2 weeks passes by so quickly!
Time flies when you’re having fun… Well i’ve had more meetings, been sending lots of e-mails, and drinking more tea! I went to see Sue Bearder at The Space, they are really keen to do more youth focused stuff which is great. They plan on doing 3 gig nights in the autumn that will showcase local young bands, and i suggested they might do some workshops geared towards young people and they seemed enthusiastic about the idea. We also talked about an open decks night. There used to be one at the subrooms but now they are doing an open-mic every week there. I don’t think it was particularly well attended but i think with the right promotion it could work. We also talked about The Space Live project that tok place last winter. This was a project run by Rachael Groom, funded by the v-project. Three teams of young people were put together, given trainging in promotion and marketing and sound engineering, and then each group put on their own night at the space. Some were more sucessful than others, but it seems like the young people got a lot out of the experience. I went along to a celebration party on friday, and met some of the people involved, got some useful contacts, so who knows what might come from this? I also met with a guy called Will Theilker who has set up something called Stroud Music. He’s been donated use of a space at the Waldolf College on friday nights, and plans to have an informal collective jam session, his objectives are to stretch musical boundaries, and aims to be quite organic in the way it develops. THere won’t be anyone leading, just bring your instrument and join in and see what happens. Sounds quite interesting. He seems like a very passionate guy and has lots of ideas and plans. He’skeen to be involved in the forum, and has said i could hold my meetings there so that’s a possibility. The Rock School project with Stroud Youth Centre is looking like it will definately go ahead, as long as we secure the funding, so i’ll be working on my application for the Youth Initiative Fund next week, and Danny James, the youth worker there, is going to help the young people at the youth centre apply to the Youth Opportunity Fund, so i’m really pleased - fingers crossed we’ll be granted the money. It’s going to run as a 10 week course, and then if its sucessful we might see if we can run it more long term, again funding permitted. Today i met with Jeremy Collingwood who is involved in organising the Stroud Fringe this year. He’s also really keen to do some youth focused stuff, they are hoping to have a youth stage for local young talent, and i suggeted running some youth orientated workshops which again he seemed very positive about. As usual its all funding permited, they are really struggling with funding this year, so we talked about how they could generate more money, and inspired by the ‘nham cd that Andrew (Cheltenham MDN) was involved in i suggested a stroud fringe cd that could be sold to try and make a bit more income, so we’ll see what happens with that. I’m sure there’s been more, but i think its time to go, don’t want to bore you all! Will try and update again next week. Ta Ta.
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