UK Hip Hop Legend KYZA leads in Kensington & Chelsea Courses

A fantastic summer holiday opportunity arose for young people of Kensington & Chelsea during the summer holidays. Youth Engagement Manager - Keni Thomas, approached Gold Seal with the opportunity to put together a positive summer holiday programme that would engage and support young people to learn and explore more about music in an area tha interested them and didn't mirror traditional school activities.

Gold Seal set about making a series of short, but punchy programmes  that could be rolled out to the young people of the borough, placing them at the helm of the programmes design. Great working relationships between many of the UK urban music artists has existed for years now, thanks to the hard work of the experienced studio/sound engineers at the Gold Seal and the ability for artists to see the impact that Gold Seal offers when providing its training agency services to young people.

UK Hip hop legend KYZA Smirnoff was approached and asked if he would like to support and assist the courses, helping with songwriting skills, singing and MCing. An excited KYZA was more than happy to put something back int  o the borough that has supported him since he arrived in London and he was placed at the helm to lead from. He is a fantastic role model and mogul for young people to talk with and learn more form and get a first hand insight into the reality of the music industry and a means to exist whilst developing a music based career. 
    
The young people lapped up the support, advice and skills taught, where all had the chance to learn first hand how to write their own lyrics, rap or sing as well as make beats or engineer their peers in all aspects of the course.

All who attended commented on how much the courses did for them and the fact that they achieved accreditted outputs helps them to progress into further education etc if so desired.

The souncloud link below highlights the work completed and all songs are available for download if so desired.
RBKC Summer in the City Project 2011 by goldsealacademy

Shouts to KYZA once again for being a fantastic leader and role model for the young people and helping run a super smooth and enjoyable course for all.

If you are interested in any of the courses or services highlighted in our blog please check out our website for the most up to date information, call us on 020 8743 0009 for a more in depth chat or email us on info@goldsealproject.com

Blenheim CDP New Facility and Music Studio Opens

Blenheim CDP is a substance misuse support charity that offers a wide range of opportunities, facilities, support and services at various sites across the capital. Their new Southwark site has now relocated from Peckham to the Walworth Road area (83 Crampton St), offering fantastic new facilities with aromatherapy training, 1 to 1 support advice and counselling and now a brand new cutting edge music technology suite thanks to the well informed consultants at Gold Seal.



With little time on their hands to their grand opening day in June and a 2 week deadline, Alison Campbell and Callie Martinez approached us with the objective of transforming a long echo abundant room into a fully functional media suite and music technology studio.



Drawing on their expertise in this field, Gold Seal then set about slashing the equipment budget dramtically (in half) but still including quality and relevant means to ensure a wide spectrum of skills can be taught learnt and delivered safely on site.



The new suite began to take shape offering accoustic treatment, a vocal booth, 3 student workstations as well as the main control workstation that offers, comprehensive vocal recroding capabilities, mp3 djing, Akai midi controllers for advanced drum programming techniques and methods as well as rich warm sounds using mackie a mixing console and KRK monitors to help get rich, warm professional quality sound created in any product.



Needless to say the suite was delivered on time ready for the grand opening on June 10th, where the site was acknowledged and commended by the Southwark mayor Cllr Lorraine Lauder, Head of youth Services and a broad spectrum of youth focused agencies that welcomed the site and services now offered to young people from across Southwark.



If you are interested in any of the consultancy and facility redevelopment services offered by the experts at Gold Seal please feel free to contact us on 020 8743 0009 or email info@goldsealproject.com.

Powerful Work begins and expands with Youth Crime reduction charity NACRO

The blog has been quiet for a while owing to how busy we have been redeveloping packages and delivering powerful interventions and services across the capital but we are back with a bang!

Gold Seal's engagement skills have travelled again and work with leading youth crime support charity NACRO has been underway after they approached Gold Seal in 2010 for a range of additional accredited support and vocational training services for their young people.

   

Work to date has included planning, support and accredited training on site at their Battersea site, Portland HMYOI, Southwark and Camden YOS as well as lots of bubbling ideas and prospects for the future planned elsewhere in the charity/country.



Specialised support has also been devised to mentor motivated, budding musicians delivered using a variety of tailored 1 to 1 support for developing their skill set, potential, employability, progression and enhance current material to market and promote themselves as artists in the music industry and public domain.




For more information on any of the packages developed and sourced by Gold Seal, check out the website for a full list of services and skills, or call 020 8743 0009 to speak with someone more or email info@goldsealproject.com now.