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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEICESTER ARTS & MUSEUMS SERVICE.
Welcome to Pedestrian
Pedestrian is a wide-ranging arts organisation, dedicated to delivering education, developing creativity and providing access to urban artforms.
Welcome to our website - our home for creative minds, passionate about making a difference in the community. Please feel free to explore the site and see what’s going on over here.
But first check out the video below, we hope it will give you an idea of what we’re about:
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LATEST NEWS
We have a few very exciting developments which will get you started if this if your first visit…
FREE PEDESTRIAN EVENT!
We teamed up with our good friends at Softouch to put on what is set to become a regular series of quarterly events at the The Shed in Leicester - pioneering young urban artists from the city.
The event was supported by the good people at Emery Johnson Solicitors in Leicester who helped us to keep providing positive opportunities for the young people in the East Midlands.
PEDESTRIAN RUNS WORKSHOPS AT CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS CONFERENCE
13th March 2008
The Creative Partnerships National Meeting of Children and Young People saw Pedestrian delivering 2 workshops led by Samantha Whelan and Sam Wardhan alongside a group of young people from Riverside Business & Enterprise College. The workshops, which gave an insight into the radio industry and Riverside’s own radio station, was be held at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester.
PEDESTRIAN WORK WITH RIVERSIDE
10th March 2008
From April 2008 until the end of June Pedestrian will be running a project with Riverside Business & Enterprise College, Leicester. The project will engage up to 55 young people to learn skills in Music Production, MCing, Street Dance, DJing, Film Production and Event Planning, culminating in a performance at the school where everyone involved can showcase their skills.
Pedestrian is excited to get such a large and inclusive project going!
PEDESTRIAN WORK IN DAVENTRY
29th February 2008
In April 2008 Pedestrian will be delivering some taster sessions in Phoenix Youth Centre as a part of a larger regeneration project of the youth centre. These sessions will hopefully pave the way to a long-term project which will be entirely led by the young people, so they may decide which art forms and how they will come together to form a final performance.
LOCAL NETWORK FUND BACK PEDESTRIAN
28th November 2007
Led by Lee Smith over December and January Pedestrian is working in conjunction with the Watershed youth centre running the follow up to the very successful project Urban Music Mentors. This is thanks to an award from the Local Network Fund worth almost £6,000 which allows us to teach young people DJing, Music Production and MCing. The aim of this project is to build a base of skills and confidence within the young people and enable them to pass on the skills they have learned and to discover the potential for them to gain economic independence through becoming ‘community musicians’.
CEO HITS LISBON
18th October 2007
Jim, our Chief Executive has been asked to attend and contribute to the international KATARSIS conference in Lisbon, 28 January – 1 February 2008: The conference themes are: Growing inequality and social innovation.
KATARSIS is a coordination action funded under the European Commission’s Framework Program 6. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on socially creative strategies to combat social exclusion to exchange ideas, programs and methods … Check the Katarsis website http://katarsis.ncl.ac.uk
Pedestrian is proud and excited to be involved with research at this level.
PEDESTRIAN TUTOR TRAINING
18th October 2007
The Pedestrian tutor training sessions are a skills exchange between
Pedestrian tutors and trainee tutors from a variety of art forms.
The sessions are open and free to all our tutors and trainees and they provide tutors with an opportunity to develop their skills and share knowledge, which in turn will improve the quality of our workshops and lead to the creation of some cool art!
See the WORD UP section below for more details.
URBAN MUSIC MENTORS VIDEO UPDATE
Our recent project funded by Leicester City Council’s Youth & Opportunity Fund is now complete…
The Urban Music Mentors project video is NOW ONLINE! - Click below to see the project in action
Led by James Kelly, our Urban Music Mentors delivered workshops in conjunction with the Watershed Youth Centre to 12-17 year old young people - providing access to equipment and teaching the skills required for making music.
Participants learned how to create beats, use turntables, MC, develop performance skills and how to promote themselves as musicians.
Projects
Word Up
Pedestrian Tutor Training
23rd October- onwards.
The Pedestrian tutor training sessions are a skills exchange between
Pedestrian tutors and trainee tutors from a variety of art forms. The
informal sessions are designed to develop tutors skills in a broad
range of areas associated with the workshops we deliver including
training in music, film and photography software, approaches to
teaching Turntablism and MC’ing, setting up P.A’s and Health and
Safety issues.
The sessions are open and free to all our tutors and trainees and they
provide tutors with an opportunity to develop their skills and share
knowledge, which in turn will improve the quality of our workshops and
lead to the creation of some cool art! .
The sessions are held on Tuesdays 6 - 8 P.M at the Pedestrian Lab, LCB
Depot, Leicester. The training series also includes some Jam sessions open to tutors,
volunteers and all workshop participants.
If you would like to know more about the sessions, what’s coming up
next week, or if you would like to attend, please email jameskelly@pedestrian.info for more details.
ASPIRE: Pedestrian ventures into the North West
2nd October - 23rd November
Led by Mark Melville and Owain Wilson, Pedestrian will be delivering a series of workshops on Tuesday nights throughout October and November. Working as facilitators on Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council’s ASPIRE PROJECT, we will be working with a group of young people aged 11-19 - teaching them how to create music and the DJ skills to perform the music at their live fashion show in November.
I addition to writing, recording and performing their own music, the young people will be making and modelling their own clothes and organising and promoting the event in Crewe, Cheshire.
The project marks Pedestrian’s debut in the region which Mark Melville will be building on in the coming weeks and months.
To get involved or for more information, please see the aspire project website
WREN SCHOOL: Educating the educators…
September 2007 - December 2007
Led by Steve Gordon and DJ OP-1, this term-long project at Wren School in Wellingborough will not only be teaching music production, turntablism and performance skills to students, but will also work with the teachers at the school in order that there is a lasting legacy at the school through its teaching staff.
The school is given over to the ever-popular music school every weekend and our latest series of workshops will no-doubt be one of the most popular courses during the 12-weeks of the first term.
Steve Gordon introduced the 300-strong student audience to the aims of the course last Saturday (22nd September) and the two tutors taught the introductory sessions with both the pupils and the teachers during the day. The sessions will be taking place on Saturday mornings at Wren School until December.
BLAST ON TOUR: Pedestrian at the Castle Park Festival in Leicester
24- 27th August.
We ran taster sessions in photography and film making on the BBC Blast tour bus. See the Blast website for more details.
Digital Photography 23rd - 24th August @ 14:00 - 17:30 / 15:30 - 18:00
Crash Corse in Film Making 25th - 26th August @ 12:00 - 15:00 / 15:30 - 18:00
Film and Camera masterclass 27th August @ 15:30 - 17:30
TUTORITOOL™ SECOND EDITION LAUNCHES 1ST AUGUST 2007
Pedestrian is pleased to announce that the Tutoritool™ Second Edition is now with us - IN STOCK - and will be available to UK customers via our shop (click the button!) and internationally via www.suspectpackages.co.uk very soon.
Hailed as “The best schooling in scratching money can buy” (iDJ magazine, June 2005), the Tutoritool™ rewrote the rules for instructional DJ products and scratch tools alike.
With the release of the Tutoritool™ Second Edition, we believe we have created the must have battle wax to help to develop the skills of DJs of every kind.
With even more essential sounds, beats and new spoken word instructional tracks, the double vinyl Tutoritool™ Second Edition contains everything the DJ of today needs to become the turntablist of tomorrow. Locked loops, unskippable scratch sounds, tones and a suite of high quality Hip-Hop, Rock, Jazz and Drum ‘n’ Bass beats and samples provide an indispensable sound resource for scratching, battling, juggling and producing – The Tutoritool™ Second Edition will be at home in any DJ’s record box.
The Tutoritool’s proven approach to teaching the fundamentals of turntablism, using both printed and recorded lessons in scratch technique, gets DJs behind the decks and on the cut like no other scratch tutorial. From baby scratches to b-lines, the Tutoritool™ Second Edition, through its unique freestanding instruction booklet, marking stickers and high quality vinyl tools, builds the bread and butter skills of scratching whilst introducing the concepts of composition through turntablism.
Only the Tutoritool™ gives the DJ a versatile scratch tool that will not only improve their skills but also grow with their abilities. To quote www.skratchworx.com, “If you want to buy a tutorial then I would strongly suggest checking this one out before rushing out to buy a video or DVD”.
WORKSHOP LANDMARK
We are rapidly approaching the delivery of our 5000th workshop. A considerable achievement in our 9 year history. Keep posted for where and when this landmark workshop will take place.
“Pedestrian maintains the highest standards, not only for the content of our work but also the accessibility and relevance of delivery”—Sam Wardhan
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