Project Overview

Young People's Manifesto

Project Info

What?

Four different groups of young people will be aided in producing a series of 'creative manifestos' that would explore how young people feel about where they live, the opportunities that are available to them and give them a voice to influence change.

How?

These ideas would be conveyed through different creative mediums – textiles, photography, animation, film and poetry, with a specialist in each field working on each:

·         Quilt-making and textiles with emerging costume designer and fabric artist Rachel Owen

·         Street poetry with political rapper Fred Phethean

·         Guerrilla arts and photography with artist and cultural ninja Ed Blazey

·         Animation with Roots and Wings

These art practitioners will work together with a diverse range of young people to produce an end exhibition of work, a book of photographs and stories and a film that will document the process.

Aims

The project aims to:

·         Show new and creative ways that we can listen to young people.

·         Give young people an opportunity to think about their lives and their environments and give them a space to discuss how they would like things to be.

·         Give everyone involved new skills

·         Create a community of people that can work together on projects in the future.