Inter Faith Cohesion Project

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The inter faith project enabled a group of young people from different neighbourhoods, with different cultural backgrounds and from different faith communities to learn about their differences and celebrate their commonality.

During the week they looked at their own identity using digital photography and worked with someone they had not met before to explore their similarities and their differences.

They used their photography as part of their 'human jigsaw piece', modelled their hand shakes and together created the Big Book of Ideas which invites participants to 'mix and match' heads, torsos and legs - we are all different but we all have things in common.

They completed their project by designing peace symbols to be cast in bronze and set in a path in Corporation Park, Blackburn, as a lasting legacy of this celebration of cultural diversity. Click here to see the work.

Thoughts from the young people,

"We both come from different countries, we both have different hobbies, we both like cats and we both like stawberries."

"The best thing about coming here was making friends because I found one."

"We both have the same worst vegetable - brussel sprouts - we are different colours - but we both have hamsters and we both like pomegranites."