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Knowle West Media Centre's monthly meet-up for people mixing community, arts and technology. This month it teams up with the Bristol Neurodivergent Artist Network for a screening of The Stimming Pool, a 70-minute experimental hybrid film by the Neurocultures Collective and filmmaker Steven Eastwood. Buffet dinner and arrivals from 18:00, the film in two halves with a break, then a discussion and an optional tour of KWMC's Making Space (laser cutter, 3D printer, sewing machines). Two hours, in person at Leinster Avenue, Knowle West, BS4 1NL. Dinner is included. Fidget toys and a quiet room are provided; raise access and dietary needs when booking.

The closing morning of the Brazen Summit, techSPARK's festival week, on where creativity, culture and technology meet. Margaret Heffernan opens with a keynote on why creativity is essential for organisations in uncertain times. Composer Beatie Wolfe, SXSW London's Adem Holness and Robin Thorn of Thawney and Beat Blocks then talk spatial audio. Ottilie Culloty of drone show company Celestial and Graham MacVoy of Wake The Tiger cover building immersive experiences for hundreds of thousands of visitors, the Bristol Beacon rebrand team follow, and the Blue Planet III team close on low-light cameras and immersive formats. 09:30 to 13:00. Paid: tickets from £45 on Eventbrite, no refunds. Week passes are sold through techSPARK.

A free drop-in expo of odd controllers, interactive installations and experimental games, run by Bristol Games Hub as part of techSPARK's Brazen Festival 2026. On show: Robin Baumgarten's Line Wobbler (a one-dimensional game played with a spring and an LED strip) and Quantum Jungle, Alistair Aitcheson's The Book Ritual and Codex Bash, the AI-powered VR documentary Dream Lens, Owen Davis's musical and visual devices, plus work from Dr James Bragg, LittleBigEars Games, Kira Guo and Constance Fleuriot. Sponsored by Cole Powered and Nuclear Candy Games, with support from Bristol Digital Game Lab and Earswitch. Open 10:00 to 16:30 at Dareshack, 20 Wine Street. No ticket needed, just turn up.

A 25-minute talk from Hey! What? on what brands can take from subcultures, festivals and scenes. The argument: culture does not move because something is sensible, it moves because something is different enough to notice, specific enough to believe in and interesting enough to pass on - so weird is not the opposite of strategy, it is often where strategy starts working. Amy Gettings, Managing Director, and Hamish McWhirter, Creative Director, are both speaking. At The Station on Silver Street, in the Brazen Community Track.

Four ten-minute talks from Bristol Creative Industries on getting people to care about complex products, with an open Q&A at the end. John Lanyon, Creative Partner at Studio Lanyon, opens on the psychology of why people decide emotionally rather than logically, using well-known tech campaigns to show it working, and finishes on something to try the next day. A second talk tackles the brand-building catch-22: a weak brand means low demand, low demand means every pound goes on squeezing sales out of that demand, which leaves nothing to invest in brand. Two further talks complete the session. At The Station, 15:00 to 15:50, part of Brazen.