The Great Big Cultural Survey
Tina Morris is probably best known in Hastings as the director of Coastal Currents, the annual festival that she’s been running since 2017. But she’s been involved in the creative scene since 2014, since setting up Sweet and Dandy, an events marketing agency, and Audiotrope in 2020, supporting young and early career musicians to live stream their music.
Tina feels that the Hastings creative sector is being underestimated in terms of size, income generation, employment and tourism contribution. To change that, she is carrying out her own survey to get a more accurate understanding of how many people work in and contribute to the creative sector locally. This covers those living and working in TN postcodes and looks into what they do, what they need and how they feel.
She’s really keen to get responses, “even if you just fill in the first few questions!” She also points out that while the survey can be completed anonymously, she would prefer names attached as “the ability to follow up with each of you in future is helpful”.
Surveys have a bad rap these days as everyone and their aunt seems to want us to complete them – for no obvious benefit. But this one has a clear purpose: the more that’s known about the sector, the more it can be represented to create change. Tina would like you to share with as many people as you can, by email or on socials “as the data isn’t reliable unless we get a swell of thousands filling it in, not just a select few!”
Scan the QR code if you would like to be part of the Big Culture Survey, or go the Coastal Currents website
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