"Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) is a recent government initiative, operating provision for referred/identified young people. Young people are supported through a system of tracking their progress, while involving them in exciting programmes of activities.

PAYP puts on programmes such as; community cohesion events, sports and coaching sessions, street dance, urban arts (graffiti-style art),action planning and small group sessions, residentials, cultural trips, music and video production, drama, and other types of activities in consultation with young people. The activities run during the half terms, holidays, and weekends. Young people come from the Youth Offending Service, schools, Pupil Referral Units, Secondary Exclusion Teams, Police, Connexions Personal Advisors, and other voluntary and statutory organisations. Our work is targeted mostly within the borough areas of high need and deprivation."

Albie Stadtmiller - PAYP

During a two-day workshop, I worked with young people from PAYP to produce paintings and drawings that responded to both the nuclear holocaust in 1945 and to contemporary issues surrounding the current growth of nuclear weapons. The resulting works, which were installed onto a tent (itself a universal symbol of shelter), serve as a form of protest against nuclear armament and as a call for world peace.

Eric Fong 2005