Rhyl City Strategy & RYAG partnered together to bid into the ReachingHeights Fund, administered by Arts Council Wales to provide 50 young people at risk of becoming NEETS or currently NEETS with a photomission experience.
Reaching Heights has two parts of funding as part of the programme.
This bid was to the First Footholds element which focuses on those who are most at risk of leaving school andbecoming economically inactive. The first stage of the bid has been accepted. Furtherinformation was asked for and we now await the terms and conditions. Once this is finalisedthe photomission will begin.Photomission is engagement through media involving ‘missions’ being sent via text to theparticipants who respond using photographs. The material is then collected in and the mostinventive selected. Those who took the pictures then explain their choices and a short filmis created using the pictures and audio descriptions in order to be exhibited. Five groups willbe given this opportunity; two groups of ten 11 – 13yr olds and three groups of 14 – 19yrs.
From this the young people involved will be given further opportunities to get involved withdigital media as the material will be used as part of the raw material being gathered for afeature film about The Reso.
If you know any young people who may be interested contact Jennie Walker 01745 343605 or email Jennifer.walker@rhylcitystrategy.co.uk
