We're crowdfunding for our first project!

Hi everyone and welcome if you've just discovered our page!

It may seem like we're just waking up from our winter hibernation over here, but we've been busy behind the scenes cooking up something pretty exciting. We are thrilled to announce that for our first project, we will be exploring and celebrating the Rural Black British History of the Cotswolds!

Using records and studies from the district and its immediate surrounding areas,  we will work with professional and community creatives to build artistic responses in the form of three-dimensional, hypothetical biographies. These artistic responses will then be presented alongside a broader exploration of Rural Black History, in a public exhibition held in the heart of the Cotswolds.

What we'll deliver:
3 professionally produced short films, employing local creative talent from the Cotswolds
10 interactive workshops exploring Rural Black History and facilitating artistic responses from participants
A public exhibition at New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, displaying the work created by our professional and community creatives in response to Rural Black History
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This project will bring together a myriad of people together from across the Cotswolds, legitimising the Black British legacies of the region and celebrating our shared complex and dynamic history through creative expression. 

We're incredibly excited about the possibilities this project can bring, but in order to get going, we do need a bit of help. We hope to get council funding for our project, but in order to do that, we need to show that our project has support in our community. You can do this by backing us with as little as £2 through our Spacehive Campaign page.

Back Our Project

At this stage we're looking for small pledges from as many people as possible, so if there’s two of you it’s better to put two small pledges from different accounts than one big one!

​If you've already done this, Thank you so much. We are so grateful for the generosity already shown to our project. If you think friends, family, colleagues, or anyone you know might be interested in supporting our project, please share our campaign by copying and sharing our campaign link:
 https://www.spacehive.com/the-rural-black-history-project

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​The eagle-eyed among you may notice this is project is similar, but slightly different to our original plan, details of which can still be found at the bottom of the About page. Whilst we still intend on delivering our original plan producing a one-act play, we decided to develop a smaller and more Covid secure version of the project first, allowing to not only ensure the longevity of our work, but offer earlier opportunities to creatives, who have been hit incredibly hard during the pandemic. 

Keep checking back here for updates on the campaign, project, and any other news. Alternatively you can join our mailing list here.

Thank you for reading and look forward to updating you soon!