posted by admin on Oct 1
We all have our ilands. Britain is an island, many people who now live here originated on islands, we have our own, internal ‘i-lands’.
Iland Life seeks to explore with young people their own ‘ilands’. For several months, Vince Nelson and Bev Harvey have been working with young people from 641 Youth House on developing skills in oral history collecting. These young people have then interviewed a range of elders from their community about their ‘island lives’. The resulting interviews will form part of an audio installation, housed in a real boat which will be shown at the Edge, Friction Arts studio from 31st January until the 7th of February 2009.
There will be performances during the exhibition by young people from Five Ways Estate, who have previously worked with Friction Arts during their Curio City Shop residency. This group of young people have been working with Bev and Simon Walker on devising a performance based around the material collected during the project.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
My father is from a small sub-tropical island in the Gulf Stream. Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland and yes there are palm trees too!
January 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Thanks Brendan, my mother came from Bridgetown in Barbados 44 years ago. A few years back I got the opportunity to go with her to where she was born which bought back memories of her childhood. Stories that I’d never heard before it was fantastic & I met my great uncle after my mother looked up his name in the phone book. If you would like to share any of your fathers stories that would be great.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
hi its hannah p from curio just looking at the site lol
March 25th, 2009 at 7:22 am
We’ve all but wrapped the project up. We had a visit from Rachel at Heritage Lottery Fund who funded the project. She wanted to meet with the young people and the artists on the project to invite them to represent Heritage Lottery Fund on a new promotional DVD. This is a great opportunity for the project to have a longer legacy. So Rachel met up and the Iland life crew even re-ran the performance for her only ! There was great excitement and much cake eaten as Rachel visited the evaluation and party day.
So we thought the project was over in February…. but it continues this Saturday as the group will come together again for interviews, mapping and discussion on camera. HLF will use this evaluation to promote the scheme to more grassroots organisations to encourage them to apply to the ‘Young Roots’ scheme and other schemes. A great result for a great show. The young people are keen to work together again so we will start sifting for appropriate funds to make this happen.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Your article very good! Keep up the excellent idea!