Welcome to the The Green Room. The 2016 Artspace project involves links 3 Ulverston schools and 5 locally based professional in a creative examination of  a shared landscape.
The Green Room is a three-month public engagement programme of mixed media commissions and events within Ulverston's Coronation Hall and Community buildings in Ulverston investigating and developing creative relationships between the town and its young people.  Green Room will deliver high quality artistic outcomes through interaction with young people and a wide range of professional artists. Green Room will provide a relevant context for the development of new work and partnerships between artists, young people  and local audiences ; a space for active participation in the arts for young people; an opportunity to actively engage the Halls' non-arts clientele in accessible arts activities.

By examining OS maps, historical maps and images , aerial photographs and by pooling their own knowledge and perspectives , the young people from Croftlands, Sir John Barrow and Church Walk schools will build large maps of a section of the town, with the support of Workshop Leaders Alex Blackmore and John Hall. 

A concurrent  public engagement programme will see 3 locally based Commissioned Artists  working in parallel with the schools,and drawing on the same material.  Our Commissioned Artists are Sound Artist Peter Dent, Felter Lex Blakeway and Mixed Media visual artist Fran Riley.  They will  make their processes accessible to participants and the public and produce a  body of work for installation and exhibition . The work will form a public exhibition alongside a presentation from the artists  launched in the Hall and  touring accessible public buildings in the Hall’s catchment area.  

The project philosophy embraces inclusion and celebrates  the value of each participants’ unique perspective and relationship with a shared locale. This will be reflected  in our workshop artists use of  recyclables sourced from Ulverston Scrap Store Plus, and in our Commissioned Artist's use of material with a relevance to locale: Found Sound reflecting the local sonic environment; locally sourced wool from the surrounding Fells; discarded ephemera sourced in the streets and the homes of our participants.  

While acquiring  a broad palette of new skills the young people will contribute their perspective and knowledge of their geographical area, and gain an appreciation of research and  the potential of their own specific knowledge.  They will reflect on each others work and discuss the varieties of approach .  They will gain an understanding of the possible routes of creative enquiry into their subject, and the value to the creative process of unusual angles  on the familiar.  

 So, welcome again to The Green Room, the third Artspace project.  We'll be following the progress of our artists and the boys and girls, and including any material that reflects and contributes to the project, so come again.

Our thanks to  Charlie Rowley and the staff at the 'Coro,for their support for this project.