A team of youth workers led by Jo Clarke and Charnwood Arts workers developed the project with young people from Mountsorrel, both in the village and at Rawlins Youth Centre. This involved the teaching of photographic and communication skills to produce a magazine in which the local youth express their own and other's views about their community. Paul Gent, Zoe Childerley, Faye Chamberlain, Chris Wright and Adam Rodgers trained the participants in a variety of creative skills, as well as working together as a team. The magazine, 'Seen but not Heard', was launched in July at an event in Mountsorrel which attracted over 100 people. Accompanying the magazine was a video (edited by Alan Ceserano) which brought the voices in the magazine to life and a 3D fly through of the youth club designed by the young people. The project was funded by Leicestershire County Council and involved youth workers from Rawlins Community College and Barrow Youth Centre.
This project was a ground breaking example of combining community arts and youth work strategies with industry standard new technologies to produce high quality work. The project continued with an ongoing campaign to realise proper youth facilities for this large industrial village.
Led by youth worker Jo Clarke the youth work team worked on the village streets and car parks for more than two years.
Mountsorrel Youth Consultation Project
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