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Summer 2021

Jump Studios Summer Programme – What We Got Up To!

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What have we been doing?

Over the course of 3 weeks, we had a plethora of workshops lined up. This included 2 days of ‘Young People Can Make’, 2 days of ‘Maker City’ and 3 days of ‘Sound Wave’. We had a jam-packed summer, full of fun here at Jump, and we are really grateful to everyone involved, from the young people to the Jump team!

Young People Can Make

Jump Studios, local young people, We Can Make, and Automated Architecture collaborated to create Young People Can Make. The young people learned vital design skills and had hands-on experience working with the construction blocks.

Those that participated in YPCM were given the ability to design and materialise whatever structural or architectural ideas they may have had. Houses, bridges, community centres, and anything else their creativity allows them to manifest.

If you want to see what happened during the days of Young People Can Make, click here. Check out our blog, which reflects the fun-filled time we had.

Maker City

The Maker City Summer Programme welcomed a brand-new cohort of aspiring creatives and makers eager to learn how to create socially conscious products for causes that are important to young people! They developed STEAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) skills, product design, and participated in digital fabrication masterclasses. The participants also mastered collaborative creative problem-solving tasks, such as the infamous egg drop challenge and building spaghetti bridges that could hold 1kg of sugar! By the end of the two days, new friendships had formed, new skills had been learned, and confidence had been built!

Maker City is where we design products about things we care about.

young creative

We are excited to restart the Maker City programme at KWMC The Factory in October. Please contact clara@kwmc.org.uk if you would like your young person to become part of the Maker City Movement.

Sound Wave

Over the three days of ‘Sound Wave’ in the Summer Programme, young musicians’ musical creativity shone through. Our young musicians demonstrated their musical abilities in a variety of ways, including playing together, conducting the entire room, creating podcasts, and writing and performing their own songs.

The young people started off by building their first beats and exploring the beauty of loops using the FREE web-based DAW(Digital Audio Workstation) Soundtrap. We even saw some future podcasters shine through with podcasts that included facts about bunnies, inspirational quotes, and things they care about within their community and wider Bristol.

On Days 2 and 3, the emphasis was on the students working together to compose their own songs. Our two groups not only wrote the lyrics, melodies, and chord progressions to their songs, but also performed them in front of KWMC personnel, thanks to seminars on rhyming and song writing and performance advice from our music facilitators!

All in all, it was an amazing experience to see such an array of musical talent come through in such a short amount of time.

Not only did we learn about music but we made new friends!

Young musician

To learn more about how you can get involved with Sound Wave in the new term, contact Mike at mike@kwmc.org.uk.

We are delighted to say this summer break has been amazing! With a wide array of activities and endless enjoyment, on behalf of everyone here at Jump we would like to say a big thank you to all involved its been a blast! But even though the summer is over and young people have returned to school, we are returning with after school workshops and half term festivities to carry on the fun!

Interested in coming to Jump Studios After-School sessions in Autumn 2021? Sign up here!

Young People Can Make: Summer Spirit

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Over the summer break here at Jump Studios, we having been hosting a number of workshops. Most recently, we have been working with the ‘We Can Make’ team to help introduce sustainable community architecture to the young people.

What have we been up to?

Now that the schools have broken up for the summer holidays what better time to get creative with Jump. With our enrichment activities we’ve been organising, young people will now get the opportunity, outside of school, to learn new skills while having fun! By partnering up with the ‘We Can Make‘ project, young people now have the chance to construct sustainable models of their choice. They use a scaled down version of the Lego-like building blocks that those at ‘We Can Make‘ are using to build housing amongst the community.

Young People Can Make is a collaboration with Jump Studios, local young people, We Can Make and automated architecture. The young people gained some valuable design skills and were able to get first-hand experience working with the construction blocks. They were given a design mission to re-mix the main studio at KWMC! The final product was absolutely brilliant, they worked so well as a team and combined everyone’s ideas to create a really useful, imaginative design. There was a hangout seating area, different levels and space to display things during an exhibition. They even thought about incorporating a podium for people to present during workings and meetings! The structure they created had three parts and you could configure it in different ways, meaning that it is multipurpose, portable and looks really cool! One young person said “I feel really proud of myself” At age 10 she had contributed her ideas, learnt how to design the app and got on the power tools to fix the final product together.

CLARA COLLETT, Project Manager (Young People and Creative Tech)

What is Young People Can Make?

Young People Can Make is a subsidiary of ‘We Can Make‘ which focuses on involving the younger generation in community driven projects in regards to housing development. ‘We Can Make‘ is striving to create sustainable living firstly within Knowle West then the whole of the U.K, whereas YPCM gets children involved so they can have an understanding of what is going on whilst contributing. At YPCM, those involved are given the opportunity to create and manifest any ideas that they’ve had, in terms of structures and buildings. This could be houses, bridges, community centres and anything their imagination will allow them to produce.

What we aim to achieve?

With Young People Can Make, we hope to guide the new generation with an understanding of sustainable living, as the children of today will be the adults of the tomorrow. It is important for us here at Jump to pass on valuable information which will aid them and offer them the relevant knowledge that could change the world for the better.

It was great witnessing young people’s imaginative ideas highlight what was missing in a space that could be brought to life through the creative process of digital design to physical construction.

MIKE MOAST, Project Manager (Young People and Music)

If you want to follow us for updates on spaces in the sessions, opportunities for young people and sharing some of the work they have been up to – you can follow us on Instagram or Twitter.

The Jump Studios Summer Showcase: Celebrating Young People’s Work

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This week, we opened our doors for a very special three-day event: our summer showcase!

The showcase was all about celebrating the work of the young people who have been attending sessions over the last few months to create a whole range of podcasts, designs, prototypes, music and much, much more.

What is the Summer Showcase?

The Summer Showcase is a chance to show off the work created by an incredible group of young people over the last ten weeks. Work from ‘Control Alt Delete‘, ‘Maker City‘, ‘Creative Hub‘ and ‘Sound Wave‘ was on display to the young people from all of the groups.

Clara, the lead facilitator from Maker City, described the showcase as:

The end of term Summer Showcase was really a chance to celebrate the amazing creative work the young people have been doing despite going through a global pandemic! We have been really lucky to work with local young people who have shown immense resilience and ability to adapt and be flexible in order to get back to doing the things they love doing! I was really impressed with all the work we showcased, and it was a really lovely experience seeing the young people engaged and interested in what others had been up to! We were able to invite the funders from Maker City to come and have a look at this year’s projects. The Maker City projects really demonstrated how important it is to young people to be able to amplify their voices on social topics that matter to them! From wooden protest placards to 3D models “Clean up our Beaches boxes” their ideas were inspiring!  

Clara Collett, head of maker city

What did the young people make of the showcase?

My project was about pollution and recycling. So I made a bag out of old jeans which contributes to climate change.

Jasmine, 13

I made productions to raise awareness about women’s rights and sexism to empower women.

Lois, 13

What skills have they been developing this term?

Every Monday to Wednesday, a group of young people have been coming into Knowle West Media Centre to engage in a series of activities to help learn and develop new skills.

On Mondays, Control Alt Delete is about tech and coding.

On Tuesdays, Maker City is about digital fabrication and social action.

On Wednesdays, Creative Hub is about engaging creativity and Sound Wave is about music and podcasts.

In Control Alt Delete, numerous programmes were made in a variety of programming languages, games through Scratch and creative builds in Minecraft! At Creative Hub, it was really exciting to be able to display young people’s photography and digital design projects. And in Sound Wave: After School, it was great to be able to share everyone’s podcasts and original songs. We also had the chance for some live performances on the day.

mike moast, head of control alt delete, creative hub and sound wave.

If you would like to check out some of the music created by the young people over the term, check out a link to our Soundcloud.

At the showcase, we were also able to present a project that some of the Maker City participants have been working on – in collaboration with University College London. They have worked with researcher Kylo Thomas to undertake important field work on equitable Maker Spaces for Young People. 

Here is one of those participants, Max, made of the project…

Maker City has made it easy to create products to show what is going on in the world.

Lexi, 12

This whole term has been a very unique one. With lockdowns and restrictions changing what looks like a ‘normal after-school session’, we had to adapt both virtually and safely.

So we are incredibly proud of the work they showcased and cannot wait for the next term of activities.

If you want to follow us for updates on spaces in the sessions, opportunities for young people and sharing some of the work they have been up to – you can follow us on Instagram or Twitter.

Interested in coming to Jump Studios After-School sessions in Autumn 2021? Sign up here!

Starting your Arts Award with us this summer…

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If you know a young person thinking of joining our whole host of summer activities, we are also offering the chance to start their Bronze Arts Award ?

This applies to all three holiday programmes and is an amazing way to begin the journey towards a qualification in the arts ? 

We spent the February 2021 half-term helping young people start on their Arts Award, but what exactly is it?

What is an arts award?

An arts award is “a range of unique qualifications that supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through taking challenges in an art form – from fashion to digital art, pottery to poetry”.

It’s an opportunity for young people to discover more about arts and arts industries, gain experience and even gain a qualification along the way.

It’s split into three awards: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Each award incrementally requires even more hours and more commitment, but simultaneously offers more UCAS points.

Doing an arts award requires a facilitator (a school, a community centre or someone like yours truly) and can be run in the way which they see fit for the young people.

An image from when we launched the arts award in February.

What do young people get out of doing it?

First and foremost, they get a qualification that works like so:

Bronze Award: Level 1 Qualification

Silver Award: Level 2 Qualification

Gold Award: Level 3 Qualification (Equivalent to 16 UCAS Points)

But, certainly for the first two awards, an arts award is much more about discovering new arts and gaining experience that otherwise you may find difficult to come across.

As mentors, it would be our job to assist young people in pinpointing what they would like to actually do for their Arts Award, as well as supporting them through their journey. This way, they are not alone in achieving this award.

It’s a chance for young people to actively participate, actively experience and actively create their chosen art.

How do you register?

Easy!

Please contact clara@kwmc.org.uk for more information about the arts award and follow the link in our bio to sign-up for our summer programme ☀️