Teens in Glasgow are asking politicians to change laws to ensure all care-experienced people have access to arts

Articulate charity is asking the Scottish Government to change the law to ensure all care experienced young people have access to arts and culture.

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00:00 Articulate is a charity that I set up seven years ago to help use arts, creativity and culture

00:06 and make that accessible so that young people who are on the margins, especially care experienced

00:11 young people, can tap into their own innate creativity to get where they want to go.

00:15 So we put the arts in our cultural landscape at their fingertips and they explore and experiment

00:20 their own cities and regions in order to fully understand their place in the world.

00:25 One of the things we're particularly proud of just now is our creative change makers.

00:30 They are eight care experienced young emerging artists who want to use their ability to

00:37 shape narrative around things that they want to see improved in society.

00:43 So they use a concept that we call artivism and they currently are wanting much fairer access

00:50 to the arts, creativity and culture for all care experienced young people, so all 15,000.

00:55 And the one way that they think that that's possible is to ask people in power to write

01:00 at this moment where the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child are being embedded in Scots

01:05 law and Article 31 is the one that specifically deals with the arts and so their ask, which I'm

01:12 voicing today, is that politicians, decision makers, budget holders think about putting Article 31 into

01:20 every Scottish child's plan and they're doing that really creatively by releasing 10 different

01:28 bits of a campaign between March and November. And the billboards project is one of those items

01:34 that they've released as part of the first step of their campaign.

01:38 For care experienced young people, the arts is a really brilliant way to

01:41 express yourself and to explore things that have happened in the past but also to

01:46 acknowledge them in the present in a way that's sometimes really thought-provoking or memorable or

01:51 beautiful or sometimes makes you a bit sad but it helps you reflect also,

01:56 think forward about how you were using this moment in time.