Idea Submission
The People’s Flag project by Alexandra Arts
The design, production and three month installation of twenty-one unique flags representing Mancunia the Cottonopolis.
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Alexandra Arts will be spearheading a unique series of flag design/making and vox pop workshops with textile students at Loreto Sixth Form College in Moss Side, culminating in the installation of twenty telescopic flagpoles flying the flags 6 metre high, around Alexandra Park’s perimeter.
The final flag is to be flown from Umbro HQ.
Working closely with the students we aim to capture Mancunia’s essence through recorded stories told by senior citizen’s in Moss Side, whose journey’s, from the numerous cotton trade routes will be the basis for the flag design and its textures. Ultimately the flags will be a reflection of the diversity of ‘belonging’ and freedom of speech.
The students will be encouraged to discuss and visually articulate their ideas from the stories gathered which will then be translated to large-scale by local master flag makers, United Flags & Flagstaffs Ltd.
The Umbro logo itself will feature in a number of the flag designs.
Alexandra Arts:
Based at Alexandra Park, Alexandra Arts is a community artist led group which believes that participation in the arts, as it embraces nature, can make powerful contributions to local communities. It supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and places. Our main aim is to develop the park’s audience participation through event facilitation and attractions.
1.Artists can make a valuable contribution to the long-term future of our landscape. (Many artists are already working with natural history, heritage and landscape in partnership with land/countryside managers and communities).
2.Contemporary artists are open to new ideas and through an interdisciplinary approach can initiate partnerships between different organisations and groups of people.
3.Arts can re-engage people and communities with the landscape. Sensitively engaging people with the distinctiveness of the local landscape can reinforce a sense of community and connectedness with the land. Issues can be raised, understanding of local heritage developed and traditional skills revived. Enhancing the experiencing of places, a re-engagement with caring about the landscape can develop.
One of our current projects is the participation in the global INSIDE OUT project by Parisian street artist JR. His work is presented freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not museum visitors as it mixes Art and Action.
INSIDE OUT is a global participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.
Alexandra Arts lead artist, Lotte Karlsen devised and delivered a unique series of weekly photo shoots with a group of sixteen children, aged 6-7 from the Art Club at St. Mary’s C.E school in Moss Side. The children were paired up to take close-up portraits of each other to express their feelings about the importance of nature in the inner city. We eagerly await the arrival of sixteen large-scale black and white posters to be block pasted along Alexandra Park rd South.
Our message for INSIDE OUT: We want humanity to realise that healthy relationships between people and landscapes are as important in the city as anywhere else
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