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New NOISE BBC R5 radio programme

NOISE Executive Producer adds her thoughts to the NOISE charity’s new co-production for BBC Radio 5 live, together...

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NOISE BBC RADIO PROGRAMME - YOUNG & JOBLESS

2012-02-15 14:14:14

Over the next 4 months NOISE works with BBC Radio 5 Live and Wise Buddha to co- produce a series of programmes examining the barriers faced by the growing number of young under and unemployed people in the UK.

First-hand accounts will come from 4 young voices; Danielle (County Durham), Richie (Newcastle), Karen (Mansfield) and Craig (Wigan) to highlight the cold-facts of the youth unemployment crisis. On their journeys NOISE will pair them with successful business leaders, who will mentor them.

We looks beyond the usual 2D statistics depicted in the mainstream media, by giving a voice to the young people now feeling the burden of a recession they didn't create. They'll present their own manifesto for change, in the form of a documentary, broadcast in May, with Government ministers and business experts.

BBC Radio 5Live Deputy Controller and Commissioning Editor Jonathan Wall said: "This is a really creative project and is exactly what the Northern Development Fund for independent producers was designed to do. It has brought together people from outside the BBC who otherwise wouldn't have come together to share their ideas, and teamed them up with a 5Live news team that has just moved from London to Salford. We haven't done a project quite like this one before, so hopefully it will pave the way for many more in the future."

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Art of Protest at London's Roundhouse

2012-01-20 00:00:00

Following the resounding success of the pop-up NOISE 'Art of Protest' exhibition in Manchester, NOISEfestival.com brings the project to London's Roundhouse for an exclusive one day exhibition on Saturday the 11th February, from 11am until 5pm to coincide with the Un-Convention at Rising 2012 event. The exhibition showcases iconic, creative, non-violent protests as part of the charity's national, curriculum led learning project 'Re-Masters: The Art of Protest'.

The display shows work from leading international artists like Banksy, Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing, Stella Vine, Billy Bragg, Katherine Hamnett's anti-pershing missile T-shirt protest to Margaret Thatcher, leading German artists Joseph Beuys and Thomas Peiter, and Tedd Church's photography of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Montreal Bed-in; in addition to leading protest pieces by the best of Europe's emerging creative talent from the arts portfolio site NOISEfestival.com. The exhibition also includes the NOISE Charity's positive response to last summer youth riots, with an international compilation of photos from young people in Berlin, Madrid, Valencia and Manchester that identify their protest issues.
For more head to www.NOISEfestival.com/protest

Saturday 11th February
11am until 6pm

The Roundhouse
Chalk Farm Road
London NW1 8EH

NOISE 'THE ART OF PROTEST' POP UP EXHIBITION

2011-09-11 00:00:00

The shop window exhibition showcases protest art from established artists such as popular graffitist Banksy, Joseph Beuys & Thomas Peiter, John Lennon & Yoko Ono's 'Bed in', Turner Prize winner and OBE awarded artist Gillian Wearing, artist Stella Vine, lyrics by activist singer/songwriter Billy Bragg, and Fashion Designer Katherine Hamnett (58% Don't Want Pershing t-shirt at 10 Downing Street). These are displayed alongside emerging NOISE artists with their own thought provoking protest pieces.

'Art of Protest' opens on Wednesday 19th October in the windows of an empty retail space in 1-3 Stevenson Square, in the heart of Manchester's youth culture quarter where the recent riots took place, until 27th October 2011 (weekdays 9-6pm, weekends 11 - 5pm).

The 9 day exhibition also includes the NOISE Charity's positive response to the recent youth riots, with an international compilation of photos from young people in Berlin, Madrid, Valencia and Manchester that identify their protest issues.

Supported by the EU 'Youth in Action' Programme, the exhibition marks the launch of our national learning project 'Re-Masters: The Protest Issue'. For more information about 'NOISE Art of Protest' and to download the project brief head to NOISEfestival.com/Protest