Crime & Punishment
A digital & analogue storytelling heritage collection youth project
Workshop Schedule
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Week One: Project Introduction & Young People's Steering Group (Establishing focus of project, redefining goals and agreeing on schedule)
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Week Two: Creative Hub & Brainstorming (Project milestones & key areas of interest)
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Week Three: Research Skills Day & Group Discussion (Why/How/Where/What)
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Week Four: Online Research Session
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Week Five: Social Justice Notions & Discussion
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Week Six: Archives As Research Tools
Week Seven: Film Screening & Debate Session (nature and history of social justice: then Vs now)
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Week Eight: Social Media & Digital Storytelling (changing models of information consumption & engagement with the world)
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Week Nine: Photographic Portraits & Self-Representation (capturing the world through photography & notions of traces being left in history)
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Week Ten: Story Development (creative writing exercises in response to TWAM archive portraits)
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Week Eleven: Creative Production (recording video- pieces to camera & vox pops, shot and produced by participants)
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Week Twelve: Creative Production (recording audio- using audio recorders & sound editing systems)
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Week Thirteen: Oral History Collection Exercise (young people to interview each other on camera on issues of social justice)
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Week Fourteen: MASTERCLASS delivered by lead artist Tina Gharavi on narrative construction & storytelling techniques
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Week Fifteen: Walking History- 'Back In Time' Walk Across Newcastle (Visiting historical sites such as former prisons e.g. Carliol Square Gaol and Charlotte Square Gaol)
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Week Sixteen: Examining the Archive Photos
(Introductory visit to Discovery Museum's Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums' archive)
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Week Seventeen: Developing Portrait Stories (Participants are encouraged to produce fictional narrative accounts of the individual whose portrait they chosen during their visit at the archive. Working with the digitally accessible archive via Flickr
Week Eighteen: Living History (exploring heritage of crime, prisons and social justice across the North East)
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Week Nineteen: Narrative Construction/Creative Writing Exercises
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Week Twenty: Introduction to 35mm Cameras & Photographic Composition
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Week Twenty-one: Designing Your Portraits
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Week Twenty-two: Practice Session
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Week Twenty-three: Production of Participant-led Photographic Portraits
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Week Twenty-four: Dark room session 1
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Week Twenty-five: Dark room session 2
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Week Twenty-six: Dark room session 3
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Week Twenty-seven: Dark room session 4
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Week Twenty-eight: Dark room session 5
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Week Twenty-nine: Project Meeting (Participants to reflect and review project and design exhibition/final event)
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Week Thirty: Photoshoot- photographic portraits produced by lead artist
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Week Thirty-one: Allow time for photographs to be processed and for participants to curate exhibition collection
Weeks Thirty-two until Week Forty: Exhibition planning, creation of primatial material, invitations, promotion via social media and meetings with participants
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Week Forty-one: Week Thirty: Exhibition set up and exhibition launch
Week Forty-two: Final project evaluation, collection of testimonials and one-to-one feedback sessions
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Weeks Forty-three until Week Fifty: Collating all feedback and evaluation material, updating website and signing off learning resources and project evaluation
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