Location: Glasgow and Dumfries, Scotland
Duration: 1 month
Theme: Journeys, homes and transitions
A short collaborative arts project launched during Refugee Week 2011, Take Me with you aims to provide an opportunity through which young Asylum Seekers and their peers can explore and share experiences of home and transition, increasing social awareness of the concerns and issues young asylum seekers face. We hope to facilitate this exploration through 2 workshops in which participants collaborate to transform an old steamer trunk into a travelling mixed-media art piece for public display: the art piece will be collaged and filled to represent the themes the young people have explored. There may also be the opportunity to create an accompanying multimedia film around the same themes. Within the workshops young people will work alongside art/media practitioners – with experience working with vulnerable young people – to create collaborative group work. The project will potentially be part of a wider project in which similar explorations from similar groups around the world will be shared online and we are looking for groups to develop this project with in other locations.
