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May30
Hi my name is Jess i am 18 years old and have been with my partner for nearly four years. We were curently doing nothing before starting a youth project called Pump It Project.
We have been on the course now for nearly twenty weeks, at the beginning of the project I found out I was pregnant we still carried on with the Pump It Project and now we have gained our First Aid Certificate, NVQ in Employability Skills,Sports Leaders Award and Volunteering.
We are now looking for a home and my partner is starting work next month so everything is looking up after this project has finished but it has helped us a lot .
I have really enjoyed being part of this group.
I am now hoping to find a job as a Nurse in our local hospital after the baby is born and start my career there.
Tags: Employment, North East, Sunderland, Young People
Posted in Lifestyle, North East, Youth Groups
May17
As a hopeful future journalist I jumped on the opportunity to watch new talent shine on my door step. For £3 on the door I was very pleased to allow my analytical tendencies run free and somehow find meaning in the actor’s Sonic the Hedgehog T-shirt.
I was invited by a friend of a friend to witness the most frightening, dark and thought-provoking play I’ve seen since The Wedding Singer musical. Maybe that’s not saying a great deal but it’s not often I get invited to watch plays. The play I’m mumbling about is ‘Ransom’ a work in progress by Steven Blackshaw whose talented is being squandered folding clothes in TK Maxx. The play itself explored the battle between good and evil within everyday people and challenged us to judge the characters personalities for ourselves. Was the man in the sonic t-shirt good or evil? I’m still not sure. Full of mystery and twists all 15 of us in the audience were practically on the floor. The play was performed at the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle on 10/04/2012 courtesy of ‘Write on Tap’ a fabulous company that is giving people like Steven a chance to shine. Every Tuesday for several weeks this dingy old man’s pub that smells faintly of broken dreams and eau de retirement becomes a haven for potential genius and future stars.
By Rachel Byrne
Tags: North East, Talent, Theatre
Posted in Lifestyle, North East, Things we like, Things we've found
May17
I am Monjer Rashid, Programme Manager, Solar Learning Services and The Urban Games.
We are working with Internationally renowned Prodigal Theatre Company, aka Urban Playground, to prepare a 10 minute performance for the opening of the Olympic Torch Relay celebration events, Newcastle Quayside, Friday 15th June 2012.
A collaboration of dancers, and free runners, expressing themselves through a theatrical display of movements, tricks and flips. Quality and detail are of huge importance, and so the costumes, the soundtrack and the choreography are all custom-made for the showcase. This will truly be an amazing display of the hidden talent in the NE.
You can find out more about the performance and how you can get involved in our activities by visiting www.theurbangames.org.uk
The North East certainly does have talent!!
The project is funded by Newcastle City Council and the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative.
Tags: BMX, Dance, Free Running, Newcastle, North East, Olympic, Parkour, Torch Relay, Urban Games, Young People, Youth, Youth Action Groups, Youth theatre, Youth worker
Posted in Communities, Events, Lifestyle, North East, Things we like, Youth Groups
