"We need our farmers to be artists and our artists to be farmers" — Nick Hayes and Emma Kernahan at NeoAncients
IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING OF a moment for me to cover a conversation between Emma Kernahan and Nick Hayes at day two of the NeoAncients festival 2025 on a sunny weekend in Stroud.
The stars are for everyone: Dartmoor wild campers celebrate legal win
Amplify Stroud headed down to the moors this week to capture dance, joy, and protest after the Supreme Court affirms historic commons rights
There's a Goddess in the Cotswolds
Transdisciplinary artist Sarah Dixon explores Gloucestershire's divine feminine and considers the growth of Goddess paganism in Stroud
Look up! Don't Look Up! Look Up!
Land acquisition in England has been achieved over centuries by means of violent theft, enclosure, clearance and most importantly, the management of perception, the state of mind of the huge group. This has been maintained with tools such as persecution, transportation, mortgage and tenancy.
“The Heavens Valley is soon to be sold”
For decades Stroudies have walked, foraged, partied, picnicked, camped, cried and canoodled in the Heavens without permission or payment.
