Still and still moving: Od Arts Festival 2023
The third Od Arts Festival took place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend in 2023; 37 artists featured in exhibitions and events across 9 venues.
The festival takes its name from the Od: [pronounced Odd] a crooked stream that meanders through the neighbouring villages of East and West Coker, Somerset, UK.
Led by Coker-based OSR Projects, Od Arts Festival 2023 – Still & still moving, was curated by Cat Bagg and Simon Lee Dicker, and takes its title from T.S Eliot’s poem East Coker, the second of his famous Four Quartets:
…Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Susie was commissioned by OSR Projects to write the evaluation report of the festival, you can read it here.
Head to Od Arts Festival for more information about participating artists, images by Katy Docking and Liberty Smith’s short film documenting the weekend of events and exhibitions.
Od Arts Festival Team 2023: Chantelle Henocq, Cat Bagg, Simon Lee Dicker, Susie Clark, Katie Platts. Photo: Katy Docking