Helen Weinstein, Director of HistoryWorks and Michael Rosen, Our Poet in Residence, invite you to contribute art to us online to illustrate Michael’s poem and to put up afterwards in your window

Pictures are for illustrating a film called HOPE with a song lyric by Michael Rosen for a new poem called VOICES OF HOPE

LANDSCAPE AND BOLD WORDS PLEASE

These artworks need to be A4 landscape so they can be scanned or photographed the shape of a film/computer screen!

 Pictures can be very bold and we would like YOUR pictures to display words.  So you can have fun with fonts and colours that shout out HOPE

WORDS AND IMAGES - CHOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

HOPE (we want this to be in a big bold letters + we’ve a suggestion you can show rainbows as a national icon of hope)

VOICES OF HOPE (we want these as colourful lettering + we suggest you can include people, families, protestors, children showing your figures speaking their voices of hope)

MESSAGES OF HOPE (we want HOPE in big lettering and central in your picture + we suggest word is surrounded by your happy messages or pictures to make others smile)

CANDLES OF HOPE (we want a big candle featuring the colour purple + suggest you show 6 candles in purple because we will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day with purple lights in Cambridge and we’ll light 6 candles on the day we release the film of Michael Rosen's new film with your illustrations) 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ART 

You can submit between 1 and 5 pictureres if you wish.

When you've completed your Art you just take a photograph and submit into a dropbox via the link http://bit.ly/HMDArt2021

Please do NOT put your name on the front of the artwork otherwise we cannot use it in the film.  However, you put your name as the file name when you submit it, so that we can credit you for your contribution. If you submit more than one picture into the dropbox you can therefore name them eg if two as follows:

MichaelRosen1  MichaelRosen2

Good Luck!  Helen Weinstein & Michael Rosen

HOPE lyrics by Michael Rosen

Hope is in the eyes of love

Hope is in the smiles we see

Hope is in the trees that grow

Hope is in the heart of me

When the slow sad times come

you need a place to go

When the slow bad times come

you need someone to know