We chat music, art, ceramics, fashion and if you can really make ideas happen in Stoke. When there's not much money around, can you make art and collaborate? How do you find your community?
It’s not difficult to be creative if the desire is there - and there are loads of fantastic people in the city working across a range of forms - what’s difficult is getting local corporate media and local government to support and platform local talent. Too many locals aren’t recognised or appreciated in their own city because they’re not given a big enough platform - fair play to The Knot for its part in trying to do that. Other cities, both in the UK and Europe have clearer paths to exhibition and performance, through access to facilities, promotion and endorsement. I don’t hold out much hope for Stoke on Trent Live to be of use - they weren’t much better in The Sentinel days. Local radio is either syndicated in its programming or has chopped its local content. Local government is skint. This leads to insularity and a lack of risk taking by audiences, so not unsurprisingly, local creatives have to go beyond the city to find their people.
Understandably difficult for younger generations to believe that “it can be done” from a Stoke-on-Trent base.Ash & Ryan give hope and perspective. Check out a creative woman from Trentham now making waves from Rotterdam (via 12 years in London), in Europe and even Latin America : feed-the-void.com ( aka Birds….aka DJ Katie Wilkinson). I just happen to be her proud dad ❤️
One of the cheapest places in the country to rent a studio.
The council need to use that to attract startups, artists musicians etc.
It’s not difficult to be creative if the desire is there - and there are loads of fantastic people in the city working across a range of forms - what’s difficult is getting local corporate media and local government to support and platform local talent. Too many locals aren’t recognised or appreciated in their own city because they’re not given a big enough platform - fair play to The Knot for its part in trying to do that. Other cities, both in the UK and Europe have clearer paths to exhibition and performance, through access to facilities, promotion and endorsement. I don’t hold out much hope for Stoke on Trent Live to be of use - they weren’t much better in The Sentinel days. Local radio is either syndicated in its programming or has chopped its local content. Local government is skint. This leads to insularity and a lack of risk taking by audiences, so not unsurprisingly, local creatives have to go beyond the city to find their people.
Understandably difficult for younger generations to believe that “it can be done” from a Stoke-on-Trent base.Ash & Ryan give hope and perspective. Check out a creative woman from Trentham now making waves from Rotterdam (via 12 years in London), in Europe and even Latin America : feed-the-void.com ( aka Birds….aka DJ Katie Wilkinson). I just happen to be her proud dad ❤️