World War 1 Trench Art Mail Art Project

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An intercultural WW1 project between young people based in the North East of England and international locations

Marking the Centenary of the First World War, this mail art project for young people (aged 11-25 years) aims to create cross-cultural dialogue and exchange through research and visual art. Theresa Easton, the North East of England Project Manager and Visual Artist, will be working with young people in her region. The young people will develop creative skills which will be used to make Mail Art which interprets their understanding of WW1 heritage in relation to project themes including:

Trench Art

Women & the War

People’s Stories

If you work with young people and are interested in developing a project with young people in the UK please contact: theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk or check out http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com for information about book art projects.

If you would like to contribute your own Mail Art ideas please post your work to:

Theresa Easton

Ouseburn Warehouse Studios & Workshops

36 Lime Street

Ouseburn Valley

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

NE1 2PQ UK

Deadline for expression of interest: on-going.

Website: http://http://worldwar1trenchart.wordpress.com/
Members: 4
Latest Activity: Jan 14, 2015

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Can just Trench Art inspire creative mail art?

The answer is no - its fascinating looking on the web and seeing what kind of work is being made out there in response to the commemoration of WW1.I am receiving work from various locations around the world and have identified an excellent heritage…Continue

Tags: People, Young, Art, Trench, WW1

Started by Theresa Easton Dec 10, 2013.

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 18, 2014 at 6:06pm: 12 Haiku poems (in Dutch) for all that were killed during the wars 1914-2014, so for each month of the year

ROUWBEWEGINGSHAIKU’S

voor alle gesneuvelden van 1914-2014

en in het bijzonder voor de gefusilleerden bij wijze van voorbeeld

Ik zie haar wenen

de hartstochtelijke vrouw:

mijn schildpad is dood!

In de herfst sterven;

wat is er natuurlijker

dan een vallend blad?

Hij bloedde zachtjes

leeg naar een vallende ster.

Aarde schreeuwde dicht!

De oorlogsschepen

strandend op koraalriffen.

Het einde nabij …

De weerstand van slijk,

waterwederopstanding

in het Vlaams, misschien?

Een brandende god

veroordeelt op het schavot

der geschiedenis.

Lijken spoelen aan,

lossen nooit het geheugen

op der getuigen …

Beenderen spreken,

het gebit niet verdronken,

roepend in de zee!

Woorden liegen steeds

in de monden van de macht;

maan herhaalt lachend.

Knikkerterrorist,

lachend in de warmte

van sluitende hand.

Tegen de wanden

huizen stil de vleermuizen,

hun honger huivert!

Laat drogende oogst

is het lot van mijn ogen;

blindheid doet mij zien.

GV

Maart 2014

Pub New Benfica

en discutant avec Boris

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 6, 2014 at 10:58am: 1914 2014: 100 years of measuring the bells of war

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 3, 2014 at 11:22am: 1914-2014 The clock is ticking, A5 recycled painted envelope

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 3, 2014 at 11:20am: 1914-2014 Exodus of the peoples

Collage with original photos of 1914 (photo in bottom of the collage: exodus of Jewish people persecuted by the Russian tsarist regime, this photo has been translated into a painting by a Russian Jewish painter but I forgot who that was)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 3, 2014 at 11:17am: Letter from Otto Sherman, USA

Painted and altered photo of 1914 in response by Guido Vermeulen

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 25, 2014 at 10:59am: A history of violence, 1914 - 2014,

collage collaboration between Eberhard Janke, Germany, and Guido Vermeulen, Belgium.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 24, 2014 at 5:47pm: Collages and handpainted historical photos

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 24, 2014 at 5:41pm: Collages and handpainted historical photos

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 14, 2014 at 2:39pm: Who were the sponsors of that war?

From Otto D Sherman, USA

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