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Arts Award Welcome 
published 11th december 2009 at 19:12 - 0 comments
We are delighted to announce that Eastside has been selected to become an Arts Award Welcome Centre and we are now able to welcome young people from across London who are working towards gaining their Arts Award at Bronze, Silver and Gold level. From January Eastside will be throwing open its doors and inviting young people to sign up to a number of our exciting participatory activities. As an Arts Award Welcome Centre we are pleased that we can support young people to fulfil the requirements for all parts of the Arts Award.
Graphic Truths to make an exhibition of itself
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Tales of Diversity, the magazine created as part of our Graphic Truths project, is to launch on Saturday 16 January from 2 - 5pm at The Rag Factory, just off Brick Lane and will coincide with an exhibition of the young people's work. We hope that you are able to join us for this forthcoming free event and if you would
like to be added onto the guest list to attend the exhibition, please contact Truly Johnston or for details about where you can pick up your free copy of the magazine, please contact us.
Word Play
published 11th december 2009 at 19:12 - 0 comments
Thirty schools in outer London are to host writers and poets as their students engage in a little word play on their way to becoming more engaged, inspired and motivated readers and writers. Word Play is part of Eastside's literature development programme and in 2010 we will be working with primary schools, secondary schools, special schools and pupil referral units on projects which include spoken word, short stories and creative responses to reading and writing.
Eastside teams up with Richard Alston Dance Company
published 11th december 2009 at 19:12 - 0 comments
Seven young dancers who have recently completed their Silver Arts Award as part of Eastside's HIAA dance programme, celebrated their achievements by taking part in a dance workshop with the Richard Alston Dance Company at The Place - the home of the London Contemporary Dance School. Eastside's young dancers were all keen to find out more about careers in dance and the intensive training programme gave them an insight into
what it takes to train professionally. The day-long workshop gave all the students a fantastic opportunity to explore the
work of one of UK's leading contemporary dance choreographers.
Youth Voices heard through the big screen
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On Saturday 5th December, six short films were premièred at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, which explored London's cultural life from the point of view of young spoken word artists. The screening also launched the second year of Eastside's involvement with Adobe Youth Voices and Eastside is now inviting young film-makers and poets to sign up for our 2010 programme.
Trans-lingual Express toolkit
published 11th december 2009 at 19:12 - 0 comments
Eastside's toolkit for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) is to be launched in January as an online web-based resource. Our new MFL toolkit will help to support teachers by introducing digital video film-making techniques in to the languages classroom, inspiring and motivating a new generation of international linguists.
Welcome to Eastside's new website!
published 30th october 2009 at 19:10 - 3 comments
Welcome to Eastside's new-look design and our new interactive website, in preparation for our sixteenth birthday in 2010. Our website has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly and accessible to the young people we work with, our friends, project partners and supporters. So please take a look and tell us what you think. You can comment straight into this news blog.
Eastside is awarded Investing in Volunteers kitemark
published 27th october 2009 at 15:10 - 1 comments
Eastside is proud to announce that our volunteer programme has just been awarded the Investing in Volunteers quality assurance standard, in recognition of our volunteering opportunities,
internships and work experience placements. Eastside's
volunteering programme which is supported by UBS, offers high-quality placements to over 100
volunteers each year, from across London and around the world. Our volunteer pages will give you the opportunity to read testimonials
of those that have volunteered with us recently and we do hope that you will be inspired to get involved too!
Bugsy Malone reunion for the class of 1994
published 1st october 2009 at 19:10 - 4 comments
Eastside is currently running a campaign in the local Tower Hamlets press to try and track down the original cast members from its inaugural youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone which was put on at the Emery Theatre in Poplar, East London in 1994.
Eastside to feature in London Children’s Film Festival
published 21st september 2009 at 18:09 - 1 comments
Eastside is working with two of London’s oldest cinemas this autumn, the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley and the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, as part of Performing for Success (PfS). A number of short documentaries made by Eastside's young film-makers about both cinemas will be screened as part of the 2009 London Children’s Film Festival (21-29 November).
