Funding from Media Box enabled Pulling Together to work with professional media artist, Sue Reddish to film a series of intergenerational stories.

Through Their Past Our Future project the young women learnt how to project manage, create story boards, gain skills in creative writing, learn filming, editing and screening.

The end of project celebration of Their Past Our Future Films took place on Friday 16th July 2010.
The 4 short films were created by the young women over a number of weeks using a number of techniques in video and animation. Music for the films was especially composed by freelance musician based in Stretford, Carol Donaldson.

Some photos from the ABC of Art project.

Some photos from a project about Freedom & Identity.

Using the Health & Well-being theme, Pulling Together group secured a small amout of funding in October 2009 from Voluntary Arts England to put together comic strips looking at healthy eating and exercise.  Click on the images below to read:

Sportsbarn Comic Strip

Unhealthy Diet Comic Strip

Pulling Together Group designed three  banners for the Manchester Mela at Platt Fields Park, 25th & 26th July 2009.

As part of the creative writing workshops celebrating National Year of Reading, Pulling Together members were asked to send a postcard from their favourite book. The questions asked were: I’m in … I feel … I met … I wish I’d packed … I want … The weather is … Today I will … When I get home I’ll ….  Below are just a selection of ‘postcards’ that include the autobiography of Cristiano Ronaldo; Jacqueline Wilson’s ‘Dustbin Babies’; ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ by Louis Sachar, ‘The Casson Family Series’ by Hilary McKay and ‘The Outsiders’ by S E Hinton.

I am in Ronaldo’s Mansion
I feel happy and confused
I met Ronaldo and his family
The weather in his house is quite refreshing
I wish I’d packed a wedding dress
I want to marry him and have his kids
Today I will explore his past
When I get home I will go straight to my bed and dream about him

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Art Memory Boards

Ceramics workshop

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Polly Tuga

Polly Tuga was created as an Avatar by the young women of Pulling Together. An ‘avatar’ is a computer user’s representation of himself or herself, whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games, a two-dimensional picture used on internet forums and other communities. However, the Sanskrit word Avatara means “the descent of God” or simply “incarnation.”

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Polly Tuga - Avatar (AKA The Eraser)

Personality

• Fun, Outgoing, Crazy, Shy, Chatty, Loud, Imaginative, Happy, Positive, Clever, Geeky, Sporty, Stylish, Fashionable, Different, Creative, Arty, Cultural, Cheeky, Independent, Hardworking
• Aged 15
• Favourite Food - All food but loves Chocolate and Pizza
• Favourite Football Team - Manchester United
• Favourite Colours - Purple and Pink
• Drives a red Mini Cooper
• Lives in stylish apartment in Trafford (more…)