Our first day of training after the HFL filming project – we were a three man band today with me, James and Becca, but by golly we got a lot done! Being in the first stages of thinking about our own projects ( : ) ) we had a look at a recent project and had a bit of a brain storming session about how we might go about organising our own and what our objectives might be for making sure young people that participated got the most out of it. The project itself was a very interesting idea – a short film for the arts council about what art means to young people who are NEET (not in education, employment or training); the conclusion being not very interested to begin with, but only because they hadn’t been given the opprtunity to discover all the things art could actually emcompass (theatre, music, poetry, graffiti, dance etc) and how they could therefore take ownership of it. It really made me think about what I want to do with my project, and how passionate I feel about breaking down the barriers of exclusivity in the arts for young people.
We also had a chat with Catherine Lacey, an amazing person that has done many things and is now Cheif Exec of the Oxfordshire Children’s and Voluntary Youth Services; it was really great to meet someone with that much experience who was impassioned about what we wanted to do! You can’t get a confidence boost much better, really.
Today was the first time I have watched our vlogs from the HFL project; apart from confirming the fact that on camera I look like the moon from the Mighty Boosh, I think they really show how well we are all going to work together, and bring a massive dose of GSOH to whatever we do as well as determination to do something preety damn good. We were also introduced courtesy of Liz to the wonderful world of twitter – and before all anti- twitterites judge, James and I tweeted that we as two young artsits were looking for an exhibition space around Oxford and within half an hour had heard about this amazing sounding exhibition wall at Didcot’s new arts centre The Cornerstone! So literally watch this space…..
