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High-Rise Ambition: The Liverpool Pensioners Turned Film Producers

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Working with the over-65s, technology and digital art – as I have for the past seven years – has proved to me that none of the clichés about older people are true. Knitting is a rare past-time unless it serves a purpose. There is no slowing down or giving up among this generation. Older people are web-streaming pioneers, digital story-tellers and filmmakers; spoon-players, VJs and social campaigners.

This autumn a new exhibition at Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) is taking a celebratory look at the life and times of one of the organisation’s best-loved projects: the pioneering community arts programme, Tenantspin.

The project started life as part of a network, Superchannels, webstreaming platforms for community conversations developed by the Danish artist collective Superflex in the late 1990s.

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subject terms

Accessibility & Inclusive Design

Aging & Longevity

Aging & Longevity > Health: Brain & Mental

Aging & Longevity > Lifelong Learning

Aging & Longevity > Positive Aging

Aging & Longevity > Social Interaction & Isolation

Aging & Longevity > Vitality & Wellness

Community Engagement

Community Engagement > Community Based Learning

Community Engagement > Community Engagement

Creative Aging

Creative Aging > Arts Education

Creative Aging > Creative Expression

Creative Aging > Program Models

Creative Aging > Skills Mastery

Creative Aging > Social Engagement

Creative Aging > Teaching Artistry

contributor

Laura Yates

related organizations

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT)

The Guardian

resource type

Articles and Blog Posts

year

2013

keywords

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, Tenantspin

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