Education Projects
Clients Include:
Bristol City Council
Bath and North East Somerset
-County Council
South Gloucestershire County Council
Poole Borough Council
The British Library
Bristol University Education Dept.
Corfe Hills School, Dorset
Cotham School, Bristol
Speedwell School, Bristol
Lockleaze Primary School, Bristol
Young Bristol
Bristol Youth And Community Action
Bristol Youth Offending Team
Youth Inclusion Programme
St.Paul's Adventure Playground
Knowle West Youth Project
Lawrence Weston Youth Project
222 Pupil Referral Unit
Big Time Young People's Festival
Shambala Festival
Glastonbury Festival
Connexions South West
St.Matthias Pupil Referral Unit
Hanham Youth Project
Forest Of Avon
Twerton Youth Project
Odd Down Youth Project
Kingswood Foundation
Gate Youth Cafe
Sefton Park Youth Project
Ashley Youth Project
Southside Youth Project
Avonmouth Youth Project
Remix (Youth Music Action Zone)
When the hip hop subculture was still in its infancy, a South Bronx DJ and ex-gang leader named Afrika Bambaataa started a crew/organisation which he named the Mighty Zulu Nation. The Zulu Nation is still going strong some 30 years later and continues to adhere to its original aims of using hip hop as a force for positive change for young people, through education in the creative arts of MCing, Djing, breakdancing, and graffiti.
This was my inspiration for starting to work as a youth arts workshop facilitator a few years ago, after working as a youth worker in Bristol for five years (and running a project in St.Paul's, in Bristol, for three years).
Building young people's confidence through creativity and allowing them to harness the power of their imaginations helps them to learn about themselves and to grow as people in an informal educational setting.
Graffiti (and hip hop in general) was a vital part of my own creative and personal development and it is the passion I feel for it that drives me to do the work I do now. My time as a youth worker gave me the confidence to branch out on my own and gave me a firm base of experience to build on.
On the sub pages contained in this section you will find examples of the wide variety of projects that I have worked on, in schools and youth centres across the South West of England.
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