Suffrage Youth Project Session 8
This week Members of the History Society joined us to lead the session with the young people continue with the mosaic. Emily from the History Society has written this week's update. In preparation for this week’s session, I read around the topic to understand the history of the suffrage movement better. Though I have studied it before, it was quite a while ago and so I wanted to be able to help the youth group come up with ideas for what they wanted to see on their mosaic. In doing this, I learnt significantly more about prominent suffrage movements, not just here but across the world. I also learnt the extent to which people were willing to go to win their right to vote. Both of these highlight the significance of the opportunity we now have to have our say (a point that the Suffrage Centenary Project really tries to get across). Throughout the session, the young people continued to build the central piece of the mosaic and come up with further ideas to include around the main piece. The mosaic artist was always on hand to help and showed both the volunteers and the young people how to create a perfect mosaic. I was even taught how to break the glass tiles to fit into smaller spaces, something I had never done before! Although we did also have a game prepared for the group, they were so focused on adding tiles to their section and expanding upon what had been achieved last week that we ran out of time! By the end of the session, the mosaic was looking significantly more complete thanks to all of the youth group’s hard work, so I cannot wait to see what it looks like when it is finished! Overall, it was a relaxed and sociable evening, allowing us volunteers to get to know the young people better! They were very talkative and we spent the evening chatting and laughing at all of their jokes. I would certainly recommend taking part in the project as it is the perfect opportunity to get involved with the young people of the community and to engage with such an important historical topic which still holds great significance today, all in a really fun way! Emily Briffett - History Society |
AuthorThe authors of this blog are student Volunteers at Royal Holloway University. Archives
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