An Interview with AmyWhat songs do you sing?
It's a Long Way To Tipparary
How many years have youbeen playing music?
I've always loved music,I started singing when
What music do you like?
Who encouraged you to sing?
I liked making myown Superhero
- Jack -
The young people visiting Oxford'sStory Museum for creative
fun and inspirationThe Artists
Suzy PriorPhotographer and filmmaker
www.suzyprior.comCharlie Henry
Artistwww.charliehenry.co.uk
Lizzy McBainVisual artist and theatre maker
www.underconstructiontheatre.com
Jason GoodallPhotographer and filmmaker
Amie JohnsonProject Coordinator
and Magazine Designer
IntroductionChapter One - The Superheroes create their worldsChapter Two - The Superheroes design costumes
Chapter Three - The Superhero's first missionChapter Four - The Superheroes meet their match
Chapter Five - The Superheroes take flightChapter Six - The Superheroes celebrate
ExtrasA trip to Oxford's Story Museum
A trip to Oxford's Pitt Rivers MuseumWhat The Superheroes Say
Arts Award DiscoverWith thanks to...
The ArtistsWhat Superheroes do in their spare time
Contents
Summer 2014 saw an exciting project taking place at the WitneyEarly Intervention Hub. Each week a different professional
artist provided a creative, inspirational and hands on workshoparound the theme of superheroes and produced fantastic work with the young people. Each young person involved had the opportunity to gain a Discover Arts Award too!
A fantastic project set up and supported by a strongpartnership between Yellow Submarine and OYAP Trust.
Artist Charlie Henry providing a Storytelling workshop for
the young people.
Artist Lizzy McBain helping youngpeople with their drama skills.
The young people enjoyed dressingup for a superhero photo shoot.
Chapter One ... The Superheroes Create Their WorldsArtist Suzy Prior helped the young people to create homes for their
superheroes using miniature worlds. This was achieved by lots ofmaterials being used to design miniature worlds within a box.
India and Rachael's superhero worldwas creatively inspired by the
hills of HollywoodAmy designed a cool world for her
superhero, reflecting a winterwonderland.
Michael and Sharne's Danger Junglehosts scary inhabitants who chase
away any villains who dare to attack.
Kyle's Grave Forest.I love doing miniature worlds
because it is fun
Chapter Two ... The Superheroes Design Their Costumes Using colourful crafting materials, bright fabric pens and their own imaginations, the young people created their superhero
costumes and masks to hide their true identities!
I really like arts and crafts- Amy -
Chapter Three ... The Superhero's First Mission The superheroescreated their firstbattle scene with a
baddie throughstorytelling. The
artist, Charlie Henry,encouraged the
young people to actout their story as it
was read back tothem. The aim wasfor young people to
explore theircharacters and
create a story whichshows them using
their powers todefeat a villain.
Africa Zap and the Under Water AdventureThis is a story about how one superhero was saved by many...Africa Zap was a power8l superhero who could camouflage
herself and blend into her environment so she became invisible.She could see patterns, swirls and glow fish that no one else
could see. She lived in the h? desert in Australia, the sun was ash? as 27 degrees, sometimes as h? as 30, and sometimes itreached 40 degrees. Africa Zap was afraid of anything h?, shehated the sun because sometimes it would show her shadows.
And she absolutely hated volcanoes and h? sand, unless she usedstepping stones to walk on.
One day a lioness called her on a walkie-beep roar beep roar -which Africa Zap understood, there was a jelly fish trapped underthe sea. So Africa Zap ran into the water and transformed into a
dolphin. She dived into the sea and swam with her fins. Sheswam for 20 miles until she reached the jelly fish. But suddenly ascary shark arrived. The shark had really sharp teeth, super sharp
fins and spikes and incredibly sharp eyes. Africa Zap felt reallyscared. She was really scared, all alone in the deep blue sea with
no one around for help, or so she thought... Suddenly out of the blue, the deep blue sea, she heard the noiseof bubbles and singing and slowly a yellow shape began to rise
up, slowly getting closer. It was the yellow submarine. And luckilythe submarine was 8ll of superheroes. One by one they cameout. First of all Frezo came out and he froze the shark, then
Charmed came out and she turned everyone (except the shark)invisible, which con8sed and scared the shark because he couldstill smell everyone. Then Rob? came out. "Go away" he shoutedlike a bull. "Leave her alone, and don't come back!" Then Browncame out bravely and shouted with his HUGE VOICE "GO AWAY".The shark felt a bit hungry but n? hungry enough to stay. Brown
shouted in an even bigger voice "GO A-WAY!" The super heroSn?ty Tom g? out of the submarine, and he sneezed
aaaattccchhhoooooo! His sn? splattered all over the shark. Theshark tried to swim away but Tom's sn? was so heavy that he
started to sink with smelly, heavy bogies. Then Super Kyle toldeveryone to get into the submarine, and he raced it back to the
surface, swimming at super-fast speed and making sure thesubmarine g? back safely. Once they landed on the beach
everyone went safely home and they lived happily, ever a^er.Story by: Kyle, Rachael, Jacob, Ethan, Sharne and Jonathon.
Chapter Four ... The Superheroes Meet Their Match Artist Lizzy McBain used
drama with the youngpeople to encourage them
to create and explore villaincharacters. The young
people dressed up theirvillains using craft
materials and newspapersand through drama thesuperheroes battled against their villains.
Today I learnt a new word: Villain
- Emily -
We had a photographer come in and we took the
picture from all the way up. Wedressed up as superheroes, I
was a fairy pirate. Then we lay onthe floor and posed so we were
flying. I felt excited.- Emily -
Chapter Five ... The Superheroes Take Flight
Jason Goodall, thephotographer,
helped the youngpeople to fly.
Chapter Six ... The Superheroes Celebrate Suzy Prior ran a light
graffiti workshop allowingthe young people to
celebrate their last week as superheroes.
I felt happy because it was really fun
doing the lights, you makedifferent patterns.
- Rachael -
I made light graffiti out of lights, I was holding them, running
around and going crazy.- Emily -
I had fun with my friends.
- Emily -
I have learnt about different types of arts such as acting, photo editing, how to
decorate a miniature world and collaging.- Kyle -
I enjoyed the storytelling most because I got to make
my own character : Africa Zap!- Sharne -
I feel happywhen I do art
- Amy -
I had fun with my friends.
- Emily -
I have learnt about different types of arts such as acting, photo editing, how to
decorate a miniature world and collaging.- Kyle -
I enjoyed the storytelling most because I got to make
my own character : Africa Zap!- Sharne -
I feel happywhen I do art
- Amy -
A Trip To Oxford's Story Museum The young people went on
a trip to Oxford's StoryMuseum to learn moreabout storytelling and
creating excitingcharacters.
In the Story Museum we:explored the different
themed rooms, dressedup as different charactersin the throne room, madeup different names fromthe selection and sat on
the throne while ournames were played,
listened to stories in thestory exchange.We give a Yellow
Submarine thumbs up!
My favourite part of the story
museum wasdressing up and
sitting on the throne.
The Oxford Story Museum, Rochester House, 42 Pembroke
Street, Oxford, OX1 1BPwww.storymuseum.org,uk
Museums are fun!My favourite room in the
story museum was Narnia.
To create new weird andwonderful names the
young people were given cards which had random words on to produce a
character. These names were then played to themwhilst they sat on a throne
as their character.
A Trip To Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum At Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum the young people were challenged to go on anadventure hunt around the musuem, with the aim of finding the animals and
objects that were part of its summer carnival parade. The young peoplediscovered enormous elephant skeletons, learnt about mischievous monkeys,
found carnival clothes and discovered how to play the drums.
Pitt Rivers MuseumSouth Parks Road
OxfordOX1 3PP
www.prm.ox.ac.uk
We give a YellowSubmarine thumbs up!
I liked the masks and pulling faces
What The Superheroes Say... My favouritething to do
was theminiature
world art. Itwas fun.- India -
I learnt that youcan make photosout of paper andmaterial to makean action picture.
- Emily -
I discovered that I like dressing up,masks and seeing the photos at the
end of the session.- Jacob -
I enjoy storytelling and I learnt that Icould make costumes from paper.
It was fun!- Jonathon -
The artist taught me how to write stories and I learnt how to act.- Rachael -
Lizzy taught us how to do a freeze frame. It was fantastic!- Kyle -
What is an Arts Award? How has this projectbenefited from Arts
Award Discover?An Arts Award gives young
people the chance to discover, experience andbe inspired by the arts.Young people get to becreative and develop skills in the art forms
they choose.What is Discover?
Arts Award Discover has three parts:
1. Discover; young peoplediscover the arts around
them and take part indifferent art forms.
2. Find out; young peoplelearn about differentartists and their work.3. Share; young people
share their Arts Awards experience with others.
Arts Award Discover hasenabled young peopleinvolved in this project
to discover and experiencedifferent art forms andshare their experienceswithin this magazine. Each young person hasachieved an Arts Award
Discover certificate.Where can I find more
information aboutArts Awards?
For more information onArts Awards please visit
their website:www.artsaward.org.uk
Young People Who Achieved Their Arts Award Discover
India Kyle Amy
Rachael Charlie Emily
Jonathon Jack Jacob
OYAPYellowSubmarine
WitneyIntervention Hub
Yellow Submarine are asmall award-winningcharity which prides
itself on giving some ofthe most disadvantaged
people in Oxfordshirecon�dence,
independence and asense of self-worth.Yellow Submarineencourages both
children and adults withlearning disabilities to�nd friendships, buildcon�dence, learn new
skills and receive anenjoyable and
memorable experience.www.yellowsubmarine.
org.uk
OYAP Trust specialisesin working with the
hardest to reachyoung people in
Oxfordshire. Theirgoal is to introduceyoung people to art
activities and nurturetheir talents. OYAP
o�er educational andinspirational projects
that raise con�dence in young people and can
help them achievequali�cations, such as
the Arts Award.Inspiration, motivationand accreditation for
the next generation ofyoung artists.
www.oyap.org.uk
Witney interventionhub is a base fordirect work with
children, young peopleand families locally. It
is also a venueprovided for other
organisations to workwith young people.Youth sessions are
delivered here in theevenings, at weekendsand throughout school
holidays. The hubo�ers high quality
early intervention andspecialist services tothose with additionaland complex needs.
Trust
OCCFinancially supported by:
artsworkOxfordshire County Council funds short
break opportunities for disabled children and young people to spend time away
from their families and have fun; they also provide respite for families, giving them a
break from their caring responsibilities.
artswork’s mission is to place the arts and cultural practice at the heart of work with,
for and by children and young people – particularly those deemed to be at risk – and to champion, lead and facilitate high
quality work led by artists and arts and cultural organisations .
The young people visiting Oxford'sStory Museum for creative
fun and inspirationThe Artists
Suzy PriorPhotographer and filmmaker
www.suzyprior.comCharlie Henry
Artistwww.charliehenry.co.uk
Lizzy McBainVisual artist and theatre maker
www.underconstructiontheatre.com
Jason GoodallPhotographer and filmmaker
Amie JohnsonProject Coordinator
and Magazine Designer
We bakeSuperhero cakesusing this recipe
------------------------Ingredients:
175g butter175g caster sugar
175g self-raising flour4 eggs (beaten)
1 tsp vanilla extractMethod:
Prepare the oven to 180 degrees Cor 155 if you're using a fan ovenPrepare your muffin tin with 10
cupcake casesBeat the sugar and butter in a
bowl until soft and creamyBeat in the eggs a little at a timeGently stir in the vanilla extract
and self-raising flourSpoon the mixture into cupcakecases and bake for 20 minutes
Leave to cool then top with yourfavourite cake decorations
Our Superheroes chose chocolate!
Art makes me happy- Jacob -
An Interview with AmyWhat songs do you sing?
It's a Long Way To Tippararyand Do a Deer
How many years have youbeen playing music?
I've always loved music,I started singing when
I was 5What music do you like?
JLSWho encouraged you to sing?
My friends
WePerform Together- Rachael -
I liked making myown Superhero
- Jack -