Young People’s Competition 2025
We are thrilled to announce the Gallery of Living History Young People's Competition 2025, an incredible opportunity for young creators to showcase their talent and share untold stories of remarkable individuals.
This initiative, co-founded by the renowned actor and director Andy Serkis (known for The Batman, The Lord of the Rings, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage), invites teams of young people aged 11 to 18 to honour heroes, living or dead, whose stories have not yet been told.
Timeline
Expression of interest: Friday, 31 January 2025
Workshop on developing your ideas: Saturday, 22 February 2025 (date to be confirmed)
Workshop on storyboarding and animatics: Saturday, 8 March 2025 (date to be confirmed)
Workshops on filming, audio and editing: Saturday, 22 March 2025 (date to be confirmed)
Submission of final entries: Friday, 11 April 2025
Shortlisting: 12 - 22 April 2025
Public vote: 22 April - 2 May 2025
Finale event: June 2025 (date to be confirmed)
Register your interest now!
Teams of at least three (3) people between the ages of 11 and 18 will research a person or group that they feel should be commemorated and develop the concept for a short video with support from students and staff at Coventry University and Gallery of Living History.
To enter, your team(s) first need to register their interest. The deadline for this is 31 January 2025. You can register using this link:
“Participating in the Gallery of Living History Competition provided us with an excellent opportunity to work with and at Coventry University. After working on our proposal at school we attended 3 workshops on audio production, augmented reality, and performance working with lecturers and current degree students to refine our idea. This gave my students the opportunity to work with equipment and programmes that we do not have in school, experience a University setting, and meet lecturers and students to inspire them to take their studies to the next level. As well as learning new skills, they worked as a team and collaboratively saw a project through from inception to the final outcome. The value of this is that we were free to explore and create without constraints. A wonderful experience that I recommend to any school.”
-Mrs J Flanagan, Head of Art, Blue Coat School
Why participate?
Why participate?
Nominate an unsung hero: Have your say about who should be commemorated, memorialised or celebrated and why.
Engage in a unique challenge: Develop proposals for a short film, celebrating and commemorating unsung heroes whose stories deserve to be told.
Collaborate and learn: Work together in teams to research and create a short video concept with guidance from Coventry University and the Gallery of Living History.
Develop skills and be mentored: Develop your skills at workshops to support research, concept development, film and editing provided in Coventry University's state-of-the-art Delia Derbyshire building. Teams will receive mentorship from university students and staff.
Showcase talent: Shortlisted teams will have their videos featured on the interactive plinth in Starley Gardens and on relevant website(s) and socials.
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