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Case Study of the Cork part of the European Citizenship Postcard Project, which involved Mayfield Arts Newbury House as one of the European coordinating partners.
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CASE STUDY postcards
Locations: May!eld Arts Newbury House, Camden Palace Hotel Cork and various.
Theme: Social Inclusion
Ongoing project for 2010
May!eld Arts Newbury HouseArt Action Toolbox: Case Study PostcardsbackgroundYoung people from May!eld Arts and other organisations and schools participated in this European Citizenship Postcard Project titled ‘736 Ideas 4 A Dream’ during 2010. This project is about a dream: the dream to achieve a Europe that is free of social exclusion. In order to achieve this dream, the aim is to collect ideas that will help with this task.The number 736 refers to the number of active members of the European Parliament when this project was launched.The project is taking place in six European cities, and its mission is to create 736 postcards - one for each member of the European Parliament - that re"ects on the current problems in Europe that generate social exclusion in Europe, as well as speci!c ways to solve them.
The participants explored the theme of social inclusion and exclu-sion in Europe and visual creative methods of expressing their ideas and thoughts on a postcard. Some of the participants travelled to Barcelona in May 2010 to meet with the young people involved from the other participating countries, to exhibit the postcards together, and to celebrate the hard-work, creativity and inter-cultural learning throughout the project. The 736 postcards were also exhibited in Cork in the Camden Palace Hotel in June as part of Globalfest 2010.
Facilitators:Nora Furlong, Lynda Loughnane, Aine Crowley,Dee Hurley
Participants:
Tara O’Conner, Robbie Leahy,Padraig Nash, Paddy Leahy,Niamh Du!y, David Byron,Lucy Gahan, Laura Byron,Kirsten O’Brien, Kellie Thompson, Conor Nash,Ciara Curtain, Ciara O’Neill,Ann Fielding, Alan O’Sullivan,Aisling Stewart, Denis,Eoin Wallace, Rachel,Shane o’Mahony, Tim O’ConnorKimbees McCarthy, Aoife Linehan, Aoife McTernan,Barry O’Sullivan, Barbara Raferty, Rosie, Jas,Anthony Glavin, Leigh Brosnan,Katie Horgan, Amy Murphy,Sinead Keane, Helen,Participants from a Cork Educate Together School
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HOW DID WE DO IT?Step 1: Exploring the theme
Step 2: Creating the Postcards
Step 3: Exhibiting and Sending the Postcards
The theme of social inclusion/exclusion was explored with the young people and they began thinking of slogans and images they would like to incorporate in their postcards. Some of the participants chose to use photography to create images about inclusion and exclusion using a Theatre of the Oppressed method where a ‘sculpture’ moves other people into a position that re!ects a theme, in this case social inclusion and exclusion. More info on Theatre of the Oppressed can be found here: http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?nodeID=1
Resource images, including images from magazines and the internet were printed out, as well as speci"c images the participants created or researched. As well as these images abstract circle patterns, coloured cellophane and paper, patterned paper and art materials were used to assemble the postcard collages. The slogans that the participants had decided upon were printed for them to incorporate with the abstract designs and chosen images. The facilitators guided the participants in designing the layout and putting the collage together.
The "nal postcards were included in the ‘736 Ideas for a Dream’ European Citizenship Project and exhibited in the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork in June 2010. The postcards can be viewed on the website http://736ideas.eu/736/en.The project theme of Social Inclusion/Exclusion was chosen because 2010 is the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The postcards created by the Irish participants and the other European participants have been compiled in a book and posted to all of the 736 E.U. MEPs, and politicians and policy makers in Ireland and other E.U. countries.
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IMAGES OF THE FINISHED WORK
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