Youngsters are set to make a splash in Wapping putting their views on a wall near you about social justice.
Members of Wapping Youth football club are kicking an idea about painting a street mural celebrating what the NHS has done during the pandemic crisis.
Workshops in street art were run for club members earlier this month by Paint the Change arts organisation to develop their creative skills, which they are being put to good use on September 5.
“Our young people who have things to say wanted to brighten up the streets,” Wapping Youth FC founder Nahimul Islam said.
Our work with Paint the Change has helped them think through the issues that are important to them.”
The youngsters get guidance from professional artists and learn to translate their ideas into visual art to develop “a sense of self” and sense of community to become active participants in their neighbourhood “to fuel change”.
A second mural is also planned next to Bethnal Green’s Rich Mix cultural hub, being unveiled in October.
The Paint the Change organisation which has creating 40 murals on five continents since 2015 with “social justice” as their theme, invited people in Bromley-by-Bow to nominate local folk heroes and created their portraits on the Linc community centre last October. The portraits showed Dizzee Rascal’s music producer Aaron Williams who went to the centre as a youngster, Heather Peirce who died in 2018 aged 88 who fought against anti-social behaviour, football coach Senie Emmanuel and Spotlight youth service founder Helal Ahmed who grew up in the area.
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