"We'd like to thank AudioActive for creating great projects over the years, where we could hone our skills and build a passion towards the career that we're in now! In other words AudioActive did us a lot of good and without them we wouldn't be here!"
Rizzle Kicks
Rizzle Kicks raised the roof at Brighton Dome in a one of fundraiser gig for AudioActive. Support act competition winners Luke Fincher, Frankie Stew & Harvey Gunn, Barcode, and Half Crown were brilliant and warmed up the stage nicely for the RK boys.
In total over £4,000 was raised towards our Hip Hop Foundation project where Jordan and Harley cut their teeth in rapping and live performance
Our Director Adam Joolia said:
“It has been amazing to have young people who have benefitted from AudioActive projects involved in this event at every level from headline and support acts act right through to volunteers and collectors. Regardless of the funds raised tonight this event has been a great experience for everyone involved. Thanks to Rizzle Kicks, their team, the talented young support acts and all of the staff and volunteers who have made tonight possible”
You can find a review of the gig here
Hip Hop Foundation is our flagship skills training and performance programme
The 2013 Programme will include a series of year round workshops and master classes in Rap, performance skills, live music production, digital DJ'ing and much more
Workshops are running at Brighton Youth Centre and The Hangleton Youth Centre
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Monday evenings, 6-8pm, at Brighton Youth Centre 64 Edward Street, BN2 0JR
| MUSIC PRODUCTION, BEATBOX, LIVE LOOPING, TURNTABLES | RAP, EMCEE, LYRIC WRITING |
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Apr – 15th, 22nd, 29th May – 13th, 20th Jun – 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, Jul – 1st, 8th, 29th, Aug – 5th, 12th, 19th, |
Apr – 15th, 22nd, 29th May – 13th, 20th Jun – 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, Jul – 1st, 8th, 29th, Aug – 5th, 12th, 19th, |
Monday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm, Hangleton Youth Centre Northease Drive Hove BN3 8LG
RAP, PERFORMANCE SKILLS, MUSIC PRODUCTION
Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, Hangleton Youth Centre
Apr – 15th, 22nd, 29th
May – 13th, 20th
Jun – 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
Jul – 1st, 8th, 29th
Aug – 5th, 12th, 19th
Sep – 2nd
Oct – 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Nov - 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
Dec – 2nd
The Lab
Free music workshops for 13 – 19 year olds take place over 7 week blocks:
Next Dates in 2013 are:
First week starting 22nd April
Last week starting 10th June
Workshops will take place over 7 week blocks:
Tuesdays: Rap School - Lyric writing, freestyling, storytelling rap and performance skills with Jon Clark
Wednesdays: DJ Academy – sampling, scratching and mixing with Matt Prince
Thursdays: Music production and song writing with Jon Clark
All Workshops run from 6.30 – 8.30pm e-mail
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or call to sign up for your free place.
Venue - The School Creative Centre, New Road, Rye, Kent, TN31 7LS
AudioActive's board of trustees is inviting you to the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 17th January 2013 at the Brunswick (function room), Holland Road, Hove
Arrival and drinks 6pm
AGM 6.30pm
- Election of trustees
- Presentation of AudioActive's aims, activities, including some of the amazing work done by AudioActive's talented members
- Information on how to get involved in our projects
Benefit gig from 7pm onwards
- Featuring live music from jazz/funk outfit Super 8 and AudioActive musicians/artists
Everyone's welcome: young and old, members and non-members, individuals, families and friends.
This will also be a great opportunity to meet and chat with friends, colleagues and AudioActive's staff.
The AGM is a free public event.
Those wishing to stay for the benefit gig after the AGM will be asked to make a voluntary donation.
LEVS
Levs are a group of rappers and music producers who graduated from the Youth Offending Service and Audio Active's mentorship program. Working towards attaining an Arts Award, they have been teaching young people how to produce their own beats, write lyrics and record their creativity. We hope to release a CD of tracks created by the young artists that attend the sessions as well as getting them involved in other Audio Active live events.
LEVS have started their own series of rap workshops - Level up
ATTENTION YOUNG RAPPERS AND MUSIC LOVERS!
Are you between the ages of 13 and 19? Think you've got the skills to hold your own in a Cypher? Then get yourselves down to the weekly Level Up Cypher at BYC. Hosted by local rappers eMbi & J-Harz with beats and Dj-ing from Frank Rich, the sessions offer a chance for young people of all musical levels to rock up and get stuck in with Lyric Writing, Dj-ing, and Group Cyphers. Most importantly it's a place to hone your skills, broadcast your talent and take your rap game a Level Up! It's all about grouping together the exiting talent that's out there whilst building friendly competition and developing new musical knowledge and skills. So bring your A-game and lets see who gets the most reloads!
Feel free to bring your own Beats or Mixes in either USB or CD format.
Time: Wednesday evenings 7pm - 9pm
Website: facebook.com/LevelUpCypher
Location: Brighton Youth Club (BYC), Address: 64 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JR
Contact Number: 01273 681368
Helen Bonnick writes a very informative blog about the problems faced by parents who face abuse from their children.
This is a very real problem, but not very well documented or understood.
We were very pleased that Helen had some positive comments to make about the Break4Change project. A partnership project involving AudioActive, Brighton and Hove City Council and the domestic abuse charity RISE - which aims to use creative arts alongside counselling, in order to support parents and their children in overcoming this issue.
You can read Helen's blog 'Holes in the Wall' here:
http://holesinthewall.co.uk/2012/10/19/creating-change-in-parent-abuse/
Tickets available from the School Creative Centre.
www.theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk/performing_audioactive.html
In association with Brighton and Hove Youth Service:
Beat Express: http://www.shutupandlisten.org.uk/bands/17-beat-express
Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn (Concept of Thought): http://hiphopinenglish.com/artists/frankie-stew/
Barcode (Shrapnel (Amandla) and Mad Hatter): soundcloud.com/mad-hatter-beats www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK2P5Iysi_0
All welcome!
On 6 June 2012, passengers on board the 12.32pm train from Brighton to Ashford were given a unique opportunity to be part of the launch event of Who's Listening?.
Who's Listening? is a wonderful collection of audio stories and rap stories by adults and young people, that bring local tales of smugglers and pirates, witches and pleasure-seekers to passengers as they travel on the Marshlink trains via QR-coded downloads.
This is the latest project produced by the award-winnning School Creative Centre in Rye with innovative youth music and arts collective AudioActive. The project was part of the Rother District element of the East Sussex-wide Word County project, working in partnership with Sussex Community Rail Partnership. Sam Bryant on behalf of the Sussex Community Rail Partnership said: “This is the first time we have actually worked with a partner and launched something on the train and I was really surprised by the number of passengers who were keen to hear the stories and really enjoyed the experience."
The Marshlink line cuts through an area steeped in history, providing a wealth of material for both emerging and established writers. Inspired by lives and legends from the past, two rap stories, The Smugglers’ Tale and The Case of Alice Martin, were written and recorded by nine young people as part of a three-day workshop at The School Creative Centre, Rye, working with AudioActive rap artists Jon Clark and Paul Alborough, aka Professor Elemental, with music producer Ollie Finn and research support from young historian Henry Lampitt. One of the participants said: “ I have never done rap before and wasn't sure if I would sound OK but Jon, Paul and Henry were great in helping us to write our stories and gave us lots of encouragement to just have a go – I was amazed how professional the finished raps sounded, brilliant!"
You can listen to the stories by visiting http://eastsussex.wordpress.com/rother-district/
Or, download the stories onto your smartphone by scanning this QR code:
We’re incredibly proud to announce Rizzle Kicks as the first ever patrons of the charity. Jordan and Harley were involved in various AudioActive projects between 2006 and 2010 including Hip Hop Foundation and Bonfire Night an edgy supernatural Hip Hop Theatre production. We’re really looking forward to working with the lads again in their exciting new role.
It's astounding that 18 months ago Rizzle Kicks were involved in our projects as beneficiaries of the charity and that in such a short space of time they are in a position to be able to support us as patrons, helping us to continue our important work with children and young people. We work hard at AudioActive to make sure that the young people we work with have an influence in the running of the organisation but we didn’t expect it to happen like this!
Says AudioActive Director, Adam Joolia
Jordan & Harley are over the moon about becoming Patrons:
AudioActive do amazing work. If it wasn’t for the experiences we had, the skills we learnt and the contacts we made at AudioActive, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We’re both grateful and proud to be able to give something back to this incredible organisation.
As this is such a special occasion we thought we’d dust off a vintage AudioActive film ‘Brighton Hip Hop Festival Workshops 2007’. If you watch carefully you’ll see some footage of a young Jordan & Harley talking about how the project helped them. Enjoy!
Hip Hop Foundation (Brighton Hip Hop Festival) 2007 from Audio Active on Vimeo.
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