We wish to repeat our successful project of Easter 2024, which turned the main streets of West Kilbride into an open air gallery exhibiting children's photographs
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Just before Easter 2024, we conducted workshops with young people and children in West Kilbride to explain and encourage them to use photographs as a means to tell stories and impart information. The children and young people then submitted their images on the theme of "Oor Hame", telling what made their home, home. These images were then exhibited in the windows of the shops and other businesses along Main Street and Ritchie Street in the village, creating an open air gallery which residents and visitors to the village could enjoy.
We wish to repeat this project during the same Easter holidays for 2025, but this time we will be running the workshops with the cooperation of West Kilbride Primary School and other youth groups (Brownies, Boys' Brigade etc). In 2024 we held the workshops at what we later realised was not an ideal time, and did not get the level of involvement of young people we believe the project has the potential to engage; that said, we did receive nearly 50 images, and the exhibition was a success, but we believe that with more targeted workshops we could easily receive 10 times the number of images, making the open air gallery that much larger and spreading the collected images around more of West Kilbride's streets.
The project in 2024 looked at what "Hame" means, as it was triggered by Mandy Edwards' documentary project of the same name. For 2025 we have yet to identify a theme (we intend to consult with the school, groups and, most importantly the children) but believe that "Oor Hame" is a good name for the ongoing project, whatever theme is adopted, as it emphasises the community nature of the project.
Funding is required for workshop facilitation (£200), purchase of single use cameras (£250) printing and presentation of images (£150), publicity material (£100)
Proposed on behalf of: Coast Collective Documentary (Mandy Edwards and Ian Roberts): Coast Collective Documentary is a partnership between photographer Mandy Edwards (www.mandyedwardsdocumentary.com) and gallerist Ian Roberts. Over the past 4 years Mandy has produced work on the pandemic ("Another Time of Being", 2021-2 exhibited at the Barony and the Harbour Arts Centre), Climate Change ("Conversations" film, part of the "Seeds of Hope" touring exhibition 2021), Faith in the Community ("Tranquil Daring" film, part of the 2023 Dick Institute Open) and Holidays ("Back Doon the Watter" exhibited at the Garrison House, Millport and Trongate 103, Glasgow (2023), and coming to North Ayrshire Heritage Centre in September 2024). Ian co-ordinates and assists in the presentation of Mandy's work.
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