COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
•A MANIFESTO FOR 2.8 MILLION MINDS
a young people’s project commissioned by the GLA
There are currently 2,879,900 children and young people aged 0-25 years who live in London.
How can young people use art and culture to create change in their mental health and change how mental health care is imagined, delivered and funded?
Over the last six months, over 120 people have contributed to A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Minds, a disability justice-informed approach to how young Londoners want to use art to begin to radically reimagine mental health support, justice and pride.
Published in June 2022, A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Minds brings together the ideas, feelings, demands and processes of young people from Haringey, Tower Hamlets (and more) with artists Becky Warnock, Simon Tomlinson, Tyreis Holder, and Yomi Sode.
A parallel and complementing process was also undertaken, researching the needs, ethics and practicalities of art, young people and mental health, which was led by Tara Brown, Nicola Sim, Seth Pimlott and the vacuum cleaner.
The manifesto outlines a series of art processes and actionable ideas that challenge how and who makes the decisions in the lives of young people's mental health. More than a Manifesto, the document also shares visions for a future worth living, how-to guides, resources and critical reflections.
The manifesto was made by...
Alfie, Amina, Aniqa, Anna, Ash, Azmina, Becky, Beki, Bevali, Bobby, D, Emma, Emma, Frank, George, Hannah, James, Josiah, Jummy, Katie, Lloyd, Maiya, Martha, Masumi, Michele, Naomi, Nicky, Nohan, Nurul, Sai, Seth, Simon, Tahiyah, Tara, Thoma, Tyreis, Yomi, Yu’an, Zakayah, Zoé and all those who wish not to be named.
Read the full manifesto here: https://chisenhale.org.uk/engagement/2-8-million-minds/
Tyreis Pictured with a young person on the project at the launch of 2.8 Million Minds in the House of Parliment
•I AND I AND WE ARE WE
I and I and We are We is a summer 2021 recovery curriculum project exploring questions of identity and wellbeing with pupils at St James Hatcham Primary School. Using poetry as a stimulus, and textiles as a language, students will create punch needle rug patches to form a collaborative rug tapestry – exploring ideas of cohesion and connectivity through art, both individually and as a collective group.
https://goldsmithscca.art/engagement/i-and-i-and-we-are-we/
•MOSAF - FREEDOM WORKSHOP
•SOCIAL JUSTICE - BOW ARTS
In 2021 Bow Arts embarked on a significant project in response to the social injustices highlighted by recent global events. Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we will work in collaboration with schools and artists to explore current issues and barriers that children and young people face.
“It is very good that these issues are being addressed on this scale of project and all ideas and reflections were welcome.” – Teacher
Working on this project are five artist educators, all of whom have a social justice based practice and lived experience of the challenges faced by the young people we will be working with.
Over the next two years these partnerships will produce arts-based projects that respond to the specific needs of the students, helping them to engage with and address social justice issues.
Each artist has been partnered with a school until 2023. These schools were selected based on the positive impact this project could have on their student community, the social issues facing their students, and the teachers’ belief in the value of arts-based learning.
Over the next two years these partnerships will produce arts-based projects that respond to the specific needs of the students, helping them to engage with and address social justice issues.
https://bowarts.org/news/social-justice-and-arts-learning-in-schools
•SEWN AS ONE
Tyreis Holder and Fine Art GCSE students from Year 10 at Addey & Stanhope school worked together to create a collaborative garment.
The students were allocated a section of a pattern piece to decorate using the theme of community/ joy as stimulus and writing as a prompt. This was then sewn together by the artist to create a complete garment-which was later photographed. This project challenges isolation using collaboration in a time where we are forced to be separated. Upliftment happens through community.
The final work will be on display, as well as photographed and printed on posters to placed around Deptford and outside Addey and Stanhope School.
•SEWN AS ONE
Tyreis Holder and Fine Art GCSE students from Year 10 at Addey & Stanhope school worked together to create a collaborative garment.
The students were allocated a section of a pattern piece to decorate using the theme of community/ joy as stimulus and writing as a prompt. This was then sewn together by the artist to create a complete garment-which was later photographed. This project challenges isolation using collaboration in a time where we are forced to be separated. Upliftment happens through community.
The final work will be on display, as well as photographed and printed on posters to placed around Deptford and outside Addey and Stanhope School.