Wearpeace is an exciting project as part of ‘Guns into Goods’, by the University of Salford in partnership with CARISMA and Greater Manchester Police and involving several schools and colleges. The aim is to create a range of clothing and accessories under the Wearpeace label that can be sold locally, nationally and internationally to [...]

Posted on Jun 03.10 to Resource, Schools, design, fashion, partnership   

Another brilliant PeaceWeek Schools Showcase today at Zion Arts featured young people from 13 schools. Over two shows, they sung, danced, rapped and smiled as they showed each other and many guests what they had been working at and creating on the theme of ‘Peace in the Mix’. Organised by Natalie Teniola, director of ABC [...]

Posted on Mar 19.10 to Art, Schools, Young People   

The WearPeace project stems from an existing relationship between the School of Art and Design, CARISMA (Community Alliance for Renewal Inner South Manchester Area) and the Police’s Xcalibre Task force looking at ways to change people’s perceptions and attitudes towards guns.
The aim of the WearPeace Project is to create a range of clothing and accessories [...]

Posted on Feb 26.10 to Resource, Schools, design, fashion, partnership   

[ March 10, 2010; ] First Transport and Greater Manchester Police have invited Primary 6 pupils from eight schools in the Cheetham Hill area to take part in a football tournament at the Maccabi Centre on Wednesday 10th March 2010. This is the second tournament that has been put on and we hope to repeat it every year and expand [...]

Posted on Feb 25.10 to Events, Football, Schools, Young People   

[ March 19, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. ] The PeaceWeek Schools Showcase is where young people from various schools in the area come together to show the creative work they have been doing during PeaceWeek.

Posted on Feb 18.10 to Art, Community, Events, Music, Poetry, Schools, Young People   

Footage from the PeaceWeek 2008 Schools Showcase at the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester, UK.

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Posted on Mar 14.08 to Hulme, Manchester, Music, Peace, Podcast, Poetry, Schools, Young People   

A new resource for use in schools, colleges and youth clubs is available from Carisma for free loan. It is a DVD of a TV programme called ‘Teenage Trouble’ which looks at how young people are unfairly perceived in our society. It examines how media ‘bad news’ stories about the minority of young people who [...]

Posted on Feb 28.08 to Resource, Schools, Young People