All Across the Arts at Home
THE All Across the Arts [AATA] family are committed to promoting the arts across all genres to inspire creativity and widen access to the arts for all.
Access that, for the time being, will be severely restricted.
One of our fundamental aims is also to contribute to strengthening individual and community resilience to life’s challenges through engagement with the arts.
Challenges that are being heightened by the current pandemic, especially through self-isolation and social distancing and of course the closure of venues where we can access the arts.
With all this in mind this column will be refocused and renamed as ‘What’s On At Home All Across the Arts with Steve Cooke’.
A column that will endeavour to stimulate and facilitate engagement with the arts that is accessible from within our homes.
The writers in the AATA family will share their personal recommendations of what can be accessed from home in such as reading, listening and viewing, both locally and globally.
The writers in the AATA family will also be contributing their own pieces, such as poems and articles with links to further online reading recommendations.
The wider arts community are invited and encouraged to contribute bios and background to their art with links to websites, YouTube etc.
Readers are encouraged to share through the column their own recommendations for reading, listening and viewing.
For example, a book they have enjoyed and been immersed in, music they have got a lot out of listening to and videos, films, TV programmes that have engaged them.
This can be in the form of a simple recommendation with links to access or and article more fully explaining their recommendation.
Articles ideally should be around 200 or 400 words, with, if possible, an accompanying image as a jpeg.
The AATA family of writers includes such as Steve Cooke, Seamus
Kelly, Eileen Earnshaw, Robin Parker, Katie Haigh and Sue Devaney plus reviewers, Dr Joe Dawson, Steve Griffiths, Alan Lawless and Bernie Jordan.