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Leeds Museums and Galleries are working with young people across the city to create text message signage for collections and exhibitions. Young people have been working alongside poets from The Poetry Business looking at artefacts and responding to them in text message poetry.
Mobile technology company, Blink, are leading the project which has so far included poetry workshops at Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall Abbey and Leeds City Art Gallery. Participants have included members of Sessions At The Gallery and pupils from Bruntcliffe High School in Morley.
The project will be launched in February when the text poems can be requested by visitors and sent directly to mobile phone. Visitors to the venues can contribute their own poems, by text, to add to the growing archive.
By supporting user generated content the project aims to create a space for young people and families to interpret exhibitions in a new and engaging way.
More venues will be added to the text message museum map during 2010 and a website will showcase the poems online.
For more information contact lisa@blinkmedia.org
Find Your Talent have funded the youth strand of the EXPO festival which is taking place in Leeds this year. EXPO is a national free festival of sound art and experimental music and runs from the 25th to the 29th September.
Young people from across the city have worked with sonic artists to create their own pieces of artwork. These projects have given the young people the unique opportunity to exhibit their artwork alongside international artists.
Gifted and talented year 6 pupils from Morley primaries worked with Glenn Boulter, sonic artist and Sarah Shaw, Head of Music at Bruntcliffe High School to create an audio trail of the exhibits at Leeds City Museum.
Artist Mira Calix worked with young people from South Leeds High School to explore the visual and audio effects of sound by combining unlikely objects such as rice and marbles with bass speakers.
In Seacroft Manston young people from the David Young Community Academy worked with arts organisation Heads Together to create a ‘domestic symphony’ based around the back-to-back kitchen in Leeds City Museum.
Leeds Find Your Talent Blog 