Stories, creatives and the shift to online

2020 continues to…do its thing.

We were fortunate early in the year to secure the support of Shropshire Council with an Emergency Arts grant, designed to allow businesses to offer support to creatives during the pandemic with paid work delivering engaging, interesting digital creative content. Uncertainty and the calculation of risk has loomed so large over the past six months for all of us, whether in the creative industries or day to day life; our relationships, our families, the vague memory of our social lives. In the midst of so much stress and uncertainty, and the prospect of a bleak winter ahead, we were quite taken aback to be filming our project, Late Night Ludlow, and find ourselves feeling that same spark of community and love of crafting and sharing stories that we miss so much in live events. Masked up and sanitised to within an inch of our lives, it still felt exceptional to be (socially distanced…) in a space and creating something together.

It’s a small project, but the generosity of people wanting to get involved, willing to approach their work in a new way and create a way to share our stories with an online audience, has felt very meaningful. A lot of us have been forced to move our work online, but it’s going to be the work that continues to evolve and thrive online, that isn’t looking at it as a ‘have to for now’ but as an opportunity to rethink how we create and share stories and experiences, that’s going to be particularly interesting, and inspiring, to watch.

Hopefully you can join us for Late Night Ludlow, Halloween night at 7pm, here on dakinevents.com, and you can find out more at theludlowguide.co.uk. Shropshire has some wonderful, creepy stories, and we can’t wait to share them with you.

Happy Halloween!