{"id":916,"date":"2016-09-30T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel.we-are-low-profile.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:06:10","slug":"plymouth-art-weekender-2016-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachel.we-are-low-profile.com\/blog\/plymouth-art-weekender-2016-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"How Plymouth Art Weekender can can help nurture the city’s arts eco system"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Plymouth Art Weekender can can help nurture the city’s arts eco system<\/h1>\n
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Plymouth Art Weekender map. Photo Credit: Sarah Waddington \/ Plymouth Herald<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now in its 2nd year, Plymouth Art Weekender<\/a> builds on a successful lineage of artist-led and grassroots visual arts focussed projects in the city over the last 5 (or 10) years, brought to its most recent crescendos with the British Art Show 7 Fringe (2011) and the establishment of KARST<\/a>, PAC Home<\/a> & The River Tamar Project<\/a> (2012), Radiant<\/a> & Visual Arts Plymouth<\/a> (2014) and the 1st Plymouth Art Weekender in 2015.<\/p>\n

As an aside, you can see my work-in-progress of this ‘history’ of Plymouth’s contemporary art eco-system<\/a> here<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this post, I’d like to explore some ideas on how Plymouth Art Weekender (PAW) could develop further for future weekenders by reflecting on my experiences this year.<\/p>\n

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Art can lead us to look at our city differently<\/h2>\n

The work that I managed to get out and see during the Weekender (when I wasn’t working on install \/ de-installing \/ running 3 different events – ooops!!) encouraged me to take another look at Plymouth. Having lived and worked here (with forays away to other places to study, adventure and explore) over the last 20 years, I can, at times, be fooled into thinking that I ‘know’ Plymouth – but the city still surprises me.<\/p>\n