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Notes from Underground
This was a very exciting and innovative project with young people from St John’s Catholic School Kent, and unaccompanied minor asylum seekers supported by the KRAN at Riverside Project in Canterbury. The project involved a series of self esteem raising and confidence boosting, participatory music and arts workshops between March and May 2007, in the King's Wood, an area of ancient woodland located at Challock between Faversham and Ashford in Kent.
The project was a very successful collaboration between Stour Valley Arts and MfC, and hopefully will be the first of many. Stour Valley Arts are based in the King’s Wood, and aim to increase awareness and enjoyment of contemporary art while encouraging greater interest in the environment
The young people worked with MfC artist Lucky Moyo from Zimbabwe and visual artist Martin Brockman, in the Wood, using materials and inspiration they encountered. They invented, designed and built sound structures and musical instruments, and then devised a performance piece. This was presented at a highly successful interactive performance event on 19th May that was open to the public. The participants excelled themselves in producing remarkable sound structures , and presenting a highly enjoyable and unique performance.
We will now develop materials gathered during the project into a web page recording the achievements
The project was funded by Awards for all, and Kent Country Council Rural Revival Fund, to whom we are very grateful.
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