Bus stop discover project
Dance House Glasgow has been successfully delivering its pioneering Bus Stop project in Bridgeton for the past 5 years in partnership with Bridgeton Community Learning Campus. This project delivers arts activity with young people aged 5– 18 years who have disengaged from education, face barriers to accessing the arts or are experiencing socioeconomic hardship.
The project creates contexts for these locations to be reimagined as places for artistic discovery by creating site-specific works of art. Previous incarnations have included dance flash mobs in shopping centres and short films on parkour made on housing estates.
We interviewed Lottie Barker, Programme Producer about her experiences of delivering Arts Awards as part of the Bus Stop project for the first time in Spring 2017.
Describe
This was multi-arts youth-led project with young people aged 7-14 at Bridgeton Community Learning Campus in Glasgow’s East End, and Dance House Glasgow’s first foray into Arts Award. The group experienced a wide range of participatory arts including parkour, public art, typography, live art and aerial performance and through this journey, achieved their Discover Arts Award.
The group explored the artist Taro Chiezo and in particular his sculpture Superlambanana, leading to the group creating their own creature-like sculptures out of unusual materials and then deciding where best to situate them in their local community. They visited Tramway’s Dance International Glasgow family day, experiencing weird and wonderful live art from Ocean All Over and took part in a workshop with Aerial Edge. They also worked with ZigZag design to explore typography and created their own font. Finally, a book was created featuring their sculptures and font.
Dance House Glasgow wanted to introduce the Arts Award programme as an additional way to show both the young people and their community how much they are capable of achieving.
Portfolio
They started with log books but they weren’t the right recording tool for this group. Instead the leaders took responsibility for gathering photos, videos and drawings that were then put into individual files for each young person.
Learning
Documenting doesn’t need to be sitting writing a diary. The achievement they felt getting an official certificate was great. There was definitely greater recognition from parents of their achievements too, because of the award.
The project creates contexts for these locations to be reimagined as places for artistic discovery by creating site-specific works of art. Previous incarnations have included dance flash mobs in shopping centres and short films on parkour made on housing estates.
We interviewed Lottie Barker, Programme Producer about her experiences of delivering Arts Awards as part of the Bus Stop project for the first time in Spring 2017.
Describe
This was multi-arts youth-led project with young people aged 7-14 at Bridgeton Community Learning Campus in Glasgow’s East End, and Dance House Glasgow’s first foray into Arts Award. The group experienced a wide range of participatory arts including parkour, public art, typography, live art and aerial performance and through this journey, achieved their Discover Arts Award.
The group explored the artist Taro Chiezo and in particular his sculpture Superlambanana, leading to the group creating their own creature-like sculptures out of unusual materials and then deciding where best to situate them in their local community. They visited Tramway’s Dance International Glasgow family day, experiencing weird and wonderful live art from Ocean All Over and took part in a workshop with Aerial Edge. They also worked with ZigZag design to explore typography and created their own font. Finally, a book was created featuring their sculptures and font.
Dance House Glasgow wanted to introduce the Arts Award programme as an additional way to show both the young people and their community how much they are capable of achieving.
Portfolio
They started with log books but they weren’t the right recording tool for this group. Instead the leaders took responsibility for gathering photos, videos and drawings that were then put into individual files for each young person.
Learning
Documenting doesn’t need to be sitting writing a diary. The achievement they felt getting an official certificate was great. There was definitely greater recognition from parents of their achievements too, because of the award.