![]() Many of the children had not seen Lego bricks before,” said Tyler-McTighe. “They donated 50kg of Lego bricks which we divided amongst ourselves and carried in our suitcases. The simple lines they wrote were strung together by her in a poem on each topic with profound meanings and formed part of an exhibition at ICCR on Friday.īarrow-based Lego animation-creator Tori Davis held workshops at Future Hope, using toy bricks donated by the Lego Foundation in Denmark. We discussed what colour, shape and texture silence and kindness could have, what food each would be like, where they could be found…” said Davis. They came up with ‘silence’ and ‘kindness’. ![]() “I asked them for topics they wanted to write on. Kate Davis, a poet, did creative writing workshops with children. Rapper JD and singer-producer Swerve have jammed with local classical musicians and recorded in a studio. Representatives from DropZone, a youth charity, and Women’s Community Matters, a charity for women, visited women’s and children’s charities and a school for slum and street children. Connections were also discussed between them and the students and staff at Barrow’s special school, George Hastwell. Members of associate company Open Theatre ran workshops for 12 organisations in the city, like Manovikas Kendra and Mentaid, which look after and teach young people with learning disabilities and autism, and their teachers. Now they are here on a nine-day visit,” said Kaushik Dutta, director of Song of Soul. Instead of jute connecting us, we are now connecting with Kolkata in a new way – through creativity and art forms.” ![]() Though the mill has long shut, we still have streets with links to the jute trade, like Calcutta Street and Jute Road, close to the jute sheds,” said Daniel Tyler-McTighe, BarrowFull’s creative director. “We have a shared history about jute being supplied from here to the Barrow & Calcutta Jute Company, founded in 1870.
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