A community in Bloom

Derry Journal

A collaborative mural project, ‘A Community In Bloom,’ created by St Brigid's College and Derry street art collective Peaball, was unveiled in Skeoge on Wednesday.

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00:00yeah my name is Donald I'm from I represent people street art collective

00:10here in Derry we're here in celebration they highlight the fact that all these

00:16young people put some great work on their community mural here as you can

00:20see behind we got some workshops in the lead-up and got some of their ideas and

00:24then we developed it alongside them and got them to help us work on this piece

00:28here behind us which just sort of livened up and made it a bit more welcoming as

00:32you enter this area

00:37great some bridges are great we've done a few projects we've been doing this for

00:41quite a while so we can't do it without the participants because it is a true

00:45collaboration we draw the ideas out of those guys and that's how we get the

00:49content for what it is so it reflects back it's their mural they own it you know

00:53they designed it and executed as well we're just here to facilitate them and

00:57given that experience

01:04well it develops over a number of weeks really so we don't try and rush it you know

01:09the idea we like the idea to come naturally I suppose so once we give the

01:15kids a bit of a brief of what we want from them they're great we're coming for the

01:19ideas so a few weeks of doing that and then a few weeks they execute as you can

01:23see it's it's quite big so we were quite lucky whether well our campus was on the

01:28right side was on our side for this one

01:30it's great to see it I mean it's been completed now for a few weeks so it's

01:37great to see that it's it's untouched as well and if you had seen what was there

01:41before there's a lot of negative stuff on it it was pretty unsightly and you know

01:46first impressions came everything so we enter a community like this which is a new

01:50community as well so that's where the young people give us the idea a community in bloom it's a

01:54growing community as well so great to see it brilliant to see it untouched and the young

01:59people should be really proud of themselves to be honest

02:01yes surely I am councillor Amanda Clark I am one of the Sinn Féin representatives for the area

02:07can you tell me what's it like seeing in Nairobi and Unveld today and you're bringing a bit of passes

02:11have you there coming around it's fantastic because this corner here is always associated with vandalism

02:16you know and a lot of times things have been kicked down and burnt so to see this here

02:19um the Gairds and the fellows using their initiative and using their imagination and

02:24bring just a wee positive message to that corner it's fantastic like it's welcoming too for the

02:28community what's it like seeing the collaboration between you know growing hours with people and

02:33getting that million school looks and forces in well it's always nice to have the local schools you

02:38know these wings here they're our future you know they're our future political reps our

02:43future doctors and nurses and things like that so it's always nice to have them taking pride

02:47a place and um just providing a positive vibe in the area but it was lovely to see people bringing

02:52out the creativity as well you know people that the wings were thinking they weren't creative and

02:56then the reef is the same when they saw you know their their wall over there which was great to see

03:17from the air on by the way you know your house and then the reef is the same way that the reef has been

03:33ed it's really nice to see people bringing in the air the way that the reef has been the same way that the reef has been

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