PARTICIPATION/ CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT
POLLOKSHAWS INTEGRATION NETWORK Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
Pidgin Perfect devised a workshop programme for the 2012 Pollokshaws Community Carnival to encourage intergenerational learning. The story telling workshops documented the lives of the older generation in Pollokshaws and created the basis for the development of an animation workshop to educate local school children about their local history in a fun and imaginative way. Through conversation with elderly community members from Trust Sheltered Housing Pidgin Perfect developed a script which followed the lives of two women, Agnes and Lena, living their lives in an ever changing Pollokshaws. The script was animated and filmed by pupils at St. Conval’s and Tinto Primary Schools using an animation toolkit designed by Pidgin Perfect. Each class was divided into ‘film units’ comprising of a Director, Production Assistant, Camera Operators and Voice Actors, who then worked with Pidgin Perfect to film scenes from the script. The stills and voice recordings taken by the children at both schools were edited by Pidgin Perfect to make the short animation, ‘I Belong To The Shaws’, which was shown at the Pollokshaws Community Carnival as well as screenings at both Primary Schools and Trust Sheltered Housing.
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CARVING WORKSHOP Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
Pidgin Perfect delivered this two part workshop for Tinto Primary School as part of a wider engagement and consultation programme for Glasgow Housing Association and Glasgow City Council in Pollokshaws. The aim of the engagement and consultation programme was to draw out material from the community to shape and inform the development of a new distinct public realm at Riverford, a new build housing development, in the heart of Pollokshaws. The ‘Stone Carving Workshop’ introduced pupils to the ideas of regeneration, the design of public realm and green space within their surrounding urban environment and the craft of stone carving. The workshop produced physicals elements, sandstone tiles with ‘tags’, to be included in the fabric of the new distinct public realm at Riverford. Clay Carving Workshop | Pupils, under the instruction and guidance of Pidgin Perfect, created sketches and ideas before tracing an outline and then carving their ‘design’ into a clay tile. Stone Carving Workshop | Pidgin Perfect worked with Alec Keeper, a Glasgow based stone mason, to demonstrate the process of handcarving the designs created by the pupils in the previous workshop into sandstone blocks.
MONUMENTS THAT MOVE ME Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
‘Monuments that Move Me’ is a creative heritage project run by Depot Arts in partnership with the Glasgow Open Museum. Between July 2011-September 2012 many young people across North Glasgow participated in a range of creative workshops to explore their local history, focusing on 9 monuments and heritage sites. Pidgin Perfect were invited to work with a group of teenagers from North Glasgow, participating through Springburn Regeneration Agency, to create a ‘Monuments that Move Me Map’ and set of representative models. Over three days, Pidgin Perfect took the group on a bus tour of the 9 heritage sites and provided the group with foundational knowledge of mapping and model making alongside a toolkit of parts to enable them to create their own large scale fabric map and experimental models. The final outcomes of the three day workshop will be showcased at the ‘Monuments that Move Me’ exhibition at Springburn Leisure Centre in September 2012.
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SASA 2010 : IDENTITY CRISIS WORKSHOP Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
Glasgow’s transformation from Industrial Powerhouse to Retail Capital maybe seen as an economic success yet it has come at a civic cost. The urban fabric of the city centre is nowtransformed along a pseudo continental model into a retail paradise that may ring with the sounds of café culture and al fresco dining; but it has meant the loss of areas important to the city’s collective memory. The cultural and economic shift consolidated by civic branding initiatives most significantly ‘Glasgow: Scotland with Style®’, has seen areas that no longer fit this reductive manufactured image such as Paddy’s Market (an historic 200 year old Flea Market) removed, resulting in the loss of real continuity, memory and sentiment within the city. Absurdly however there exists a fetishisation of heritage - that celebrates a rose tinted view of the past whilst the living history is erased. Whats more the reductive branding of the city betrays the true diversity of existing and emerging identities. These factors all culminate in a very real identity crisis. This premise formed the basis of the debate that took place at ‘Identity Crisis’ at The Barras Centre.
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