Swap Shots Mobile Film Exchange

The mobile film exchange, Swap Shots, offered a new way for care experienced young people in Shetland to creatively engage with each other during lockdown restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic. The project was part of the larger 3-year arts based research project, Home and Belonging. Swap Shots aimed to engage care experienced young people in a visual arts-based activity which would develop visual language and filmmaking skills in relation to their home, and locale. It provided a way to gently introduce a public dimension to personal work while encouraging ongoing exploration of issues around ideas of home and belonging.
The book Mapping the new genre Arctic art education opens a window to the world of New Genre Arctic Art Education initiatives, where creativity meets sustainability. Through the collaboration of two Thematic Networks of the University of the Arctic – Arctic Sustainable Art and Design, and Children in the Arctic – this book intertwines examples of art, education, and psychosocial activities to foster a vibrant and enduring Arctic. Through five illuminating chapters and 24 visual essays, this book celebrates and ponders how New Genre Art Education in the Arctic nurtures local eco-cultures, ensures cultural continuity, promotes well-being, and strengthens social identities. By doing so, it contributes to building social resilience and sustainability.