house filmmaker. Continuing our celebrations of the NHS’s 75th anniversary, we asked him to share some of his favourite productions. theb.fi/3GIHAhV