I was recently going through some old notes and found a planning document with a section entitled ‘SPILL into Suffolk’. I will often find these kinds of things lurking on my hard drive – little notes to self, imagining initiatives or possible programming strands. These ideas don’t necessarily come to fruition. At least not in the short term. But I seem to remember the thinking behind this phrase ‘SPILL into Suffolk’ was that having embedded myself in the town, and committed to Ipswich as home to the festival, it would be interesting to start exploring what SPILL might do in the future over this wider geographical area – or, as I phrased it in the document:

IDEA: Expanding SPILL beyond the borders of Ipswich into rural contexts…