Kala Sangam - Bringing people together through South Asian and Interdisciplinary Arts

The My Bradford project was a partnership between Kala Sangam and Bradford Youth Offending Team (YOT) in Spring 2006 and provided regular workshops in which young people are motivated to address their offending through the arts and creativity.

Using the Urban Regeneration Company slogan Bradford - One Landscape, Many Views the project explored young peoples perception of their Bradford, how Bradford city centre is changing, who public spaces are for and young peoples place within the city centre.

A variety of art forms were used, including photography, lyric writing, sound-scaping, drumming, studio-recording, graffiti art, Islamic calligraphy, tv-production, sculpture, drama and arts excursions.

A recording of the radio broadcast was done at the end of the project to celebrate the young peoples work and air the music created on the project. This was put onto CD, on which the disc artwork is taken from a visual arts fusion workshop within the project, combining graffiti art and Islamic calligraphy. This has given the young people on the project something to take home and remember their work by.