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BBC Blast Truck in Liverpool, 9th, 10th and 11th June 2006

2006-06-11

I have been working on the BBC Blast Truck at its first ever location at Liverpool’s Mann Island. Ultralab is working on board the BBC Blast Truck to provide a facilitation role, while running creativity workshops for young people. These past few days on the BBC truck have been amazing.

I have been working on the BBC Blast Truck at its first ever location at Liverpool’s Mann Island. Ultralab is working on board the BBC Blast Truck to provide a facilitation role, while running creativity workshops for young people. These past few days on the BBC truck have been amazing. I’m really proud to have been a part of the very first location for BBC Blast on Tour. This project is so important to those it reaches. I’ve worked with some of the finest users of technology for creative purpose in the UK. In a nutshell, anyone who’s anyone in Digital Creativity local to the truck stops... is being asked to run workshops with local young people... in DJing, VJing, Filming, Dance, Animation, Hip Hop, MCing, Poetry, Creative Writing and loads more... We’ve even had the head make-up artist at Mersey TV's Hollyoaks programme making up the faces of our young people. I’ve seen young people writing and singing songs from scratch in just two hours, to a live audience... Oh, and by the way, they could not hum a note prior to the workshop. I watched in awe as our Shirley Pickford and Levi Tafari ran an urban poet class in Liverpool... as young people, who started out shy, stood up and read …

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