The Cardiff Story residency and exhibition
FEBRUARY - June 2011 Project Outline Document
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BigLittleCity BigLittleCity is a celebration of Cardiff and Cardiff’s creative talent for anything: photography, film, writing, music and performance, animation, illustration or painting. BigLittleCity is about the city and the experience of its residents and as such we are extremely focused on collaboration. The BigLittleCity team has been invited to stage a four-month exhibition to help launch Cardiff’s prestigious new people’s museum The Cardiff Story at the Old Library building, The Hayes, in the heart of our city. Opening in March 2011, the BigLittleCity exhibition will showcase everything that is special about the Welsh capital and is set to attract thousands of visitors.
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WE LOVE CARDIFF We love the people, the places and the history...
You Love Cardiff Just as much as us, but in a different way and for different reasons...
Let’s talk We want to create a space for this conversation to take place, where we can find out more about the city we love and shine a light on what makes it special for us...
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Take a photo, make a film, paint a picture or sing a song or write a poem or make a collage or knit a scarf... It can be of anything that signifies Cardiff to you and everything is valid.
But I can’t Paint, Write or Dance or think of anything to do for that matter.
What about me? We thought about you actually and came up with some really easy ways for you to get on board.
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Here are just a few:
Cardiff:Characters
The project that got BLC started - Dan Green photographs the people who make Cardiff what it is to him as well as taking suggestions from the public.
Off The Wall
Working with Cardiff’s animation community. We imagine what the animals on Cardiff Castle’s famous animal wall get up to while the rest of the city is asleep.
Keep Up Cardiff
Created from user generated footage. A football travels around the city, being passed from person to person, showing the hidden corners of the city we love.
Get Your Coat
Create your own take on Cardiff’s coat of arms. We will invite school parties to take part in workshops where they can complete a group Coat of Arms.
Hip-Hop project
MCs submit an accapella and a beat created by Junior Disprol (Dead Residents). All of the parts will be released under a Creative Commons licence for people to add to or create their own mixes.
Spillers T-Shirt Competition
Spillers Records t-shirts are iconic, worn by Cardiff ians around the globe as a badge of pride. We’ve teamed up with The Oldest Record Shop In The World to offer you the chance to design your own!
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THEN WHAT? We’ll be taking up residence in The Cardiff Story for 5 months from February 2011. Collaborating, collating and creating more work for the first month, and launching in March 2011 when we start the exhibition proper. Why are we doing all of this?
YOU WILL LOVE CARDIFF A LITTLE BIT MORE...
so you get your friends involved, and the whole thing starts over again. Before and beyond the exhibition - the community will exist online at
biglittlecity.com Visit biglittlecity.com to find out what others are doing or drop us a line at contact@biglittlecity.com to let us know how you would like to get involved...