Jubilee mural project update – places still available

Our Jubilee art project is underway. It’s not too late to join in with our workshops, which are taking place every Wednesday at MDC between 10am and 3pm. This project is organised through our Wellbeing Group. We are working on creating a mural (wall painting) incorporating British Sign Language, as well as an information board and a photography wall showing different stages in the making of the mural. 

The finished product will be displayed permanently on the wall of our courtyard. There will be a grand unveiling event on Wednesday 7^th September. 

10 people have attended the workshops so far and have been enjoying learning new art, craft and design skills as well as learning about the history and the meaning of the jubilee event. On 8^th June the group visited Manchester Art Gallery for a tour of the gallery as a way of gaining inspiration for their own project planning.

This project is being led by Deaf artist Glenn Palin

Glenn is based in Manchester and has become known for his work which incorporates his own take on the Manchester Bee image into pieces which are inspired by his experiences of being in the city.

1 – To learn more about Glenn please visit : https://www.facebook.com/glenpalinart/

The upcoming dates are:

• 29^th June
• 6^th July 
• 13^th July
• 20^th July
• 27^th July
• 3^rd August
• 10^th August
• 17^th August
• 24^th August
• 7^th September: mural unveiling event

Are you interested in joining this project every Wednesday until 7^th September?

2 – Email us: waite@manchesterdeafcentre.com

3 – If you would like more information about our Wellbeing Group, please see: https://www.manchesterdeafcentre.com/our-groups/wellbeing-support-group/ 

Thanks to The Arts Council and Forever Manchester for making this project possible

We were delighted that Forever Manchester made a visit to Manchester Deaf Centre recently to learn more about the services that we provide, the benefit of these to the local Deaf and hard of hearing community, and the importance of funding from organisations such as their own.

4 – the visit MDC featured on the Forever Manchester website as you can see here: https://forevermanchester.com/forever-manchester-visits-manchester-deaf-centre/

This includes a BSL video with English subtitles of MDC’s Anita Kanji, explaining about the importance of MDC’s services.