Art Trail: Call for facilitators

We are hosting Sheffield Hallam Student Volunteers next month. Their brief will be to create an art trail throughout sharrow...

The workshops will be held on Friday 19th Feb and Friday 26th Feb from 12.30pm... We are currently looking for volunteers to help facilitate...

Our aims for the project are that:

1. The students find out more about the area- and therefore may be more likely to come here/ think more positively about what sharrow has to offer...
2. They draw people who live, work and play in sharrows attention to aspects of sharrow that excite them/inspire them and/or are critical of things- so perhaps comment on the way space is used/ link places together...
3. They have to talk to local businesses/ people at the potential locations of the signs and so converstaions start and negotioations start... people start talking about the area and what is distinctive/ important
3. We create a map of their signs and distribute it around schools/ shops/ local people/ students and get poeple walking aorund at looking at sharrow more generally...

We need facilitators for the two workshops- the first would be presenting the area/ themes in the brief and going for a walk around with the students, provoking them, getting then to look at/ know the area better... then help them to come back and discuss ideas for their groups signs... and begin to design them...

The second workshop would be the making of the signs... we have some bought materials as we have fairly substantial pot of money (about £400) and also will hope to salvage materials etc...

The students could also have a small budget per group (from hallam) of about £40 to buy extras if they needed them...

We are expecting 40-50 students to attend and i thought that they could form 8 groups of 5 students (two groups per theme and area- 'create'- the john street triangle... 'play'- the parks and schools, 'gather'... the community buildings (inc sufc!) and 'trade'- london road area)...

I think it is important for the facilitators to push with how the students would interpret these themes... and get them to be as creative as possible... (so play could be about lots of things- a full page of defintions according to the online dictionary- i like Quick, often irregular movement or action, especially of light or color: the play of color on iridescent feathers.)

so please drop me a line at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you might like to be involved...

Treasure Hunt at the Winter Market- This weekend

Housewarming

The Distinctive Sharrow Housewarming on Wednesday 23rd September was a really fun evening where we chatted, found out about each other, collected people's ideas and let people know about the projects which we have been involved in...

Our displays told people about:
1. Distinctive Sharrow / The Distinctive Sharrow Toolkit
2. The Action Group
3. Our future plans
4. The four key projects: i. flags, ii. signs (the word on the street), iii. Lloyds corner, iv. empty shops

During the evening we asked people to add to:
1. The display about people of Sharrow (by telling us something about themselves or their relationship with Sharrow and chalk in on a board and have their portrait taken)
2. A map of Sharrow painted on the wall (telling us a project idea, something we should know about Sharrow, or something that inspires them about Sharrow)
3. A display of exciting ideas, ways to act, art, architecture, landscape or design projects they love. (either by making a card or chalking on the wall)

The photos below give a glimpse of some of the input/ ideas that came back. A comprehensive collation of this will be posted on the blog and this will go on to inspire our agenda for the next few months.

We have also had an expression of interest from a few new members and hope they are still keen to be involved- a meeting will be confirmed asap to welcome them into the group. Watch this space!

Displays: For Housewarming

Please find below the plan for the displays for the action group room. Please contact me if you wish to write any of the introductions for the projects and/or select images etc for the projects.

Distinctive Sharrow Toolkit and Action Group Intro and aims
· Intro to the project
· Intro to the action group
· The toolkit
· Invitation to join the group
· Blog address and website address

Lloyd’s Corner
· Project intro/description
· Brief
· Masterplan
· Photos of event 1
· Photos of event 2
· Outcomes
· Future Steps

The Word on the Street
· Project description/ intro
· Brief
· Shortlisted Artists
· Stage 1- lanterns at the lantern festival, Sharrow festival and on buildings etc
· Stage 2- final design
· Publicity- Sharrow Today

Flags
· Project intro/ description
· Flag workshop photos
· Flag planning application drawings
· Photos of flags on London Road
· Publicity- Sharrow Today

Empty Shops
· Project intro/ description
· Future plans

Map of Sharrow
· Map Lloyds Corner
· Map Signpost locations
· Map Flags
· Map Thriving centres outline
· Map Lowfields/ My Place
· Map the hub
· Any grow Sheffield projects to map?

Other
· Planning Applications
· Other documents and information from SCC and Grow Sheffield and CAN etc

Room Painting and design of displays: DS HQ

We had a painting day on Saturday, decorating the new DS Action Group HQ... Thanks to everyone who helped...and as you can see have now painted a map of Sharrow on the wall... we hope to use this to add information about DS Action group and others' projects in the neighbourhood. Hopefully as we begin to do more spontaneous projects these can also be mapped.

There is still some painting to do- largely of the woodwork, please contact me if you may be able to spare a couple of hours to help.

We also need to design displays for our housewarming event which is fast approaching. It has been discussed that this will include information about our projects, students work, planning applications, community building projects and inspirational ideas from others... If you would like to be involved or have any ideas for this it would be much appreciated.

Map of London Road/ Lloyds Corner 1903

...3-7 Alderson rd weas lised c 1903 trade directory as ironmonger, tailor and artificial teethmaker...cremorne beerhouse...as for sewage lamps ... made by Webbs of Brum, JEWebb patent Sewer Gas Destructors...... a set of names to conjure with? a site for a few big letters?

from RW

Lloyds Corner: Service Runs

The map below shows the lines of the services that run below lloyds corner; please click on the image to enlarge. The original information from the service providers is copywrited but I have a copy at SCF if you need more details.

Lloyds Corner- Movement Mapping

Map 1. 12.00-12.30pm

Map 2. 12.30pm-1.30pm

Map 3. 1.30-2.00pm

The following maps show the movement of people on the day of the event during each of the four events: Crazy paving, Street Art, Game Zone and Urban Oasis. The red lines mark where people walked and the blue crosses where poeple stood. The objects we placed into space are also drawn.

Please click on the image to enlarge