Champions Challenge

Running along side the Champions Challenge 2009 competition was the Champions Challenge Arts Programme 09, lead by Salford City Council.

Champions Challenge is a competition bewtween the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester which took place on the 27 June 2009 at The Wright Robinson Sports College.

This was a unique oppertunity for young people to work with leading arts organisations Spearfish and Lets Go Global, who delivered innovatite digital and urban art activites on the day.

On offer from Spearfish on the day:

Spearfish Art Trail. Spearfish postitoned a series of interactive art installations throughout the school on the day, where people had a chance to interact with artists, see their work and create their own ideas on blank canvases and life size fibre glass animals.

Dance. Funkstylerz performed on the day and offered streetdance, breackdance and popping/locking workshops

Fashion. Badge Making. Artist Delacy, who works with leather helping people create their own key rings, wallets and bags

Art on Perspex. The young people got to create their own characters, logos and graffiti inspired lettering on perspex to take home

On offer from Lets Go Global:

Flip My Sport. Young people worked with the Lets Go Global team and were given a portable video camera, and were asked to go out and film aspects of the day that they felt were improtant to them. Footage will then be uploaded to a specially designed website for the event.

Sportscape. Extraordinary sounds from sports! Working with sound artist Jon Tipler participants developed their own soundscape of the day. They were challenged to go out using a range of audio recorders to find sounds on the day. These will also be uploaded onto the specially designed website.

This page was last updated on 4 July 2011