Young at Art
Young at Art is a three year socially engaged arts programme for people aged over 60, enabling people to connect through arts projects across the city. We are working in partnership with FACT, National Museums Liverpool and their HOP (Happy older People’s network) to deliver the programme with people aged over 60 from across the Liverpool City region.
Young at Art works with people to create a new cultural network with an active sense of digital agency. Through the sharing of skills and stories, Young at Art is collaboratively shaping Liverpool’s cultural offer through residents that have decades of knowledge and skills.
Previous and current projects include:
We are Kirkby working with residents from Northwood Golden Years group and the Kirkby Resource Centre and artists Tony Mallon and Jemma O’Brien. Northwood Golden Years group have been exploring the ever shifting landscape of their local high street as the area sees major redevelopment. Meanwhile service users of Kirkby Resource Centre have been using archival imagery and re-staging memories through photography and music to explore life both past and present.
Clickmoor is an intergenerational photography group based in Clubmoor, North Liverpool who are working with photographers Emma Case and Katherine Monaghan to explore topics such as personal identity, building a community and photography as a tool for health and wellbeing.
We have just begun a new photography project with photographer Alun Kirby and residents of the Watch Factory CIC extra care space in Prescot, Knowsley. The group will be exploring both the technical and story-telling aspects of photography, as well as reconnecting with the rich history of the Watch Factory site itself, building up to a permanent exhibition for the building.
Supported by The Baring Foundation.
