Steeling Skies
Steeling Skies is an art and community engagement project designed to feed into a design strategy for the Shiregreen estate, Sheffield. The project runs from June – October 2009.
The Steeling Skies project will involve rednile working dynamically with the community in creative sessions and events that will explore the Shiregreen estate. During this time rednile will gather information and ideas to feed into the creative direction and design of major public realm improvements planned for the estate. rednile will also deliver temporary artwork and interventions within the Shiregreen estate that will be inspired by the information gathered during sessions and their own research into Shiregreen. Steeling Skies will also raise the profile of Shiregreen with an ethos and approach of ‘looking upwards and looking again at your environment to vision new spaces and look forward.’
The rednile artists will be working with residents from the local community and using creative activities to highlight issues raised, discuss future ideas and capture any ideas for the design of the new street scheme.
All works made by residents will be showcased at the Summer Community Festival on Friday 21st August at Hartley Brook Primary school. The Steeling Skies programme will end with a celebration session for the community in September including a unique piece of temporary artwork and a large scale viewing platform to look onwards and upwards towards the construction of the new spaces and features for the estate.
There will be a diverse range of creative activities that include: photography, urban camping artwork, star gazing, cloud watching and model making.
Events include:
22/23 July - Demonstration Area event: join in with rednile to make a unique piece of art and input your thoughts on Shiregreen
21 August - Summer Community Festival: exhibition of ideas from artists and community- consultation on the design and artwork plans for Shiregreen
September - Celebration Session: showcase of temporary artwork and sculpture day – come along and build a viewing platform, tower or bridge!
For further information or to come along, join in a session and contribute to the design of your area: email info@rednile.org