Words Not Weapons

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Words Not Weapons

Monday, June 9th, 2025

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The words not weapons project was created to raise awareness of knife crime though music. We started the project by visiting a service that provides support housing to young adults. We had a long discussion on knife crime. We recorded all of their thoughts and feelings about the issue and gave them to the artists. […]

Knife crime awareness youth tour part 1 & 2

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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As successful as the cutting-edge exhibition was, we felt that it did not reach enough young people. So, we made the display portable and took it on tour to 16 schools around Sheffield. The exhibition consists of the Tree of opportunity which is made up of over 300 weapons prevented from hitting the streets of […]

Victims Voices 23

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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We worked with Big Take Media to produce a documentary that focused showing the true devastation that knife crime causes. In the documentary we talk about two people, from Sheffield whose lives were taken by knife crime, The premiere of the documentary was held at the town hall and was watched by over 100 people. […]

Why Me

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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Initially we wanted to create a movie within a music video, but the idea grew into a project in itself. We worked with 12 students from All Saints Catholic High School, Outwood Academy and Sheaf Training to create a short movie.     After the initial meeting the students decided that they wanted to create […]

Victims’ voices documentary

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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This Documentary Series takes a look at the devastating impact that Knife Crime has on Families, friends and communities. Covering all angles, this series will give you a true understanding of knife crime. (Below is the link to the Documentary series) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gvF79f1DQ2i80tDTOGijPtEddGXrdeY

Boundaries remix

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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Boundaries, is a conscious song about making positive decisions by K dot, a well-known Sheffield rapper. I approached him with the idea of allowing a young person feature on the song and he was happy to be involved. We made an Instagram only competition for artists from South Yorkshire to enter. Out of all of […]

PenPal Project

Friday, January 21st, 2022

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During the pandemic we created a pen pal project for kids to help promote good mental health and well-being, make new friends and improve hand writing. It was a great success, we had over 100 children that took part and it spread all over the UK.

Cutting Edge Exhibitions

Friday, January 21st, 2022

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Cutting-Edge Knife Crime Awareness Exhibition 300 weapons collected from the streets of south Yorkshire were used to create a magnificent sculpture by Jason Heppenstall. The tree of opportunity took weapons used to cause harm and created something that promotes positivity and change. This was the centrepiece for the exhibition, other exhibits from local artists all […]