City of 1000 Stories: Outline presents a "Drop in " Event at Birmingham Book Festival

Friday, 12 October 2012

Outline presents a "Drop in " Event at Birmingham Book Festival

The 1000 stories team worked with members of the public attending the Birmingham book Festival to create the "flying pages" of the book of Birmingham Installation.

Participants were encouraged to contribute in a variety of ways from making a freehand drawing that expressed something about themselves, to making a quick rubbing of their postcode telling us about the areas they travelled in from.

Some participants traced images from famous Birmingham landmarks, others made more personal contributions revealing more details about their stories in visual form.

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What we are about

The idea is to look at Birmingham as a rich and diverse collection of stories. Whether it is about the past or the future, imaginary or factual, realistic or fantastical, how does your story begin and develop? And how can it be told?

Here at Outline our mission is to develop a greater understanding and use of drawing as a driver of rich experimentation and exploration. Everyone can draw, everyone can make their mark, everyone could leave a trace, and therefore everyone can tell their story, or their part of the story that makes up the book of Birmingham.

We are planning to develop these ideas through projects with their own students and more importantly to link with community groups of all persuasions so that some of the 1000 stories that Birmingham generates can be told through the visual arts.