Sunday, August 16, 2015

Time for a quick recap on last terms projects from People Around Here....

People Around Here are very proud of all the very hard labour and creativity that went into creating these two dynamic flocks of concrete sheep installations. The jungle flock are safe and sound in the gardens of the HUB Ely and the more recognisable breed are happily grazing in the fields of St Fagans. A dozen young people with no previous experience created these sheep from scratch earning themselves some accreditation and opportunities to further employment - training and education prospects. 




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The final banner from the Brilliant end of term assembly at Adamsdown Primary school where we have been running the three year long Transition project with EURoma pupils and the yr 6 class.




A still from the exhibition featuring work by the Momentum 02 project with meets in Ely and the work of pupils from ST Teilos High School in our two year Lessons in Time Project (see Lessons In Time Blog).


Previous posts contain the videos from the Children in Need projects and Stay Safe...




Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Peaceful and United 2015

People Around Here's most recent music video made with the young people on the Media Matters project funded by Children In Need



Thursday, April 30, 2015

STAY SAFE - info video





People Around Here have been working with South Wales Police and Youth offending Service along with Glyn Derw and Michaelston high schools to create this information video for the Stay Safe project.



Stay Safe  is a joint initiative between South Wales Police and the Youth Offending Service which was set up to improve engagement with young people across Cardiff.

Its primary aim is to keep young people visiting Cardiff’s city centre parks safe.

On Saturday afternoons, between 3.00pm and 9.00pm the Staysafe team is out and about in the parks in central Cardiff where they are able to provide help and advice to young people and when necessary take them to a place of safety and make contact with a parent or guardian to ensure their safe journey home.





Please check out the Stay Safe FB page StaySafe Cardiff

STAY SAFE MUSIC VIDEO

People Around Here have been working with South Wales Police and Youth offending Service along with Glyn Derw and Michaelston high schools to create this information video for the Stay Safe project.



Stay Safe
is a joint initiative between South Wales Police and the Youth Offending
Service which was set up to improve engagement with young people across
Cardiff.
Its primary aim is to keep young people visiting Cardiff’s city centre parks safe.
On Saturday afternoons, between 3.00pm and 9.00pm the Stay Safe team is out and
about in the parks in central Cardiff where they are able to provide help and
advice to young people and when necessary take them to a place of safety and
make contact with a parent or guardian to ensure their safe journey home.

Please check out the Stay Safe FB page StaySafe Cardiff.

Friday, April 24, 2015

YOUNG PEOPLE IMAGINE A POSITIVE FUTURE FOR THEIR CITY

YOUNG PEOPLE IMAGINE A POSITIVE FUTURE FOR THEIR CITY

From 23 April to 21 May Cardiff Story Museum houses "i ~ chair 2015" an exhibition of sculpture, painting and video which illustrates young peoples' aspirations to take control of their lives and become agents of change to create a better life for themselves, their families and their communities. Cardiff-based charity, People Around Here, has worked with young people, through six community-focussed projects, to compile this collective artwork which speaks of a positive future.



People Around Here has been working in Cardiff for the past 10 years and uses creative art to enable young people to explore their current situations and express their hopes and aspirations for the future.
Bill Taylor-Beales, Creative Director of People Around Here, says "Too often the general public views young people negatively. This exhibition shows everyone how young people can be given a voice and empowered to make changes in their lives and in those of people around them. We live in the youngest capital city in Europe. If anywhere should be listening to their youngest citizens then it is Cardiff.

The projects which comprise the exhibition have been funded/partnered by Heritage Lottery Fund, Children in Need, South Wales Police, Police and Crimes Commissioner, G4S, Action in Caerau and Ely, NIACE Cymru, Ely Caerau Federation, Cardiff Council Youth Offending Service, Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff Story Museum and St. Teilo's High School.

Stay Safe is a joint initiative between South Wales Police and the Youth Offending Service which was set up to improve engagement with young people across Cardiff. Its primary aim is to keep young people visiting Cardiff’s city centre parks safe. On Saturday afternoons, between 3.00pm and 9.00pm the Stay Safe team is out and about in the parks in central Cardiff where they are able to provide help and advice to young people and when necessary take them to a place of safety and make contact with a parent or guardian to ensure their safe journey home.



Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Art Review - Young Person on Bronze Art Award reviews local Exhibition.

ART REVIEW BY HARLEY BURFORD


For my art review I went to an exhibition of photography by the artist Dan Green.
The exhibition was all about footballers getting together from all around the world who are now living in Cardiff, to play Cardiff at Roath Park Rec.
Dan Green was the artist who took the photos and got the team together.

The table football was a fun addition to the exhibition and meant the audience could get involved. It was good as each player was shown with their country’s flag colours, which was a really good idea.
My favourite pieces were the screen prints because you need artistic skill to produce these.  The photos were all very similar and got a bit boring.  I like the screen prints because they used the flags for the background.  I like the effect of the screen-print because it looks old.  It inspired me and I would like to try this myself one day.  They have more of an art effect than the photos that were just realistic shots. 
This was my favourite quote from the exhibition as it is positive.  It sounds like they all get along and it made me have a positive reaction to the exhibitions I am not really a football fan myself, but I was interested in the quotes.



‘Everyone has a good personality and everyone has a smile on their face’


I liked the idea of the footballers being pinned on a map to show where they were from.  I will tell my friends to go along to Roath Rec and play football.  I liked the football signed by all of the players.  The exhibition kept your interest as there were lots of extra things like this added to look at.  The way the exhibition was displayed was great as it was varied. I would recommend this exhibition mainly to people who really like football, but other people might find the idea behind it interesting.  Also, it could get people who are not into football more interested in the sport. I asked my youth worker what she thought of the exhibition and she said

‘It’s very heart-warming that all the people from different countries share the same passion’
Overall I would say the photos were too repetitive at times which made it a not boring, but I think the idea behind it and the fact the people are from all over the world is exciting and it’s a really good project.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Art Review - Young People on their Bronze Arts Award review the Photo Marathon Exhibition Cardiff Story 2014

Nicole Perry.

I went to the Cardiff photo Marathon on the 24th of June 2014.  The exhibition was a competition based in Cardiff for any one who enjoys taking photos.

There was a great range of photos shown.  I think the most inspiring thing about the photos was the attention to detail.  Some of the people had taken photos you would not expect to see in everyday life and some were set up, others were natural shots. 

The photos were split into 12 topics and the artists had to do one photo for each topic.  For example ‘the power of tens’ was one subject and they all came up with really different ideas.  I think this made the exhibition really interesting and enjoyable as there was so much variation and shows how differently everyone thinks creatively. I really liked some of the funny pictures.  I didn’t like all the pictures because of what was shown in them.  For example there was one of David Cameron smiling on a doorstep, but I don’t agree with his views, so that annoyed me that he was in the exhibition.  The exhibition could have been made more exciting if it was a bit more varied.  There were so many photos to look at it was hard to focus after a while.  They could have had made the photos bigger and had less of them. The other people I was with thought the exhibition was interesting but not busy enough.  I asked our youth worker what she thought of the exhibition and she said ‘there were so many photos to look at that at times it felt like a maze!  I loved seeing photos that had people I know and recognised from the city where I lived in them, and it has inspired me to go to more exhibitions in the future’. I felt very inspired after looking at it, especially as I have done some filming for a recent youth project I have done and I really enjoyed it, so would love to take some creative photos of my own in the future.  I would recommend people to go and see this exhibition.






Callum Cleaver

The Photo Marathon Exhibition was really inspiring because I loved seeing how different each photographers pictures were, although they were all given the same topics.   I didn’t realise how varied photo’s could be and how different they can look when they are all lined up next to each other as I have never really seen any art photography before. My favourite piece showed a jelly baby looking over a phone for the subject of ‘control’.  I this was quite a creative way of looking at the subject and was showing how controlled we are everyday by using our mobile phones.  It was also quite funny as they could take the photo quite close up and the jelly baby made it was really bright and colourful. If there were more people present at the exhibition it would have been more exciting as there would have been a better atmosphere and I could have heard more people’s opinions on the work.  At times we found it boring as there were too many to look at. I would recommend this exhibition to people who have an interest in photography.




Josh Preddy
For this activity I went to the 'Photo Marathon' Exhibition in Cardiff Story Museum on 24th June 2014.  The exhibition showed photos that local people had sent in of their everyday lives and there was a competition for the best photos.  

The exhibition inspired me as I found certain things stood out, because I recognised them from living in Cardiff myself.   Therefore, the photos were pleasing to look at as they were familiar because of there setting. I enjoyed seeing all the different styles of pictures in the exhibition, and because there were so many different types of photos, it was really interesting to compare them all.  My favourite piece in the exhibition was of 10 bottles on a wall with a man holding one of the bottles. I liked the way the photo was taken with the wall in the background and him holding one of the bottles himself closer to the camera.   I think if there had been more people at the exhibition there would have been a better atmosphere, but this was probably because the exhibition was open all day every day for a number of weeks, so it may have been busy at other times.  When I asked others I was with their opinions they thought the same that it was quiet but very interesting and different from anything else they had seen before.  The people who were at the exhibition seemed to have a positive opinion and enjoyed commenting on the photos.  I am hoping to go to more exhibitions in the future, as I had never been to one before this.




Josh Harty 
I went to the photo marathon exhibition in Cardiff Story Museum on the 24th of June.  The idea of the exhibition was that the photographers only had 12 hours to take the photos.  I thought this was inspiring as the took such great photos in such a short space of time and all the photos were so different.  The thing I enjoyed the most was that the pictures were taken locally, so I could relate to and also recognise some of the images.  My favourite piece in the exhibition was called 'Street level' and it won first prize.  This showed an image of a local beggar who I have seen regularly around town.  The only thing I think that could have made the exhibition better is the pictures could have been bigger, but this was probably because they had so many interesting photos in the exhibition they could only show a lot of small ones.  Maybe they could have another exhibition with larger photos taken, by the page descriptions.