Photo: Matt Cooper
A partnership with the Scarborough Pupil Referral Service to deliver creative enrichment activities for young people who are unable to attend school.
2023-2027
Scarborough
Spring Term 2025
We are delighted to be working with Hull based rapper, Chiedu Oraka on our Creative Youth & New Shores Projects in partnership with Scarborough Pupil Referral Service.
A leading figure in the Northern Rap and Grime scene Chiedu Oraka, aka ‘The Black Yorkshireman’ defies genres with his blend of raw honesty and social poetry. Raised on North Hull Estate Oraka is a fierce representative of a new sound and an amplifier of stories yet to be told.
Chiedu, in collaboration with the KIT Theatre team, has been working with the young people across the spring term, running sessions on teamwork and sports coaching and is now working with them to create a track that responds musically to this work.
We are delighted to have received three year funding from Youth Music Catalyser Fund and will be delivering this programme starting from September 2024.
Autumn Term 2024
This term the young people worked with acclaimed writer, rapper, theatre-maker and Guinness world record breaking beatboxer Testament.
Testament has been working with the young people around themes of identity and place, in response to Jason Wilsher-Mills exhibition at Woodend Gallery.
Summer Term 2024
Students worked with Artists Anna Bean and Graham Sykes to design and build their own skateboards. These were exhibited at Danby Lodge
With thanks to artists Graham Sykes, Anna Bean, Alice Kynman & James Koppert. Watch the video
Spring Term 2024
An exhibition at the North York Moors National Park’s Inspired By Gallery in Danby, was co-created by pupils from the Pupil Referral Service.
Young people’s work featured alongside work by local and nationally renowned artists inspired by the project's efforts to support bird species to not only survive but thrive in the North York Moors National Park and Howardian Hills National Landscape. Watch the video.
Autumn Term 2023
The Velvet Crab was an exhibition of visual artworks include collage, stop motion, photography and film.
The young people took inspiration from the place where they lived, exploring their surroundings out and about in Scarborough in a series of weekly creative workshops led by visual artist Anna Bean. Watch the video.
Summer Term 2023
Working under the creative team’s artistic guidance the young people responded to their environment in both natural and urban areas, and were encouraged to engage in creative play. The group attended day trips to multiple outdoor places, including beautiful locations in The North York Moors National Parks where they took part in fun conservation tasks to help benefit the local population of Turtle Doves. Watch the video.
Autumn Term 2024 Lead Artist, Testament, is an acclaimed writer, rapper and Guinness world record breaking human beatboxer who is based in West Yorkshire. Testament’s work ranges from spoken word poetry, playwrighting and composition, to essay writing, live beatbox show to radio presenting. Testament’s work has received praise from Lemn Sissay, graphic novelist Alan Moore, actor and writer Patterson Joseph, BBC presenter Lauren Laverne and the progenitor of Hip-Hop himself DJ Koolherc. Testament’s work as a rapper includes the celebrated Hip-Hop album Homecut: No Freedom Without Sacrifice, as well as several spoken word performances for BBC TV and BBC Radio (1xtra, Radio 4 and 6Music). In 2019 he was Channel 4 Writer in Residence at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester.
Funded by Scarborough Pupil Referral service, North Yorkshire Council, Youth Music, North York Moors Trust, Two Ridings Community Foundation and public funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England.
