Soul Food Tour 2012 Promo

Baby People present: 

THE SOUL FOOD TOUR ...

This event organised by Baby People 

has a huge variety of artists on this line-up all from different backgrounds and celebrating different styles of black music.

The tour starts in November and moves around the Midlands around a huge list of venues, finally ending this awesome tour at THE DROP INN on Thursday 20th December.

FREE ENTRY - Starts 7-10pm

Supporting all the SOUL FOOD TOUR performers are our new Youth DJ's Sam and Ben ... we are ending the night with a short grime set from Reece & Ben ... The whole night is going to be completely different to us, we are so excited.

DON'T MISS THIS!! 

Shookz DJ workshops - Recording

Check out one of the young people who attended the Shookz DJ session over the last 6 weeks ...

DJ Sharpe Styles - Drum & Bass DJ Mix

We still have the second new young DJ to record ... Well done everyone who took part in this project, and a massive thanks to SHOOKZ and DJ's PATCHWERK & SKAIRPIGG for running the sessions!

Shack Visit

Our Youth friends from the Darley Dale Shack youth centre came over for a visit, and got involved in some of the activities going on. We were running drop-in DJ sessions and some arts and craft ... it was a lot of fun, we always enjoy their visits. Look forward to seeing you all again soon.

BE THERE! - Alfreton - 9/11/12

BE THERE! - Alfreton - 9/11/12, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Setting up for the first BE THERE! under 18's event ...

This is the taster event for the young people in Alfreton to gage a response and gather young people to get involved in the node56 workshops, getting them ready to run their own under 18's event.

BE THERE! - Alfreton - 9/11/12, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Jasper performing and promoting the live music scene, sparking interest in acoustic music workshops and to try and find some young talented people to engage and perform at the second event ran by the young people.

BE THERE! - Alfreton - 9/11/12, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Shookz performing and promoting DJing ... he will be finding young people to attend DJ workshops and hopefully perform at the second event ...

Be There!

Be There! Nov 2012, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

BE THERE! is a working project title for a BIG under 18's night we are running this Friday at the Polygon Youth Centre in Alftreton, 8 - 10pm.

This will be the first official node56 event running under the 'safe rave' model.

This is not a 'safe rave' but an independent promo / taster night for a new community youth event.

If everyone enjoys this first event they will have the opportunity to go through our node56 event training package, where we will be mentoring young people and train them how to put on their own BIG under 18's nights on.

We have an amazing line up for this first event, please check the flyer out. We also have a couple on supprise guests ... EXCITED!!!

Looking forward to transforming a new venue into a bright, colourful and loud experience ... BE THERE!

Patchwerk DJ session

Patchwerk DJ Session, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

As part of this years Shookz DJ workshops two of the young people who attended the original workshop and went on to become successful young DJ's and producers will be running some of the Thursday sessions ... This week it was Patchwerk teaching the Youth how to DJ.

Reanimated Halloween 'Safe Rave'

F710[2]_Reanimated-halloween, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Re-animated Halloween 'safe rave.' The return of the under 18's night ... This was originally a under 18's metal night, but then got unfortunately canceled and re-animated as a halloween 'safe rave.'

We have SKAIRWERKS which is resident DJ's Patchwerk and Skairpigg b2b.

Halloween 'Safe Rave', a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Unfortunately last minute the under 18's metal night was cancelled by Deafbox.

Fortunately our young resident DJ Patchwerk got on Facebook ad set up his own event on behalf of The Drop Inn.

He set up the Re-animated Halloween 'Safe Rave' ...

Halloween 'Safe Rave', a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We used the same decoration we had been working on for the under 18's metal night, here you can see the 20 foot skeleton climbing over the speakers and DJ stage ...

Halloween 'Safe Rave', a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The DJ box with giant skeleton under the U.V lights ... This event was entirely organised and ran by the young people, it truly was re-animated and could be a kick start to the new wave of 'safe raves'

Youth Metal / Rock Halloween Party

Youth Metal / Rock Halloween Party, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is a Drop Inn first. We have teamed up with Deafbox Promotions to put on an Under 18's Metal / Rock night on the 26th Oct.

This party will have themed drinks and hot food like monster burgers, we have also themed the whole venue which includes a 20ft U.V Skeleton ...

It's £2 entry, but cheaper with a impressive fancy dress costume.

Really looking forward to seeing the response to this event, it it all goes well we will consider making youth Metal nights a regular thing ...

MASSIVE THANK YOU ...

Receiving Lloydstsb Community Fund certificate, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Can we say a MASSIVE thank you to all who voted for us in the Lloydstsb community fund.

We came in first place to win £5,000 for our new music space the Jamjar.

Work will start on the new space straight away, we will get you up to date with pictures of the transformation and re-building of the space.

Thank You again all voters for the huge support!

SHOOKZ Dj Workshops 2012

The Shookz DJ Workshops are going pretty good. Shookz ran the first, Patchwerk ran the second and Skairpigg ran the 3rd. We've done these adhesive flyers to try and gain more interest. There's been quite a few young people interested but, we would like a couple more to go through to the broadcasting stage at the end of the DJ sessions. Usually we have 3 people who go through, at the moment the young people are just having a taster at DJing. Hopefully the promotions might attract young people to call down specifically for the workshops who can them go through to the broadcasting at the end ... Good so far though