Youth Forum Constitution Report from Straight to the Top Conference Youth forum & Eyeline Collaboration Film & Drama workshops for Young People from Refugee & Asylum seeker community started in March 2006, the first screening of their first film will be shown during Refugee Week. DJ workshops at the Bring A Dish Help us to raise funds for our Digital Media project Word about Town with Nigerian Rapper Bries   Mosaic Mentoring Programme Volunteers Required for Black Boys Can Project in Coventry Searching for two Afghan Film Stars Zena Edwards Poetry Party & Writers Master Classes Right Here in Front of You... we deliver gems from the River Thames to The River Nile - with a smile  - e je kin ba yin soro (let me talk to you) for a while - BREIS - electrify, Ty, - intensify - putting sleep to sleep like a tse tse fly - let me stretch the sky, etch my eye - in your vision with precision when I testify the heros in the song unsung by the GALLON - BREIS - raised on the drums of Tony Allen - ha so e be when you check de way I set am- spies falling from skies self, no go get am - mummy travelled over 3,000 miles - to turn 3,00 tears into 3,000 smiles- 3,000 files - family and friends - invited to dinner so I happily attend-and then I send this one back home- it's BREIS on the microphone..............

Rap and Performance Workshops for Young People 'Don't Feed The Poets' in association with Celebrating Cultural Diversity Network and Youth Development service are proud to introduce a series of free rap and performance workshops for young people in Hastings, from one of the UK's foremost Hip-hop artists Nigerian MC Breis Breis is a hip hop renaissance man. Emcee, beat maker, writer and workshop facilitator. Since winning the Mean Fiddler Competition in 1997, he has been performing for crowds all over the UK, Europe, Africa, New York and LA. Raised on artists such as EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Biggie, Ella Fitzgerald, Ottis Redding, Guy, Madness, King Sunny Ade, Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti, his lyrics focus on music, love, personal experiences and the African experience in a European environment. Full of witty punchlines, humour and wordplay, he also fuses English and Yoruba in verse.  His first single, "Sounds So Fresh" was released on Uprock recordings in 2001 to critical acclaim and 2004 he released a mix-cd, entitled "Your favourite MC". Find out more about Breis on www.bambreis.net BREIS engages people of all ages through rhyme and song, poems and short stories. His work encourages participation and inspires the imagination. This was a one-off opportunity for young people in Hastings (13-25) to work with a world-class rapper, writer and entertainer as part of Don't Feed The Poets "Street Opera Project". With thanks to Awards For All, YDS, CCDN, The Xtrax Centre, The Seaview Centre and Global Grants.  THURSDAY 6TH APRIL 2006 12 - 2   @ The Seaview Centre 6 -8  @ at the Hollington Youth Centre  FRIDAY 7TH APRIL 2006 10 - 12   @ Xtrax Centre for a two hour rap/performance workshop with an opportunity to record your own lyrics onto CD 2 -3  @ the Xtrax Centre for more hot performance tips from Breis, followed by (3.30) a special showcase of work from Hastings young people and Breis himself: