Friction Arts interviewed on Audiences Central

Friction Arts are the team behind Reality Estate, which was the occasion for the launch of our Art on The Edge project, and the successful relaunch of our quarterly free magazine.

In this interview they describe how the work grew out of the:

..award-winning project "Curio City Shop", over two and a half years. We created over 25 projects with locals young and old, culminating in Reality Estate, an epic adventure where the City of Birmingham Young Voices, Kiss the Ceiling, Birmingham Festival Choral Society and Birmingham Choral Union amongst others, performed. They sang an original score based on stories collected from local people during our time at the Curio City Shop."

Friction's next project will be ‘Echoes from the Edge’ a three year programme of work that will see Sandra Hall and Lee Griffiths, Directors of Friction Arts, collaborate with ‘Touchable Stories’ USA. Together they will undertake creative cultural archaeology of Digbeth and Highgate.

2 Parts of Life

Our local "Arts Champions" DanceXchange and Town Hall / Symphony Hall have just finished some amazing work with The Quinzone Centre and an intergenerational group of local people. Over two and half months, the group learned about making music (both live and computer produced), photography, filming, editing, and dance. The finished film, “2 Parts of Life” premiered at The Electric Cinema on 17th May 2008 to an enthusiastic audience. Here's a sequence: Handbags and Calumn. You should also see Dan's Quinton Rap and Sopie & Sam Dance on YouTube.