Make Sectarianism a history lesson
The aim of our Sense Over Sectarianism project is to help young people in Glasgow to find out more about Sectarianism, provide a positive space for discussion and a platform for creative self-expression.
Following a successful pilot project with Sense Over Sectarianism in 2009, Xchange Scotland has been working on developing a project to give young people a voice on this subject and challenge thinking around Sectarianism in this city. Our plan is to build partnerships with 15 schools throughout the Glasgow and Greater Glasgow region. These schools will host two of our specially devised workshops. The tangible outputs of these workshops will be posters created by the participants, collectively at the end of the workshops. These posters will then be displayed by the schools in the local community. The schools will then host the exhibition which we are creating together at the end of all the workshops, bringing together posters and creative content from all the schools and, also, our partner organisations overseas.
We plan to take this project out of the school-grounds too, by hosting the exhibition and follow-up workshops with other groups and organisations and getting the posters created by the young people viewed as widely as possible. Finally, through the partnerships we develop during this project we hope to engage young people with the opportunity to go overseas and be a part of international educational and cultural projects.
As one of the posters created in our pilot project put it, make the river the thing that divides Glasgow.
For more information or to get involved contact sos@xchangescotland.org
