Name:  Leanne
Age:  17
Borough:  Waltham Forest
Role:  Producer

Specific responsibilities

Overall responsibility for development & implementation of the event:
•    Outlines event brief with Creative Directors and Production Managers
•    Development of project concept with Creative Directors and Production Manager
•    Management of venue and venue infrastructure
•    Appoint and direct event safety consultant and required medics
•    Development of event management plan & production safety plan with safety consultant

Why are you interested in being a CREATE Programmer?

I am interested in working with the CREATE Programmers as I often go to events whether it be directed towards the art fields (art, music, dance) but I also attend sporting events on a regular basis.

By joining this programme, I am able to gain an insight to how events are put together, behind the scenes. I am able to meet professionals directly involved with the events business who are willing to pass on their years of experience, which will serve me well in the future.  Most importantly, by getting involved in this project it has highlighted the lack of events, particularly for young people in my borough, Waltham Forest. This programme enables me to put on events as part of the CREATE Festival to encourage people to perhaps experience other low key events for young people in the other Olympic Boroughs.

I am an A-Level student, studying English Language, Biology, Art and Physical Education. My favourite subjects are Art and P.E. I am constantly involved in sports and play, coach and umpire basketball, netball and football. I play and train for Redbridge Ladies, a local football team.  I would consider art and P.E. my favourite subjects because I feel confident performing these successfully and I believe these fields inspire the younger generation to become more. They are able to express themselves in a way not possible in any other subjects.  With art, it inspires them to try out different art forms such as music, theatre or dance. This is what I feel inspires me.

Within Waltham Forest, I feel there is not much that is going on for young people. There is however, Epping Forest, a place where I go on a annual bike ride with my family in the summer. There is also the Queen’s Hunting Lodge, which I have visited twice as part of school trips. Here was where Queen Elizabeth I hunted deer and other animals as a past time.

There is also the William Morris Gallery based in Walthamstow. I have visited here once and I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but it is commonly visited as a tourist attraction.

Waltham Forest was the birthplace of David Beckham, and I myself have met him in person at the launch of the David Beckham Academy at Greenwich in March 2005.