Share your story at Everywhere 2024

Learn how to submit your own video to the next Everywhere virtual event.

Do you have a story to share that highlights the nurturing and thriving spirit within rural individuals, communities, or organizations? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Rural Assembly is issuing a call for submissions for video stories and
performances from rural people and organizations across the country.

These short videos will be shown as part of Rural Assembly Everywhere, a virtual event on August 1st.

Rural Assembly Everywhere: Nurturing Thriving Communities will delve into the wide range of topics that speak to what it takes for rural communities to flourish. In an election year, it often feels like we focus on problems more than imagining what it takes for us to thrive. That’s why this year’s Rural Assembly Everywhere will look at a wide range of topics – all which speak to what we need to nourish ourselves and our rural communities.

Submit a video for Everywhere

What we’re looking for: We are especially interested in your stories of nurturing and fostering thriving communities, showcasing the innovative ways you/your organization contribute to rural prosperity and vitality.
What should the video be like? The submissions can be documentary style, music, poetry, an interview, or just someone talking to the camera about these issues.
Please keep the videos under 3 minutes.
It’s OK if the video has been shown elsewhere before.
Submission deadline: July 1
Have questions? Email us.

Drawing Resilience: Maureen Hearty

Maureen Hearty transforms objects, space, and community, seeing art as a tool for action, education, and opportunity. The majority of her community-based work today is on the eastern plains of Colorado, considered one of the most sparsely populated areas in the United States. In Joes, Colorado (pop. 78), she is activating space using art, music, and the collection of story. In 2020, Maureen and her friend Kristin Stoltz were awarded an NEA grant for a project titled “Arts for a Prairie Seas: Farming Fluxus.”

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