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Projects
with young people
Our work with young people has included
activities ranging from creating films, conducting interviews
and using Black history and sport to explore issues of racism.
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Creative Partners in Brackley
The Northants Creative Learning Partnership Project is part of a national initiative which aims to engage more schools in Creative Partnerships practice. NBHA in partnership with Inspiration FM worked with 18 year 9 boys from Magdalen College Brackley to create a radio broadcast about issues that matter to them. The boys participated in all aspects of radio production.
On Friday, 18th May some of the students held a coffee morning for a few members of the over 50s club and Cllr. Blake Stimpson. After coffee and biscuits, the guests were then interviewed by the boys to find out how life in Brackley has changed.
Nikki Taylor, Director of NBHA said, “It was great to see the boys engaging with local elders and sharing their thoughts and ideas. This project is great as the boys have a voice in all aspects and are learning new skills.”
Teacher, Kirsten Morton said, “It has been wonderful to watch the boys grow in confidence and see new talents emerging. This project proves that effective and worthwhile learning can take place outside the classroom.” |
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| Creative Partners in Brackley |
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Time to Celebrate
October 2007 saw the start of a new project for NBHA called Let’s Celebrate. The aim of the project is to bring together students from different schools to learn about world celebrations. Students share their stories of celebrations and learn new ones too. Students then participate in a range of different workshops as they build up their own celebration. Workshops have included African drumming, circus skills and costume making plus dance and dram workshops.
Students from Castle Primary and Stimpson Avenue Primary participated this term. Next term it will be the chance of students from Earl Spencer and Spring Lane. The summer term sees students from Barry Road and Vernon Terrace participating. |
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Sticks & Stones Project
A group of local teenagers have been making a short film and an exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the act to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. The project, called Sticks and Stones, explored slavery in the past and present and was funded through a Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots Grant and led by Northamptonshire County Council in partnership with the Northamptonshire Black History Association and Kingsthorpe College.
Drawing on historical records and research into modern slavery such as sweatshop labour and human trafficking, the students aimed to answer the question ‘what are we celebrating?’ in the bicentenary year. They asked a wide range of people for their views from MP Sally Keeble to local people in Northamptonshire today. In a thought provoking piece of work, the students highlighted the consequences of the choices we make in our lifestyles and shopping habits: has slavery actually ended?
The preview of the film and exhibition was held at Kingsthorpe College in November and a public launch is planned for the New Year. Following this the students work will tour libraries, schools and community venues. If you are interested in hosting either the film or exhibition please contact Jenny Moran or call 01604 762129.
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I
feel like the sun...
In early 2003, project staff worked
with Esmahan Abdalla to produce a film about her experiences
of coming to Northampton from Somalia. The film formed part of an exhibition, inspired by this
work, showing Somalian cultural artefacts which took place
at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery in July 2003. |
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| Esmahan at the exhibition launch in July 2003. |
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Ferrers’
Voices
Between January and April 2004,
11 students aged 11-15 years from Ferrers’ Specialist
Art College in Higham Ferrers worked with the project
team. After introductory sessions with staff, BBC Radio Northampton
and Threshold Studios, students focused on discovering
more about the experiences of being a young person with
people from different generations and cultural backgrounds. Their research involved devising interview questions,
conducting oral history interviews, collecting images
and editing this material into a film and exhibition. The exhibition and film toured some of the county’s
local libraries and venues. |
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| Ferrers’ students receiving
video training from Threshold Studios |
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Football,
Racism and Cultural Heritage Project
From September 2004 staff delivered
sessions in 20 primary and supplementary schools in Northampton
as part of a project run by Northampton Town Football
Club.
Using the stories of local Black historical figures as
a stimulus and linking them to sport, students explored
themes of achievement, identity, prejudice and exclusion. Teachers were left to develop these themes further and
produced work which was exhibited at Northampton Town
Football Club in the December. The resulting quality of work was testament to the effort
put in by teachers and students, and included newsletters,
storyboards, paintings, pottery, poems, banners and even
scripts and a play. |
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| Eastfield Primary School in Northampton
with their winning entry |
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