Press Release / Photo Call: CapeUK have been running a creative family scheme in Birkby, the scheme started on Thursday 4 August and has been running weekly since, seeing over 90 families come along to take part, getting creative, trying something new, making fabulous art, meeting new people and having fun together. These events have been held at Birkby Community Centre and Huddersfield Art Gallery, the fifth and final week, on Thursday 25 August, is to be held at Greenhead Park.
The theme of the Birkby creative family scheme has been ‘Inside Out Outside In’ working with 4 local artists selected by CapeUK – Samantha Bryan, Andy Fullalove, Chris Squire and Karen Stansfield. Each week the families explored nature. In the session at Huddersfield Art Gallery families accessed art exploring the current exhibition from Deborah Gardner who is responding to Huddersfield and the local landscape in her work.
For the last session the families are going out into nature, exploring and responding to Greenhead Park. The park has been recently regenerated, restoring it to its former glory, improving the glasshouse, paddling pool, lake and children’s play areas; ensuring that the park once again becomes a focal point for the local community. The families will be working in the new bandstand / lake area to produce a 'peace garden' in the park; which is directly in response to the social unrest, that has blighted a number of major towns (including Huddersfield) and cities across England.
Stephanie Bartholet, Project Coordinator; “The families will be working together to produce a ‘peace garden’ at Greenhead Park. Swans will be made to float out across the lake area, we will hang painted images from a huge tree and make large white flowers leading down from the bandstand to the water’s edge – these will all have messages of peace and hope on them. We hope that these pieces of work can also be displayed in the Edwardian Glasshouse which has just been re-opened.”
The Birkby project has been one of four CapeUK Creative Families Schemes; they aim to build on CapeUK’s experience of family learning and develop services that have previously been supported through the regional management of the Creative Partnerships programme.
Rosie Marcus, CapeUK Director; “CapeUK’s Creative Families Schemes build on our experiences, associates and expertise of family learning – to continue championing creativity in the lives and learning of children and young people and those who support them. The mix of activities encourage interaction within families and interaction between families –working together, parents supporting children and children supporting parents.”
Press release published: 19/08/2011
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Editor’s Note: Photo opportunity Thursday 25 August, Greenhead Park. Please contact Jo Jessop, Communications Manager on 0845 450 3700 for more information
