Projects

Belfast Urban Affinity Festival

On Sunday 30th October 2011 we kicked off our Belfast Music Week programme with an activity packed festival of free music and workshops.

The Belfast Urban Affinity Festival which was aimed at encouraging young people aged 12+ from all over the city to come along and experience how the music industry works, was part of Belfast Music Week which ran from October 30 – November 5 in the lead up to the MTV EMAs which took place on 6 November.

The event included music workshops during the day, and closed with an exclusive live evening performance from rising act Fugative, a 17 year old rapper and producer from Essex. His debut single, ‘It’s Summertime’ was Top 5 in the UK urban chart for 17 weeks.

The workshops and gig were free and supported by Belfast City Council Community Festival Fund and the JP Getty Jr Charitable Trust.

The day was a great success, and we would like to thank all our partners, facilitators, participants, artists and volunteers for being involved. We are already planning next years festival. More details to follow soon.

Places on the workshops were limited due to popularity, and priority was given to community and youth groups. Below is a list of workshops that we hosted on the day, and there are plans to add more next year.

In the menatime please take a look at the video below which will give you an idea of how the day went. Massive thanks to Lurgan Jnr High School TV for filming, producing and presenting us with the footage.

"Best time of my life"

- participant comment on feedback questionaire, Sunday 30th October.

Belfast Urban Affinity Workshops

Instrument Taster – (try out the drums, guitars, bass, keyboards in our fully equip Strummerville Rehearsal Rooms.)

Being A Star – (what does it really mean to be a pop star, our facilitator gives you an insight into the life of a successful act.)

Radio production and Hosting - Mairead Campbell - Cool FM

DJ Taster workshops with Gleave Dobbins

Record a song (1 take to backing track) with Start Together Studio.

Promoting and booking - Chris Hughes - Hughes Leisure

Dance – Jennifer Rooney on the importance of dance in the Urban/Hip Hop and R&B industry.

Shooting Stars – pose as rock/pop stars with our professional music photographer Carrie Davenport.

Live internet Music TV station – Students of Lurgan Junior High set up and share their internet station for the day.

Adult Music Industry workshop – Q&A info session.