Saturday 8th November The Way of Things - Film commissioned by Arts In Mind Part of the Look at You - Look at Me! Creative Afternoon Live Art Space, Ferens Art Gallery Reviewed by Michelle Dee

The lights went down to murmurs of excitement and expectation inside the Live Arts Space for the premier of Caroline Mendelsohn's, "The Way of Things," a captivating film exploring the idea of change. The film was made with the help of pupils from Issac Newton, Henry Cooper and Thoresby Schools. The sound of children's voices accompanied by speeded up images of the city and interspersed with shots of familiar objects in a typical Hull back garden. Through the children's stories life, death, chance and change were explored through inventive use of film. Stills were used of children's faces on a reel much like a slot machine, the reel then stopped to introduce each new idea. There were many highpoints to the film including the sound of a beating heart during a story about birth. What really grabbed my attention was the child's simple line drawing super-imposed on the curly "c" shape of the mother's tummy. Other images that stood out were the dramatic way the bones on an x-ray picture were stretched during a teenager's view of his adolescence. The film closed with a scene of an old man sitting down on a bench on Prospect Street in quiet contemplation whilst shots of the Humber River and the East Yorkshire coastline scrolled across the screen from the right. The picturesque scenes were perhaps a way to describe the old mans thoughts. Caroline's film is powerful, enchanting and thought provoking and stays with you long after it has ended. It deserves to be viewed and appreciated by a much wider audience.

Saturday 8th November Look at You - Look at Me! Creative Afternoon with the Hull and East Yorkshire MIND Step Up and Arts in Mind projects Reviewed by Michelle Dee

Look at You - Look at Me! was the simple but attention grabbing title for the Arts in Mind event at the Live Art Space inside the Ferens Art Gallery on a grey and cloudy Saturday afternoon. What was to follow was anything but. This event was blessed with a near full house of both adults and children. To open five young students from Teskey King School in Hull performed two short plays, written by them, with great enthusiasm. The stories were introduced and narrated by Frances Kelly who created the Arts in Mind project, as a fun way to allow vulnerable children to relax, experiment, explore emotions and develop creative flair. This was much in evidence as each member of the cast conveyed, through words and actions, their roles. Simple, effective stories with underlying deeper meanings running through them. The first was a story titled The buried lamp, which explored childish curiosity, leading to far reaching consequences and climaxing in battle of good and evil. The second performance was called The story of the ring, involving the complex idea of a story within a story - a device much used in modern writing. A tale unfolded that went back generations as the children took a journey into the past. They wove a tale of loss, abandonment and fear, issues and emotions that unfortunately some children face every day in their lives. The cast were well received by the appreciative audience who applauded as I did with just as much energy as the students who played to them. For more information on Arts in Mind please contact Frances Kelly on 01482 336860 Alternatively write to. . Hull & East Yorkshire Mind 30 Percy Street Hull HU2 8HL

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