“Receipt Please” Imagining Youth Justice and Creative Methods

What’s on offer?

At this event we invite you to come along and experiment with how creative methods can be used to both build personal resilience and to highlight and share difficult or challenging experiences relating to issues of social and youth justice. This event aims to be both fun and interactive, whilst also offering the opportunity to test ways of airing challenging issues faced by young people in a creative way.
Questions to Stimulate Imagination:

• How can everyday life be experienced punitively or unjustly?
• How can creativity shed light on these experiences?
• How can creativity support resilience, as we seeks inclusion and justice, in the everyday? 

What’s it about?

‘I’ll Have My Receipt Please and Thank You.’ Where am I going with this? Well, imagination, that’s where! Even your grocery list can benefit from creative treatment. Don’t you agree? Anything in life benefits from imagination. Then why not justice for youth? Yet creativity is the overlooked third cousin, the neglected offspring, of public policy and this can lead to policies around youth and youth justice that are totally lacking in originality – thereby simply reproducing and rationalising inequality. 

Consider, for instance, that when it comes to youth and justice the typical focus has been on crime and punishment—on bad boys and bad girls. Taking an innovative, creative approach, this workshop centres a discussion on youth’s everyday experiences of exclusion, injustice, and resilience. The workshop asks three questions: first, how can youth’s everyday life be experienced punitively or unjustly? Second, how can creativity shed light on these experiences? Third, how can creativity support resilience, as youth seek inclusion and justice, in their everyday?  

Who’s leading the event?

The event will be guided by lead researcher, Dr Esmorie Miller (Lancaster University).

Come along to see a live demonstration as Esmorie uses storytelling, including poetry and digital imagery, to demonstrate everyday matters. Esmorie uses related examples to show that no prior experience of creative methods is required. Relaxed, fun, and filled with experimentation, participants will be supported in an opportunity to develop and demonstrate their creativity.

Open to

Everyone is invited, including young people and those with an interest in understanding experiences of everyday life, the exclusions and other injustices youth face. You also want an understanding of how creativity can support a path to justice.

Of particular interest to

Young people, those working with young people in the field of social justice and inequality

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