Schoolkids show creativity for Doorway to Dignity project
Flushed with success following the hugely popular Doorway to Dignity celebrity Bath Art Trail, featuring famous faces from Gordon Brown to Kenneth Branagh, local charity Wherever the Need is now focusing its attention on artwork produced by school children in the city.
Bath Central Library will be the focal point for a new exhibition dedicated to the creativity of Bath's young people as they highlight the sanitation problems faced by people in the developing world. Starting on World Water Day, March 22, and continuing until March 27, visitors to the library (located at The Podium) will be treated to a gallery of masterpieces based on the traditional male, female and disabled toilet door signs.
Project manager Kit Williams commented: “Not only does the theme of the Doorway to Dignity project tie in well with both the Citizenship curriculum and the Eco Schools initiative syllabus but it also challenges our young people to consider a taboo subject fundamental to human dignity and well-being – sanitation. In our society we just ‘flush and forget’ but 2.5 million people worldwide are without basic sanitation facilities and 6000 people die from preventable intestinal disease daily. 5000 of these deaths are children under 5 years old – that’s the equivalent of around 15 primary schools, every day.
Visitors to the exhibition will be encouraged to vote for their favourite piece of art and a team from the winning school will spend a day at the Bath Spa University School of Art and Design designing a new coat of arms for their school.
The exhibition will be accessible during the library’s normal opening hours:
Monday 10:30 -18.00 Tuesday 09.30 -19.00 Wednesday 09.30 -19.00 Thursday 09.30 -19.00 Friday 09.30 -17.00 Saturday 09.30 -16:00
For further information please contact Wherever the Need on 01225 723675 or visit www.doorwaytodignity.org.
