Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills approximately 100,000 people a year in the UK.

AEDdonate is committed to improving survival from out of hospital cardiac arrests, supporting the placement and use of AED’s to local communities. This will help protect our local communities from the UK’s biggest killer, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).

Any support will help propel us to our goal and is always appreciated, for more information please visit: https://www.aeddonate.org.uk/projects/22-892/

AMP Kingston; Art, Music and Pop Fashion is a project to uncover Kingston’s music heritage. The ideas are a continuation of the Kingston RPM; Records, People and Music project we delivered in 2017.

To keep up to date with the AMP project and more about Creative Youth Charity feel free to 📧 

Sing, laugh and dance together in support of a good cause. There will be a charity bar available throughout the night.

Times:
19:30 – Doors open
20:00 – Support act
21:00 – The Reptiles

The Reptiles will be raising money for The Mayor‘s Charitable Trust (Creative Youth and The Community Brain CIC).

Your tickets will be emailed to you and you can bring these along on a mobile device or print them at home. We’ll also have a guestlist on the door so don’t worry if you don’t have access to a printer.

To book your tickets please click here to be taken through to our booking page.

Tanvi Ranjan is a textile artist who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Knitwear Design and Technology and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Fine Art. She will be joining us as our Creative Talent Programme artist for 2022-23. Her work explores subjects of human-machine relationship while elaborating on the techniques of textile making and the role of women in sculpting the future of digital and information age. By highlighting the intersections between textile and digital information, the artist makes visible the complexity of modern technology and internet that is often obscured by the high-speed electronic transmission of data in the form of bits.

By translating coded information into textile patterns, her works expand on the nature of patterns and noises in cybernetics and the ways in which textiles can decode modern technology and its interaction with humans. Following the methods of textile making, her practice further extends to performative and collaborative works investigating the presence of rhythmic patterns and noises using electronic sound and music as this field has in many ways been a liberating tool for women who have for long been exploring the world of experimental electronic music. By identifying such overlapping histories of women, textiles, and technology, the artist constantly stretches the boundaries of how we look at textiles from its simplest construction of weave or knit, to multi-dimensional jacquards.

Chiyana Ankhrah has joined us as Trainee Project Manager as part of our AMP Kingston project, focusing on the local art, music and pop fashion heritage of Kingston upon Thames. Chiyana is a conceptual and editorial portrait photographer who focuses on challenging and destabilising Eurocentric beauty standards, as well as raising awareness about mental illness in the Black community.

Chiyana previously worked with us as a Creative Talent Programme artist from 2021-22. Working with Creative Youth as a young creative and CTP artist, Chiyana further developed her creative practice by showcasing her photography in a thought provoking exhibition, ‘Labels: Black Mental Health and Me’, that explored the effects of situational and generational trauma and its impact on the Black community’s mental health. She is now looking forward to applying her creative skills and interest in Kingston’s heritage to help deliver the AMP Kingston project.

To find out more about what these two are up to, feel free to follow the links to their social media channels below. Also maker sure to sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about all the exciting things coming up in the next few months:

• Tanvi’s Instagram: @_tanviranjan_
• Chiyana’s Instagram: @eshephoto

ABOUT AMP KINGSTON:

With young people, this project is an exploration of Kingston’s music heritage from the 1960s – 1990s. This heritage will be identified, recorded and accessed in a range of interactive, sustainable ways. Through uncovering this heritage, the project will not only explore some of the most iconic musical acts of the late twentieth century, but will also celebrate pop fashion, costumes, album artwork, band posters and more.

AMP Kingston will place younger people at the front and centre when it comes to the shaping, planning, delivery and engagement of this project. Together, we will
explore a time period that was rife with bold, charismatic and entertaining advances in artwork, music and pop fashion.

Three themes have been identified. These will be explored through a series of free intervention exhibitions, and younger person-led creative interpretations.

• Art – the rise of artwork in branding and logos for music artists.
• Music – the musicians and artists themselves but also the promoters who enabled their performances to be seen.
• Pop Fashion – the influence of pop fashion in relation to the creation of musical personas and identities.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Heritage Volunteers will be instrumental in researching, gathering and recording the heritage which rests at the centre of this project. The volunteers will support Creative Youth in researching, collecting, collating and the public presentation of Kingston’s music heritage from 1960s – 1990s, including interviewing heritage enthusiasts, music and art professionals, and members of the public to gather their stories.

Please see our application pack for a full list of roles and responsibilties.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please complete an Application Form and Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form, links for both can be found below.

If you have any questions about the application process, or would like to arrange an informal chat to discuss the nature of this role, please email Archie at communityengagement@creativeyouthcharity.org

We will accept applications anytime until the end of December 2022.

• Application Form – https://uk.culturecounts.cc/s/2EexMw
• Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form – https://uk.culturecounts.cc/s/6um7KZ