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Providing creative workshops and events across rural areas in North Shropshire and the Borderlands
We will deliver workshops & events building on & extending our ROAD STORIES year-long creative reminiscence project & emerging from our need to relocate the Rural Art Hub. Working with our partners Shropshire Cycle Hub, Babbinswood Farm, Soulton Hall, Whitchurch Heritage Centre, Ellesmere Yard & more we will create an extraordinary, unique touring rural project. For this project we will deliver a series of accessible, inclusive cultural experiences bringing together creativity, heritage & sustainability. This will be a project for all ages, presenting stories through visual arts, sound, music, photography and theatre that will support experiencing the landscape in new and exciting ways.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
Through a series of activities we will respond through creativity to rural isolation, climate change, access to the natural world & supporting mental/physical health & wellbeing. We will deliver nature walks to respond to the wayside, create opportunities for young people to become involved in a portrait & theatre project to dramatise the challenges of getting around, we will create singing walks & sound walks that open up unique creative experiences at the heart of the everyday. As well as develop a series of site-specific art works, for example, geo-tagged stories at bus stops that expand the horizons of where art & heritage can be experienced. All activities will be free or “pay what you can” & we will pay our practitioners according to recognised rates.
Steps to get it done:
We currently have a budget as part of our Postcode Lottery Trust that will cover the costs of part 1 of this project with a large part of it funding creative facilitators to collect stories and admin with a small amount for equipment. We will put £3000 of the funding from Postcode Lottery towards this part 2 of the project. However, this is not enough for all the amazing possibilities for the project and the crowdfund will enable us to take it to the next level of getting it on the road and developing more sustained activities with older people and young people experiencing rural isolation.
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How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £6,221
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Target (inc. fees) £6,221
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VolunteerOur innovative, interdisciplinary projects bring together creativity, heritage and sustainability to support transformation and inspiration at the heart of community. We are artist-, volunteer- and community-led, committed to supporting the local and regional arts and rural ecology.
Central to our vision as an organisation are the well-documented benefits of open-ended, playful, exploratory creative processes to support resilience and enable a sense of radical transformation. We bring this open-endedness together with heritage arts and crafts activities to provide an innovative, inclusive volunteer, artist and community-led programme that is unique in the local cultural ecology. We aim to focus on and respond to a number of specific challenges and outcomes for the local population, where there is a high proportion of older people experiencing rural isolation and lack of opportunity for young people.
Our aims are based on a vision for a grassroots organisation that is led by local lived experience and opens innovative ways to create a new sense of community and place across different diverse groups who may not otherwise connect. We are, in particular, focussed on responding to rural isolation and working to support new ways to bring all ages together to think about sustainable futures. We aim to engage with all ages through a diverse programming that mixes more accessible and familiar content, including heritage crafts and art, with other more challenging but rewarding activities that introduce new outcomes and unique experiences. We are particularly keen to provide opportunities for intergenerational creativity where, for example, adults can experience the way children create and play. We create opportunities for reflecting on sustainability through a choice of materials or an understanding of the needs of the natural world and the impact of climate change. We are also particularly interested in continuity by providing long-term activities that can help us sustain engagement and really understand the needs and interests of individuals we work with. Through our “Pay What You Can”, taster and free activities we address inclusivity because of economic barriers. We also signpost to community transport providers and subsidise travel costs if needed and possible.
Project Owner: Rural Art Hub The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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