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Get Digital

Creative Junction is commissioning creative and cultural organisations to develop and deliver projects with us as part of our ‘Get Digital’ strategy. We will be supporting projects that actively engage children, young people and families through partnerships with artists that explore digital opportunities.

We are pleased to announce that we will be working in partnership with the following organisations to deliver the Get Digital Strategy:

  • Pegasus Theatre
  • Modern Art Oxford
  • Rifco Arts
  • Resource Productions
  • Slough Museum
  • New Writing South

How are they getting digital?

Pegasus Theatre

Pegasus Theatre will be working in partnership with Creative Junction and East Oxford Primary School on a project entitled ‘Being Me’. ‘Being Me’ is part of Pegasus Theatre’s outreach programme and it will use Creative Writing, Digital Technology and Music Technology to explore and celebrate the lives, aspirations and cultural heritage of young people at East Oxford Primary School and connect to young people in Yorkshire. /

Modern Art Oxford

Modern Art Oxford will be working in partnership with Creative Junction as well as Abingdon and Witney College in which an e-learning resource is researched and designed by young people for young people. The completed resource will be made accessible through Modern Art Oxford’s website. Through this project we are aiming to provide for young people by developing the research skills taking the form of interviewing artists and researching MAO’s archive, working alongside a digital technology practitioner to create a resource that can help support their studies. This project is due to begin in the new year.

Resource Productions

Resource Productions together with a team of young volunteers have been developing a project called ‘Shelter’. This will develop an online network of young people from across the UK, India and Africa – who will be trained on digital camera equipment in order to shoot and edit films on the theme of Shelter, then upload them to a shared online space and then screen each other’s films across the world.

The objective is to work with as wide a range of young people across the South East as possible, to challenge perceptions of each others countries, families and lives whilst also improving Media Literacy, communication skills and Digital competency.

Rifco Arts

Rifco Arts has started to create a new show called ‘Break Da Floor Boards’ which will be developed over 2011 and may go into production in 2012. With this new work they are looking at how Digital media and Dance might help us tell this contemporary story.
In January and February 2011 Rifco Arts will commence our research and development of this project, with two workshops. Here they will work with developing artists and young people from the community to look at how Drama, Dance and Digital can actually work together. Additional research will be conducted into how young people are actually using digital media in their everyday lives to communicate and express themselves.
Through these workshops Rifco Arts and Creative Junction will explore the relationships between the three genres (Dance, Drama and Digital) and find unique and challenging ways to fuse them to create this new piece of work.

Slough Musuem
Slough Museum aims to inspire local people to learn about and understand Slough’s heritage and their place within it, and as part of the Get Digital strategy Slough Museum would encourage children and young people to engage with their surroundings and heritage through a creative contemporary photographic project.
Participants in the project would be invited to explore the Museum’s photographic collection as a means of engaging with Slough’s past, and to then investigate their own surroundings – be it the home, school, High Street or any other environment they interact with – and to capture their exploration through the medium of digital photography. Their exploration would be guided and supported by a creative practitioner, with the project undertaken by children and young people, independently or as part of a familial unit. The project would give participants the opportunity to investigate and have a greater understanding of their heritage, who they are, of the world around them, and their place within it.
The project will work towards an exhibition of the final piece.

New Writing South
New Writing South want to work in partnership with young writers, a web developer, web designer and professional writers to establish a web site (within it’s own site) specifically for young writers. The site will be for young people to author, create, explore, share and develop their own new creative writing – from game design to journalism, from poems to film scripts. The young writers will upload content and respond to the works of their peers on the website, as well as interacting with professional writers who will log on to offer guidance and advice. Content will be led by the young writers themselves and developed with professional guidance. As the traffic of young writers grows, so will the scope for networking and becoming aware of other opportunities throughout the region.

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