Pam Sheppard
Pam Sheppard is acting chairman of the Silk Road Writer’s Group.
They have had to cancel a string of recitals planned for this year, and she fears that numbers of members are dwindling.
Her worry is that similar groups could well fold if the pandemic continues for too much longer.
The impact of Covid has been hugely destructive across all the arts, but as things begin to move again, there is a growing fear that the smaller groups could well be the ones that get left behind.
“Basically we are a writers’ group, but mainly they write poetry, and from the point of view of performing arts, we put on a few recitals a year. The biggest draw was when we do a certain event in Arundel and we got 20 people. The last time we had one in Littlehampton, we got 22 people. There is still a little group of people that enjoys poetry.”