Little London Tackle it! 29 pictures

We've been running Urban Art workshops for young people in Little London, working in partnership with PAYP, Positive Futures, the Leeds Youth Service and Speak to the Streets on the Tackle It!

The Urban Art workshop involved painting a 146ft long mural around the now derelict Carlton Towers with hard to reach young people on Friday nights. 'Hard to reach' is a funny term, because theyre not that hard to reach, they hang around in the same places with nothing to do nearly every day and night. The tower block isnt going to get knocked down for a few years, so the mural will be up for a while. Go check it out, its next to the Rifleman pub.

“Instead of us all fighting each other it’s about time someone brought people together to make it a better place to live… It’s the best thing I’ve seen in the time I’ve lived here…and I must have lived here at least 60 years! its right nice and colourful” Clifford, aged 91years old.

Click below to see more:

1) CLICK HERE for BBC article on Tackle It! Little London. (I dont really like this article it hypes up the whole gang thing to make the story more exciting)

2) CLICK HERE for BBC article on Carlton Towers Urban Art project.

3) CLICK HERE for video on Positive Futures Tackle It! in Little London.
4) CLICK HERE to see Sam Greigs design which won a national competition run by Positive Futures.

Artwork on a big board by Anam, Simran, Naynah, Maina and Zara at the LL Saturday night sessions...wicked black n purple background! The lads have got some competition there!

Gradi at Little London Community day doing hand stencils on a group board that everyone had a go on. June 2009

Saturday night Little London, the lads wanted Klone and me to have a graff battle...to the death. This is the result next to to Jindahs shop, Little London Feb 02.