Mandy Mcintosh' film shoot took place in early March. We worked with 4 male participants from the Two Way Street group throughout. They were asked to participate in sugar sculpting and junk percussion workshops held at Picture This over 3 days. To the end of the week we were in the GeorgianHouseMuseum, where the group had a series of one to one art therapy sessions in the attic space said to be Pero’s room. Mandy also asked the group to place the sugar sculptures that they had made earlier in the week around the house.
Mandy is now doing her creative edit in Glasgow and will be at Picture This at the end of May to complete the film.
Down at the Bamboo Club an ambitious programme of activity exploring aspects of Bristol's social and political histories using devices such as irony, oration and filmic re-creation. Co-ordinated by Picture This and with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Bristol Visual Arts Consortium, the project uses re-enactments to enable participants to explore subjects such as community relations, the legacy of slave trading on the city's economy and communities, histories of division and solidarity, and the heritage of their own roles in the city today.
Through Down at the Bamboo Club Picture This will work with invited artists:Barby Asante, Mark Wilsher and Mandy McIntosh to devise and deliver participatory projects involving moving image and re-enactment through participatory workshops and other community events. Re-enactments offer sensitive ways to link to diverse communities and gain newly produced material. Re-enactment is a means of expression that has sympathies with oral traditions of storytelling. It has the potential to reconcile the dynamics of contemporary and historical perspectives of slavery and to respond to the specific site, place and context of Bristol.
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