CREATIVE PRODUCER


In summer 2021, I set up Tresco Makers' Market - a community event supporting makers, showcasing local creative talent and raising money for our local community centre.

Scilly has always attracted artistic souls. Creativity, in its almost infinite forms, is so cathartic and very much what kept us sane in our isolated island community during lockdown.
When travel restrictions lifted and visitors arrived on our shores once more, I was really eager to have an opportunity to sell face to face, rather than from behind a computer screen. Knowing many of my kindred creatives felt similarly; I decided to do something about it.
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It felt great to organise and take part in an event celebrating local talent and creativity and we raised money for our community centre too, who provided the trestle tables we drove to our chosen location on the back of a truck borrowed from a local tradesman.
Our little collective of makers, including individuals from Tresco, Bryher and St. Mary's really pulled together and everyone mucked in setting up the stalls and untangling bunting we strew across the sea wall.



Buzzing from a successful debut market, we were all keen to establish a more regular event and quickly scheduled three more events to take place before the end of the year. Soon we were a well oiled machine when it came to set up and marketing via the distribution of flyers around the islands (as well as lot's of noise on social media of course!)
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While I'm no longer based on the islands, the markets, which I like to think of as my little legacy, continue to run at least monthly, from March to October. They are held along the sea wall between the New Inn and New Grimsby quay, unless it's too wet or windy, when refuge is sought in the Flying Boat Studio (above the Flying Boat Café).