City of York Council's pioneering digital youth arts project, Biomation, will screen its latest animation for the first time next Thursday, 20 December.

The premiere will take place at the Limetrees Child, Adolescent and Family Unit at 6pm and will showcase the work of young people exploring the social, emotional and bio-medical aspects of Aspergers Sydrome through digital and traditional animation, sound and creative writing.

The special screening is being staged at Limetrees so that the young people involved in the project, the second of its kind to be delivered by Biomation, can attend with their families. The early evening event will provide them with an opportunity to see the animations projected onto a large screen. Visitors will be able to meet the artists, young people and clinicians who were involved in the project and find out more.

The project has been fully supported throughout by staff at Limetrees, including Barry Wright,  a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, who said: "The young people with Aspergers Syndrome have been captivated by the process of animation and have done some excellent work in a short time.  It has given young people with Aspergers Syndrome a medium in which they can say what they want about how they see the world and the challenges they face.

"It has also been wonderful having clinicians and artists working alongside one another other for the benefit of the young people in our area."

Biomation is a partnership between Arts Action York, which is City of York Council's community arts team, and the York NHS Art and Environment group. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust Pulse Awards, which provide funding for  projects that use creative arts to explore and explain aspects of science. Arts Action York is working with groups of young people to make animation films explaining what it feels like to live with diabetes, aspergers and epilepsy. Their work will be used to help doctors, teachers and other young people understand these chronic medical conditions.

For more information about Biomation visit www.biomation.org.uk