Young Voices: Growing Pains and Teenage Dreams in the Midlands

This collection focuses on youth culture in the years before technology took over. The 1980s was a world without mobile phones or social media, where teenagers met up to talk to one another face-to-face. These young people would be instrumental in pushing technology forward to where it is today. But what did their future look like back then, and what were they hoping for? Among the films here you'll see offerings from Jubilee Arts, a community arts organisation that ran from 1974 to 1994 in the Black Country. The Jubilee Arts team worked with kids of all ages to produce films with a distinctive, slightly chaotic energy - but the casual, candid filmmaking here leaves us under no illusions as to the lives of Midlands teens. Also featured are the outlooks of younger children. Whether spending their pocket money or saving their world, they too paint a vivid picture of 80s Britain, though perhaps a slightly less jaded one. With subjects ranging from 'leaving school at 16' to 'the merits of Sylvester Stallone', immerse yourself in the modest delights of an 80s childhood.