Central Lancaster High School pupils taking part in Crossing the Line. Photograph taken by Jamie Hutchinson, a former CLHS pupil and trainee photographer.
Pupils from a Lancaster school have become the first to benefit from a new cultural partnership between The Dukes and Lancaster University. The partnership aims to enrich the city's cultural life by providing services, opportunities and education to people in Lancaster using the arts. Six classes from Central Lancaster High School worked with The Dukes Centre for Creative Learning on Crossing The Line, a 2014 twist on the Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed exercise devised by an American teacher and pioneer of diversity training. The project, which caused controversy when introduced in the 1960s, challenges discrimination and was originally created shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King. It involved designating one group superior to the other according to eye colour. The 'superior' group was given certain privileges, sat apart from the other and was told to ignore them. Within days friends were turning against one another and the exercise was reversed to monitor how the 'inferior' group reacted when they were given privileges.
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