CYP is a wonderful local charity that works with large numbers of local young people many of them from challenging backgrounds to give them things to do, hope and a pathway to a better life. They have a remarkable and haunting new exhibition.

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'CYP Culture, 165 Caledonian Rd London N1 0SL

6pm-8pm Tuesday 17 November 2009  
     
“On the morning of Sunday 29 June 2008, a 16-year-old boy called Ben Kinsella was stabbed to death. He is another name to add to the long list of those killed by knives. No one suggests Ben Kinsella was anything other than totally blameless. This was not a war zone far away. This was Islington in London." – the words of Nicholas Hilliard QC at the murder trial of the three young men responsible for Ben’s senseless killing in April 2009. Ben was out celebrating the end of his GCSEs when he was murdered. He never got to find out that he had passed the exams with a string of A-grades, and an A* for his artwork, which would have been a springboard for his ambition to become a graphic designer.
 
“Seeing what Ben’s death has done to everybody around me has influenced me to want to make a change of culture and a change of thinking of young people. With art and design all round us, I am determined to use my passion and skills for design to make a difference.” – the words of local young person.
 
Copenhagen Youth Project (CYP) were asked by the Kinsella family to mount a show featuring the exceptional art work produced by Ben, who was a CYP member.  The show at CYP Culture, 165 Caledonian Rd, is part of our ongoing programme of exhibitions and social education for over 400 local young people a year, including those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. The venue is used to deliver innovative, creative work, which examines and challenges the street culture that gives rise to knife crime, and to showcase young people’s work in partnership with other local projects. The programme is part-funded by the City Bridge Trust, Central St Martin’s School of Art and the Home Office, and needs further funds to build on and progress the work.
 
The “Ben Kinsella: Sketchbook” exhibition will be in the upstairs mezzanine and window space at CYP Culture, 165 Caledonian Rd, the downstairs space will be used as a retrospective and to show some projects that CYP’s creative social education programme has delivered recently.This includes a film made by CYP young people with the film company Only Connect, and an award winning architectural project, in partnership with ‘Design Matters’ as part of Central Saint Martin’s widening participation initiative.
 
The private view is on Tuesday 17 November 6pm- 8pm. A catalogue of Ben’s Kinsella’s art work will be available.
 
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For further information please get in touch with the CYP office:
Tel: 020 7607 6050 or 07852 262915
e-mail: info@cyproject.org