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PRESENT…
About Hub'4 Hub'4 was a partnership project between three agencies that work with young people Artswork BBC Blast The 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 Arts Full 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 liked our Previous experience Arts venues we’d been to Arts organisations we were aware of What we thought of Manchester’s Art Scene
In the following weeks we explored ‘Mentoring’ and what that meant to us. We also learnt Mentoring Skills.
A mentor is someone who will listen....
Mentoring is about helping us reach Our full potential
Mentoring should encourage action, steps towards reaching our goals….
A mentor might coach, guide, advise, inform, and motivate. A Mentor should not judge me.
..A Mentor can share their experience with us…
workshop six
After learning about mentoring and discussing Art opportunities we would like to investigate‌. the fun part began
ok everyone lets work in sketchbooks
We discussed our final art piece – a huge graffiti map of Manchester City that would inform others about arts opportunities about town
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.
No say sherlock
please try and Use all the media to work with
before this project I had no idea about all the dance schools and organisations in Manchester
I want to include some of my poetry into my work
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...
I feel more confident
I understand what mentoring is and how it works
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.
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.
do you think we have enough drawing pins
"i'm loving this and don't want it to end"
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!
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
Woops! i nearly stood on Raza's work. Hurry up peter, My Canvas is waiting for me
Now for my final Masterpiece.
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
Working together makes it easier to come up with solutions, it's better than working things out on your own
finally we finished all the sraying
after finally spraying the canvases, we left to recovER from the blue spray ! .......
After the canvas dried the group painted their designs onto each canvas‌‌..
I have been looking into performance art and musical theatre i listen more to other people and their ideas
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..
When are we all going to the theatre?
i am not just a pretty face, i can help other people.
I've started getting more creative
This is my section of the canvas
My interest is creative writing, mainly poetry. I’ve been researching Arts Organisations in Manchester. I’ve been reading my poetry at the Greenroom.
painting on canvas can be so relaxing and absorbing
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
Contact Theatre has plenty of things going on
Before this project, I did not know Central Library had a theatre.
And the Bronze Art Award has been wicked
I went to the Urbis for the First Time
We all visited the Science and Industry Museum
I’ve made contact with Sunshine Studios
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
THE GROUP‌ Raza Shaikh Scott Millett Peter Pamphlett Paul McDowell Helen Bridge Alex Austin
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.
All text by participants using their quotes. Comic produced by Michelle Oakes & Full Circle Arts