Turner Contemporary Youth

I have been working with young people in Margate at Turner Contemporary Youth, using Social Media creatively to document all the great stuff they have going on there.

Here's some of the posts from our adventures at the Beach Blast 2012.

Hackney Weekend

As BBC Radio 1 social media producer have spent the last 6 months using social media to bring together young people in Hackney for our Hackney Weekend.

My plan was to:

-Engage young Hackney
-Create community spirit
-Celebrate young Hackney in a positive light to the rest of UK

Building hype around ticket registration I got artists to tweet about the Hackney Weekend, eg Nas tweeted this to his 700,000+ followers:

I visited local groups in Hackney and created fun content made by them that they shared on their social spaces to get the word out about the academy

Check all the films out on the YouTube Take It On channel

Throughout the academy, the social action was HUGE! Live streams, twitter Q&A's, massive guests, real talk, live lounges, all from the Hackney Picturehouse, all being talked about massively on twitter and facebook.

At the Hackney Weekend I took 6 local young reporters and they created a Tumblr page documenting their weekend. I also used Storify to pull together some of the coolest UGC from the weekend.

It has been a 'full circle' experience for me as I met young people working at Break FM, a radio station in Stratford that I worked at over 8 years ago!

It was a joy and an honour to bring such an incredible project to the area that I live and LOVE! 

I was walking home in Dalston 2 weeks after the Hackney Weekend and I heard ‘Amy!’ shouted from a chicken shop, it was a group of young people I’d been working with at the academy. They were energised, positive and singing the praises of the BBC and all we did in Hackney.  I was overwhelmed with pride, for me it is such a wonderful personal journey as it is my home too. 

Radio 4 Listening Project + UK drag doc

To celebrate Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend, Radio 4 broadcast conversations collected in Hackney.

I produced a few, including this one with Ashley and Raj, two young men discussing their friendship since childhood and how it will play out into middle age and beyond:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jxw5k/The_Listening_Project_Ashley_and_Raj_Lawnmower_racing

I was also interviewed for this Radio 4 doc on the UK drag scene: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05tkllp

Five Essentials: Creative Director - Ideas Tap

Five Essentials: Creative Director

Amy Redmond is the Creative Director of London nightlife collective Sink The Pink, which has organised events at Glastonbury, Bestival, Lovebox and the ICA. She tells IdeasMag why she can't work without Facebook, fancy dress and a sense of humour...

Full name/age/job title:

Amy Redmond, 30, Creative Director, Sink The Pink.

What does your job involve?

Promoting and hosting regular club nights, events, performances and DJ sets at venues across the country and international music festivals.

Press, PR, promotion, marketing, DJ mixes, booking acts, booking venues, building strong relationships with acts, pluggers, festivals and venues – everything it takes to run a successful club night!

Five things you couldn't work without:

1. Facebook

It is the key to talking directly to our Sink The Pink family. Facebook events are our main promotion tool for the club.

2. Fancy dress

Each night is themed, so we prepare loads of fancy dress, make up and homemade outfits and props for each party. People know to expect outfit changes and mayhem when they arrive at the club.

3. My iPhone

We tweet and Facebook pictures during the night, and upload and add pictures of people. I am always on the go and couldn’t live without checking my emails and Facebook constantly all day. The kind of work I do means being contactable all the time!

4. A sense of humour

At the end of the day, we are just running a club – it’s not life or death. It is the calm, fun, relaxed vibe that keeps people wanting to come down and be a part of the fun. No one wants to work with a boring person, and definitely no one wants to go out partying with one! Being fun and having fun makes my job more successful and fun; it’s a win-win.

5. Glitter

We believe that glitter makes everything better. I always have pots of glitter on me, for making people up, or adding glitter to sets, costumes or props. Also the eBay app because I am constantly buying glitter on eBay!

From http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/all-articles/five-essentials-amy-redmond