The Save the World Club is
about community action - engaging the enthusiasm and
talent of the local community to make improvements
in their local and global environment. For example
the Green Police.
Working from our new Community
Arts Centre (the Welsh Hall), we have initiated and
managed a series of community-lead urban arts projects.
The primary aim is simple:
To use community art, facilitated by community artists,
to make a positive and empowering statement about
the solutions to a seemingly overwhelming problem
- by smashing old tiles and rearranging them in beautiful
order- a form of social and creative alchemy.
To manifest a community of adults and children more
aware of their civic duty, community ownership and
environmental responsibility.
To inspire hundreds of people who never thought they
could be artistic to be part of something very beautiful
that can be admired by thousands of others.
To get people and especially children discussing the
issues surrounding graffiti, crime, community ownership
and environmental improvements.
To create best practise wherever possible so that
others can aspire to the projects goals, practise
and intentions by also:
Creating a programme that is holistic in its attitude
to solving underlying problems faced by urban decay,
isolation, street life, youth crime, inappropriate
parenting, helplessness and violence.
To manage the project for the improved cultural heritage
and social development of the borough of Kingston
and for the wider and best interests of the community.
To make use of salvaged or recycled materials where
ever possible.
Family Learning
Learn to Mosaic, and
take part in Public Art. Workshops are free
- safety equipment and refreshments are provided.
Dates
Tuesday to Friday Classes from 1st May 2005
Tue-Fri, 10.30am..1pm Adults and family learning
Tue-Fri, 3pm..6pm After Schools Arts & Homework
Club
Monday 3.30 to 5.30 12 Family learning Course (enrol
any time)
Venue
Ham Youth and Community Centre
Suitable For
All levels and family fun.
Train the Trainers
Description
Community Mosaic as a tool for Social and Community
Development. Learn the skills necessary to create
mosaic from recycled materials and the facilitation
skills necessary to get the whole community involved.
5 DAY Foundation Course with certificate towards other
training. Run by Julie Norburn and Bernadette
Vallely (Save the World Club). Expected numbers
from 10-20
Dates
suggested March/May/June.
Venue
Any art studio/classroom venue available up to 5-22
students and outside visitor groups, accessibility
is important.
Suitable For
teachers, artists and educators. Could be part
of arts teacher training degree, especially within
a social context.
Course Covers
* Introduction to participatory arts as a community
concept;
* urban design & perspective;
* getting the best out of all ages and skill levels;
* working with special needs, young families, difficult
children and mixed ability;
* targeting your stakeholders;
* producing a mosaic product;
* assessing learning outcomes;
* risk assessment;
* welcoming everyone;
* tools and equipment;
* adding value to your work;
* celebrating and completion for everyone;
* consultation and continuous assessment;
* creating a historical record of your work.
Trainers
Both with more than thirty years combined experience
in urban arts, environmental and community action:
* Julie Norburn is a qualified teacher with expert
experience and has extended her teaching degree with
numerous challenging courses in this field.
She has participated in several train the trainers
workshops already and is the main art facilitator
for the programme.
* Bernadette Vallely is an award-winning community
strategist, writer and environmentalist. She
has recently worked for the EC/UN backed Emerging
World Leaders Community Training programme including
working in Kosovo and Russia and many local authorities.
Lead officer on the More Colour for Kingston Mosaic
Campaign.
Outcomes
Participants will be able to create a participatory
mosaic artwork of at least 5-10 square metres to explore
the issues the course covers. As a result the
participants will also experience:* Working with a
group (in a classroom type environment)
* Understanding of mosaic as a community focussed
process
* How to be inclusive in artist representation
* And as a trainee teacher in a small workshop set
up with families
* Producing a large artwork as part of a team effort
* Using mosaic equipment, grouts, materials, preparing
& completing the work
* Learning the issues; health and safety, risk, child
protection policy etc
Creating environmental arts programmes and paying
volunteer labour with Save the World Club Community
Credits.
The use of Community Credits (part of the Local Economic
Trading Scheme) will empower those people who have
little means for economic improvement and improve
their choices and access. The Community Credit system
will start to measure and index volunteer labour and
will create enhanced status of charitable and voluntary
work that benefits the whole community. The work enhances
a large number of RBK local and similar national strategies
including those focussing on: young people's support,
alternative economic strategies, cultural strategies,
tourism, education & leisure, arts, life-long
learning, youth provision, environment, anti-graffiti,
community empowerment and those working on social
exclusion.
We have created innovative new not-for-profit Social
Enterprise. Kingston Waste Partnership Programme,
that is dedicated to reducing the production and destruction
of waste. It will focus on waste minimisation, re-circulation,
and reuse within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon
Thames. Through KWPP, we intend to build a local re-use
centre and scrapstore, the Space of Waste, for which
we are currently seeking grant funding.
