Harsh Light: Short Supply & Kate West
Wednesday 5 July, 7 – 8:30pm
Online (via Zoom)
Free & open to all
Harsh Light is finally back for 2023, returning on Wednesday 5 July.
While it began during the first wave of Covid in 2020, Harsh Light has since become an online gathering space for practitioners and publics alike to parse out the ways those of us in the arts sector have been surviving the crisis present. All sessions are BSL interpreted.
Our speakers use Harsh Light as a platform to work through one or two more precise questions related to their practice, particularly ones that are connected to systemic challenges of public health, politics and Arts Council England’s strategy. We invite you to look back at our archive of conversations if you are interested in understanding the many different concerns and strategies that practitioners have articulated over the course of Covid.
For this session, we are excited to invite Short Supply and Kate West (co-lead of the Guild project at East Street Arts) to have a conversation with one another about their experience of running artist-led initiatives. Specifically, they will be discussing how to cultivate safe levels of challenge in spaces and projects, as well as ways of maintaining a grassroots vision in the work as things grow in ambition and scale.