CASE STUDY street art posters

May!eld Arts Newbury HouseArt Action Toolbox: Case StudyStreet Art Posters Globalfest 2010 background

May!eld Arts Newbury House and the Camden Palace Hotel Community Art Centre

Duration: June 8th -11th 2010

Theme: Social Inclusion

Mentors:Karen Webster (Ireland) & Mauricio Rodriguez (Colombia)

Facilitators:Yvonne McNicholas (Ireland) & Stiven Usme Ciro (Colombia)

Participants:Anthony Keniery, Tara Twoomey, Michelle Brosnan, Damien O' Sullivan, Rafa Christian, John O' Shea, Connor O' Sullivan, Anthony Galvin, Kevin Coakley, Gavin O' Callaghan, Tamara Cronin

Globalfest is a youth arts festival that is coordinated by May!eld Arts Newbury House in Cork every summer. Young artists from Ireland and Colombia came together to create the exhibitions and performances for Globalfest 2010. Young people who have taken part in a peer education youth initiative programme in May!eld Arts facilitated workshops to their peers in the lead up to Globalfest. These workshops included dance, theatre, street art posters, and a comparsa (parade). Young people from May!eld Arts and other youth organisations in Cork participated in the workshops, many of which lead to performances on the day of Globalfest in the Bishop Lucy Park in Cork in June. The Art, Action and Peer Education Youth Initiative programme was coordinated by May!eld Arts and funded by Leargas through the European Youth in Action programme. The peer educators that participated in the programme built up con!dence and knowledge throughout the programme which culminated in them facilitating these workshops and also facilitating round-table discussions at the May!eld Arts Youth Perspectives Seminar in June. The theme of this street art poster project is social inclusion/exclusion and the workshops took place in the Camden Palace Community Art Centre in Cork City.

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HOW DID WE DO IT?Step 1: Enabling Creativity

Step 2: Painting & Creating the Stencils

Step 3: Spray Painting and Exhibiting

The group used warm-up games and excersises to get to know each other and work together as a team. Then they explored ways of representing situations where inclusion and exlusion occur using clay. The group then brainstormed words that they felt represented inclusion and exclusion after discussing everyone’s clay images. The large group was divided into smaller groups and each small group picked two words that represented inclusion, and two that represented exclusion. The groups then took body images of each other in groups and individually that represented their chosen words.

The facilitators helped the smaller groups to begin designing the backgrounds for their circle posters by asking them to think about what colours and designs they thought represented inclusion and exclusion. While the groups began to paint their circle backgrounds individuals worked with Mauricio on Photoshop turning their photos into stencils. There are di!erent ways to do this; one way is to go to Filters, then click on Sketch, and "nally click on Stamp. Yvonne demonstrated to the group outside how to spray paint a stencil e!ectively.

The images that were modi"ed on Photoshop were printed onto strong acetate and the group cut out the stencils. Everyone went outside and spray painted the stencils onto the painted circular backgrounds. The work was exhibited in the Camden Palace Community Art Centre in Cork City during the May"eld Arts Youth Perspectives Seminar and in conjunction with the European Citizenship Postcard Project exhibition for a week. The work was also exhibited on the day of Globalfest 2010 in the Bishop Lucy Park in Cork City, where hundreds of people had the opportunity to see these colourful and vibrant works that addressed the theme of inclusion and exclusion in Ireland and in the world today.

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I have learned faci l i tat ion sk i l ls, I have also learned the impor tance of planning and adapting and how re!ecting can help to improve things.

Being a leader has helped my con"dence and has helped me to create my own opinions.

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I have learned to respect where people have come from and their backgrounds.

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Globalfest 2010 was supported by the European Youth In Action Programme and the Development Education Unit of Irish Aid