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 Add Kolor was created in February 2009 when a 15 year old boy from Winton decided that young people needed more outdoor places to paint legally.The young boy was introduced to the Bournemouth Youth Opportunities Fund where he and a friend were successful in a bid for £2500. Armed with this money they recruited 11 more young artists and started to advertise for mural spaces. To date, they have completed a mural for Fernheath Community Sports Association, Sevenoaks Youth Hostel, Fusion Youth Centre and Fortuna House. They have also visited legal wall areas in Southampton and Bristol for inspiration and organised workshops with professional artists. Add Kolor want to continue brightening legal walls in their community and encourage anyone to approach them with new ideas. Contact for the project is: alex.miller@b Add Kolor graffed up the sports hall at Embassy Youth Centre last week. About 10 young people spent the day designing and painting 3 of the huge walls. The end result is a vibrant mural - floor to ceiling - for all the youth centre's young people to enjoy. Add Kolor's skills keep getting better and better and new artists are lining up to get involved. Watch this space! Add Kolor speak up about Legal Walls.  ...... This february Add Kolor invited councillors, police, youth workers and artists to an exciting debate where they explained all the reasons why young people need a designated legal wall space to paint on their own time. Over 50 people showed up and the discussion at times was very heated. Everybody was really impressed with Add Kolor and how much passion they have for legal graffiti. There were many ideas about how Add Kolor could find legal wall space in Bournemouth & Poole. So watch this space - maybe soon there will be a legal wall near you!! GOING LEGAL IN SOUTHAMPTON Add Kolor met up with famous graffiti artist SLAM, last year in Southampton. The legendary artist from 54 Crew gave the young volunteers a VIP tour of his city, stopping their taxi every time they drove past one of his commissioned pieces. Add Kolor were in their element as SLAM described to them what the legal graffiti scene is like in his town.   The boys had brought along one of their UK graffiti magazines which had four whole pages of pieces from 54 Crew. They eagerly asked SLAM to sign their art books. SLAM explained to the boys what they'd need to survive legally in the graffiti world and how he'd won support from his community by painting quality pieces of commissioned art in dark corners of the city. SLAM told the boys the familiar tale of falling incidences of graffiti vandalism when youths have been allowed to paint in designated areas. The four teens had decided to visit Southampton after they had become frustrated by a lack of legal sites to paint in Bournemouth. Already, one of their friends has ran into trouble with the police for practicing his painting in the wrong spot. SLAM explained how there isn't the same pressure in Southampton because there are two large, legal sites to paint on. Add Kolor went to visit the two sites and couldn't resist painting on one of them themselves. Unfortunately, one of these sites will soon be pulled down, leaving Southampton artists with just one legal site for the whole city. Still, that is better than in Bournemouth where graffiti artists have to beg to paint anywhere legally. Add Kolor hope that their researching and networking will eventually help them to get a legal site for painters in Bournemouth so that many artists won't be tempted to vandalise anymore. The young artists are backed by VIBE and are funded by Bournemouth Youth Opportunities Fund and Dorset Crimebeat. If you own any discreet walls in Bournemouth which could be turned into a legal graffiti site, please contact
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