How Can I Stay? I don’t want to not want to stay
A programme supporting creative people in the South West who operate in rural contexts and face a range of barriers.
How Can I Stay? (I don’t want to not want to stay) aimed to support creative people in the South West who operate in rural contexts and face barriers due to a lack of cultural and public infrastructure, access needs, isolation and injustice.
How Can I Stay? was devised in response to our research with members of the VASW Steering Group: Erika Cann, Laura Hopes, Amanda Lynch, Rocca Holly-Nambi, Georgia Newman and Melanie Stidolph.
The programme, which benefited over 700 people, ran between June and November 2024. It included two online seminars exploring critical issues faced by those operating rurally; and online and in-person events hosted by creative practitioners with partner organisations More Than Ponies, b-side, Studio Kind and Creative Kernow.
You can find BSL signed event recordings, along with commissioned reflective texts and artist conversations below.
How Can I Stay? was supported by the Postcode Local Trust.
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