This year’s Dearne Community Arts’ Festival’s community art project has been to create 16 selfie boards which celebrate local community groups and key locations. Some of these were on show at the arts’ festival last week and others are now in situ (some outdoors and some indoors.) We hope to have a selfie board trail launch soon when the last board is installed in the new ‘Heart of Goldthorpe’ Town Square.
This project has been a collaboration with artist Lydia Caprani (who worked with us on the Railway Embankment mural and elephant sculptures) and storyteller Rebecca Dye, who recorded the stories of people from each group or location. Thanks to the wonders of QR codes, each selfie board links to these audio files where you can hear about the groups, what they do and what these locations mean to local people. Check out the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival website for further details of this project.
Here are some photos of the selfie boards on display last week and the selfie boards children made to take home with them:
