HOPE/ACT explores the interplay between the responsibility of higher powers and our own personal responsibility. It asks how we might preserve hope in the face of forces much bigger than ourselves, and how we must also enact change to create hope for everyone.
Three groups from across the district wrote new poetry, collected into a series of free zines, which inspired the design of this new family of large letterpress murals:
Students at Co-op Academy Grange, taking part in creative writing charity First Story’s Young Writers Programme.
Members of People First Keighley & Craven, a self-advocate charity run by and for people with learning disabilities.
Teenagers living in and around West Bowling in BD5 who attend after–school clubs at MAPA Community Centre.
The participants were invited to the People Powered Press workshop in Shipley, to help print the new murals for indoor exhibition at three sites around Bradford from May 2025:
City Library
National Science and Media Museum
MAPA Community Centre
HOPE/ACT was supported by the Bradford 2025 Artist-led Project Awards programme.
