Welcome to our website, Stand Together Stand Easy is a community interest company with an Art Council funded programme of initiatives free for Forces-connected people in East Sussex & Kent.
Are you a veteran, cadet, currently serving or a reservist, part of a military family, or an adult cadet volunteer? We bring you together, across the generations and different roles you have - many individuals but one community.
'Spirit of the Forces Community' 2024 Competitions
CAMERAderie - Photography Competition
Take photos of what the theme spirit of the Forces community means to you.
LEFT WRITE, LEFT RIGHT - Writing Competition
Poems between 3 - 50 lines, or personal stories max 500 words on the theme of spirit of the Forces community.
Winners & Runners-up will:
* Receive £ vouchers of their choice to spend.
* Be included in a pack of printed note-cards and be given a set to keep.
* Feature in the Stand Together Stand Easy project book and receive a complementary copy.
* Have their work go into Sussex Archives for generations to come.
Download the Competition Flyer.
Free Workshops Available
Stand Together Stand Easy project facilitators are happy to provide free photography and creative writing workshops to help your group develop their ideas and competition entries. Contact us to discuss and organise sessions.
How to Enter
Number of entries is unlimited in either or both of the competitions.
Individual, joint or group entries welcome. All ages welcome.
Entries to be emailed with your name, age and connection to the Forces to:
hello@standtogetherstandeasy.org by 30th June 2024
CAMERAderie
Drawing on a rich tradition of comradeship, ‘CAMERAderie’ is a series of photography skills workshops and a competition to portray images of the Forces community spirit. Winning entries will be included in a set of notecards.
Our photographer will also be offering all individuals the opportunity to have their portrait taken and collated into one image.
Left Write, Left Right
‘Left Write, Left Right’ uses reminiscence arts by pairing participants from different groups in the Forces community to hear and help document their partner’s stories.
Memories and anecdotes will be donated to the Sussex Archives at 'The Keep', alongside photographs and flags created from the CAMERAderie and Colour Party projects.
Colour Party
‘Colour Party’ shall create a new flag design for the Forces community, using textiles and print.
What would you have on a standard flying in front of you, representing the collective identity of you and the Forces community?
Both large-scale and handheld versions will be produced so everyone can have one at home too. All projects will feature in a Stand Together Stand Easy book.
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