Digital Film School
Film & Video
Partners
the drum / South Birmingham College
Artists
Jaimini Jethwa / Joseph Potts / Harmeet Chagger / Freeda Sangra
Digital Film School produced four films that reflected the different aspects of young people’s involvement and training through Gallery 37. The proposals ranged from client briefs, documentary, poetry and narrative.
Journeys Without Maps
Live Art
Partners
Ikon Gallery / Birmingham Rep
Artists
Polly Hudson / Justin Wiggan / Harbinder Bains / Helen Street
Journeys without maps explored the links between the performer and the audience. Blurring the lines between narratives, fictions and notions of truth and examining the body in relation to the city. The apprentices worked with sound, movement, documentation, text, video and 2D to generate performances and interventions within the public arena.
B-Longing
Dance / Voice / Visual Art
Partners
Birmingham Royal Ballet / Birmingham University / Birmingham Opera Company
Artists
Susanne Thomas / Phil Durrant / Heidi Rustgaard / Mekeda Deans / Misha Crawford
B-Longing was a performance project which brought together visual, physical, and vocal talents to create a truly three-dimensional experience for the stage. The project explored the diverse desires and struggles of belonging and culminated in an exhilarating dance performance to an original sound score.
Urban Impact – Handmade
Handmade, Digital
Partners
Vivid / mac / Craftspace Touring
Artists
Silke Lange / Sol Moxham / Richard Harris / Carl Morgan
Urban Impact encouraged self expression through traditional and contemporary media. It promoted the use photography, digital and 3D arts to reflect young urban experiences. Apprentices were encouraged to experiment with all of the different tools available to produce work that explored their own identity.
Music
Partners
CBSO / Crush Music
Artists
Paul Rivett-Carnac / Norman Peacock / Asher Gray / Gerald Dixon
Apprentices gained an understanding of music production through performance and technology culminating in the production of original music as well as commissions for the film project. All of the music was produced on CD.
Option Optima
Public Art
Partners
Optima Community Association / Gallery in the Trees
Artists
Helen Kelly / Jason Bowman / Matthew Barton / Richard Jones
The project provided an opportunity to research, design, produce and distribute a ‘Lo-Fi’ comic that examined the regeneration of Birmingham’s Attwood Green neighbourhood.
Accessories to Envy
Textiles
Partners
Aston Hall / Soho House / Stourbridge College
Artists
Colette Gillmartin / Sharon Morgan / Lorna Rose / Jess Morgan
The project focused on learning new textile and millinery techniques, enabling participants to create their own unique accessories to work inspired by the collections of Aston Hall and Soho House.
Street Art
Partners
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery / artSites / DanceXchange
Artists
Mark Anderson / Tamsin Fitzgerald / Glen Anderson / Duncan Grimley
Street Art is a cross art form project involving street dance, graffiti and DJ-ing. Apprentices participated in all three art forms before specialising towards the end of the project for the public performances