folks directory
making folks directory happen!
deep privilege of belonging, and the way belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level.
David Whyte • Courage
Choosing our own medium and making it our own will flood us with a sense of agency in a way that jamming it onto instagram just never will. Imagine the experience of creating a printed local event calendar: you choose the type or you handwrite it all yourself, you pick the color and paper and if you want to add any weird flair, you get to talk to... See more
Instead of spending the majority of our time on self-promotion, perhaps more of us could be focusing on finding ways to form solidarity among artists or among disciplines, especially in fields where there is no single industry-wide union that protects individual creators.
Rebecca Jennings for Vox Media
Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public
newpublic.orgEspecially like the way they talk about what a directory is good at
Field Guide to Creative Survival
open.substack.comhow about creating case studies for different potential users of of the directory (project managers, estate agents, venue owners, festival organisers, musicians)
Vanessa Clark Art @folkestoneinspired
instagram.comtry contacting Vanessa Clarke to announce the directory on her podcast?

I never thought of it as a what we’re doing a building an exit route for people but in some ways, yeah, I can see that
Just a moment...
kickstarter.comHow about we launch a similar campaign, with a much smaller budget, to raise money for a launch event and offer some merch or a DIY printed version of the directory in exchange?