'Urban Outsiders' UK youth workshop blog enteries.

Hello everyone from Top Valley Secondary

(High) School, UK. We are on our last workshop session before our artwork is flown to and projected onto the outside walls of the

Museum of Technology, San Jose.

Ever Child Matters and Environment officer, Caroline Hendy co-ordinated the project for a group of Top Valley and Bonington Juniour school students.

We have alot to tell the ZERO1 youth group about our trips to visit secret city ponds and Hucknall Road Walkway, an ancient strip of woodland with Simon Jenkins, Nottingham's Park Ranger. We learnt how to film, photograph and draw insects, flowers and water snails and then brought the footage back to be edited.

Digital artist Theresa Caruana who led the project helped us to decide how we would show our images in California. Here are some of our thoughts about the project and photos showing what we did.

Macauley's Blog
When I started to begin the art project we went to a room to think about what we could do and we saw a projection that Theresa had done in Saint Ann’s. We then went to a secret pond to find creatures and bugs so we could record them so it was possible to project them onto the wall. Then when we recorded the bugs we saw how they looked on film. In the next session we had fun in a forest and I played in some sand to find some worms or centipedes. We have now been split into buddies. The year 7’s with one year 6 and 3 year 5’s from Bonington Primary School. I am now paired up with Jake to create the blog and artwork. I have loved this project and would do it again anytime.