Jordans blog week 5

Week 5 – Monday 29th July – Young creative’s recording sessions Week 5 we had a young person come down to do some work experience so I decided to share my role with them, they took on the role of register whilst I took down the young people who were interested in performing for open mic. I actually like the fact that a fellow young person was sharing part of my work with me because it shows that the young person is doing something different, shows that we all have a trust bond. This is how I started, I asked if I could help and Ben said yes and then a while later I gained the responsibility of being worthy of being a music trainee leader. I am hoping to work with some more new faces due to the open and also during music mayhem. Friday 2nd August – Open mic The first open mic event held in the café area in NGY went really well. We had a decent amount of young people that offered to book a slot to showcase their musical talents. My self was very impressed and proud of all of my young peoples due to the fact that I had watched them start from no confidence and experience to build up that confidence to go on stage and overcome that fear that I told them would be the scariest part of their experience. We also had couple new members that took part in this event; my self and everyone else were highly impressed and made them aware that we would love for them to perform next month. And then last but not less I gave a little quick performance only because I was requested by majority of the young people that performed, this was really pleasing to me because it’s almost as if they see me as their youth worker that has also helped them. What I am hoping to achieve for next month is to continue this event because it brings all of the young people together, and it gets them to showcase their work that they have put a lot of time into. Recruit some more new acts plus get the same young people to perform so we can see the improvement from this month to the month. And change the venue, either do it outside in the back or down stairs in the performance room.