A promotional film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi to encourage young people in Bradford to take part in a programme called New Focus. This programme was run by the Impressions Gallery in Centenary Square to provide training and experience working within the creative industries and within a photographic gallery. Over the opening title an aerial of Bradford City Hall and Centenary Square. Title: Impressions Gallery New Focus Collective Call out for Bradford Young Curators Over a...

A promotional film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi to encourage young people in Bradford to take part in a programme called New Focus. This programme was run by the Impressions Gallery in Centenary Square to provide training and experience working within the creative industries and within a photographic gallery. Over the opening title an aerial of Bradford City Hall and Centenary Square. Title: Impressions Gallery New Focus Collective Call out for Bradford Young Curators Over a montage of former New Focus Members Nathan McGill, Kanwal Hussain, Daniella Gott and Usmaan Arshad arriving at and taking part in various curatorial and outreach activities in and around the Impressions Gallery in Bradford. They each provide details of what they have learned and gained by being part of the initiative and how it has helped develop their careers withing the creative industries. They also provide details on what those taking part in the project will gain from the experience. Intercut with the New Focus Members featured is Chemaine Cooke New Focus Project Manager also talks about her role which she explains will help provide a completely free pathway into gallery work, to help de-mystifying the definition of ‘curator’ and provide opportunities to develop an exhibition as well as participate in creating Bradford’s biggest digital family archive. A fifth New Focus Member Mahnoor Akhlaq who is seen looking around the gallery talks about how the young people collective is a safe space to explore creative skills and a place for everyone to be who they want to be and learn what they want to lean. As a group of young people take in activities at the gallery, Chemaine Cooke explains in voiceover that everyone who takes part will receive a £1000 bursary. As Daniella writes ‘New Focus Apply Now’ on a board, Mahnoor Akhlaq states that there shouldn’t let anything stop someone from pursuing a career in the creative industries. Title: New Focus: Bradford Young Curators An 18-month mentoring programme for 10 young people giving them the skills they need to become the creative leaders of the future , by staging a major photography exhibition at Impressions Gallery Find out more www.impressions-gallery.com #BDYoungCurators With thanks to Mahnoor Akhlaq, Usmaan Arshad, Rory Connors, Chemaine Cooke, Daniella Gott, Louie-Haslam-Chance, Sarah Hill, Razia Hussain, Sara Mahnoor Nazim, Nathan McGill, Anne McNeil, Jennifer Sobol, Malika Winfield, Kanwal Hussain Filmed during We Are Here, Because You Were There by Andy Barnham and Sara de Jong at Impressions Gallery New Focus Bradford Young Curators is an Impressions Gallery project End title: Impressions Gallery New Focus. Arts Council England. Love Bradford. City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council