INTRODUCTION

Raw Canvas is an initiative run at Tate Modern by young adults for young adults, giving everyone the opportunity to reach their own conclusions about art. Youth Activities throughout The Long Weekend included the Raw Canvas Skate Park – Bring your board, The Long Lounge – chill out area for 15-23 year-olds, The Choice FM Open Mic Competition, Dance workshops – physical calligraphy with Jonzi D, Digital Graffiti Workshops and the Raw Canvas Film Screenings.

In conjunction with Take 32, Raw Canvas and Gateway.

TATE STREET STUDIO

Tate Street Studio is an interactive photography project that relates to Brixton Street Studio, created by the artists Chris Anderson and Alison Locke. This project documents the unique cultural diversity of Brixton's urban community through photographic portraits of local people, using a mobile studio and a painted backdrop. The aim of the project is to photograph a variety of Brixton residents going about their ordinary lives; but to photograph them against a background that transports them out of this everyday context.

Raw Canvas, Tate Modern's youth programme, commissioned Chris and Alison to make an additional backdrop to reflect Brixton nightlife. Over the course of three weekends in April 2006, people on a night out at local bars The Telegraph, Jamm, Z Bar, The Brixton Rec and on Coldharbour Lane were photographed against a rum shack on the beach. The new photographs provide another view of Brixton life and extend the project as a whole, and were exhibited at Tate Modern during May 2006.

In the course of The Long Weekend visitors also had the opportunity to become part of a Surrealist interior by being photographed against a large-scale canvas inspired by works in the Poetry and Dream display. Everyone photogaphed received a copy of their image as a souvenir of The Long Weekend.

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