click on the Buzz arts festival logo on the front page of the website.  This takes you through to the festival page.  At the bottom of the page are three downloads - two consent forms and the brochure.

As well as the Buzz youth arts festival there are lots of other things to do this summer.  Check out the new Plings website, put in your postcode and find out what there is to do near you!

www.plings.net

We have been lucky enough to receive £14425 funding from Arts Council England, therefore the Buzz 2010 festival will go ahead.  Workshops in drama, dance, drumming, singing, manga, animation, film, photography, arts and crafts and much much more will take place from Monday 26 July through to Saturday 14 August with showcases in the final week at the Plowright theatre.

From 25th April Duck Egg Theatre will be opening a new theatre class in Scunthorpe at the Baptist Church Hall where students can work towards their Arts Award and Trent Valley grades.  One class will be for 7-11 year olds and the other for 12-18 year olds.  Call Haley Cox on 07723 371833 for more details.

Come along to 20 21 Visual Arts Centre this Saturday Feb 20th 10-5pm for a FREE workshop on filmmaking, photography and animation.  We want to get young people aged 8 and over involved in this exciting project.  Call 01724 297070 for more details.

Lots going on this February half term:

London based hip hop company TK Spin are doing street dance workshops at St Lawrence Academy on Tuesday 16 - a few places left, call 01724 297270 to book.

Music Cafe at Riddings Youth Centre, come and try your hand at dj, African drumming and rock - call 07717588077 for more details.

Cuban Music workshop at Vale of Ancholme Music and Technology college - call 01724 297271 for more details

South Bank Youth Dance Hub

Calling all young dancers aged 10-19!

Come and show off your skills in the biggest youth dance showcase event our region has ever seen!

The South Bank Youth Dance Showcase event will be held at the Grimsby Auditorium on Wednesday 3^{rd March 2010 7pm.}

The event is designed to encourage young people from North and North East Lincolnshire to showcase and celebrate their dance skills and will showcase Urban (street, break, hip hop) Classical, Traditional (Modern, Stage) and specialised (Irish, salsa) dance forms

The hub is looking for schools, dance schools, community dance groups from our region to come forward and participate.

Expression of interest forms can be downloaded from

^{www.thebuzzwebsite.co.uk}

^{. Or fax 01724 297258.}

Young Bands Bash at the Base

Aged 13-19?    In a band?  Looking for somewhere to perform?
Come and play at the Young Bands Bash at the Base!

Thursday 17 December from 7pm onwards
See below for details of how to register.

If your band would like to work with a professional musician to improve your performance skills then you could also come along to some free rock workshop sessions

Tuesday nights 7-9pm at the Base, Church Square, Scunthorpe
10 November through to 15 December 09

Call Vicky Halloran on 01724 843383 or 07717586282 for more details or email Vicky.halloran@northlincs.gov.uk

Youth music logo, Music4U logo North Lincs Council logo

Drama group now running at the Base 7-9pm on Tuesday evenings for 13-19 year olds

Drumming workshops 1-3pm on Saturday afternoons also at the Base. 

Call Vicky Halloran on 01724 843383 for more details on either of these workshops.

The shortlisted filmmakers for the Scunthorpe Young People’s Film Festival have now been contacted.  They have been invited to attend a gala awards evening at the Plowright Theatre on 1 October at 6.30pm.  The winners and runners up will be announced on that evening.

Those films not shortlisted will receive a screening at the Base Youth Arts Centre on Wednesday 30 September at 7pm.