Do you want to engage with the Gypsy, Roma or Traveller community through your club, county or organisation? Kick It Out, football’s equality and inclusion campaign, has teamed up with Queens Park Rangers Community Trust and Stand Up, Speak up to deliver this one day conference looking at how football can be an important way to engage with the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in the UK and will launch our practice guide to doing this. The conference will explore how we can break down barriers between the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community and the wider football family, and showcase some of the strides made by QPR in this area.

With a keynote speeches from Lord Herman Ouseley and Arthur Ivatts, educational workshops and football specific sessions with members of the Irish Traveller community in West London, the day will provide a valuable insight into how best to engage with these communities.   (The day will also include a screening of the acclaimed Traveller boxing film Southpaw)

Date: Tuesday 8th May

Time: 10.30am-4.30pm

Venue: The W12 Club, Queens Park Rangers FC, Loftus Road Stadium, South Africa Road, London W12 7PJ

Free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided

Please RSVP to kevinkickitoutorg  (kevinkickitoutorg)  

Kevin Coleman

Grassroots Development Officer

Kick It Out | 4th Floor South | 1-5 Clerkenwell Road | London | EC1M 5PA

Tel: 020 7253 0162 Fax: 020 7253 5579

www.kickitout.org

Schools involved:
Phoenix Primary School & IldertonPrimary School After-School Music Club;

Plumcroft Primary School After- School Music Club;

Gallions Mount Primary School, Year 3 Class.

Connections Dec performances

Connections is a music education project, funded by Youth Music, exploring Gypsy Roma and Traveller cultures through creative music workshops.  The aims of the project are:

• to offer an opportunity for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and their families to see their culture recognised and celebrated in school, creating a positive school environment.
• to encourage intercultural understanding and interaction between people of Gypsy Roma and Traveller heritage and the wider community.
• to create opportunities for professional, amateur and aspiring musicians from different musical traditions to collaborate, create and perform together.

We need a music trainee to assist on this project.  The trainee will work closely with professional musicians, and gain experience in delivering music education projects .  They will be required to attend 12 workshop sessions, and be given a fee of £21 per session.

For more information, please contact:

Cassie Tait, Education Development Officer, Lontano  cassietaitgmailcom, 07980 263 880 / 020 8690 1360

To download document click here: MUSIC TRAINEE WANTED (3)

To download Job description click here: JobdescriptionMusicTrainee (3)

The London Gypsy Orchestra will be presenting its latest project, Gypsy Extravaganza, at the Union Chapel, Islington on the 6th November 2011.

The 45-strong London Gypsy Orchestra – together with their 10-piece dance group – will perform a show that reflects the grandeur of traditional Gypsy music and dance. The musicians and dancers will not only deliver a fantastic spectacle to its audience but also increase cultural awareness of the Gypsy people and re-introduce the roots and traditions of Gypsy music. The Union Chapel as a well-known international music venue with its beautiful structure will provide a great setting for this event.

The Union Chapel as a well-known international music venue with its beautiful structure will provide a great setting for this event.

Union Chapel, 6th November 2011, 7.30pm; Tickets £12 Conc. £8;
www.ticketweb.co.uk

The film is a close and revealing study rarely observed by outsiders.

Click on the link to view this film: http://www.spinetv.net/video/saintes-maries-de-la-mer-gypsy-pilgrimage

The competition was administered by the National Association of Teachers of Travellers and Other Professionals (NATT+).

The Results

Foundation Stage

1st Quentin Doran: The Coombes Primary Berks

2nd Mary Nicholson: Northwood Primary Darlington

3rd Luke Foster: Northwood Primary Darlington

Highly Commended

Alfie Ward: St Teresa’s Darlington

Lucie Ward: Dodmire School Darlington

Jim Price: Northwood Primary Darlington

Whole Class: Harefield Infants Middlesex

Key Stage 1

1st Downey McKenzey: Northwood Primary Darlington

2nd Denny Burnside: Heathfield Primary Darlington

3rd Philip Plews: St Teresa’s Darlington

Highly Commended

Lavinia Foster: Northwood Primary Darlington

Henry Gaskin: Dodmire School Darlington

Evelieu Lendvei: Old Bank School Mirfield

Key Stage 2 year 3/4

1st Aisha Adams: Fairlight Primary Brighton

2nd Jimmy Ross: Bevendean Primary Brighton

3rd Jerard Casey: Carden Primary Brighton

Highly Commended

Michael-Brian Clarke: All Saints Primary Wokingham

Kevin Lendvai: Old Bank School Mirfield

Tomas Lendvai: Old Bank School Mirfield

Angel Smith: South Malling Primary East Sussex

Emma Jarvis: St Albans Gateshead

Key Stage 2 year 5/6

1st Liliana Voros: Old Bank Sch Mirfield

2nd Jhonny Lamb, Robert Lamb, Jim Bell: Winslow CE Buckinghamshire

3rd Jim Wilson: Dodmire Sch Darlington

Highly Commended

Cliffie Clarke: All Saints Primary Wokingham

Mitchell Welch: Northwood Primary Darlington

Jim Ward: St Teresa’s Darlington

Katherina Akintelune: Winsor Pr Beckton

Jamie Martin: Selby Community School, Selby

Megan Baker: Selby Community School, Selby

Key Stage 3

1st Pennie Barton: Hailsham CC East Sussex

2nd Lily Doe: Hailsham CC East Sussex

3rd Joseph Barter: Harefield Academy Middlesex

Highly Commended

Shane Foster: The Headlands Darlington

Key Stage 4

1st William Barter: Harefield Academy Middlesex

2nd Katie Ripley: Willingdon Community School East Sussex

3rd Holly Goldsmith: Willingdon Community School East Sussex

Highly Commended

Cainenisha and Angel Lee: Redruth School Cornwall

During the summer of 2011, the Tricycle Theatre delivered a project that engaged the group in two creative disciplines to explore identity through drama and photography. Working with creative practitioners, the participants were afforded an opportunity to explore notions of self and community through photography – the subject matter being objects and locations that had a personal value attached to each artist. The work was captured using a medium format and disposable film cameras.

I enjoyed it because it was a new experience and we got to meet Adrian, Madelaine and Anna and that was a nice opportunity. I enjoyed doing the photography and seeing how all the plays came together.

Courtney, aged 14

I think it was perfect.

Stephanie, aged 14

Since 2009, the Tricycle has been delivering arts projects with the Irish Traveller community in Brent on an on-going basis. The various projects have provided cultural exchange as a positive activity, as well as developing skills, improving confidence and inspiring young people to participate in the arts.

The project is part of the Tricycle Theatre’s Social Inclusion Programme, which provides innovative and exciting activities, informed by the creative and performing arts that stimulate alternative avenues of self-expression for children and young people at risk of or already experiencing social exclusion.

Project Facilitators

Drama: Madeline Smith

Photography: Adrian Wood

Project Manager: Anna Myers

The Tricycle gratefully acknowledges funding from Capital’s Help a London Child and support with printing costs from Photofusion.

For both bands, playing music means going beyond the boundaries of a genre. Mixing traditional Eastern European folk themes with jazz and classical influences is their way of exploring and expressing their diverse cultural heritages. Their performances combine effortless skill and inspired ingenuity to create a rousing music in which melancholy and humour exist side by side.

For the audience, a vibrant feast of adventurous musical arrangements, perilous tempi and unusual playing techniques is on the menu, an escape into a world where the past meets the present, and the reality plays with the imagination.

“Bavarian-born violinist Gundula could well have been raised in the Balkans, for her playing imparts the true soul of Gypsy music, full of colour and passion, an explosion of energy…” (Vesti News, Serbian Diaspora Newpaper)

Friday 30th September, 2011
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Southbank Centre, London SE1 8XXGypsyFiddleFeast_flyer

Queens Park Rangers (the newly promoted Premier League side) have teamed up with Ealing’s Gypsy Roma and Traveller Achievement Service (GRTAS), in establishing valuable links to its local GRT community.

QPR held the development day to advise County Football Associations and fellow professional clubs on how to work more closely with the Traveller community.

Introducing the event, QPR’s Inclusion and Diversity Officer, Gareth Dixon, stressed the important role played by football in engaging the GRT community: “Football is a very powerful tool. It isn’t particularly accessible for the GRT community and we are trying to bridge that gap. The project is expanding rapidly and I believe this can be mirrored across the rest of the country.”

At Interface Education and Training Services our aims are to support young people in realising their dreams and potential, by helping them grow into confident and successful learners. We endeavour to equip young people with good work ethics, enterprise, negotiating and conflict resolution skills, excellent communication, self-belief and the ability to work co-operatively.

We will work with young people to navigate through some difficult issues in their lives and equip them with the tools to help them make better informed decisions in the future.

For further information visit the Interface website: www.iets.org.uk