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Watershed, Bristol www.watershed.co.uk Watershed, housed in former industrial premises on Bristol’s waterfront, and the UK’s first dedicated media centre, opened in 1982. It stands the at the gateway to Harbourside – a major cultural, commercial and residential regeneration development in the heart of Bristol UK. Watershed has three cinema screens, is part of Europa Cinemas and the Digital Screen Network, and regularly hosts industry events, such as South West Screen’s ‘Funding You Feature’, last year’s Cinema Programme in Arts Centres conference, and networking forums such as Cineformation, Scriptwriter’s Group and West of England Design Forum. Watershed has been key in developing and programming Encounters International Short Film Festival, the UK’s premier short film festival. Other festivals it plays a significant role in supporting, developing and hosting are Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival, Wildscreen, and Bristol Latino Film Festival. The cinema programme regularly profiles national cinemas (such as Albanian, Portuguese and Polish) and represents the history of cinema for contemporary audiences (e.g. silent films with live music). Watershed develops and supports many other projects, such as the annual Clark Bursary Digital Art Award and Bristol Stories – an online archive of Bristol people’s personal views and experiences. An ongoing relationship with HP Labs was initiated in 2004. dShed is Watershed’s online platform for digital creativity, and iShed, a separate Community Interest Company, has recently been set up to work with academic, commercial and cultural partners, and to identify new opportunities, support talent and incubate ideas with a focus on digital media and technology. Watershed is also home to Futurelab, UWE eMedia Incubator, ArtsMatrix and Bristol Investors in Learning. Introduction 40 tom fleming / creative consultancy UK Film Council in association with Arts Council England and the Arts Humanities Research Council
2.1 Creative Place-Making “There are at least three separate channels by which the Creative Industries can improve the well-being of regions: first, they directly generate value added for the local economy; second, their presence may make a city a more attractive location for noncreative businesses; and, third, they may instil and reinforce a sense of community identity and vitality” (Throsby 2001) 10 . Over the past twenty years, economic restructuring, periodic crises in government and finance, and an increasing realisation that the convergence of technology and content provide high growth and distinctively competitive market positions, have made culture and creativity an increasingly key focus for UK regions and cities: providing the leading edge for their tourist industries, offering a ‘creative brand’ to attract inward investment, and providing new skills and identities that are hoped will bring with them a unique, competitive edge. This creative focus accelerated during the 1990s, as the ‘network society’, ‘experience economy’, ‘creative cities’ and ‘globalisation’ were used to define new modes of production and consumption within the ‘new economy’. Today, the availability and quality of the local cultural resources and offer can determine whether or not people think their area is a ‘good place to live’. This is why culture is increasingly associated with quality of life. In addition, place-making strategies tend to focus on their cultural offer and on the presence of cultural infrastructure and a dynamic Creative Industries sector. This means that by helping to create positive images, the cultural sector has a direct impact on inward investment and the attraction/retention of skilled ‘knowledge workers’. For example, culture’s role in tourism is key, with tourism offers now increasingly focused on what is distinctive in a place. Tourism is one of the main sources of economic growth for some regions and cities, with evidence suggesting that tourists are increasingly interested in niche destinations and activities 11 . So today we can say that it is the distinctive environmental, leisure, cultural, ethnic and life style features of a place that tend to attract visitors. More and more destinations are using the label 'cultural' to highlight their offer and cultural tourism represents an average of six to eight per cent of national GDP in Europe. 10 Throsby 2001, ‘Economics and Culture’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 11 See Alan Clarke (2006): The Cultural Tourism Dynamic - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ttri/pdf/conference/alan%20clark.pdf Introduction 41 tom fleming / creative consultancy UK Film Council in association with Arts Council England and the Arts Humanities Research Council
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