On The Move
'On the Move' brings together four London youth groups with students from three London secondary schools to perform aspects of the city's past.
The youth groups are Westminster House Youth Group in Nunhead, Smalley Road Youth Group in Stoke Newington, New Horizons Youth Group in Somer's town, and Mosaic in Brent for LGBT young people. Each
group has been discovering the history of their club and local area, and putting that history into creative action, making art installations,murals, soundscapes, poetry and plays.
The three schools are Fortismere, George Mitchell and King Alfred's. On Feb 27th they will join the youth groups in creating an interactive 'Museum of London's future' at UCL.
Please join us on February 27th at Wilkins' Old Refectory, University College London.
Go to the UCL main entrance on Gower Street from where there will be signs directing you to the event.
For more information, email Anna Gust.
What's it all about?
There are 7 million of us in London. What are we doing in London? Where have we all come from? When did we come? How did we get here?
On the Move is a project bringing together youth groups, schools, historians, museums and artists to explore these questions about our lives in London. We find out about the past and we wonder how the past was different from, or maybe the same as, our lives today.
Then, we play with the past. We connect history to ourselves, our lives and our communities. We rap it, talk it, act it, sing it, dance it.
What are we doing and how?
Each youth group or school starts its exploration with its own history. We're asking when, how and why the youth group or school began and how it has changed. Then we're linking its history to the history of the local area. We'll dig up the past in museums and archives. We'll ask local people for their memories. We'll swap stories. Then we'll put them together and perform our histories.
Who are we?
On the Move has seven teams. Each team is made up of a group of young people from a youth group or a school, a youth leader, a historian from UCL, a creative practitioner and a museum. Click here to meet the teams!
Download the poster here