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URBAN BLOOM
 VIOLENCE PREVENTION
IN EDUCATION
 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ADVENTURE
THE SECRET OF THE JEWELLED HEART		 MESSAGE FROM THE FLIGHTPATH GANG CULTURE LIVERPOOL


 

URBAN BLOOM
Four Corners 2010

Culture Liverpool’s major community engagement project Four Corners examines the quality of life of Liverpool’s communities, by inviting residents across the city’s five neighbourhoods to work alongside major cultural organisations, providing them with opportunities to tap into their creativity as a way to explore and resolve serious issues.
Highlighting Liverpool’s Year of Health and Wellbeing, hope street delivered weekly workshops on origami, design, photography, sound recording and creative writing, with community and youth groups in Everton. The result was an exhibition of original and thought-provoking origami sculpture, whispering soundscapes, framed images and cleverly-positioned writing, providing a narrative on life in Everton.

 

VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN EDUCATION

Commissioned by Liverpool Children's Services and Culture Liverpool through the 'It's Not OK' programme, this is a cross-curricular project delivered by actors. It aims to encourage young people to reflect on how conflict affects their own lives in order to create a better understanding and awareness of situations they may encounter. The project tours for 6 consecutive weeks to 9 primary schools in Liverpool.

The project is touring schools until December and will be available for bookings in Liverpool for a re-tour in the Spring term, 2011.

For more information contact laura@hope-street.org

To read about the project charting its development since 2005, please click here.

To download the teachers' booklet, click here.

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ADVENTURE - THE SECRET OF THE JEWELLED HEART
A National Museums Liverpool and hope street ltd partnership for Find Your Talent

A stunning spectacle designed by Lois Maskell with direction and music by Patrick Dineen. This production, aimed at primary schools, captures the spirit and magic of the World Museum's ancient Egypt exhibition.

Ancient Egyptian Adventure is touring Liverpool, St Helens and Knowsley between November 2009 and April 2010.

For further information, including opportunities to see this production, please contact Peter Ward.


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Message from the Flightpath
Throughout 2008, workshops were delivered for numerous community groups and in nearly every school in Speke and Garston. The ideas that have been generated through drama and visual art will inform the design of a piece of large scale public art that will be situated in a highly visible location in Speke.

The piece of public art will be a message from the people of Speke and Garston to people who visit and leave the city. It will be seen by millions of people who arrive at and depart from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The project was conceived, and is being developed by Carl Cockram, who is working with artist John King who created the popular suitcases sculpture on the junction of Hope Street and Mount Street.

An exhibition of work was recently seen at the airport and we are working with companies and agencies such as Peel Holdings, South Liverpool Housing, the National Trust and the Speke Garston Coastal Reserve to develop the project in time for the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.
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Gang Culture Liverpool
This was an arts-based project that worked with people in Liverpool.
The project took place in crime ‘hot spots’ with the aim of reducing the levels of crime in these areas. In particular, this project tackled gun, knife and violent crime.
We delivered practical sessions in youth clubs with detached youth work teams and with community groups using the arts as a tool for expression.

Accompanying the workshops, Hope Street worked on a piece of text-based research to help build a current picture of violent crime ‘hot spots’ in the city to be used for future planning by the BRM (Black & Racial Minority) steering group based at Liverpool Council for Voluntary Services, who have funded this piece of work.
We also captured some active research with the groups we worked with, to ensure their views/opinions on current hot spots/crime/gang culture in general could be added to the overall piece of research.
The findings of our research are now available to view - please see our gang culture page. If you are interested to learn more about this project or would like to make a comment please go to our myspace page www.myspace.com/gangcultureliverpool

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