Visions and visual art meeting - 7th November
MargaretJames, DavinderRichards, AlanSprung, RajaRahawani, RosaParkerHinton and GwynnePower met with HeatherAndMark and kicked around lots of ideas
Lots of ideas - how do they hang together?
Lots of different things can happen:
- short and long-term pieces
- different types of art
Aims
- inspiring people
- getting people to visualise the future they want for the/ir world
- reflecting back ideas
- helping people to express themselves and their visions
Collecting local people's visions
- arts can help people think big, and think outside the box
- it can be very powerful to take somebody's creative work, and reflect it back having made it bigger/set it in a new context
- for example, a photograph can be blown up on a t-shirt
Work towards an exhibition
Approaches/methods
- Art as a therapeutic tool - people being at peace with themselves
- Art work as a way of expressing yourself
- Using art to inspire vision as well as to express it
- Evolving as we go along
- Connecting and communicating as we go along
Links to the natural world can connect across cultures - a Bengali and a Belgian may have different trees and birds that they relate to, but each has trees and birds which matter to them
Textile arts
Possibilities include
- A big stitchcraft object
- patchwork
- working (with younger children?) with colour, texture and smell - what's peaceful, for you?
Photography - art-form, and documenting tool
Young people might get excited about texting mobile camera-phone photos to a website ("mo-blogging")
E.g.: give them a top-up card - if they respond to a set of texted assignments over a week or two period then they get another top-up card - the top-up pays for them sending the photos, and is a bribe/reward, too
see the HybridArts project Cinco5Cinco - five young people in each of three countries answer a set of questions with mobile phone photos.
Domestic Arts
- Hair arts
- many barber-shops
- and many people with cultural hair craft skills
- Cooking
- another art/craft which can really bring people together
- Take-away food
- Languages
- written languages can look beautiful, even to those who don't know them
Working with children/young people
Opportunities to work with people are available - after/before-school clubs, for example
Young people love to be creative - many can retain an interest in this even when the rest of school is not enjoyable
When CoventryCommunityCircus do a circus workshop, there are always a variety of things to try
- some are quick and easy, others are slower but good to really get your teeth into;
- some need lots of help, others can be done on your own;
- many can form part of something bigger with help from adults or other young people;
- all can be incorporated in a show at the end;
This approach ought to work with other arts activities too
Next meeting:
Will be on Wednesday 7th December at 10:30 - venue to be decided
Photos of the meeting
(We've got some bigger versions you can look at too ...)
What did we miss?
If you were at the meeting - please add in anything I missed out of these notes!
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