banners to share the work done by ‘bradford speakout’ – a project working with young homeless people in bradford. we worked with artworks creative communities and bradford alliance on community care to produce this series of 7 banners using words and artwork created by the homeless working with local artists.

some photos from last night’s launch event.

it began with a visit from william smith and other notables from scarborough’s cultural heritage…

…and finished with a brilliant performance by scarborough hip-hip school.

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visuals were largely the work of our placement student, emma, created from the map artwork. we used 4 projectors to create a wall of constantly changing images.

we suggested that a typical powerpoint presentation wouldn’t allow the trio of presenters to speak freely, plus the judges had already got ‘the facts’ on the written entry submission – what was needed now was to present a human face to the story and let personalities shine through. so we put together a smoothly evolving series of images that formed a visual backdrop while people spoke. the sequences of images were relevant to what each person was saying, adding context and telling a linear story, from scarborough’s initial heyday, through it’s loss of confidence and to its current reinvention and regaining of self-belief.

this freed up the three of us to talk in a more relaxed way and respond to the reactions of the judging panel. seems that it did the job. we were declared the most enterprising place in yorkshire and the humber. and that’s really when the real work started…