The Future Is Ours
In 2020, 42nd Street and The Horsfall facilitated a festival to celebrate young people’s creativity, voice and action. The festival launched in November featuring original artworks by over 130 young people - including interviews, video performances and literature. The work was shared online, on billboards and street posters across Manchester.
Take a scroll through the work to celebrate the outstanding creativity of Manchester’s youth!
Messages for the future
The project involved young artists from the Horsfall Gallery collaborating with professional artists to create work that communicated what the young artists wanted in the future. The progress highlighted key experiences and feelings of the young people – feeling weird, anger, the need to creatively deal with past experiences of bullying and recovery resulting in work that looked to reach out and help people feel better.
Action Art Room
ARTivism
Our Creative Agents worked with leading young artists in Manchester interested in using art to change society. They focussed on youth voice, mental health support and guidance for their written pieces. The young artists went on to perform and film at the iconic Niamos centre in Hulme.
Artist in Residence
The Horsfall supports young early career artists in there Artists in Residence programme with the focus on mental health and wellbeing alongside the areas of interest the young artists.
“We have recently worked with Shannon Westacott a local poet who’s beautiful poetry is very much about being in the moment and taking Notice (one of the five ways to wellbeing); Bronte Palmer who explores social norms around gender identity – through photography and art; Henry Franks who explored in his recent photo book and film our connection with the nature and the wild – an increasingly important feeling for many during lockdown. ”
View the festival day-by-day on 42nd Street’s site and check out the great work that they do whilst you’re there.