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Knowle West Media Centre
@knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
A community hub, digital manufacturing space + neighbourhood living lab in Knowle West, Bristol. Since 1996, we’ve been collaboratively shaping fairer futures using arts, tech, and care. 💚
Excited to be in partnership with Future Makers & artist Ben Parry on the 'Plastic Pavilion' built outside KWMC! It will serve as a gathering space for plastic-themed workshops coming soon...

💚 Supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @bathspauni.bsky.social  @bristolwater.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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New Voices, a talent scheme for underrepresented writer-directors in the south west, is open for applications. Apply with a 5-min short film idea by Fri 22 Aug, 17:00. Selected applicants get mentoring, script development, workshops with actors and more. watershed.co.uk/filmhub/even...
Apply to BFI NETWORK New Voices 2025 | Film Hub South West
New Voices is our three-month talent development scheme for underrepresented voices in the south west of England.
watershed.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Making the Homes We Need within Planetary Boundaries
🗓️ 16 June, @wshed.bsky.social

We invite you to join community activists, designers, and policy-makers who are co-designing and making new ways to create decent and affordable homes that don’t cost the earth.

housing-reimagined.eventbrite.co.uk
Housing Reimagined: Making the Homes We Need Within Planetary Boundaries
How can we deliver the 1.5million homes the government has pledged to deliver, without costing the earth?
housing-reimagined.eventbrite.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Excited to share this special episode of The Seekers Podcast, featuring local community allotment group, We Are More Springfield!

This episode was co-produced between KWMC and The Wardrobe Ensemble. Available on all podcast platforms and on their website: theseekers.co.uk/podcast

📷 Ibi Feher
May 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Are you an established creative technologist or artist/researcher interested in exploring @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social past digital arts and tech practices? This MyWorld Fellowship might be the opportunity for you. wshd.to/kwmc2opportu...
MyWorld Fellowship in Residence - Tech Futures: What's Next?
Applications are now open for an exciting MyWorld Fellowship hosted by Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC).
wshd.to
April 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Pop into Filwood Library or Bedminster Library to explore the Sharing Stories exhibitions! Celebrating powerful local stories collected by Filwood Community Centre and Acta Theatre, beautifully reimagined by emerging designers and our KWMC Factory team...

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Sharing Stories
YouTube video by Bristol Museums
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April 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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What a focused and creative group of young people at @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social's Soundwave(+). A genuine pleasure to be working on Web Of Life Quest #gamemusic with them. #BristolUK - you still still got it! #digitalcatapult @innovateuk.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Trying something out ... a lunchtime reading group for hopeful technologists. If anyone wants to come, perhaps we can make it a semi-regular thing. For the first one, let's read Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto www.careful.industries/blog/2025-2-...
A reading group for hopeful technologists — Careful Industries
A gentle, shared space to come together as an act of hopeful resistance and solidarity building. Come along to this first reading group to share your thoughts about Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Man...
www.careful.industries
February 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Our team visited @bdfi.bsky.social to get inspired, dream big and reflect on the future of KWMC! 🤖

We’re so excited to explore how this cutting-edge tech can be shaped with and for local communities... What would you use these facilities for? 👀
February 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our 'Foundations for the Future' exhibition is OPEN! ✨ It runs through 2025 at KWMC (BS4 1NL), everyone's welcome to pop in Mon-Fri 9:30am-5pm, just give us a quick call or email first to check the space is free (enquiries@kwmc.org.uk / 0117 903 0444)

New programme coming soon!

📷 Ibi Feher
February 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Brill exhibition at @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social looking at the past several years of their achievements + reflecting on the future opportunities when working with tech and local communities. Well done @rcecoleman.bsky.social and KWMC team for putting it together :)
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are delighted to welcome Linzy Na Nakorn and @rachaelclerke.bsky.social to the KWMC team as artists in residence! Look out for exciting opportunities to collaborate and connect with them throughout 2025 as they explore Filwood Broadway...

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February 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Hi, we're WeCanMake and we've joined the exodus from that other platform...

WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test space in south Bristol, imagining and making low-carbon homes that grow social infrastructure and community wealth in the process.

Operating out of a community microfactory, we... 🧵
November 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hello, BlueSky!

We’re Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC): a vibrant community hub, digital manufacturing space + neighbourhood living lab in Knowle West, Bristol. Since 1996, we’ve been collaboratively shaping fairer futures using arts, tech, and care.

Can’t wait to connect with you all 💚
January 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM