Reading Makes us Free

“ Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

This project has taken inspiration from Frederick Douglass and connected freedom with the idiom ‘to be as free as a bird’.

The students have taken part in the project and individually created birds using a range of media.

Students have been writing or drawing illustrations about their favourite books.

Students decorated, cut out and constructed a bird which is a unique representation of them.

Up to 10,000 birds will be made and installed in a beautiful display  at Manchester Central Library celebrating the theme, ‘reading makes us free’.