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Press Coverage

wearpeace10 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:16:19 +0000

Recent articles about Wearpeace and Guns into goods can be found at the following links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9111000/9111106.stm

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=18331

Drawing with Light- Science event

wearpeace10 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:38:03 +0000

Artists Kyle Saxton & Marcus Ali (Raggaphoto) ran an activity during the Guns into Goods event at Stretford High School. Using various light sources including torches, flashlights, light sabres, strip lights and cold cathodes they enabled the audience to draw with light. These are some of the images.

Manchester Science Festival

wearpeace10 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:41:23 +0000

We have won a Manchester Beacon Sciene festival award as part of the Manchester Science Festival and we are running an Family Event at Streford High School on the 23rd of October.

Inspired by the Salford Scientist James Joule, this event is a combination of science experiments, art workshop and exhibition all based around the transformation of metals from one state to another.

The event builds upon an existing project run by University of Salford in partnership with CARISMA which has created badges from melted down guns to create a Wearpeace brand to address issues around gang related crimes.

The Experiment

Vacuum Evapouration – Various metals will be heated by an electrical current to produce a vapourised gas, that when cooled creates a metal coating. The audience will be able to select and create objects to be coated in a metal film

Art Workshops

Working with Product designers, workshop participants can have a go a creating moulds and casting using metals to create new objects that they can take away

This event is part of Manchester Science Festival and has been supported through the Manchester Beacon Science Festival Community Awards 2010

Places at the workshops are limited, to ensure a place book online at

http://gunstogoods.eventbrite.com

Two inches to the right

wearpeace10 — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:51:02 +0000

This is a link to a brilliant animation by a 3rd year Salford Uni graphics student Matt Frodsham. He has used a mixture of hand rotoscoped and 3D elements created in Photoshop, Cinema 4D, After Effects & the odd scrap of paper to create an animation to illustrate a poem in response to street violence.

A bit about the poem from Mat Lloyd:

“I wrote the poem on a canvas with a marker pen the morning after I was attacked.

The night before I was in my local park on the opening day of the skate park I’d helped get built, it was nearly midnight. We’d organised a DJ to play the day out in a marquee and I just popped out to take a leak. In my drunken state I was stumbling to find a bush when I heard, and felt, a sort of ‘boink’ sound. I knew I’d been hit on the back of the head, and I knew it wasn’t with a fist. I don’t remember much else other than being back at the marquee with a bleeding head.

I was very lucky as a number of my friends and other revelers had spotted me being kicked on the floor and ran over to drag me out. For that I am very grateful.

Living near London, the poem has never been retired and still appears in my performance sets. With youth violence seemingly growing year on year, the poem is as relevant now as it was when I wrote it. People blame hip hop culture, movies, video games, parents, the education system, unemployment, the list goes on. I don’t have the answer.

The saddest thing about “2 Inches to the Right” is all to often, someone from the crowd comes to speak to me after I leave the stage and tells me of their friend who died in a similar situation. The poem gives them hope that some may listen, and think twice.” – Mat Lloyd

Close up of the badge

wearpeace10 — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:47:14 +0000

This is what the badge looks like. We have 40 so far…production is starting on the next 1000.

Dispatches film Crew

wearpeace10 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:51:32 +0000

Craig from the foundry was the star of the show!

Melting down the guns

wearpeace10 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:59:30 +0000

The prototype Wearpeace logos have finally been cast in gun metal. Last friday we went to the foundry to see the process. We were accompanied by a film crew from Crocodile Media who were making a Dispatches documentary for Channel 4 about Guns.

Fashion Styling

wearpeace10 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:54:52 +0000

Images created by Students on the BA Fashion degree at Salford. Students created images in response to the WearPeace Idea.

PeaceWeek -The OSBA’s

wearpeace10 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:00:25 +0000

The third Manchester Peace Awards – the OSBAs – took place on March 13th at the Ramada Piccadilly hotel in the city centre. The Outstanding Social Behaviour Awards recognise and celebrate individuals from the community who work for peace and for the benefit of young people, or who have made personal progress. It was a glittering occasion with over 200 guests, including the Lord Mayor Cllr. Alison Firth, Tony Lloyd MP, The High Sheriff of Manchester Christian Wewer and GMP Chief Constable Peter Fahy, all there to honour the finalists and winners of the 6 awards. A special award was also given by Carisma and the High Sheriff to Helen Gatenby, Director of the M13 Youth Project for “Outstanding Service to Young People”. http://www.osbas.co.uk/

The University of Salford sponsered an award and WearPeace was represented through a display in the drinks reception area. All the people who attended the award ceremony had chance to view the designs created by Manchester and Salford Students and see the latest prototypes of the Wearpeace logo.

Jewellery Designs

wearpeace10 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:46:33 +0000

Jewellery students from Manchester College, Northenden Campus have taken the Wearpeace logo as a starting point for jewellery designs that respond to the anti gun crime message. We hope to take some of these designs and turn them into bracelet charms. Thanks to contribution from Rebecca Chappell, Lisa Martell, Samantha Thorley, Sophie Norton, Gill Spooner and Emily Hunter.