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During January to March 1997, Artskills ran a creative technology and drama project, with an award from the government’s Drugs Challenge Fund. Following on from their participation in the foundation course, this gave 12 young people the opportunity to consolidate and further develop skills, gain higher level qualifications in creative technology, drama and communications; and work, from concept to completion, on a peer education drugs prevention campaign for their communities.
Using drama, video, digital imaging and computer graphic design, the project responded to the dearth of, and pressing need for, drugs information and education for a particular age group: 9 to 14 year olds. Three linked strands produced:
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a theatre in education play, Harry, which toured to 1,200 9–12 year olds in the last two years of junior and first year of senior schools, across south Liverpool; |
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a video, made in collaboration with two artists employed by FACT (the Foundation for Creative Technology – formerly Moviola) and shown at the Video Positive festival of electronic arts; |
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and Drugspotting, a digital imaging and computer design-for-print process that produced a peer education campaign – expressed as nine information cards riveted together as a set, each with basic facts about a particular drug and a poster which combines all of the images on the cards – widely distributed throughout the areas. |
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