KENNETH SPEIRS
It’s the final week of the Paisley Youth Arts Festival.
The e v e nt is a new multi- arts festival for young people in Paisley that will run until Sunday.
The lineup featured 50 events taking place in venues around the town centre, attracting young people from Renfrewshire and beyond.
The project is one of the initiatives to come out of the Paisley 2021 legacy’s focus on youth arts events and is an independent project partnered by Create Paisley, Erskine Music and Media Studio, Outspoken Arts Scotland, PACE, Renfrewshire Leisure and University of the West of Scotland.
A spokesman said: “Thanks to everyone who came along to last week’s events at Paisley Youth Arts Festival.
“In this final week of the inaugural festival, we have a variety of events and shows on offer for all the family.
“Some are free, some ticketed.” The festival offers everything from retro gaming, live music, and visual art to theatre, parties, workshops and talks.
On Saturday, there is Celebrating Women in Music at UWS Union.
Featured will be Carol Laula and Band, Mandulu and Hephzibah, Marina Rolink, Lisa Kowalski, Jordan Stewart, PACE Youth Theatre and support from Erskine Music and Media.
People won’t want to miss The Diary of Anne Frank, performed by the newly-founded PACE Rep Company.
Director Jenni Mason said: “This will be an intensive, inspiring, powerful and moving performance.”
See it at the Wynd Centre tomorrow from 7pm to 8pm.
Perhaps the most exciting event of the festival is the invitation to Paisley’s young people to take part in an amazing virtual reality ( VR) experience at the Paisley Art Institute exhibition in The Piazza.
This is a chance to put on some special goggles and enter top artist John Walter’s Fourth Wall.
This is his first VR work, and it builds on his experience of working in video, animation, computeraided design, collage, painting and sculpture.
Walter has customised cable-free Oculus Go headsets by mounting masks on them, transforming viewers into performers as well. Chaperones wear colourful tabards that feature images from the VR.
For full details of these and other events at Paisley Youth Arts Festival, visit http://youthartsfestival.co.uk
In this final week, we have a variety of events on offer for all the family