The BAFTA Young Game Designers competition invites teams of three young people aged 11-16 from across the UK to submit a design for a new video game. The winning team will be announced at the EA British Academy Children’s Awards in November.

The main aims of the competition are to promote creativity, help young people understand the different roles within video game design and highlight the key subject areas for entry into the industry.

The competition is open to all children aged 11-16 and further details about how to enter the competition can be found at www.bafta.org/ygd

Candoco Dance Company, the contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, offers weekly dance sessions for 14-25 year olds in three areas across London.

Led by Candoco dance artists, sessions range from technique and creative task work to performance skills and developing your own choreography. Young people will become familiar with inclusive practices and will have performance and excursion opportunities. All classes are suitable for disabled and non-disabled young people. The classes run during term time on Mondays at Sue Davies Studios in Elephant and Castle, on Tuesdays at The Place in Kings Cross and on Fridays at Aspire in Stanmore.

The youth group will perform a piece called Point to Point. The beginnings of Point to Point were inspired by the 07/08 CandoCo piece choreographed by Rafael Bonachela called And Who Shall go to The Ball. Working with the original tasks and rep as a starting point they have created a unique work that promises to show this group of dancers in a way that they have never been seen before. This piece is bold, energetic and promises to indulge your senses.

If you are interested in joining Candoco Youth Dance, email Sarah Blanc Youth Dance Manager at youth@candoco.co.uk

The performance of Point to Point will take place on the outdoor stage from 12.50 – 1pm

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Declan Talbert is a graphic designer who is currently studying at London College of Communication. Passionate about communication between people and design he take regularly takes part in events and workshops around the UK. Declan has previously worked with Tokyo Toys and is now currently working with Toymation.

At FUSE, young people will be able to express their thoughts and feelings through the use of art and design. During the day you will design characters and then place them into stories to bring the work to life.

The drop in Manga Workshop will take place from 12 – 1.30pm & 5 – 6.30pm.

Shape is a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people. They develop opportunities for disabled artists, train cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and run participatory arts and development programmes.

At FUSE, Shape will be displaying information about their projects.

Please visit the website for more information www.shapearts.org.uk

RIBA London is the voice of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for people who live and work in London. They promote award-winning architecture in the Capital, equip their members with the skills to help deliver exceptional design and ensure RIBA London is part of the decision making and policy process for the city.

IBA will show a short documentary in the Film Tent which details recent architect-led workshops that features Euston based young people’s proposals for Regent’s Park. The film will be screened in the film tent at 5pm.

Further workshop details to be decided – will be entered in next week’s changes.

BFI (British Film Institute) promotes understanding and appreciation of Britain’s rich film and television heritage and culture.

Established in 1933, the BFI runs a range of activities and services including the BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, publishing, festivals, video and DVD releases, film releases, the BFI National Library Education, Sight & Sound and the BFI National Archive. The National Archive is the largest archive of moving image material in the world.

In October 2007, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced a £25m Screen Heritage UK (SHUK) programme to provide identification, preservation, access and understanding of the BFI National Archive film collection and other significant collections held around the country.

One of the key outcomes of the SHUK programme will be Portrait of Britain, due to be launched in June 2011. This online film season and nationwide programme of events and engagement activities will provide free online access to key archive film titles from film collections throughout the UK. Portrait of Britain will bring within the reach of everyone, memories on film taken by amateurs and professionals over the last 100 years.

The film screened at FUSE, The Open Road, features London as the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. In this humorous portrait of 1920s Britain, pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brings picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.

The Open Road will be screened in the Film Tent from 3.15 – 3.25pm, there is no need to book just visit the yellow Film Tent at FUSE.

Launched in April 2008, vinvolved, the national youth volunteering programme, aims to get half a million more young people positively involved in their communities.

Vinvolved Central London works with 16 – 25 year olds across Central London to help them find volunteering activities to match their interests, aspirations and career goals. On the day young people will be able to meet the Youth Volunteer Advisors who will discuss volunteering and help you find exciting opportunities through their database.

For more information about Vinvolved go to www.volunteer.co.uk

The V&A is the world’s greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. They have 3000 years’ worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world’s richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.

The V&A’s Theatre Collections moved from the Theatre Museum building in Covent Garden to the V&A and the theatre and performance galleries at South Kensington opened in Spring 2009.
At FUSE you can explore theatre performance with the V&A. See how theatre make-up styles have changed over the years, from the 17th century to modern musicals. Get made up by a professional make-up artist, try on stage costumes from London shows and discover West End wardrobe secrets.

The V&A make-up and costume demonstrations will last thirty minutes, during the half hour make-up sessions, two people will get the chance to be made up in front of an audience of twenty, and during the costume sessions, up to ten people will have the opportunity to get dressed up.

The sessions will run all day and there’s no need to sign up, if you want to watch the demonstrations just drop by and check it out, if you wish to take part let the V&A staff know.

To check out the V&A Theatre Collections on line go to www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/ or for the main V&A website go to www.vam.ac.uk/index.html

Union Dance and The London Lucumi Choir have joined forces in an exciting collaboration, creating a dance cantata from Juwon Ogungbe’s composed choral work Time and the Trickster’s Heart.

Ogungbe’s music displays The London Lucumi Choir’s special attributes, with the musical focus apportioned evenly between soloists, deeper voices, percussionists and higher voices.

Corrine Bougaard (Union’s Artistic Director) has created a vibrant dance to complement and highlight the Choir’s performance of the work that celebrates transformations and is inspired by Cuban Bata dances of the Santeria faith.

In the piece Eshu the Trickster Deity misleads three honoured female Deities, Yemoja, Oya and Oshun, who are regarded as perfect, in power, wisdom and goodness. Based on a parable from Yoruba mythology, it demystifies some aspects of the belief system as it is practised in the Santeria faith of Cuba and amongst the Yorubas of Nigeria and Republic of Benin in West Africa.

The Performance will take place on the Outdoor Stage from 3.15pm – 3.45pm and from 6.40pm – 7.10pm

www.uniondance.co.uk

University of the Arts London comprises six art and design colleges, London College of Fashion, London College of Communication, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Camberwell College of Arts, Wimbledon College of Art and Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design.

As part of FUSE, staff and students from the University will be on hand to show design work from all of the colleges, and talk to and inspire young people about art and design, from fashion to ceramics, from photography to costume design. There will be examples of students work, students on hand to talk about their experience, a film about the six colleges, and lots of information about the University, which will get you to think about art and design.

For further information about University of Arts London visit www.arts.ac.uk

The Theatre Royal Haymarket Youth Company is a dynamic group of young people made up 14 – 17 years old who have a passion for theatre.

The Company mirrors a professional theatre company and works together over a period of three months to rehearse, direct, produce and manage a production that is performed on stage at the Haymarket’s West End venue. These productions are supported by a team of West End professionals to ensure the production is of the finest quality. Following the success of their last sell out show the Youth Company are moving away from the theatre and setting up camp at FUSE for the day.

However despite being outside the theatre this doesn’t mean an end to performance, far from it. Throughout the day and all round the park the Company will be performing The Machine. If you have ever seen a dance flash mob then The Machine is the acting equivalent. In brief, it is a physical theatre exercise used in acting classes or rehearsals all round the world in order to build ensemble within in a group of performers and get people working, creating and thinking together quickly. It is great fun, very easy to do (you don’t need any experience of performing) and the number of people who can get involved is endless!

The Machine starts with one person creating a movement and a sound, once the first person has established their movement other performers are encouraged to join in until everyone one has become part of it. Once everyone has joined in the result is a group of performers working together to create a living moving machine with each performer working in tune with the others. The Machine itself can then become a mini physical theatre performance.

There is an opportunity for anyone who is interested to get involved in this acting flashmob. The Machine Workshop will be run by the Haymarket’s West End professionals, Blayne George and Alice Driver, showing people how it came about, how it works and then finally culminating in performing The Machine in the middle of the Royal Park! The aim is to get as many people as possible involved and with the current total standing at sixty participants I am sure you could smash this on the day.

The Machine workshop will take place in The Bubble from 5.15pm – 6pm. There’s no need to sign up just visit The Bubble and join the fun.

For more information please contact alice@trh.co.uk or simply turn up on the day at the workshop and get involved.

The Photographers’ Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists – they are the place to see photography in all its forms.

At FUSE come and join the landscape collage party in connection with The Family and the Land Sally Mann’s exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery from 18 June – 19 September.

Make your own individual work or contribute to a larger, group collage. Bring your own landscape photographs or cut-outs or use those available on the day. Members of the Gallery’s Teen Forum will be there to tell you more about some of their past and current projects.

The Collage Party is running all day, no need to book a place, just drop by and grab a prit stick – and don’t forget your photos!

www.photonet.org.uk

The Photo Posse are ten young people trained by the Photographers’ Gallery to record events, they will be compiling images of the event. If you want to have a look at their photos visit their blog.  

http://www.photoposse10.blogspot.com/

Tate Forum is a youth art initiative run at Tate Britain by young people, for young people. It creates a platform for a diverse group of young people to explore Tate Collection displays and exhibitions, work with contemporary artists, talk about art and cultural issues.

Tate Forum put on around eight events every year, specifically for young people aged 15-25yrs. The group is made up of a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. An artistic background is not needed. Their goal is to make Tate Britain a place that more young people want to visit, a place to create and a place contribute to visual culture. Tate Forum supports young people to realise their true potential, build confidence in their endeavour to pursue career options, education pathways and social and cultural experiences.

At FUSE, Tate Forum will run a series of small scale art activities on the theme of exchange, which merge music, visual arts to capture your responses to art and culture.

The Tate workshop will be running all day, no need to book a place, just drop in and see what’s happening.

For more information please email us at – tateforum@tate.org.uk
Young Tate is a peer-led youth programme that runs across Tate’s four sites. To find out more about Tate Forum and other Young Tate events and groups, go to the Young Tate website – http://www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/

Soho Slam! introduces young people to creative writing and supports them to write their own plays, which are then professionally performed at Script Slam events.

Soho Slam! is part of Soho Connect, the creative learning department at Soho Theatre.

At FUSE, Soho Slam! will showcase some of the best plays by young people from across Westminster, so come along and be inspired by the extraordinary playwriting talents of the future. The Soho Theatre will also be running the Slam Starter Workshop, in which you can develop dramatic characters, write dialogue and start your own play – and have actors perform your work!

The Soho Slam plays will be performed in the Performance Tent from 12.45pm – 1.15pm and 4.45pm – 5.15pm. There is no need to book, just grab a seat.

The Soho Starter Workshop will run from 2pm – 4.30pm, to book a place, sign up at the Information and Booking Point.

For more information about the Soho Theatre contact Suzanne Gorman on suzanne@sohotheatre.com

Soho Theatre is supported by Westminster Arts

Sing London produce large scale participatory events. Last Summer they produced London’s Street pianos which received media coverage right across the world.

This summer they are delivering Ping! which sees 100 ping pong tables installed in London landmarks and available for all to play.

Sing London will present the community choir from The Churchill Gardens Estate. Inspired by the BBC’s The Choir, it is open to all and brings together residents of all ages, backgrounds and musical ability. They are joined on stage by the DreamArts Saturday group to perform a fusion of songs spanning Beyonce to The Beatles, with some beatboxing, kazoos and catchy sing-a-long choruses.

Sing London will be performing on the Outdoor Stage from 12.10pm – 12.20pm and 3.55pm – 4.10pm

For more information send an email to sing@cwh.org.uk

Sing London is supported by Westminster Arts

The Serpentine Gallery working with artists from no.w.here will present a series of short works using film video and sound from the Free Cinema School in the Film Tent.

They will also run a workshop where you can experiment by scratching, drawing, hand painting and collaging film. Young people are at the core of the Serpentine Gallery’s activities.

Through practical artist-led workshops, seminars, talks, events and projects, the gallery offers a diverse range of innovative ways that engage young people with modern and contemporary art and architecture.

The film Edgeware Road made by young people as part of the Free Cinema School project will be shown in the Film Tent at 5.40pm. The workshop takes place in the Film Tent from 12.00 – 1pm. To book your place, sign up at the Information & Booking Point thirty minutes before the workshop is due to start.

For more information about the Serpentine Gallery go to www.serpentinegallery.org