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Spanish unemployed teacher moves to Manchester #NOISEyoungnjobless

My name is Javier and I’m in my thirties. I left Spain three weeks ago because in my country there isn’t work, there isn’t a future. I...

Month 3; Craig’s thoughts #NOISEyoungnjobless

It’s been a month since my last blog and it seems like yesterday. So much has happened within the last 4 weeks.   Soon after the...

Month 3; Danielle’s thoughts #NOISEyoungnjobless

Well we have a lot to catch up…….. I was left pretty dejected after the last radio show, I didn’t feel I come over all that...

Month 3; Karen’s Thoughts #NOISEyoungnjobless

A lot has happened since I was last on air; I’ve had interviews to prepare for, researched networking groups, started some work with The Scarlet...

Month 2: Richie’s Thoughts #NOISEyoungnjobless

Over the past month I have been fortunate enough to be put in touch with my mentor Tristram. I met up with him at the Go Ape course at Matfen Hall where...

Free workshop - This Saturday, 'Picturing The News'

2012-04-20 16:25:28

Spin Dry presents: Spin Dry vs Leveson-the Free Alternative Leveson Inquiry!
Are you interested in illustration, writing, journalism, or multi-media? If so, this event is for you!

Come along to the first of a three part workshop series that explores how the media shapes our daily lives through news.

The first workshop is ‘Picturing the News’ at The People’s History Museum, Manchester, this Saturday, 21st April 2012 from 11:00 am-2:00 pm.

The workshop’s focus will be how images are used by the media to sell stories. Why include a picture? What makes a photograph front page worthy? How can images be used to shape reader opinions? We will also be looking at the art of editorial cartoons from Hogarth to Bell: What can illustrations say that words cannot project? How does humour balance up against outrage?

This is a free event, so reserve your ticket for Saturday! Click here to get your free ticket now!
Spindry are a collective from Manchester. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission and British Council. With support and mentorship by Noisefestival.com.

NOISE BBC RADIO PROGRAMME - YOUNG & JOBLESS

2012-02-15 14:14:14

Over the next 4 months NOISE works with BBC Radio 5 Live and Wise Buddha to co- produce a series of programmes examining the barriers faced by the growing number of young under and unemployed people in the UK.

First-hand accounts will come from 4 young voices; Danielle (County Durham), Richie (Newcastle), Karen (Mansfield) and Craig (Wigan) to highlight the cold-facts of the youth unemployment crisis. On their journeys NOISE will pair them with successful business leaders, who will mentor them.

We looks beyond the usual 2D statistics depicted in the mainstream media, by giving a voice to the young people now feeling the burden of a recession they didn't create. They'll present their own manifesto for change, in the form of a documentary, broadcast in May, with Government ministers and business experts.

BBC Radio 5Live Deputy Controller and Commissioning Editor Jonathan Wall said: "This is a really creative project and is exactly what the Northern Development Fund for independent producers was designed to do. It has brought together people from outside the BBC who otherwise wouldn't have come together to share their ideas, and teamed them up with a 5Live news team that has just moved from London to Salford. We haven't done a project quite like this one before, so hopefully it will pave the way for many more in the future."

Want to hear your views, thoughts and input about the issues raised during these programmes.
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Art of Protest at London's Roundhouse

2012-01-20 00:00:00

Following the resounding success of the pop-up NOISE 'Art of Protest' exhibition in Manchester, NOISEfestival.com brings the project to London's Roundhouse for an exclusive one day exhibition on Saturday the 11th February, from 11am until 5pm to coincide with the Un-Convention at Rising 2012 event. The exhibition showcases iconic, creative, non-violent protests as part of the charity's national, curriculum led learning project 'Re-Masters: The Art of Protest'.

The display shows work from leading international artists like Banksy, Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing, Stella Vine, Billy Bragg, Katherine Hamnett's anti-pershing missile T-shirt protest to Margaret Thatcher, leading German artists Joseph Beuys and Thomas Peiter, and Tedd Church's photography of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Montreal Bed-in; in addition to leading protest pieces by the best of Europe's emerging creative talent from the arts portfolio site NOISEfestival.com. The exhibition also includes the NOISE Charity's positive response to last summer youth riots, with an international compilation of photos from young people in Berlin, Madrid, Valencia and Manchester that identify their protest issues.
For more head to www.NOISEfestival.com/protest

Saturday 11th February
11am until 6pm

The Roundhouse
Chalk Farm Road
London NW1 8EH