Bulletin 26 June 2009

MOBEX: Providing development training to vulnerable and disadvantaged young people through outdoor adventure and the arts

Out of the 20 subsidised activity dates offered just a few weeks ago for the summer holidays Mobex only have 8 left.

So, if you have a group of young people who want to go canoeing, raft building, gorge walking, climbing, abseiling, waterfall jumping or any of the other adventurous activities Mobex
Or maybe you have young people who would like to take part in archery, fencing, problem solving, felt making of huge arts projects.

The cost is only £270 per day for up to 10 people and for this Mobex will pick you up and drop you off – provide 2 members of staff – provide all necessary equipment and resources – provide a memorable and exciting learning experience.

Tel: 0191 2302830
Fax: 0191 6408605
Email: admin@mobexnortheast.org.uk
Website: www.mobexnortheast.org.uk

Mediabox teams up with Your Game

Mediabox, in association with Your Game, is offering twenty disadvantaged 16-19 year-olds (and up to 25 years-old if they have learning difficulties and/or disabilities) the chance to attend an all expenses paid filmmaking workshop at either the Your Game event in Hull (28th July) or London (20th August). After the training Mediabox will provide all participants with £500 and the support of an industry mentor, to make a film exploring why sport is important to them.
To enter visit: http://www.media-box.co.uk/yourgame

‘Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered’

Do you have any questions about using Hear by Right? Then come along to a “Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered” session and have your Hear by Right questions answered by other colleagues using the Hear by Right standards and Jake Manning or Harry Wade from The National Youth Agency. We have two types of session on offer:

Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered (New Users) – This session is aimed at anyone new to Hear by Right. It provides an introduction to the Hear by Right standards and an opportunity to discuss any further questions you may have.

Hear by Right Your Questions Answered (Current Users) – This session is aimed at anyone already using the Hear by Right standards and offers an opportunity to ask questions and seek advice about the use of Hear by Right in your particular setting.

Both sessions are absolutely free and will be coming to a region near you soon. They are based on the Open Space meeting model, which makes sure that what you want to talk about is on the agenda (please see description and draft outline attached). The sessions will usually run from 12-4pm and lunch will be provided!

“Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered” sessions will also be a great opportunity for colleagues to network and find out about how to access other local Hear by Right and participation support (such as your local Participation Works Network).

Here is what some previous attendees have said:

• “Gave me lots of advice on where to start for my particular organisation”
• “I have already embarked on a map and plan and this helped to consolidate my thinking”
• “Excellent – I now have the ability to make it relevant to each service provider and young people” (Delegate from Children’s Services Department)
• “Great event! Very useful, good contacts and relevant info”
 
Details of the next “Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered” sessions is available at www.participationworks.org.uk/training
 
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. So to make sure you get your questions answered, visit: www.participationworks.org.uk/training and select whichever “Hear by Right – Your Questions Answered” session is most convenient for you.
 
Please forward this email to other colleagues who may be interested and for further information, feel free to contact Jake Manning on 0116 2427443 / jakem@nya.org.uk or Harry Wade on 0116 2427405 / harryw@nya.org.uk.

Bulletin 19 June 2009

Tours of people’s homes

Do you have a story to tell?
Do you enjoy welcoming people into your home?
Have you ever fancied being a tour guide?
Perhaps you have a collection you want to share, or a talent you want to showcase?
Tours of People’s Homes will be a public programme of events that will take place in and around Newcastle and Gateshead in November 2009 as part of the new Wunderbar Festival.
Members of the public will work with internationally acclaimed artist and director Joshua Sofaer over the next few months to develop a tour, or performance, in their own home. They will give their tour to a paying audience as part of the Festival.

For more information go to www.wunderbarfestival.co.uk/toph

National Body for Youth Leadership Volunteer Internships to your young people

Please note the deadline has been extended to Monday 22 June. The opportunity is for up to 3 months and a minimum of one month from Monday 6 July to Friday 25 September.

Please could you update your records and let your young people know about the opportunity?

London 2012 Open Weekend- 24-26 July 2009

Call for submissions: Middlesbrough Live Site
 
Live Sites
As part of London 2012′s Cultural Olympiad, a network of Live Sites: large outdoor screens with linked performance spaces have been developed throughout the UK. Whilst providing a platform for a wide range of cultural events and performances, the Live Sites will also relay great sporting moments, support 2012 cultural projects and offer an opportunity for local content and opportunities. The first of these sites in the North East is in Middlesbrough.

The Live Sites are a partnership between the BBC, the Local Authority and LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games). Each site has its own BBC Screen Manager, who is responsible for developing, approving and editing content for the screen.

London 2012 Open Weekend
As part of this, we are now looking for content for these screens, to be shown as part of London 2012′s Open Weekend, which will celebrate 3 years to go until the Games in 2012. The London 2012 Open Weekend will celebrate art, culture, sport, and everything that makes up the London 2012 Games. Last year around 700,000 people enjoyed 655 events. This year promises to be bigger and better – a three-day celebration for the whole of the UK. We want organisations and venues across the UK to really open up, challenge themselves to do something different, something exciting. We want the public to take this opportunity to join in, try something new, inspired by London 2012.

Call for Submissions:
As part of this, we are looking for North East content (work made in the region or by regionally-connected makers) for the Live Site in Middlesbrough to screen over the Open Weekend of 24-26 July 2009. This could be short films, games, new media work, artists’ film and video or animation.

If you have already submitted your film for the Glastonbury Screen, and consented for it to be considered for the Middlesbrough Live Site, it will be automatically included in submissions for Open Weekend.
 
Content should be:
• Length: films should be under 12 minutes (if longer, they would need to be edited, with the makers permission)
• Format: Either DVD or miniDV cassette. We can accept them as video files such as AVI or WMV on data discs like CDRom, as long as the quality is high enough.
• Quality: content needs to be of a sufficiently high technical quality (720×576 pixels: DVD quality)
• Sound: Live Sites are equipped with their own audio system
• Rights: Films should be rights cleared, or the maker agree to the public showing
• Type: Film can be narrative or non narrative. Animation, games etc will also be welcome. We are particularly interested in content with a Middlesbrough / Tees Valley focus. Films should be suitable for all audiences.
How to Submit
If you would like to submit a film/s for screening on the Live Site please send a copy along with a completed film submission form (attached) by July 10th 2009.

Films will be selected by a panel made up of London 2012, NE, Northern Film & Media and Arts council England.

Send to:
Live Site Submission
c/o Lorna Fulton
Arts Council England
Central Square
Forth Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PJ

If you would like any further information contact

Lorna Fulton on lorna.fulton@london2012.com or tel: 0191 255 8535
Amanda Ritson, amanda.ritson@artscouncil.org.uk, tel: 0191 2558553
Lisa Laws, lisa@northernmedia.org or tel: 0191 269 9208

Bulletin 12 June 2009

Shine Week 2009

Shine is a national festival celebrating all the talents in all young people and is taking place between 6th and 10th July 2009. Embracing the energy and enthusiasm of young people, teachers and youth workers Shine Week creates a real buzz across the country and in the media and is a really exciting way to celebrate the talent that every young person has. Shine Week is about celebrating all talent, it can be in the performing arts but it can also be in technology, science or working in the community.
Last year over 2,500 school and organisations participated in Shine, with around a million young people taking part. Shine received wide spread and very positive national and regional media coverage. This year Shine is building on last year’s success.

For more information see: http://www.shineweek.co.uk/

Opportunity for Creative Young People

Visual Dialogues 2009

The Project:
Visual Dialogues is an exciting National project that gives young people the opportunity to work ‘behind the scenes’ in an art gallery. Partners involve Tate Britain – London, The Graves Art Gallery – Sheffield, Manchester Art Gallery and Norwich Castle.

Overall Concept:
The project will focus on one work of art. The group will explore themes from the artwork and develop ways of making it exciting and interesting for other young people.

Involvement of young people:
They are seeking to recruit a group of 20 young people aged 16 – 19 with an interest in art to work alongside artists, curators and gallery staff at the Laing Art Gallery. Opportunities for the group will include:
- Meeting and working alongside renowned artists
- Participating in creative hands-on work
- Enabling young people to have a voice in the gallery
- Developing skills relevant to working in museums and galleries
- Other ideas which will be decided by the group

Project timescale:
August – February 2009/10
The young people must be available one weekend afternoon a month (either Saturday or Sunday) for the duration of the project.
(Day to be determined by availability of the group)

How a young person should apply:
To put a young person forward for this opportunity please complete the attached form and email to lucy.smith@twmuseums.org.uk/ fax/ mail it back by Friday 26 June 2009.

The National Trust Holy Jesus Hospital – Office Space to Let, to not-for-profit organisations

The Holy Jesus Hospital is a Grade II* listed building situated in central Newcastle close to local bus, metro, rail stations and city centre parking facilities.  This fantastic building offers modern office facilities, with on-site meeting and training room facilities, in a building with great character and history.

One office is available to let for £2,600 pa (reviewed annually).  The cost includes heating and electricity.  Broadband and telephone services are also available, provided by The University of Northumbria.

Each office is suitable for up to 3 people.  Kitchen facilities are also provided.

For further information please contact:

gerard.new@nationaltrust.org.uk 

Tel. 0191 2557610

Bulletin 5 June 2009

North East Intergenerational Network Meeting

30th June 2009

The next Centre for Intergenerational Practice Network Meeting in the North East will be held at St Thomas More R C High School. The purpose of the meetings is to provide an open forum at which Members/Attendees can discuss various aspects of intergenerational work.

The meeting will include a special viewing of an exhibition delivered by the students and volunteers.  There will be presentations from Ged Stanton, Head of Humanities at St Thomas More and Pip McKever, North Tyneside Council who will present on one approach which allows younger and older people to come together as equal partners in a learning experience.

Joining them will be Matthew Joseph, Scarborough Borough Council, Sarah Woodhouse, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, Lowri Bond, Northern Architecture and Douglas Hunter, Equal Arts.

These meetings can assist organisations in taking projects forward by; transfer of knowledge and sharing best practice, a practical insight into how intergenerational work changes the perceptions of those participating and making links with others for possible future partnership working.  The meeting has been designed to showcase the benefit of intergenerational activity and how organisations have recognised to look at new ways of working to bring the generations together. 

The network aims to:

• Provide opportunities for information sharing and open-dialogue
• Foster collaborative working
• Encourage the presentation of intergenerational projects

The nework Meeting is going to be an informal chance for anyone interested in intergenerational work to connect, network, form new relationships and present their work.  This small and inexpensive format allows you the flexibility to meet old friends and culture new relationships.  Learn about what happens in other projects and potential future plans!  To attend please return the registration reply form by 24th June 2009.

Seven Stages of getting Drunk

A group of young women from the Phoenix Detached Youth Project have written and starred in a film about the seven stages of getting drunk and the risks associated with this. This film is now on You Tube under the heading ‘Pissed and unprotected’   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imga0YGJNHk