Projects

I'm Ledbury

23/01/10
Throughout October 2009, Pieces of Sky ran a competition for one intergenerational project to be documented absolutely free. The project had to be innovative, fresh and truly benefit people from across the generations. We chose Ledbury Library Services as the lucky beneficiary. We’re assisting them and their partners with a participatory project to explore what it means to be a teenager today, and what it meant to be a teenager 50 years ago. Have times, and indeed issues changed? Is life harder or easier today? How has 50 years changed us? The project is developing well and gathering a head of steam, but there’s more. There’s ‘I'm Ledbury’.

An intergenerational project needs to be tied to the community in some fundamental way if its going to work, so to help make that happen we have developed a mini-project to pump-prime the wider activity. We’ve called it ‘I'm Ledbury’. It will be a celebration of the people and characters that make Ledbury the place it is. After all, a town is just a shell without the people who make it what it is.

With our cameras in hand we’ll be capturing the faces of ‘I'm Ledbury’ for all to see and for all time. The images will be given over as a contribution to the historical and archival record of the town and its people as they are today. And in the process we’re promoting the intergenerational project to those people (and their friends) to ensure that it’s not just ‘the usual suspects’ who get involved. When we commit to a project we like to get stuck in!