News - 19/03/2009
Inverclyde School Kids Get Behind Campaign
The search continues for Inverclyde's Real Community Heroes this week and now school kids from across Inverclyde are being urged to get involved in phase two of the Up Close campaign; the exhibition.
An Up Close Exhibition education programme is underway to spark the imagination of the younger generations in building a picture of their family's history in the area. The exhibition will collate tales of Inverclyde past, celebrate current successes and inspire people to look with confidence to the future. Local children will not only learn about how their relatives lived in the past, but be encouraged to define how they want to live here in the future.
Lady Alice primary school is the first to sign up to the campaign and this week received a visit from curator John Devlin to talk to them about how they can get involved. The children received Education Packs which encourage them to question their older relatives on everything from what types of house they lived in and what their favourite food was, to how they washed their clothes and what games they played.
The Up Close Exhibition is the centre piece of a sustained community initiative involving primary schools, James Watt College, local groups and residents and River Clyde Homes is asking people from all areas of the community to contribute their photographs, artefacts, films and memories to help catalogue the past and look towards the future shape of the area.
John Devlin, curator said: "We are looking for people from all walks of life, young and old, to get involved in the campaign. We are asking all of the schools in the area to work with the children and ask them to write, draw or photograph all the aspects of their own lives".
