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Blake Reinvented
Tate Liverpool has run a programme for young people (aged 13 to 25) outside the formal education sector since 1988. In 1994, the Young Tate programme was officially launched, pioneering a model based upon consultation and peer-leadership. Through a system of training and peer-mentoring, Young Tate brings together those who already have a keen interest in the arts with 'hardest to reach' groups: young people not in education, employment or training, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, young offenders, young people with disabilities and Young Carers. Young Tate supports the development of young arts advocates who are uniquely equipped to engage their peers in cultural activity.
The Young Advocates Programme was set up to further develops the Young Tate model of working, through long term partnerships with the Youth Service that seek to recreate the Young Tate model in the community. The programme extended and deepened the creative and cultural offer whilst also creating a pool of inspired, enthused and skilled cultural ambassadors.
To establish links between young people already engaged with the arts and young people from target groups in Liverpool and the boroughs who are less engaged, and through participation in creative activities to create a socially inclusive and diverse peer led pool of young cultural ambassadors.
Blake Reinvented was a project drawing on a model of integration and learning. Each refugee/asylum seeker was partnered with a Young Tate member and a student from Liverpool Community College's Art College. The eight week, peer-led acitivities brought together young people from Young Tate, Liverpool Community College ESOL classes and Liverpool Community College hair and beauty courses. The young people worked together to produce a fashion show taking as its inspiration the William Blake display at Tate from 12 December 2008 - 22 March 2009. Their work was showcased as part of Late at Tate February 26, 2009.
The project presented an opportunity for participants to develop arts based, project planning and interpersonal skills in a highly imaginative, creative and inspiring way. It was also an introduction to a significant figure in romantic art and literature, and an opportunity for young people from very different groups to work closely together in a way that respects the knowledge and cultural input that each of them brought to the project.
In partnership with Liverpool Youth Service for the City and North area, Tate Liverpool recruited a group of young people who have mixed levels of engagement with culture and positive activities. Some were from Young Tate, with high levels of confidence in working in the arts and shaping projects with other young people. Others were young people who attend youth centres, and had some engagement with the arts. A further group of young people were recruited through a detached youth worker, and had little former engagement with sustained arts activity, with another group recruited through the YOS/YOT and at risk of offending. This group worked with an artist educator to explore the sculpture display at Tate and their own reactions to it. They then went to create a recycled sculpture in response, working together with a Tate artist educator. The work was showcased at the Newsham Festival on the 27th June and the Young Tate Colour Tent (August 10-16, 2009)
In partnership with the Youth Service in St Helens, Tate Liverpool and MDI are worked to bring together a group of people from across the three areas in St Helens, to become the arts advocates in the borough. The Youth Service identified territory as being an issue for these young people, and recommended working together with small groups from each area before bringing them together as one group. In response to this, Tate Liverpool and Merseyside Dance Initiative are provided three mini-projects - four sessions of work by each group in response to the sculpture project in the form of either dance, fashion or sculpture. The groups are came together in the last week of June to meet one another and share the work that they have done and also worked Hope St Ltd in Year 2.