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Comment on The Future of the Satellite Programme: What Next? by ukpr

ukpr — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:00:11 +0000

I love the idea of First Thursdays and would be very happy to support it. How can we start? I do not feel that this is a “mothering” approach at all – audiences need to be developed in each district of East Kent as well as across East Kent, particularly if we are asking people to travel. East Kent can feel hard to traverse for those who do not wish to drive, but the distance fosters diversity and identity – it is a strength as well as a challenge. They still joke in London that it is hard to go “below the river” or to Hackney – we are not the only region that struggles with distance.
There are a lot of networks working across East Kent within different art forms. East Kent Live Lit is the network for writers and artists who work with text in East Kent, as well as producers and venues who programme live literature. Visit http://www.livelit.co.uk for more. Escape to Create works with artists along Kent’s coast and each district has a local arts development officer. It would be terrific to have a forum that would allow all these networks and individual artists and writers to come together.
There are a lot of us here, but because we are so spread out it feels like nothing is happening. It is not true. A lot is happening, all of the time. But it is hard to get the word out to the people who would benefit from knowing. How can we combine our resources? If we can all find each other, we will be constantly aware of who is here and how much is happening.

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Comment on The Future of the Satellite Programme: What Next? by Matthew de Pulford

Matthew de Pulford — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:38:23 +0000

I agree with Matt.

From where I’m based in North East Kent, I can easily get to Canterbury, Whitstable and Margate using public transport.
However, getting to other parts of the county is tricky. For example, I can get to London in half the time it takes to get to Folkestone, which is half the distance – and the service is very limited.

It’s a shame. Because of this I often miss events in these harder to reach parts of the county, particularly if they take place in the evening.

Maybe a First Thursdays scheme would help to link up Kent’s artistic community. Matt says that the problem at the moment is that it’s hard to organise when there are so few organisations operating a regular programme – probably true. So does this put the impetus for organising this scheme onto these organisations (bearing in mind that they are the best informed about the scheduling of there own programmes)?

And could (or should) educational institutions play a part in this? It might assist the integration of their graduating (in the case of HE institutions) students into the local arts community. Certainly a lot of graduating artists look to London as Kentish audiences do.

On the other hand, does this ‘mothering’ approach encourage passivity and laziness?

Comment on The Future of the Satellite Programme: What Next? by Matt Rowe

Matt Rowe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:05:52 +0000

It was a shame to of missed the seminar. the are a few points i would of like to have raised.

The is genuine need to develop county wide strategies that will help join up the pockets of existing fringe activity happening around the county.

Iamlocal.net can help by indexing creatives and fringe activity in kent.
Club Shepway intend the site to act as a Catalyst for Kentish arts networks to develop. Providing a snap shot of previous events.

however one big problem that Kent will always struggle with, is its bad transport links. All too often people are inclined to hot foot it straight in to London rather than travel to see a show at the other side of the county.

One possible solution could be to instigate first Thursdays style galley visits. alternating the venues around Kent. http://www.firstthursdays.co.uk/

The key to this working, would rely on larger organizations with established programs, busing in critical mass in from Kent and London area. This would provide fringe groups with regular opportunities to curate exhibitions that show case emerging contemporary works. to new audiences.

Comment on The Endless Seminar by Wendy croft

Wendy croft — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:39:46 +0000

Unable to attend seminars as hosting event at this time- would be good to have satelite participant meet up at diff time.also would be good to have some sort of out of hours viewing of projects as could hardly get to any.

Comment on How to Create an Exhibition with Little or No Money by First Seminar Blog Up! | The Whitstable Satellite 2010

First Seminar Blog Up! | The Whitstable Satellite 2010 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:05:04 +0000

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Comment on AudioLab by The Domestic Soundscape » Blog Archive » Soundwalk 3: The Kit

The Domestic Soundscape » Blog Archive » Soundwalk 3: The Kit — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:02:46 +0000

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