Manchester- Whitworth Art Gallery Project

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Takes place at various times by arrangement.

Start date: As soon as possible after October half term (school).

Age of Mentees: 7-16

Duration: 90 mins

This is a brand new project! We are linking up with the Whitworth Art Gallery who are running a project with artists and groups of vulnerable young people from the Leo Kelly Centre. We need a group of determined and mature University students to mentor some of these young people and help them out 1-1 during the project. Many opportunities lie in shadowing artists who are conducting therapeutic and investigative work using art to explore themes surrounding identity. Any artists interested in community or hospital work in the future should get in touch if they are interested in any aspect of the mentoring or shadowing. Students are needed who are in their 2nd or final year (also inc Postgraduates) from visual, media, art, music and creative writing/English background are welcomed as all forms of art are being explored. Opportunities also exist for students from sociology and psychology backgrounds who are interested in research methods and helping out with analysing the effect of the project (in association with the University of Central Lancashire who are conducting the research). The day and time of these opportunities is flexible

Criteria for joining this project:

10 places are initially available.

You will have to register as a mentor (to register click on the "Register" button on the sidebar to the left of this page).

You will need to satisfy the following training criteria:

Attending one of the two training options organised by ReachOut!

You will need to satisfy Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) Disclosure criteria. When you log in (use the Log In button on the sidebar to the left) after registering as a mentor you can follow the progress of your CRB application in your "home area." You can follow the navigational links to check how many places are still available for this project and if there are places still available, sign up for this or other projects.

You will need to have read our Mission statement which sets out our overall objectives and sets out the values which are fundamental to the project and the relevant ReachOut! policies and procedures. You will declare that you have read all these documents.

You will have to have (digitally) signed up to our Mentoring Agreement.