Sounds of Wembrook

Sounds of Wembrook

Over Summer 2019, young people from the Wild Earth Youth Club, at Hilltop and Caldwell (HTC) area of Nuneaton, worked with musician Luke Weaver to produce 'Sounds of Wembrook'.  Young people went around their local community centre and their local neighbourhood to collect sounds. They recorded sounds from the youth club's sports activities, gardening club and art activities along with sounds from their local woods and green spaces.

The production process took place over six weeks and it reflected the sense of pride that the young people hold for their local environment. Creating music has been a way of accessing what young people feel about their place in the community. They wouild like to be more involved and they certainly would like to participate in more youth-centered activities that were being held since September 2018, when the Wild Earth Youth Club was first started at Wembrook Community Centre. It has been an amazing experience for our youth mentors from the Nature Beats Sonic Signatures programme to work as yoith volunteers at the youth club and some delivered music workshops to the young people.

Music has proven to be a very tool to raise the profile of the young people of this area, where youth activities are very much in need and the gaps are large. As a key feature, this piece of music is going to influence the need to keep funding positive activities for the young people in HTC. There were community days held, where families from the community where taken to a woodland and they engaged in nature connection and natural play with their children. In the coming months, music will be used to build capacity of the young people to inlfuence local decision making and they will present to the BIG LOCAL partnership board and build a case of funding their youth provison and gain representation in the board.

https://soundcloud.com/wildearthuk/wild-earth-sound-of-wembrook-community