ARCADE
Photo: Matt Cooper

Creative Youth

A partnership with the Pupil Referral Service

A partnership with Scarborough Pupil Referral Service, which caters for children and young people who aren’t able to attend a mainstream school.

Academic Year 2023-2024

Photo: Stew Baxter

January - March 2024

Working under the creative team’s artistic guidance the young people responded to their environment in both natural and urban areas, were encouraged to engage in creative play. The group attended day trips to multiple outdoor places, including beautiful locations in The North York Moors National Parks where they took part in fun conservation tasks to help benefit the local population of Turtle Doves.

September - December 2023

The Velvet Crab was an exhibition of visual artworks include collage, stop motion, photography and film.

From Sep - Dec 23, the young people took inspiration from the place where they lived, exploring their surroundings out and about in Scarborough in a series of weekly creative workshops led by visual artist Anna Bean.

Artist Anna Bean

Anna is a Hull-based visual artist who uses a range of materials and processes including photography, film making, collage, animation and printing. She is interested how our identity can be formed by the persistent memories of elements from our cultural past such as of television, cinema, theatre, art and music and how this resonates with our being and existence. Her practice also includes creating scenery, costumes, props and characters for immersive art installations and cabaret events collaborating with performers.

Supporters & Funders

Funded by Scarborough Pupil Referral service, North Yorkshire Council, Youth Music, North York Moors Trust, Two Ridings Community Foundation and public funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England.