Look Again, an Event to Participate in National Celebration of Women

Aberdeen’s event Look Again visual art and design festival which is a key cultural initiative of RGU, is working with a group of local young women to take part in PROCESSIONS. It is a artwork project throughout UK to celebrate one hundred years of votes for women.
The team is made up of a collection of 12 young women (those who identify as women or non-binary) from Aberdeen, who are creating a bespoke banner and will take part in a mass walk in Edinburgh on June 10. Natalie Kerr will lead the team who is in partnership with Aberdeen City Council. The similar events will be taking place in Cardiff, Belfast and London.
One hundred female artists have been appointed to work with organisations and communities across the UK to create one hundred centenary banners for PROCESSIONS as part of an extensive public programme of creative workshops. It is a part of the project.
The team from Aberdeen, ‘Granite Guardian Gals’, are gathering to attend a series of workshops where women’s right and identity will be discussed and are then transferring these via artwork to a large banner.
Majority of the young women haven’t met before and are enjoying the opportunity to meet new people and work together on a project which they wish may last even after the event in June.
A current pupil at Robert Gordons College, Ella Skinner said; “I am really interested in where women are in society and where we want to be.”
“I hope that this project will leave a lasting legacy for many more women to become involved in.”
Andi Shand, from Hazlehead Academy, added: “It’s been really good to find people who have the same opinions as me and this has given me the chance to meet new people and get out. I hadn’t met most of the girls before and I really hope we can go on to do more after the project ends.”
Artichoke coordinates the massive project, a leading arts charity that works with artists to attack public spaces and put on extraordinary and ambitious events that will never be forgotten from memory.
Natalie Kerr, added: “This has been a fantastic project to work on and the team have really come together and bonded as a group. Individually they are all active in their own communities in different ways but through this project we have had the chance to explore the suffragette history and how that translates to young women today.”
“Our conversations have addressed what it means to use your voice to create change – to be powerful, confident and a strong young women. When we began talking I knew our banner would come from a place of passion and be unique to their own experiences as young women of Aberdeen.
“The creativity of everyone involved has been incredible and we are all very much looking forward to representing the North-east at the national event in Edinburgh in June.”
Their artwork will go on exhibiton during the Look Again Festival, from June 14, at the Maritime Museum after completing the PROCESSION event in Edinburgh by the group.
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