The Tunnel
Question—what do you get when you bring twenty
young people together, give them two thousand pounds,
and tell them it must be spent on a project that
‘celebrates youth in the millennium’?
Answer—the ‘Tunnel’.
To ‘celebrate youth in the Millennium’, the group decided to put forward a submission to the ‘Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland’ Consultation. However, rather than just writing a series of rights on a piece of A4, the group submitted the ‘Tunnel’, a dramatic and innovative structure featuring thought-provoking subway art, similar to that found in train stations in New York City.
The Tunnel stands at twelve feet long, seven feet high and five feet wide, built especially for the project by McCombe Brothers, Antrim. Inside, is a series of no nonsense images all depicting various aspects of human rights that the group suggested ought to be in a Bill of Rights.
The Tunnel took three months to complete and was created in partnership between WAVE Youth and Youth@CLC. The two thousand pounds was donated by the Right to Hope organisation and the project facilitated by local artists Karen and Claire Gibson. The structure stood for a while in the offices of the Human Rights Commission, before being returned to WAVE. Apparently they had a problem filing it.
