Young people from the Find your Talent - PUSH project (covering Portsmouth, Southampton and urban South Hampshire) were selected to take part in a celebratory performance at the Southbank Centre in London, on Friday 10 July, as part of national Shine Week 2009 (www.shineweek.co.uk)
Find Your Talent (www.findyourtalent.org) is the Government’s cultural offer for children and young people in which over £2.1 m was awarded to the FYT PUSH Partnership to get young people involved in all sorts of exciting arts and cultural projects to build their knowledge, understanding and individual confidence. Find Your Talent is also being piloted in ten pathfinder regions across England.
The newly formed FYT-PUSH Youth Advisory Panel were at the event. They have worked alongside arts organisation, The Caravan Gallery, to create wonderful and quirky individual postcards which represent their unique take on their home towns in the PUSH region. These postcards were creatively displayed as part of a summer-garden installation entitled ‘PUSH the Line’. The Panel is also showcasing a radio broadcast, which they developed working with Express FM, exploring their relationship to culture and the arts. Click Below to listen to the broadcast.