Spooky Family Creative Technology Workshop

Richard Sewell is running a spooky family workshop at the Pervasive Media Studio on Thursday 29 October, right in the middle of the October half-term. It's aimed at young people aged 8 to 14 and their grown-ups, so it's one of those sessions you do together rather than dropping the kids off and heading for a coffee.

The whole thing is built around Halloween. The first half is the making part: you build a spooky character out of cardboard, and the second half is where you bring it to life with your own sound effects. They give a few examples of what you can go for — growling teeth, zombies, spindly spiders — and as you work, you'll pick up some construction techniques and a bit of simple technology along the way. It's as much about the making as it is about the sound.

Sewell is a Pervasive Media Studio resident, a roboticist and software engineer, and a co-founder of Airgiants, whose work focuses on the interactions between people and machines, experience design and play. That background comes through here, too: it's not just about sticking bits of cardboard together, but about how you use a bit of tech to give your creation a voice. The workshop is made possible with partners in the Pervasive Media Studio, the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol.

It runs from the Pervasive Media Studio Event Space at The Watershed, which is wheelchair accessible and has a hearing loop. Tickets are £3 per child, plus a 12% booking fee.