Rifco Elders
Since December 2006 Rifco Arts (a British Asian Theatre company based in Slough) have been working on the Living History project, which has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of this project was to get groups of young people and older South Asian community members from five places in the country, to work together, learn something about each other and create pieces of art together. With the help of professional artists Students and older participants have been involved in East London, Leicester, Leeds, Slough and Coventry. We wanted to get generations talking, to promote understanding and to explore what influence the past has had on the cities we know today.
The new website, www.rifcoelders.com has become a home for the stories of elders of South Asian origin. We want young people to talk to their grandparents, the older members of their families and their family friends in order to record and share their memories of coming to England and establishing homes, families and communities here. The website will become an online storage space for these stories, memories and pictures. Over the next few weeks, the website will go live and we will begin to compile the stories we have gathered so far and to help you to do the same.
Sprout Designs was commissioned to produce a website that would allow Rifco Arts to Celebrate and Archive their recent work. A simple content management system was put in place that would allow them to add new stories, and update as new work was produced.
To accompany and advertise the Rifco Elders site, a closed gate booklet was produced. Following the same visual style, a grainy vintage retro style was developed, using handwritten quotes and photo album layout
The booklet aims to advertise the site, and offers an insight to the interesting stories, and beautiful photography profiled at www.rifcoelders.com