This was one of the highest turnouts on a saturday ever in the museum! From 12am to 6pm, 1000 young people (200 from Stonebridge) made an 100 page magazine in one day. Groups were set up in the Main Gallery of The Tate and MCs and Grimestars alongside youthworkers led all sorts of discussions about the personal stories and the political ideas which the young people held as important.
NEW ERA caps launched a competition to design the HARDCORE IS MORE THAN MUSIC signature hat. Using digital photography, transcribing interviews from Minidisc and making posters and flyers streamed straight onto the flatplan on laptops, the young people produced the draft of a magazine crammed to exploding with ideas like a propagandist newspaper.

There were music performances, sponsored by BBC 1XTRA on a stage downstairs at the entrance. And the following MCs ran the workshops for the magazine.

• ASHER D
• BRUZA
• DJ CAMEO
• JME
• SKEPTA
• DJ WONDER

The event was steered away from the stereotypical conversations about guncrime and drugs to talking about young people's aspirations in the world and even friendships. JME told an inspirational story about getting support from his parents to produce music. Sandra Jackson, Head of Education at THE STUDIO MUSEUM in New York came to see the event form NYC (for one day!). We hope to replicate this event in NYC and LA with a group of young people from London producing a magazine in HARLEM and in COMPTON with 1000 teens in each of these suburbs. More Soon >

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