Suffrage youth project session 7
"I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end." - Alice Paul. Over the previous sessions, the young people have been learning about the Suffrage movement, politics and leadership to inspire their design, along with some input from our artist, to create a mosaic to celebrate a hundred years since the movement. Every young person that has participated on the project will help design and create the mosaic based on what they have learned. Just like the quote from Alice Paul, each session and each young person's perspective is another stone which adds to the mosaic. Last Tuesday, our mosaic artist brought along an outline ready to fill based on her previous discussions with the youth group. The mosaic features a suffragette march in the centre, surrounded by smaller panels for the young people to add their own designs. During the session, the young people searched for images of the movement to include in the mosaic. Their designs included iconic pieces of the suffrage story, such burning politicians houses, exploding post boxes, the 'Cat and Mouse', violet flowers and a suffragette badge - These were all thought up and drawn by the young people! Our volunteers and young people were all given instructions on how to put together the mosaic and started to fill in the intricate central piece and began on the outline. There was loads left to do after the session ended but it's great to see the mosaic taking form! Erin Trenchard - Team member |
AuthorThe authors of this blog are student Volunteers at Royal Holloway University. Archives
March 2018
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