Black YouthForum
Fridays 5:30 -7pm Alongside Debate club, developing diverse Artists, enterprisers and Leaders to contribute to combatting Racism.
A safe space, focused on Revealing, Questioning, and Dismantling. A starting point in our fight to dismantle racist systems, this pathway works alongside our Fridays Debate Club to train amplifies youth voices and explores resolutions to overt and systematic racism. The forum will specifically explore racism and the intersectionalities of racism, A space that supports black youth engagement and understanding of Global politics, Diplomacy and policy thinking.
Black Youth Forum underpins Elevate Young Minds development plans. We have most recently been focused on Community Ownership, by opening Activity Center - Dance Studio Manchester - 2 years ago we stepped toward Reclaiming our culture, to ensure the black and Global Majority community led groups and dance & music teachers can serve their community from a space that cares and supports their vision for development of their community dance practices.
In 2020, our black youth forum noticed how the creative sector did not understand why the Black Live Protects were significant, although they benefited significantly from our Cultures. As a group of young leaders, we finalised our action by opening a Dance and Music Studio Manchester that works for Global Majority communities a black youth led a creative hub in north Manchester supporting emerging artists, from Black African/Caribbean and Global Majority backgrounds. This space has already shifted the power dynamic in Greater Manchester, and North Manchester, alongside programming classes such ass (Afro Fusion, Dancehall, Breakdance, Kpop, Bollywood. We have become a space where black and minority artists and families feel safe and understood. Moving away from fighting for programming authenticity dance classes to incubating our worn culture. The only black led community dance space. We have become an activity home for black and Majority led charities and cics that wants to deliver alternative professional dance or music provision.
Coming up
〰️ YEAR 2 Cotton Collection
Coming up 〰️ YEAR 2 Cotton Collection
How to participate in Year 2 Video
Black Youth Forum | Cotton Connections SIM
Background
(The Science and Industry Museum) is part of SMG (The Science Museum Group). SIM has collected objects and archives relatina to the Manchester reaion's textile industry since its founding in 1969. Highlights from this collection are featured in the museums permanent textiles Gallery.
The collection reflects the industrial and economic development of Manchester and Lancashire, which was fuelled by iTs cotton industry. Manchester grew into a global centre of textiles manufacturina and trade in the 19* century and maintained this status into the 20 century. The small market town became an industrial city, known as Cottonopolis
The collection includes:
• Historic cotton spinning, weaving, and printing machinerv, examples of which are regularly demonstrated to the public
• Objects connected with the merchanting. trade and transport or cotton goods in Manchester, including colourrul'shipper's tickets.
• Objects relating to the cultivation and processing of raw cotton such as cotton gins, machines which quickly removed
• TexTie barrerns and desions manuracrured in Manchester ror global markers.
• Detailed business records for prominent Manchester Textiles merchants
Summary of intended outcomes
• Develop new networks and relationships across the participation of individuals and organisations
• Develop skills, knowledge and confidence needed to embed long-term work and lasting change
• Create paid opportunities to gain experience of curatorial research and content development with curators
communirv bar icipants
• Create and deliver innovative approaches to the interpretation of industrial histories and collections in their global
• Create new. authentic content for the public audiences in heritage and community venues online
• Support ongoing work on large scale aallery development at SIM bevond the lifespan of the proiect.
Elevate Young Minds Black Youth Forum is part of a Research collaboration with CAHN led by MaCTRI (MEaP Academy Community Training and Research Institute). Our research project is funded by Young Manchester.
Young Manchester is committed to working with others to tackle racial injustice that impacts on children and young people’s lives and to establishing clear, coherent approaches to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the Youth and Play sector.
This survey has been developed to gather anonymous information that will enable us to gain a better insight into the voices of young people, results of this research will be soon published via Young Manchester.
