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Young DaDaFest: Music 2016 Wednesday 6 July • 6:30pm - 8:30pm • Music Room at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Welcome! Here are your acts for tonight: Arden Rockers • Under Pressure Arden Rockers are going to perform songs based on the theme of scratch showing how we feel inside. The first song is a mash up of different pop songs to tell a story of people under pressure and how with help of others can overcome their isolation. The second song explores the emotions of how we interact with to one another. Bank View Band • Six for Tennis • Scratch & Thinking About You Six for Tennis are a group of young musicians from Bank View High school. They will be performing two of their own songs that have been specially commissioned for Young DaDaFest 2016. Six for Tennis cannot wait to rock the Philharmonic’s music room in July! Young DaDa Ensemble Explore • Scratch the Surface We are a Rock n Roll band with drums. We make our own music and we rap! We’ve been playing together for 8 months. We play music on different instruments, in different styles, with different people - a mix of young people and musicians - you learn all different types of music. We love playing the drums, making up our own songs, and playing guitar and keyboard. It helps use our imagination a bit more. One thing we can say about all of us is we play music no matter what! We are cool!
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Young DaDa Ensemble Evolve • Songs based on the theme Scratch Joining in, playing instruments, and hanging out with my friends at DaDaFest, meeting new people, inspiring each other. Everyone really respects each other and listens to each other. Working together as a team, playing piano, guitar, bass, singing, drumming, playing violin and cello. Sometimes we just get together and start playing, and an amazing jam happens, as if by magic! Other times, one of us brings in something which they teach to the group - we enjoy sharing all these things together.
“It means a lot to me, I’m very happy and lucky to be here, thanks a lot” - Tyler, Evolve member
Electric Fire • Live Performance! Electric Fire are a digital band performing their own unique brand of neon-future-funk, hip-hop and house; using cutting edge technology to bring energy, youth and excitement to any party. The band formed from the arts project for young people with learning disabilities, “Do Your Own Thing”, run by Heart n Soul in South London. team team Interval 7:15pm to 7:45pm Guest Performance from Batucabraille and Pourquoi Pas Nous following the show! (as part of Brouhaha Festival 2016)
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Young DaDaFest: Perform Thursday 14 July • 6pm to 8:30pm • Liverpool Everyman
Welcome! Here are your acts for tonight: Acting Up • A little Scratch beyond the surface Looking beneath the surface, Acting Up have created a film to explore what’s hidden below if we dare to delve a bit deeper and scratch the surface. Don’t judge a book by its cover, what happens if we take that risk and ‘just go for it!’? This will show what happens next if we take that extra step… Bank View MADD • See Beneath Your Beautiful A contemporary dance piece where students dance in response to how the song ‘See Beneath Your Beautiful’ by Emeli Sande and Labrynth makes them feel. The backing track and lyrics will be performed by students in the school and students will perform a verse that they have added to the song too. Champions • Out of the Shadows Hi, we are a group of hard working young people who have come together as the Champions - to make a difference. We are from different schools Redbridge High, Sandfield Park, Bankview and have worked with Aigburth High School. We have done a lot of different work together to get the message out there for disability awareness, to make changes, up-grade, improve and make things fairer for everyone. We have made a film ‘Ten top Tips’, we have worked with Leonard Cheshire Can Do Project, Liverpool City Council and Hope University. This piece is based on the work completed with Hope University following on from our Ten Top Tips to raise disability awareness. 4
Drop in YEP Drop In members Bethany, Chris and Thomas, who are Young DaDaFest graduates have devised their own performance for the event. Katie • Lost and Protect Katie’s piece is about how it feels to lose a very special person and also about not being alone in the darkest of times and protecting a very special family member. Retuning with strong messages from the heart and experience to the world.
Redbridge • Redbridge High School Dance Club Redbridge want to show how we may perceive a person in a particular way because of the way they portray themselves but underneath the façade there could be lots of other thoughts and emotions hidden away. Social media and the internet can have a dramatic effect on people and may bring these inner thoughts and emotions to the surface. Sam from RAWD • Tonight’s compere Sam has worked on a script with the RAWD group to introduce the acts.
Wolfprint • Irritation Irritation is a contemporary dance piece, based on Eczema. Having the urge to scratch your skin non-stop, itch, twitch and rub, you can’t help yourself. Trying to get rid of the pain, and find a way to feel the relief; Finding that one cure to relieve the pain.
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Young DaDaFest & YEP Acting Group Coming Home Look beyond his tattered coat, his weathered skin, his weary eyes. See the man he used to be, the life he’s lived, the songs he’s sung, the girl he loved. The boy inside the man. The stories he hasn’t yet told.
Interval 7pm to 7:35pm Introducing our first ever fringe festival event on 7 July 2016 “SandFest” originated from pupils at Sandfield Park School who wished to celebrate their talents with a fringe event as part of Young DaDaFest. The invite only event will celebrate art within the school, with a variety of performances as well as artworks that will be available to purchase.
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Young DaDaFest Projects 2015 - 2016
We have had a great year here at Young DaDaFest with lots of different projects and events; here are some of the highlights: Young DaDaFest 2015 Last year’s event took place on 25 June at the Liverpool Everyman. 105 young people performed to a sold out audience and created work around the theme of “Freedom, Barriers and Respect”. It was a fantastic evening that was enjoyed by all those who attended – even the Lord Mayor got up to dance! The success of last year’s event led to us being able to expand Young DaDaFest so significantly this year. Case Study • Katie Daley “I glad to have chance to perform the DaDaFest again this year, my 3rd year on the go and its all good I loved performing last year and the year before I think its great to have something like the DaDaFest to celebrate everyone’s different abilities so I am quite happy and excited to be in DaDa again it’s a great experience and every year gets better.” Young DaDa Ensemble: The Young DaDa Ensemble is the expansion of a successful pilot project to deliver accessible music-based activities to 70 young people in Liverpool over a period of two years. The two groups have been developing their own piece for Young DaDaFest and have had the chance to meet professional musicians such as Project Jam Sandwich and Xander & the Peace Pirates.
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Case Study • Joel “This is my first year in the Young DaDa Ensemble. My favourite part of the project was singing the African songs and the call to response. I enjoyed listening to Xander and the Peace Pirates, who performed a set of their own songs as well as covers for us at the Resonate Music Hub – we even got to record our own song with them! I feel that I have become a better musician and have developed my musical knowledge and talents after becoming a part of the project. I’ve also enjoyed having the opportunity to complete my work experience in the DaDaFest office which allowed me to help out with the production of this yearbook as well as organising the Sandfest lead-in event!” Champions / Liverpool Hope University The champions project gives young disabled people a voice and helps them make positive change. This year the group have been looking at how peoples thinking changes their attitude towards disabled people.
Quote from Harry “we are a group of young people working together to make positive change for disabled young people, speaking up for the rights of disabled young people.”
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Volunteers & Staff A big thank you goes out to our Young DaDa members who have volunteered and helped out in the office and at our events over the past year. A new apprentice, Rebecca Andrews, started with us in the office last September and we also welcomed our previous apprentice from 2013, Jack Morgan, back as a Marketing Officer. DaDaFest Young Leader, Joel, is currently with us on a work placement and we also had tremendous help from Steph Niciu and Lydia Bates during the Unsung and D’Visions events in March. We were delighted that board member and young leader, Michelle Stubbs, has now become one of the Vice-chairs of DaDaFest. Case Study • Rebecca “I am currently the Digital Marketing Apprentice at DaDaFest, working on the website, newsletter and social media campaigns. So far I have really enjoyed my time here, and I’ve been given lots of opportunities to work on things I never thought I would.” Young DaDaFest and YEP Continuing the success of our collaborative workshops at past Young DaDaFest events, we have teamed up with YEP once again to produce an all new piece of work for the show! Young DaDaFest workshops, led by Katie O’ Callaghan have taken place each week at the Everyman, allowing young people to develop their performance skills and devise a unique performance.
Case Study • Jordan “Ever since Young DaDaFest 2015 I have been doing a lot of things. I am now a YEP Member! I’m loving it because I love acting and performing in front of a crowd. This is now my fourth Young DaDaFest event and third at the Everyman. Recently I did a show with YEP called “The Environmentalists” which is about the environment and I loved doing the show. At this year’s workshops for Young DaDaFest I am now coming in as a Member of YEP mentoring other young people about being on stage and getting ready for the show. When I got the text about having a place at YEP I was over the moon and I’m loving it at YEP - I can’t wait to do Young DaDaFest 2016!”
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Leadership Group Message This year has been full of change for Young DaDaFest, spearheaded not only by the Leadership group, but thanks to audience feedback and high levels of demand: we’ve listened! Now we all get to enjoy double helpings of great talent, with two events that have even given rise to a Fringe.
ensuring that it all comes together to make the cohesive and well-rounded events showcased this year at both the Philharmonic and Everyman. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in making this year’s festival the success that it will undoubtedly be.
A lot of hard work has gone into everything that you’ll see this year - as always - from sifting through all the entries and making those tough decisions on who would be our final acts, to developing the skills of some of those acts in artistic workshops and
I’m sure that if we all continue to work together, challenging ourselves, we will keep producing festivals that bring new, fresh and exciting things to draw in those crowds. After all, progress isn’t always easy, but it certainly is worth it, as you’ll see... Enjoy! - Michelle Stubbs
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Thank you
A massive thank you goes out to all the people and organisations that have helped make Young DaDaFest possible:
Universities: Liverpool Hope University • Dr Owen Barden and Dr Claire Penketh • Liverpool John Moores University
Young DaDaFest Perform: Katie O’Callaghan (Young DaDaFest Director) • Poppy Hughes (Assistant Young DaDaFest Director)
Venues: Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse • Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Young DaDa Ensemble staff and partners: Rachel Curson • Jon Hering • Georgina Aasgaard • Karl Webb, Delia Stevens • Katie Williams • Drake Music • Live Music Now • Resonate Music Hub
Event Filmmakers: Page 28 Studios
Schools: Abbots Lea • Bank View High School • Newfield • Merefield • Palmerston • Peterhouse • Redbridge School • Sandfield Park School Festival Assistant: Ollie Longhurst
Events Photographer: Brian Roberts
Yearbook Designer: Helena McGovern Yearbook Printers: The Sixth Form College, Birkenhead All the PA’s and Access support staff at events and our projects • All of the DaDaFest staff, board and volunteers Finally, a big thank you from Sam Wade • Arts Manager • Young People • DaDaFest
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Young DaDaFest is funded by Children in Need. Young DaDa Ensemble is funded by Youth Music.
Young DaDaFest is produced by the charity DaDaFest. It relies on donations, public funds and trusts to survive. The ticket price for this event are subsidised in order to keep Young DaDaFest affordable, but please consider making making a donation to keep DaDaFest and our young people’s arts activities running.
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DaDaFest International 2016
DaDaFest International 2016 This year’s festival, DaDaFest’s thirteenth since its inception in 2001, will take place from 18 November to 3 December 2016. The festival will present high quality and exciting work produced by artists close to our home in Liverpool as well as internationally that will challenge ideals and celebrate disability culture. An exciting programme of music, dance, live arts, comedy and much more is in the pipeline.
The theme for Young DaDaFest this year is “Scratch”, which leads into the overall theme of this year’s DaDaFest International festival – “Skin Deep”.
To see the programme as it develops, scan the QR code below, or visit:
Tickets are now available for Amadou and Mariam, the Grammy Award nominated afro-funk musical duo from Mali who will be headlining the festival at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 3 December 2016.
www.dadafest.co.uk/the-festival
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