Our Projects
Beats Bars and Braun
Our annual Music Production, DJ and MC workshops for young people at NQ House (Manchester’s latest state of the art creative hub based in Openshaw). The programme provides a creative positive diversionary activity for young people in Manchester.
By using the ‘hook’ of music, the project provides young creatives with a safe place to develop transferable skills that equip them to succeed within the creative industries. It enables them to build relationships with one another, create a peer network, develop understanding between other diverse groups and enables them to learn how to confidently air grievances and resolve conflict via music production, participatory practices and verbatim theatre. Participants learn how to DJ, MC and express themselves creatively, they will also learn good timekeeping and management, teamwork, problem-solving, creative design and gain an understanding of lyrical content by exploring appropriate and inappropriate language. Workshops are led by industry professionals, participants will be mentored by award-winning DJ’s and will attend exclusive MC workshops hosted and curated by some of the UK’s finest talent culminating in a community sound clash style event for the local community, demonstrating the new skills that they have learnt as taking part in the project.
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