Operation Soapbox

LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION

The interactive website for Operation Soapbox is now live - if you are a participating group or if you'd like to find out more about the project you can logon at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/soapbox

What do young people from across Britain want to say to the world? As participants in a giant national conversation what question would they ask? What messages would they send? And how could those ideas be explored and articulated other than through words?

Inspired by those questions, Southbank Centre is inviting schools and youth groups from around the UK to be part of Operation Soapbox, a national project to explore how we express ourselves and how new ideas form.

Using the medium of the soapbox - the traditional vehicle for independent expression - young people nationwide are asked to join a creative experiment with each other and with the public. Participating schools or classes receive a Soapbox Satellite - an ordinary looking box containing an extraordinary question or idea - as a catalyst for a year of exploration. What they do with the box and its cargo is up to them. All we ask is that they use it as a springboard for their own conversations, ideas and experiments. And that they send back their 'findings', in one form or another, by Summer 2008.

For more details about the project or to register your interest as a participating group, please call 020 7921 0871 or email soapbox@southbankcentre.co.uk

(A Southbank Centre project, in collaboration with AOC)