Take Action Tuesday

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Take Action Tuesday

Take Action Tuesday took place in the gorgeous Cooper’s Hall at Bristol Old Vic. After everyone arrived and grabbed their breakfast and coffee, we began the day with an energising game led by Clara. In groups, the young people had to work together and use their bodies to form an object. After that, Megan Clark-Bagnall arrived to facilitate a Social Action masterclass. Megan demonstrated inspiring ways to blend creativity and social activism which would help the young people later down the line with their projects.

After this, Lucy Cox came from Stemettes to educate us all on coding and web development. The young people played “jam sandwich”; a game which encourages thinking in code. You have to programme the ‘robot’ to jam a sandwich, giving specific instructions, which is more challenging than you would think!

Following lunch, we had two workshops simultaneously; podcasting with Dot and City Photography with Megan. In Dot’s podcasting workshop, Dot showed us inspiring podcast examples and encouraged the young people to think about its different elements and what they liked and disliked. Then, the young people split up into their groups and planned a podcast around their social action issues. They were able to record their podcast and experiment with what a final draft could look like. Meanwhile, Meg took the other half of the group to shoot photography around Bristol Old Vic, such as the Harbourside. Meg explained how to use the cameras before leaving and then encouraged the young people to explore the local area and take pictures of what attracted them. Throughout the day we linked all of the content of the workshops around subjects that the young people were passionate about and wanted to ‘Take Action’ on.