SOFT TOUCH ARTS STEPS INTO THE 1950s FOR NEW EXHIBITION

Young people from Leicester charity, Soft Touch Arts, have been examining teenage life in the 1950s as part of a new multi-media exhibition. The Changing You(th) Exhibition will take place at the charity’s youth arts and heritage centre from the 2ndto 30thOctober and compares teenage life in the 1950s to today. The young people interviewed people of an older generation, who were themselves teenagers during the 1950s, as well as their peers who are teenagers today in order to create artwork based on the themes of Leisure, Education, Dreams & Realities by looking at subjects such as