Youth Connect South West

What a busy summer YCSW have had at Radstock Youth Centre! Over the last few months, we have been running open access youth clubs that have included:

• An art based project called RIRO with Creativity Works

• DJing with Bath Festivals

• Art with Little Lost Robot

• A day out at Glastonbury Festival...

All alongside our usual youth club activities, like sports, arts, crafts and support sessions.

We have just finished the Monday RIRO art-based project that involved young people aged 13-19, learning new skills with facilitators and artists, then delivering a community facing art workshop for all ages at Radstock Fayre. Young people showed their new skills off to the community, getting participants involved in a clay workshop to make faces, animals or anything their heart desired. The young people involved took the lead in different roles, setting up the event space, communicating with participants and helping the workshop to run effectively by being the on-site assistants. It was a great event, and many people took part, with a showcase of work from the fayre in the window at Radstock Library.

Look out for information on our website www.youthconnectsouthwest.org.uk about the new session on Monday evenings from 7pm for young people aged 13-19.

Wednesday club night, 7-9pm, for ages 13-19, has been transformed into… well just that, a club night! Our talented young people have been learning to DJ with Ash from Bath Festivals. Each week, young people have been learning to beat match, understand how to equalise sounds, looping all on a VJ Pioneer deck that you might find at a club, gig or festival.

Wait? Festival?!...

Well our young people had a once in a lifetime experience this summer to attend a workshop with none other than the Arcadia team at Glastonbury Festival! Young people had a great time, taking part in an ariel workshop to learn how the team create a whole experience of dance, music and visual arts. They also had an opportunity to take part in a welding course to learn about how the team build the amazing spider and bring it all together. Talking to Pip and Bert, the founders, young people learned that you don’t need formal qualifications to get into the creative teams at festivals, just a passion for what you are making, building and bringing to life.

Some of our young people who have been DJing, got to see the famous spider DJ booth and have been inspired by both events for their future careers.

For more information about sessions in Radstock at our Youth Hub, please contact;

Carrie Ford, NES Youth Work Team Leader07875488718

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