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Roundhouse presentnder 18 BBC Electric Proms - 23-29 October 2006  visit www.roundhouse.orguk or www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/ This half-term the Roundhouse Studios is hosting an electric programme of events/ projects/ young artist development/ performances/ podcasts/ tasters for young people.      We are offering unique opportunities for young Musicians, Singer-songwriters, Producers, DJs, Sound Engineers, Photographers, Film makers and Radio Producers between 13-18 years old

The Under 18 BBC Electric Proms is produced by Roundhouse Studios in partnership with the BBC as the first Music Pathfinder festival funded by the Music Manifesto.  A range of activities are on offer at Levels 1-5. Level 1: Taster Level 2: Suitable for beginners or those with a little previous experience. Level 3: More advanced creative experiences and training to nurture talent and develop skills. Level 4: Opportunities to realise a performance, film, radio programme, recording or other creative product, supported by professionals. Level 5: Opportunities for independent professional level experiences

Sound Engineering 15 -18 years Monday 23 October 10.00am-3.30pm £3.00/ day Level 1 Get an insight into recording live music both in the recording studio and for broadcasting live events. This intro day in the EMI Live Recording Studio will be followed by the chance to attend a sound check at one of the Electric Proms gigs later in the week. Limited places!   More Info...

Electric Proms Remixed 13-18 years Monday- Friday 23-27 October 10.00am-3.00pm £10/week Level 3 Remix a track provided by one of the leading artists performing during the Electric Proms. Essential: experience of using cubase or pro-tools. Create unique podcasts for Roundhouse Radio (and give a copy of your remix to the artist). More Info...

Singer/songwriter Project 13-18 years Tuesday- Saturday 24-28 October 10.00am-3.00pm £3.00/ day Level 3-4 A rare opportunity to develop your own original material with professional musicians. You will be offered one day in the studio with the band culminating in a recording of your work in the Roundhouse EMI Live Studio. Participants should submit demo or ‘guide’ recordings by 16 Oct. You’ll be notified of your place 18 October   More Info...

Electric Diary - Music Documentary Video 13-18 years Monday-Friday 23-27 October 10.00am-3.00pm £10.00/week Level 2-3 Develop your camera, sound, production and interview skills to shoot an authentic documentary of selected BBC Electric Proms events and performances. Capture the music and the artists, the people and the places, onstage and backstage. More Info...

Music Video in a Day 16-18 years Saturday & Sunday 28-29 October 10.00am – mid evening! £10.00/week Level 2-3 Work with two BBC crew to plan and shoot an Under-18 Electric Proms urban music gig on mini-DV cameras, then edit the following day ready for a screening in the FREEDM Studio at the Roundhouse on Sunday evening.     More Info...

Electric Photographs 13-18 years Wednesday – Sunday 25-29 October 2.00pm-8.00pm £10.00/week Level 2-3  From Rock to Reggae, Folk to Funk, Indie to Hip Hop there are those special images in magazines and on album covers that perfectly convey the mood of the music, the style, the culture. Using digital cameras you’ll explore how to capture the excitement of live music gigs, not only the performers but also the audience and the backstage moments. Select your favourite image to put on the Roundhouse website. The project will include learning more about using Photoshop. You need to be available for at least two evenings. More Info...

Animate the Music 13-15 years Monday-Friday 23-27 October 10.00am-3.00pm £10.00/week Level 2-3 Create an animation sequence to a track suggested by a leading BBC Electric Proms artist using video software and Flash. More Info...

Under -18 DJ Competition 13-18 years Deadline: 18th October Level 4 House/Deep House DJ wanted to play a warm-up session for Fat Boy Slim’s gig presented by Annie Mac at an undisclosed venue early evening Friday 27 October. Send your demo mix CD to Sean Corby at the Roundhouse Studios by 18 October. Annie Mac will give feedback to the top 10 and select the winner who will be notified by 21 October.   More Info...

'Music in My Time'- a musical sharing between teachers and young people 24th October 10am-3.00pm Roundhouse Studios (Limited places) Music teachers from across London will join young musicians and producers from the Roundhouse Studios, sharing ideas and skills as the young people make their music. For more information contact sean.corby@roundhouse.org.uk More Info...

Under-18 Gigs Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th October 4.00-8.00pm Venue TBC Some of London's hottest up and coming young bands will perform to an exclusive audience of under 18's during two days of live music hosted by Radio 1 and 1Xtra. The young musicians will get support, guidance and top-tips from leading professionals in one to one sessions during their preparations for the big day. More info soon on www.roundhouse.orguk/studios/

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"Making the Most of Christmas"

"Making the Most of Christmas" with J. John and Simon Coupland is from 10am to 1pm on Tuesday 31 October at St Paul's Kingston. The morning will offer inspiration and practical ideas for those who lead churches and preach at Christmas services, including some sample sermon outlines and illustrations.

The cost is £5 - you can book a place via St Paul's church office by contacting Peter Sanderson on 020 8549 5444 (though he's away this week) or peter.sanderson@stpaulskingston.org.uk.

J John is an excellent internationally known speaker and we're fortunate to have him in Kingston. Many of us are also rather desperate for fresh ideas at Christmas

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5 A side youth Football Tournament Surbiton

Room Surbiton are hosting a 5 a side football tournament on Monday 23^rd October For under 13s and over 13s. Register your team at 10am for the younger group and turn up at 1pm if you want to enter the older competition.
For more information call

Mark Rodger

on 020 8399 7329 or email markrodger@kingstonymca.org.uk

 

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happy in my skin

From Jonny Baker's site

Happy in my skin by simon bell is on youth ministry with young people from minority ethnic groups. simon bell writes three chapters and there are then contributions from practitioners in a range of contexts. i was delighted to see dean pusey putting pen to paper for one chapter as he has been someone who has challenged me and many others to think about these issues over the years.

it is a brilliant book and an important book. i feel like i've said this recently for several youth ministry books but this is just as good. it's encouraging that there are substantial texts on youth ministry being published at the moment. simon bell may be unknown to many of you. but i first met him at conferences of the iasym where i quickly realised what a sharp thinker he is. at that conference when someone has presented a paper and simon puts his hand up to ask a question there's a pregnant pause as the room waits for what is about to (gently) hit it. i try and persuade him to write his thoughts into a book every time i see him so it's exciting to see this book in print. with his roots in africa and an amazing grasp on theology, youth ministry and anthropology his writing his superb. bell argues that we need a missional and contextual approach to youth ministry but one that pushes further than we have done previously in relation to diversity of cultures. he is very supportive of the writings of people like pete ward that have helped youth ministers take issues of mission and culture seriously but he then goes on to unpack how we have missed a trick because the ways in which youth ministry has then engaged with youth culture has largely been in ways that are patterned on the dominant white cultures so end up excluding black and minority ethnic young people.

we need to build on one of youth minsitry's greatest strengths, namely dealing with issues of culture in our missiological theology and praxis. as a discipline we have a good trackr ecord of helping the church to be culturally relevant. our key weakness though is that we have not sufficiently used that strength to develop ministry that is inclusive of black and minority ethnci young people. in essence we have self limited the discipline by avoiding the difficult realities of cultural exclusion and racism in youth ministry. yet we have such an asset to offer the church in its mission if we could only learn to build on what we have contributed this far to the debate.

it's all very challenging stuff. simon argues that we need a much more poly-vocal church that is reflected in our theology and praxis. but to achieve that will require shifting the power balance in our theologies such that excluded or marginal voices are given greater weight. he also goes for the jugular when he takes on eccesiology - he suggests we have made the mistake of building on a culturally specific missiology (a good and necessary thing) with a culturally specific ecclesiology. whereas the biblical vision of the church is always inclusive, always diverse. he asks...

what are we discipling young people into - new forms of christian youth culture that exclude those who cannot identify with what is on offer? are we discipling these young people into what it means to live out the fullness of the gospel or are we appealing to and reinforcing new forms of consumerism? is this really what christ called us to and is it really in tune with a biblical theology of church - whatever expression it might have? my concern is that we have not really understood what it means to live radical christianity in a world fractured by prejudice and discrimination. in essence we are simply mimicking the dominant values of the world around us and justifying our pracis pragmatically. this, in essence is institutional racism finding expression in youth ministry

wow! i have re-read that quote i don't know how many times and don't know where to go. it's just hanging there looking at me with a huge question mark. the reason i think i feel the pain of it is twofold:
a) it's true and i know it at a deep level.
b) the emerging church/mission shaped church is built on the exact same approach of youth ministry and has the same problems. we've all been part of discussions around why emerging church is predominantly a white discussion - this suggests that we may well be party to exclusion without having even noticed.

sadly simon has moved to toronto (well sadly for me). his is a voice we need in the debate at the moment. i know he was frustrated about certain things in the mission shaped church report over precisely these issues. i now have a whole bunch of questions again. what then should we do? the book gives some stories of practice but really what should we do? this is the problem. the church as we've inherited it seems broken and fragmented. we have discovered an incarnational theology and mission that has imaginatively led us into dreaming new ways of doing mission and devloping christian communities. the church seems pretty hopeful about the possibilities here. but these new forms seem to embody the exclusion in practice but in a different way - even if we say everybody is welcome, there are other things at play. somebody help here. i keep getting this question and i think it is a very important one but we need concrete next steps.

i am proud of jenny (baker). she is the editor of this book and it's the last in a series of four youth ministry books she has overseeen for christian education. the project started years ago with getting together some focus groups of people working with young people to explore with them what resources they thought should be produced for youth ministry. the result was investing in four books. tune in chill out was the first and was ground breaking. the other two are off the beaten track and you fish shoes - all are on the christian education youth page. this last book has been a long and painful journey to get produced for a whole variety of reasons. i know jenny has agaonised over it wondering at times whether it would ever get published. but at last it is here. it needs to be on the reading lists of the centre for youth ministry and other courses, as well as getting round youth organisations. i am frustrated that i haven't seen a single review or promotion of the book yet - i hope christian education are about to leap into action with this gem.

October 11, 2006 in Books, youth ministry | Permalink | Comments (0)

Evangelism tricks for truth.....

Tricks for truth sells tricks for evangelism and is Europes largest supplier of magic tricks and gospe routines to Christian workers. They are running a Gospel Magic training day at Berrymead Church in Acton W3 this Saturday (14th October 2006).

This is an opportunity for Children's Workers, Youth Workers, evangelists and Ministers to come and see how Tricks, Illusions and other Visual Aids can be used in sermons, evangelism, assemblies etc.There are still a few places left so we are offering them to local (London based) evangelistic agencies for free.

 

The day is aimed at those with little or no experience of using magic tricks, using easy to do tricks, so do not feel afraid that you won't be able to do it.

 

The day runs from 10am until 4pm, lunch is provided.

 

For further details please contact

 

Steve Macbeth

www.tricksfortruth.com

email office@tricksfortruth.com

0208 354 0292

 

Tricks For Truth

Worship School!

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What do Christian Girls think?

This paper explores the values of girls who affiliate themselves with Christianity, in comparison with the values of girls of no religious affiliation, in the context of the ongoing debate regarding the social significance of religious affiliation.

The values of 9,447 Christian-affiliated girls, and 7,185 girls of no religious affiliation are explored over the six value areas of: myself; my worries; school; religion and society; moral issues; and societal and world concerns. The data demonstrate that Christianaffiliated girls as a group have a distinct identity as expressed through their values, in that they are more positive in their outlook on life, yet also more anxious, and more conservative in their values than girls of no religious affiliation. This finding supports the concept of religious affiliation is a key part of a person's identity, and has important implications for policy regarding young people, specifically Christian-affiliated girls.

A Survey of the Values of Christian-Affiliated Girls in the UK -- Halsall 14 (3): 333 -- Feminist Theology

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