Scratch the Sky:
This is an ongoing, multimedia, cross-art, international project which uses the symbol of a kite as a metaphor for hopes and dreams.
Making and illustrating kites to fly, dance workshops, art workshops, multimedia performance and community input on all levels.
Scratch the Sky Cardiff: This included several community workshops in the local community of Roath and in the ‘shopkeeper/storyteller’ project, in which we worked with local traders to create images and text of their hopes and dreams.
Scratch the Sky: Beit Sahour
In June 2007 a small team from People Around Here engaged in a cross-community collaboration, visiting the town of Beit Sahour and the Dehieshe refugee camp on the West Bank and running a series of workshops for children and young people enabling them to express through art, digital storytelling and the written word what it is like to live in their neighbourhoods. We worked with about 45 young people aged 7 to 17 who expressed their hopes and dreams through building and illustrating kites. The idea of the project is to enable their voices to be heard here, and to form a basis for future connections between schools and community groups in both locations.
Artist in Residence: Marie Curie Hospice Penarth
Devised jointly with the Hospice in order to enable staff, patients and carers to be involved in the creation of new artwork for the Hospice. We will also be engaging volunteers as part of the ‘Can Do’ initiative to bring the ideas into reality.
Artist in Residence: Ty Coch Nursing Home
Working with the residents of the home, we explore the nature of a portait and enable them to produce a piece of art to celebrate who they are.
Youth Group Art Collaborations
For example: Working with local young people aged 12-16 in transforming their youth hut. After taking photos of key local hang-out places we then converted these images and projected them onto walls as the basis for a large interior painting featuring the young people in their own environment. This work was commissioned by The Prince’s Trust.
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