Wednesday, December 7, 2011

A year in the life of...

Hi and welcome to the all new People Around Here blog site.
So much has happened this year that we though we would post up a little 'A year in the life of...' to show you what we've been up to.
Next year we will be keeping a regular update on all the projects we have going.

So we are just in the process of burning 50 DVDs for our end of year presentation of the last part of our BBC Children in Need project.

We spent the last twelve weeks working with some 30 teenage girls who live and study in Grangetown, Riverside and Butetown. These are the EMG crew (Ethnic Minority Girls) and have been busy learning how to make documentaries and music videos.

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So the year of 2011:

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Never Give Up:
This year saw us take on about twenty different projects with people from all age groups and abilities and ethnic backgrounds. We had a brilliant year on the Never Give Up initiative funded by BBC Children in Need that saw us working with teenagers from the Youth Offending Service, Czech Roma community and Ethnic Minority girls based in Butetown. They all got to learn how to be a production crew, make a documentary and a music video.

Megan!! 
Megan became a household name in Adamsdown and Riverside as our own Megan the chocolate brown labrador headed up the anti-dog fouling campaign. The Megan roadshow visited a dozen primary schools with a live interactive show and cartoon workshops. Megan even got her own music video!







Intergenerational Art:
POTV is a young persons forum and we joined up with them on the first of many intergenerational projects we tackled this year. The teenagers and over 50's worked on exploring common issues and expressing it all in a fine mobile piece of art.Rumney and Greenway schools held some sessions to gather the old and young to explore and create together with the final artwork being displayed in the schools and living unit. Tredegarville was the base for our connection working with the Older Peoples Forum and the year 6's on the subject of transition.

Can Do:
Our biggest efforts so far with two large murals in subways, a changing room and work just started on a community container. We canvassed opinions, ideas and ran design workshops from around the localities and visited schools, groups and engaged the local community and police to make these projects as inclusive and positive as possible. These were hugely successful, each featured in local press, and we are planning many more projects for 2012.


Transition:
Two massive transition projects with Michaelston and Glyn Derw High schools. We mind mapped ideas about school and community and hopes and dreams and wrote and recorded a school anthem which the year 6's performed to the year 7's. We also brought the two age groups together on a wonderfully colourful mural project to decorate their community garden.



And not forgetting...
A fun and fast music video with young folk from the Shirenewton travellers community, a glorious fine art experience with the Healthy Wealthy and Wise group from Age Concern and last but not least a documentary and compilation DVD for the Communities First crew in Adamsdown showing off all their fantastic community work.