Out About Town

PRESENT…

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About Hub'4Hub'4 was a partnership project between three agencies that work with young peopleArtsworkBBC BlastThe Princes Trust

The project was directly supported by Arts Council England and Connexions.

Hub'4 worked with young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who were not in education, employment or training to develop their knowledge in the Arts.

The project operated in Norwich, Southampton, Newcastle and Manchester.

About Full Circle ArtsFull Circle Arts are a disabled led arts organisation based in Manchester, we work with disabled artists at various stages of their career and young people with a keen interest in pursuing arts opportunities, training, education and employment.

‘Mentoring in the Arts’ Mentoring in the Arts was a project designed and delivered by Full Circle Arts for Hub'4 in Manchester,.Full Circle Arts have been delivering a mentoring programme to disabled artists and young people for 12 years.

'Arts About Town’ is the name given to the final piece of Art that was produced during ‘Mentoring in the Arts’ Hub'4 Manchester

This Comic has been produced along with a film to document and celebrate the project that took place between February and June 2008.

First five weeks

We began by discussing our own knowledge and interest in the arts.

What we likedour Previous experienceArts venues we’d been to Arts organisations we were aware ofWhat we thought of Manchester’s Art Scene

A mentor is someone who will listen....

Mentoring is about helping us reach Our full

potential

A mentor might coach, guide, advise,

inform, and motivate. A Mentor should not

judge me.

Mentoring should

encourage action, steps

towards reaching our

goals….

..A Mentor can share their

experience with us…

In the following weeks we explored ‘Mentoring’ and what that meant to us. We also learnt Mentoring Skills.

workshop six

Its OK guys its not your

fault...

We looked at examples of graffiti art and how that could be incorporated into the Map of Manchester.

ok everyone lets work in sketchbooks

After learning about mentoring and discussing Art opportunities we would like to investigate…. the fun part began

We discussed our final art piece – a huge graffiti map of Manchester City that would inform others about arts opportunities about town

please try and Use all the media to work with

No say sherlock

I want to include some of my poetry into my work

before this project I had no idea about all

the dance schools and organisations in

Manchester

we came back again........

We blew up the map of Manchester and selected a section to work with.

The Map was used as a tool to identify the areas of Manchester where we needed to do further research into arts opportunities.

the weeks continued...

We worked individually on our own sections of the map of Manchester, identifying and symbolising our own interests in the arts in Manchester and adding our individual styles.

We practiced on paper before moving onto canvas. This gave us the opportunity to put all the sections of the map together to see what worked and what didn’t work so well.

I understand

what mentoring is

and how it works

I feel more confident

Bronze Arts Award

so how's the work for the arts award looking for

you....

i have been working on dance and Done loads of research

into dance opportunities

We could take a Bronze Art Award and gain advice throughout the project.

Approaching the final weeks.

We had prepared our sections of the map on card and we had made stencils by cutting out the roads. We pinned The Stencils onto each canvas..

Now we were ready to Spray paint!

do you think we have enough drawing pins

"i'm loving this and

don't want it to end"

Winston Carrington joined us to film the Spraying of the Canvas and the final part of our project

So what is Mentoring All about?

Mentoring is about encouraging someone to explore their options and take the most appropriate action to get to where there want to be. A good mentor will motivate, advise, teach, coach, inform and share experiences…..

its graffiti time yeah!

i'll put mine just here

Hurry up peter, My Canvas is waiting

for me

Now for my final

Masterpiece.

Woops! i nearly stood

on Raza's work.

to get to where you want to be in the arts you've got to work your

butt off and take on every challenge as it comes

its getting a bit misty in

here

finally we finished all the

sraying

after finally spraying the canvases, we left to recovER from the blue spray ! .......

Working together makes it easier to come up with

solutions, it's better than working things out on your

own

After the canvas dried the group painted their designs onto each canvas……..

i listen more to other people and

their ideas

I have been looking into

performance art and musical

theatre

i have learnt about other

peoples interests

There are more art opportunities in Manchester than I thought – our

canvas will let other people know about all the art stuff…..

i am not just a pretty face, i can

help other people.

When are we all going to the theatre?

I've started getting more

creative

This is my section of the canvas

painting on canvas can be so

relaxing and absorbing

My interest is creative writing, mainly poetry. I’ve been

researching Arts Organisations in Manchester.

I’ve been reading my poetry at the Greenroom.

When we had finished painting our designs onto canvas we then removed the stencilled roads. All the Canvases were put together.

from looking back to the beginning of the project, i

can't believe how far we've all come....

I now know where the

Corner House is

Before this project, I did not

know Central Library had a

theatre.

I went to the Urbis for

the First Time

We all visited the Science and Industry Museum

Contact Theatre has plenty of

things going on

I’ve made contact

with Sunshine Studios

And the Bronze

Art Award has been wicked

we were now ready to attach information on all the Arts Venues and Organisations we had researched, we hope this will let others know about the variety of Art Opportunities available in Manchester – We will be exhibiting our work at arts venues and schools in Greater manchester

All text by participants using their quotes.Comic produced by Michelle Oakes & Full Circle Arts

Full Circle Arts would like to thank our revenue funders:Arts Council England, Association of Greater Manchester Authorities And Manchester City Council.And our partners in this project:Connexions, Artswork, BBC Blast and The Princes Trust.

THE GROUP…Raza ShaikhScott MillettPeter PamphlettPaul McDowellHelen BridgeAlex Austin