Artist development with local charity JusB
Since the start of 2022 we’ve had the pleasure of working with JusB, an independent, community-based charity serving young people in Bromley.
For our artist development programme, we worked with JusB and artist and producer Damien Cooke to sign-up young people aged 17-25 with bags of raw music talent. This spanned from interests pursuing rap, R&B and grime, to vocalists and self-taught producers.
Starting in 2022, the young people have been collaborating with Damien and ArtsTrain Music Leader Barbara, and the talent we’ve seen from this project has been phenomenal!
Our initial sessions started at Jus B Youth Centre, but due to growing demand we moved to the Churchill Theatre in Bromley during the summer term. Throughout the project, JusB have delivered stand-out performances across various events including Library Lates and gigs at The Fellowship with Lewisham Music. They’ve also had the chance to create a radio show featuring their tracks and interviews with BMC Radio in Brixton.
Speaking to the young people that took part, they told us their creativity has increased by 76% whilst being a part of the group, with 40% stating that their creativity, motivation, agency and music skills had increased by 100% as a result of taking part in this project.
Whilst this artist development programme has now concluded, watch this space to see how these young people go from strength to strength - we have no doubt they are future professional artists in the making.
With big thanks to our Music Leaders, Damien and Barbara, as well as the Churchill Theatre for kindly offering us a space for the group to develop their performance skills further.