Scheme to add art murals onto Droitwich Spa street cabinets 'exciting', says project manager
The Signals of Joy project has been launched, with people being asked to come up with their own designs for it
A scheme which will see murals hand-painted onto street cabinets in a Worcestershire town will expand the art on display in it, one of those leading it has said.
The Signals of Joy project has been set-up in Droitwich Spa to turn nine of the green boxes that store broadband and phone connections in them into art.
An event was held yesterday (7 April) at the town's community hall for people to come up with some ideas, with the work to be inspired by things such as memories and stories from the place.
It's being done through a partnership between Wychavon District Council, owners of the cabinet Openreach and community public arts organisation WeTheSeeds who have delivered other murals in the town on Union Lane and The Talbot.
On the launch of it all, communities officer for the council Patrick Connelly, who is also managing the project from the authority's side of things, said: "If you live or visit or work or study there you've seen street art popping up all over the town, so we saw this as an opportunity to kind of expand on that public realm arts offer.
"Across the board it's such a wonderful opportunity for the community to really get behind it, to submit their designs, to really kind of have that ownership of this project.
"We're so excited to see what they submit, the stories that we can kind of unravel around Droitwich Spa that we may or may not already know."
A closing date for design entries through online and paper copies has been set for the 11 May, with more information on it over on the council's website.