New Heritage Lottery Project: Bloombury Youth Rights
19 January 2012
The Heritage Lottery Fund is kindly supporting Pan's newest project: 'Bloomsbury Youth Rights' that will take place this year in the run up to the Bloomsbury Festival 2012.
The Bloomsbury Youth Rights project will engage young people living around the Bloomsbury area to research into the rich history of pioneering initiatives for children and young people in Bloomsbury. With Great Ormond Street Hospital - the first hosptial dedicated to sick children; The Foundling Museum, once the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children; Coram's Charity for child welfare and education; Octavia Hill campaigning for open play spaces for children and many others on our doorstep, the project will work in partnership with these organisations and the UCL Human Rights Consortium School for Advanced Studies to give local young people a broader understanding of the past and present issues in youth rights.
63 workshops will be held with local young people who will use drama, movement, film, blogging, voicework, photography, visual arts and music to research and exhibit their findings to a wider audience at the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2012.
Click here to see the 'Brunswick' Film that premiered at the Renoir cinema at the Bloomsbury festival 2010.