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Green art at Greendown
A two day recycling art project, left GCSE students inspired and
asking for more from No Added Sugar artist, Toni Robinson.

The young artists with Tolu Lapite and Toni Robinson, centre
The event was backed by Swin- write a poem called The Future is
don Scrapstore and Year 9 and 10 Ours. Professional Tuition 3 For ages 6-16
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simple images and we painted spoken to them like that before
them onto a huge piece of recycled and they asked me to come back so
material in black, red, yellow and they could hear more.
orange. It's made me think more "They were just a brilliant group
about re-using things. We used to of young people to work with -
throw plastic pots away but now they're focussed, interested, polite
we think about recycling them and and wonderfully confident artists.
using them for paint." The art work they produced was
The youngsters also worked fantastic and once they had started
with London poet, Tolu Lapite, to their work, they didn't need me."

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