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Pubs, poems, positivity: National poem of thanks to resilient publicans and ‘Winter Warmers’ pub poetry collection unveiled

The contribution that culture can make in regeneration activities, as demonstrated by numerous city ‘capitals of culture’ examples, can be applied in its own way to rural areas. Find out how in our webinar that took place on 3 February 2021 as we discuss the arts and festivals in this context.

Perform Europe will support experiments to make touring of performing arts works in Creative Europe countries more sustainable and inclusive. The ultimate goal of Perform Europe is to design a future support scheme for cross-border touring and digital distribution of the performing arts.

Take Art and Actiontrack are delivering a 3 year project in Somerset working through music with NEETs.

Spoken word poet, Liv Torc has produced a delicious, rich and sublime piece of poetry for the Cultivate project. Take five to listen to the words of this cultivating message and smile.

Every year, Small Size Days celebrate the wonder of arts and Early Years: bringing the very youngest children, their families and their educators together. Taking place from the 29th to the 31st January 2021, it will this year offer online performances, workshops and other activities for children from 0 to 6.

Youth Music funded project led by Black Acre Records in Bristol. It includes an opportunity for a young musician aged 18-25 living in Somerset and the bordering rural areas. Activity will be in both Bristol and Somerset and there will be support for travel costs as well as payment for time spent on the project which runs from the spring to October 2021.

The Cultivate project delivers a food story with a difference and brings tears of joy to local residence with poetry on their doorstep.

How can the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic be turned into opportunities for sustainable rural growth and regeneration?

Take Art's brilliant volunteer promoters pulled out all the stops to promote some glorious outdoor performances this summer, whilst their village halls were closed due to Covid-19

Cultivate at Take Art's 'Apple Art Project' is open for juicy apples for a further 2 weeks. Be part of this cultivating community project!

Article written by Ralph Lister about Take Art's rural touring work in Somerset and beyond.