A CORNISH organisation can do the Locomotor – thanks to a major national grant.

Rural touring arts organisation Carn to Cove has won a substantial award from the Arts Council’s Strategic Touring Fund to develop its work with a new project, called ‘Locomotor’.

Carn to Cove is a project of the Cornish charity Creative Kernow, based at Krowji in Redruth, but active in 85 villages and towns around Cornwall. It presents professional rural touring performing arts and film (C Fylm) events through its network of community volunteers, and only this week launched a new film club in Liskeard.

Locomotor aims to deliver:

Expansion into Devon.

An international programme to present more diverse work of different cultures in the South West. Artists from Spain, Lithuania and Sweden are among those who will be performing across all the rural touring schemes in the South West.

And the development of new online tools and a web presence to improve box office income and sustainability, providing centralised online ticketing and marketing.