Show racism the red card
Anti-racism campaigners Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) will re-launch their annual schools art competition at this year's Scottish Learning Festival. Introduced in 2003, the competition took a year out in 2008 to enable its organisers to carry out an independent evaluation to assess the scheme's development and impact.
Following encouraging feedback from both schools and educational groups, the competition will be re-branded and re-launched at the festival on 24 September. The competition is open to schools across Scotland, and challenges them to produce artwork that explores the issue of racism. Entries can be visual art, drama, music, poetry or a combination of mediums.
Billy Singh, SRTRC Campaign Co-ordinator, explained: 'We decided not to run the competition for a year because we wanted to take a step back, speak to teachers, pupils and our key stakeholders, and see where we can go with it. That year out has evidenced for us that the competition is hugely popular and highly regarded. So we've regrouped, got a steering group together, which includes our key partners SQA, LTS and HMIE, and we're looking at how we can freshen it up and get even more schools participating.'
Show Racism The Red Card recruits football stars to educate young people on the issue of racism. Since opening its Scotland office
in 2003, it has worked in partnership with schools and Scottish football clubs in both the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League, and over the last school year has organised over 150 workshops in schools.
'The workshops, where possible, are delivered by former professional football players, and that's the strength of the campaign,' Billy said. 'Rather than having myself or one of my colleagues talking about it, they're hearing the anti-racism message from their heroes and idols, and that gives it much more impact.'
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