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Cristian G - gifted young musician from Bradford

 ALL STAR ENTERTAINMENT NORTHERN STAR PROGRAMME   

Cristian’s Story

Cristian Gabor is a 15 year old young person living in the Great Horton area of Bradford.  He is of Slovak/Roma descent, like many of the young people attending this youth club.  

Cristian is a talented pianist and inspires his friends to get involved in music. He’s a born Music Leader! Check his story!

 

 

ALL STAR ENTERTAINMENT NORTHERN STAR PROGRAMME   

Cristian’s Story

Cristian Gabor is a 15 year old young person living in the Great Horton area of Bradford.  He is of Slovak/Roma descent, like many of the young people attending this youth club.  The Great Horton area is one of the most impoverished in Bradford and is an area coping with a range of difficult issues including drugs, crime and disadvantage. 

Cristian is a talented pianist and inspires his friends to get involved in music. He’s a born Music Leader!

Ross Elliot All Star tutor says ' Christian dropped out of school and is currently not attending any other provision other than Great Horton Youth Club. Cristian has really engaged with our music sessions and has been a real catalyst in getting other young people involved and inspired too. Cristian completed his arts award and has participated in all available sessions. He's been chosen to perform at our showcase event in November and is currently working on his set.’

Cristian says ' My skills have improved 8-10 you know? I'm just putting it all together. To be honest, what I've enjoyed most has been putting my music together.. me and my friends yeh? We've been working together’...(See him jamming with friends via link below)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/05a27ua1rjqru2i/Cris-Ableton-session.mp4?dl=0

Cristian’s work in the music sessions has really impressed the staff team at the youth centre, in particular the way Cristian has helped other young people.  The centre team leader has spoken to Cristian explaining that he is impressed with his attitude throughout the music sessions and furthermore would like to help him gain employment or training as a youth worker.

Mark Kellet Youth Service Manager Great Horton YC  said 'These workshops have really given our young people opportunities they’ve never had, yet its massively needed! Music is life for a lot of my group and this fits perfectly. It's great for them to get the arts awards alongside the fun workshops and sessions. A lot of our young people are Slovak/roma and attend the PRU because they aren’t engaging in mainstream education, yet have turned up for these sessions religiously! Some learners have continued dj’ing in other sessions now from what they've learnt. They're all looking forward to their performance.’

Feedback from staff and the issues raised have been really helpful for us at All Star. The majority of the young people at the centre are Slovak/Roma and so due to the language barriers this has caused some issues.  As All Star music tutors we initially didn’t think that we would be able to deliver the arts award because of this.  However, after liaising with Arts Awards staff we found a solution that allowed the learners to have their work scribed.  This has helped us significantly and we now know how to approach the issue of English not being a first language when we deliver  programmes in future. 

Says Ross ‘The sessions have been great, fun and young people have been really into it!’ So far we’ve delivered 10 sessions to 20 participants in’ :-

  • DJ Workshops 
  • Keyboard skills 
  • Drum programming 
  • Music production 
  • Experimental music workshops 
  • MC/Lyric writing sessions 
  • Recording techniques 
  • Research of current musicians
  • Teaching skills
  • Peer mentoring 
  • How to promote yourself both successfully and safely 
  • Reviewing musical performances
  • 4 Arts awards qualifications completed 
  • All young people experienced a wide range of music-based workshops
  • Young people recorded own Dj mixes and electronic music productions 
  • Young people created online portfolios to display their work 
  • Young people have started a peer-mentoring workshop to encourage them to pass on their new-found skills to other learners 
  • Trained staff on in-house equipment

We’re now working towards performance event in November. Together we’ll assign roles and duties for this. Everyone is looking forward to taking part and Cristian is really looking forward to the gig!’

As part of our Youth Music Fund B Programme - Northern Star we have been working in other parts of the City to help us to continue to develop the work we do in supporting more of the young people of Bradford so they can participate in high quality music-making and related creative activity so we can increase quality participatory musical experiences for young people in and around Bradford and the North of England.  So far we’ve worked with over 2000 young people and have delivered 48 high quality music-making and run creative activity engagement workshops in music making/ dj’ing/music production/songwriting/composition/recording/performance techniques …

 

ALL STAR ENTERTAINMENT WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO   

We’re a dynamic Matrix-accredited organisation providing high-quality music, creative,enterprise, digital tech and career-progression programmes for young people across Bradford and the wider region; business start-up, event management, marketing and promotion skills-development training. We specialise in working with disadvantaged and NEETs young people.

NORTHERN STAR PROGRAMME

The aim of our programme which we have developed with support from Youth Music is to offer disadvantaged young people living in and around the city of Bradford as well as the wider West Yorkshire and the North of England stretching from Birkenhead on the West Coast to Hull on the East Coast, opportunities in music-making and the wider creative sector by delivering a high quality skills development programme which enables them to recognise their strengths, resilience and potential and give young people a platform for creative expression.