We’ve recently been successful in a bid with the fabulous Knowle West Media Centre to deliver a new project as part of the Bristol Green 2015 Neighbourhood Arts Partnership.
‘The Forgotten Toys Compendium’ invites people to see junk in a fresh way by tapping into the shared experiences of play across different generations and cultures. It creates new invitations, pretexts, tools and spaces for social interaction, by starting with the very personal & then connecting up with neighbours and neighbourhoods. The project will work with lead local residents on a journey of social archaeology to rediscover and repurpose the playable gems hidden among the dusty piles of forgotten “junk” lurking in people’s attics, garages and sheds, shining a light on the latent social and cultural potential of these objects through the lens of collaborative play. These playable artefacts- from rusty bike wheels & old sledges to bent hoola-hoops, dusty console controllers and forgotten Furbies will be reborn through story-telling and active play.
You can find out more and see the stories unfold at http://forgotten.toys
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