About Us
Welcome to the official website for the Felicitas Collective, a web-based community, blog and zine aiming to promote all areas of the creative arts.
The Felicitas Collective was founded in February 2017 by Leeds University student Kayleigh Hinsley, and is a music and creative arts website and global community. The website operates primarily as a blog contributed to by a group of talented writers with a passion for the creative arts. The aim of the Collective is to bring attention to the best of the creative arts by allowing aspiring writers to express their views and share the things that are important to them as part of an organised and supportive group of peers, whether it’s just for fun or to help writers and artists alike to gain exposure for a future career. As of 2018, our zines will also be available in print.
The name ‘Felicitas’ was inspired by the Roman goddess and Latin term. In ancient Roman culture, the word felicitas meant blessed or lucky, and denoted productivity or happiness. The term could refer to a woman’s fertility and general’s luck or good fortune, both significant elements in Roman life. In Roman religion, the personification of Felicitas was a goddess who represented these values. She often appeared on Roman coins to represent the wealth and prosperity of the Empire, and is frequently featured with imagery such as the cornucopia (the ‘horn of plenty’). Although she shared some characteristics with the goddess Fortuna, Felicitas can be distinguished in one key way. While Fortuna was unpredictable and her effects could be negative, Felicitas always had a positive significance.
Drawing on this, the main ethos of the Felicitas Collective is to focus on work that we admire, spreading positivity rather than negativity. While criticism is encouraged in the context of analysis and evaluation, we don’t believe in publishing outright bad reviews; if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all. Therefore, only positive views are expressed here as this is a space designed to share the things we enjoy and are passionate about rather than the things we dislike. You can find out more about this on our Policies page.
We currently focus primarily on music and art, and are looking to expand to cover theatre, dance, film and television in the near future. If you would like to get involved, either by becoming a writer or by having your work featured, please get in touch!
The Felicitas Collective was founded in February 2017 by Leeds University student Kayleigh Hinsley, and is a music and creative arts website and global community. The website operates primarily as a blog contributed to by a group of talented writers with a passion for the creative arts. The aim of the Collective is to bring attention to the best of the creative arts by allowing aspiring writers to express their views and share the things that are important to them as part of an organised and supportive group of peers, whether it’s just for fun or to help writers and artists alike to gain exposure for a future career. As of 2018, our zines will also be available in print.
The name ‘Felicitas’ was inspired by the Roman goddess and Latin term. In ancient Roman culture, the word felicitas meant blessed or lucky, and denoted productivity or happiness. The term could refer to a woman’s fertility and general’s luck or good fortune, both significant elements in Roman life. In Roman religion, the personification of Felicitas was a goddess who represented these values. She often appeared on Roman coins to represent the wealth and prosperity of the Empire, and is frequently featured with imagery such as the cornucopia (the ‘horn of plenty’). Although she shared some characteristics with the goddess Fortuna, Felicitas can be distinguished in one key way. While Fortuna was unpredictable and her effects could be negative, Felicitas always had a positive significance.
Drawing on this, the main ethos of the Felicitas Collective is to focus on work that we admire, spreading positivity rather than negativity. While criticism is encouraged in the context of analysis and evaluation, we don’t believe in publishing outright bad reviews; if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all. Therefore, only positive views are expressed here as this is a space designed to share the things we enjoy and are passionate about rather than the things we dislike. You can find out more about this on our Policies page.
We currently focus primarily on music and art, and are looking to expand to cover theatre, dance, film and television in the near future. If you would like to get involved, either by becoming a writer or by having your work featured, please get in touch!
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