On the 18th February Street Trainers from Sceaux Gardens Estate delivered a training session for 10 members of Southwark Police. At the end of the session we asked two questions.

"What is the most important thing you have learned today?"

There are easier ways or different ways to interact with young people.

How many officers can fit in a telephone box.

Sceaux Street Trainers kicked off the February half term with an afternoon of fun, games and challenges.

Working on team building, communication and leadership skills we began to prepare for what will be an eventful half term...

Some of the challenges:

standing on one leg
racing each other
spelling words backwards
reciting poems
making and keeping promises
describing our surroundings

This week we train Southwark police!

Kate Entwhistle is one of our new Street Trainers she says "Lottie came into my school (Central School of Speech and Drama) and gave us a talk on was street training was and how it had come about. After that we went out to the areas surrounding school at did a bit of playing about. I thought it was so much fun and liberating; it really is about following your desires. I found that if i saw something and i wanted to do it then i should just do it, try it out and see how it feels.

In Rio by far the most joyful behaviour i witnessed in the street was kids, especially girls dancing to carioca funk music, the movements are sexual and exuberant. With Rio Film maker Marcia Derraik I made a 15 minute documentary about safety and joy and sexy dancing in the streets.

Come to the South London Gallery to see the first screening of the Street Training documentary. It talks about the Street Training we've been doing internationally since 2002 and about the team I've been training with in Camberwell. We are now in top form ready to train policy makers, police, planners, architects and developers. Our first engagement will be to train Southwark Police in February 2010.

see you there - Lottie

on December 19th, from 4-6pm.

SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
T: 020 7703 6120
F: 020 7252 4730
www.southlondongallery.org

On November 19th 2009 Fabio Salvatti led a Street Training session in Curitiba, Brazil.

The session was part of Festival de Cultura do Paraná, a huge event that gathered music, theater, visual arts, dance, performance and eco-politics.

This was the first session that happened in Curitiba, in which were trained different street skills, such as domino supporting, tree climbing, hide and seek, etc. The trainers were very enthusiastic about it, and plan to continue with regular sessions.

Young people from the Sceaux Gardens Estate Camberwell will be training local councilors, a baptist minister, a police officer, researchers and planners in how to have more fun in streets and in public spaces.

The techniques to be taught include
the swinging gate of fear
shouting out silly words
wind tunnel hair flying
railing squeeze
street magaphone
gravel moonwalk
'yes lets all" game

the session will conclude with a discussion about creative/antisocial uses of public space

o and BTW all techniques have been thoroughly risk assessed :)

Last Chance to see the exhibition City as Gymnasium at the Cube Manchester. Other artists in the show include Neville Gabie and Media Shed.

The final session for the exhibition took place on Saturday and was attended by some faithful and some new faces. The youngest participant was in and out of her pushchair like a yoyo demonstrating how to squeeze through a discarded bike lock, summersault through a swinging sign and lie down and do nothing.

http://cube.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.asp?id=232

his Saturday's Street Training is a pretty special one! Not only is it the last of the exhibition, but it will be hosted by artist and Street Training originator - Lottie Child.

For those of you who joined Street Training recently, this is your chance to explore Street Training more thoroughly. Lottie will be on hand to explain her practice and introduce you to techniques she has developed with Street Trainers from all over the globe.

In short, its sure to be interesting, enlightening and most of all - fun!!