Headstart is a year-long leadership programme that helps 15-25 year olds learn about, and shape the culture of their city.
Through Headstart, young people develop skills to make them better able to comment on their world, document it and organise things that go on in it.
Headstart is about professional development with learning taking place in the real world.
It gives young people a headstart in the creative industries,
but the broad set of skills developed will be helpful to anyone who
wants to use their creativity and imagination to take control of their
future.
Headstarters work on real briefs and commissions for real clients and
the programme is facilitated by industry professionals. They meet
inspirational people, masters of their craft and visit amazing cultural
spaces and place.
The 2011/12 programme
The focus of Headstart 2011-12 is to create a pop-up space for young Londoners (a cultural venue) in July 2012 that is programmed, marketed and designed by Headstarters.
Everyone in the programme will learn about how cultural venues in London work, how they bring people together and the communities they support.
The backdrop for this pop-up venue will be the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Headstarters will have to think critically about the opportunities
presented by the London 2012 Olympics and what the games are doing for
young Londoners.
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Headstart participants master one creative skill, either:
Photography
Film-making
Promotion
Social media journalism
Watch the trailer
This film showcases last year's Headstart programme,
features current 'Headstarters' and their work, with music kindly
contributed by Lil Simz, who performed at the Programmers Lovebox stage
in July 2011. (Credit: Eelyn Lee Productions Ltd)
For details of last years programme see below:
Social Media Journalists (Blogging / Journalism)
Constant Pictures (Film Production)
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