An Interview with AmyWhat songs do you sing?

It's a Long Way To Tipparary

How many years have youbeen playing music?

I've always loved music,I started singing when

What music do you like?

Who encouraged you to sing?

I liked making myown Superhero

- Jack -

The young people visiting Oxford'sStory Museum for creative

fun and inspirationThe Artists

Suzy PriorPhotographer and filmmaker

www.suzyprior.comCharlie Henry

Artistwww.charliehenry.co.uk

Lizzy McBainVisual artist and theatre maker

www.underconstructiontheatre.com

Jason GoodallPhotographer and filmmaker

Amie JohnsonProject Coordinator

and Magazine Designer

IntroductionChapter One - The Superheroes create their worldsChapter Two - The Superheroes design costumes

Chapter Three - The Superhero's first missionChapter Four - The Superheroes meet their match

Chapter Five - The Superheroes take flightChapter Six - The Superheroes celebrate

ExtrasA trip to Oxford's Story Museum

A trip to Oxford's Pitt Rivers MuseumWhat The Superheroes Say

Arts Award DiscoverWith thanks to...

The ArtistsWhat Superheroes do in their spare time

Contents

Summer 2014 saw an exciting project taking place at the WitneyEarly Intervention Hub. Each week a different professional

artist provided a creative, inspirational and hands on workshoparound the theme of superheroes and produced fantastic work with the young people. Each young person involved had the opportunity to gain a Discover Arts Award too!

A fantastic project set up and supported by a strongpartnership between Yellow Submarine and OYAP Trust.

Artist Charlie Henry providing a Storytelling workshop for

the young people.

Artist Lizzy McBain helping youngpeople with their drama skills.

The young people enjoyed dressingup for a superhero photo shoot.

Chapter One ... The Superheroes Create Their WorldsArtist Suzy Prior helped the young people to create homes for their

superheroes using miniature worlds. This was achieved by lots ofmaterials being used to design miniature worlds within a box.

India and Rachael's superhero worldwas creatively inspired by the

hills of HollywoodAmy designed a cool world for her

superhero, reflecting a winterwonderland.

Michael and Sharne's Danger Junglehosts scary inhabitants who chase

away any villains who dare to attack.

Kyle's Grave Forest.I love doing miniature worlds

because it is fun

Chapter Two ... The Superheroes Design Their Costumes Using colourful crafting materials, bright fabric pens and their own imaginations, the young people created their superhero

costumes and masks to hide their true identities!

I really like arts and crafts- Amy -

Chapter Three ... The Superhero's First Mission The superheroescreated their firstbattle scene with a

baddie throughstorytelling. The

artist, Charlie Henry,encouraged the

young people to actout their story as it

was read back tothem. The aim wasfor young people to

explore theircharacters and

create a story whichshows them using

their powers todefeat a villain.

Africa Zap and the Under Water AdventureThis is a story about how one superhero was saved by many...Africa Zap was a power8l superhero who could camouflage

herself and blend into her environment so she became invisible.She could see patterns, swirls and glow fish that no one else

could see. She lived in the h? desert in Australia, the sun was ash? as 27 degrees, sometimes as h? as 30, and sometimes itreached 40 degrees. Africa Zap was afraid of anything h?, shehated the sun because sometimes it would show her shadows.

And she absolutely hated volcanoes and h? sand, unless she usedstepping stones to walk on.

One day a lioness called her on a walkie-beep roar beep roar -which Africa Zap understood, there was a jelly fish trapped underthe sea. So Africa Zap ran into the water and transformed into a

dolphin. She dived into the sea and swam with her fins. Sheswam for 20 miles until she reached the jelly fish. But suddenly ascary shark arrived. The shark had really sharp teeth, super sharp

fins and spikes and incredibly sharp eyes. Africa Zap felt reallyscared. She was really scared, all alone in the deep blue sea with

no one around for help, or so she thought... Suddenly out of the blue, the deep blue sea, she heard the noiseof bubbles and singing and slowly a yellow shape began to rise

up, slowly getting closer. It was the yellow submarine. And luckilythe submarine was 8ll of superheroes. One by one they cameout. First of all Frezo came out and he froze the shark, then

Charmed came out and she turned everyone (except the shark)invisible, which con8sed and scared the shark because he couldstill smell everyone. Then Rob? came out. "Go away" he shoutedlike a bull. "Leave her alone, and don't come back!" Then Browncame out bravely and shouted with his HUGE VOICE "GO AWAY".The shark felt a bit hungry but n? hungry enough to stay. Brown

shouted in an even bigger voice "GO A-WAY!" The super heroSn?ty Tom g? out of the submarine, and he sneezed

aaaattccchhhoooooo! His sn? splattered all over the shark. Theshark tried to swim away but Tom's sn? was so heavy that he

started to sink with smelly, heavy bogies. Then Super Kyle toldeveryone to get into the submarine, and he raced it back to the

surface, swimming at super-fast speed and making sure thesubmarine g? back safely. Once they landed on the beach

everyone went safely home and they lived happily, ever a^er.Story by: Kyle, Rachael, Jacob, Ethan, Sharne and Jonathon.

Chapter Four ... The Superheroes Meet Their Match Artist Lizzy McBain used

drama with the youngpeople to encourage them

to create and explore villaincharacters. The young

people dressed up theirvillains using craft

materials and newspapersand through drama thesuperheroes battled against their villains.

Today I learnt a new word: Villain

- Emily -

We had a photographer come in and we took the

picture from all the way up. Wedressed up as superheroes, I

was a fairy pirate. Then we lay onthe floor and posed so we were

flying. I felt excited.- Emily -

Chapter Five ... The Superheroes Take Flight

Jason Goodall, thephotographer,

helped the youngpeople to fly.

Chapter Six ... The Superheroes Celebrate Suzy Prior ran a light

graffiti workshop allowingthe young people to

celebrate their last week as superheroes.

I felt happy because it was really fun

doing the lights, you makedifferent patterns.

- Rachael -

I made light graffiti out of lights, I was holding them, running

around and going crazy.- Emily -

I had fun with my friends.

- Emily -

I have learnt about different types of arts such as acting, photo editing, how to

decorate a miniature world and collaging.- Kyle -

I enjoyed the storytelling most because I got to make

my own character : Africa Zap!- Sharne -

I feel happywhen I do art

- Amy -

I had fun with my friends.

- Emily -

I have learnt about different types of arts such as acting, photo editing, how to

decorate a miniature world and collaging.- Kyle -

I enjoyed the storytelling most because I got to make

my own character : Africa Zap!- Sharne -

I feel happywhen I do art

- Amy -

A Trip To Oxford's Story Museum The young people went on

a trip to Oxford's StoryMuseum to learn moreabout storytelling and

creating excitingcharacters.

In the Story Museum we:explored the different

themed rooms, dressedup as different charactersin the throne room, madeup different names fromthe selection and sat on

the throne while ournames were played,

listened to stories in thestory exchange.We give a Yellow

Submarine thumbs up!

My favourite part of the story

museum wasdressing up and

sitting on the throne.

The Oxford Story Museum, Rochester House, 42 Pembroke

Street, Oxford, OX1 1BPwww.storymuseum.org,uk

Museums are fun!My favourite room in the

story museum was Narnia.

To create new weird andwonderful names the

young people were given cards which had random words on to produce a

character. These names were then played to themwhilst they sat on a throne

as their character.

A Trip To Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum At Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum the young people were challenged to go on anadventure hunt around the musuem, with the aim of finding the animals and

objects that were part of its summer carnival parade. The young peoplediscovered enormous elephant skeletons, learnt about mischievous monkeys,

found carnival clothes and discovered how to play the drums.

Pitt Rivers MuseumSouth Parks Road

OxfordOX1 3PP

www.prm.ox.ac.uk

We give a YellowSubmarine thumbs up!

I liked the masks and pulling faces

What The Superheroes Say... My favouritething to do

was theminiature

world art. Itwas fun.- India -

I learnt that youcan make photosout of paper andmaterial to makean action picture.

- Emily -

I discovered that I like dressing up,masks and seeing the photos at the

end of the session.- Jacob -

I enjoy storytelling and I learnt that Icould make costumes from paper.

It was fun!- Jonathon -

The artist taught me how to write stories and I learnt how to act.- Rachael -

Lizzy taught us how to do a freeze frame. It was fantastic!- Kyle -

What is an Arts Award? How has this projectbenefited from Arts

Award Discover?An Arts Award gives young

people the chance to discover, experience andbe inspired by the arts.Young people get to becreative and develop skills in the art forms

they choose.What is Discover?

Arts Award Discover has three parts:

1. Discover; young peoplediscover the arts around

them and take part indifferent art forms.

2. Find out; young peoplelearn about differentartists and their work.3. Share; young people

share their Arts Awards experience with others.

Arts Award Discover hasenabled young peopleinvolved in this project

to discover and experiencedifferent art forms andshare their experienceswithin this magazine. Each young person hasachieved an Arts Award

Discover certificate.Where can I find more

information aboutArts Awards?

For more information onArts Awards please visit

their website:www.artsaward.org.uk

Young People Who Achieved Their Arts Award Discover

India Kyle Amy

Rachael Charlie Emily

Jonathon Jack Jacob

OYAPYellowSubmarine

WitneyIntervention Hub

Yellow Submarine are asmall award-winningcharity which prides

itself on giving some ofthe most disadvantaged

people in Oxfordshirecon�dence,

independence and asense of self-worth.Yellow Submarineencourages both

children and adults withlearning disabilities to�nd friendships, buildcon�dence, learn new

skills and receive anenjoyable and

memorable experience.www.yellowsubmarine.

org.uk

OYAP Trust specialisesin working with the

hardest to reachyoung people in

Oxfordshire. Theirgoal is to introduceyoung people to art

activities and nurturetheir talents. OYAP

o�er educational andinspirational projects

that raise con�dence in young people and can

help them achievequali�cations, such as

the Arts Award.Inspiration, motivationand accreditation for

the next generation ofyoung artists.

www.oyap.org.uk

Witney interventionhub is a base fordirect work with

children, young peopleand families locally. It

is also a venueprovided for other

organisations to workwith young people.Youth sessions are

delivered here in theevenings, at weekendsand throughout school

holidays. The hubo�ers high quality

early intervention andspecialist services tothose with additionaland complex needs.

Trust

OCCFinancially supported by:

artsworkOxfordshire County Council funds short

break opportunities for disabled children and young people to spend time away

from their families and have fun; they also provide respite for families, giving them a

break from their caring responsibilities.

artswork’s mission is to place the arts and cultural practice at the heart of work with,

for and by children and young people – particularly those deemed to be at risk – and to champion, lead and facilitate high

quality work led by artists and arts and cultural organisations .

The young people visiting Oxford'sStory Museum for creative

fun and inspirationThe Artists

Suzy PriorPhotographer and filmmaker

www.suzyprior.comCharlie Henry

Artistwww.charliehenry.co.uk

Lizzy McBainVisual artist and theatre maker

www.underconstructiontheatre.com

Jason GoodallPhotographer and filmmaker

Amie JohnsonProject Coordinator

and Magazine Designer

We bakeSuperhero cakesusing this recipe

------------------------Ingredients:

175g butter175g caster sugar

175g self-raising flour4 eggs (beaten)

1 tsp vanilla extractMethod:

Prepare the oven to 180 degrees Cor 155 if you're using a fan ovenPrepare your muffin tin with 10

cupcake casesBeat the sugar and butter in a

bowl until soft and creamyBeat in the eggs a little at a timeGently stir in the vanilla extract

and self-raising flourSpoon the mixture into cupcakecases and bake for 20 minutes

Leave to cool then top with yourfavourite cake decorations

Our Superheroes chose chocolate!

Art makes me happy- Jacob -

An Interview with AmyWhat songs do you sing?

It's a Long Way To Tippararyand Do a Deer

How many years have youbeen playing music?

I've always loved music,I started singing when

I was 5What music do you like?

JLSWho encouraged you to sing?

My friends

WePerform Together- Rachael -

I liked making myown Superhero

- Jack -