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20 12 2018

Our Bronze Art Award-Winning Young People

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Last Tuesday, we were so proud to watch FIVE of our young people accept their Trinity College Art Awards at the Making Tracks End of Year Showcase in Bristol! They’ve worked very hard at our Positive Paths & Pushing Talent sessions to receive this achievement. Each young person improved their music making in ways that were most engaging to them, including writing lyrics, recording songs, making a music video, making an EP and performing to a live audience. Each young person also researched an artist that inspires them, visited an event/exhibition and taught one of their a skills to someone else.

Arts Award’s unique qualifications support young people to develop as artists and arts leaders, so we are very pleased our young people engaged so well with this programme and made the most out of this experience. We see a very bright future for these young people, thanks for representing ACE so brilliantly.

ACE’s Positive Paths & Pushing Talent young people receiving their Arts Awards

The young people wanted to give an especially huge thank you to Darren, who helped them through this journey with his constant and genuine support.

This work has been done as part of Making Tracks (partnership project with Basement Studios & Trinity Community Arts – funded by Youth Music). For more info about the Art Awards and how you can get involved, visit: https://www.artsaward.org.uk/site/?id=64

30 11 2018

YO Arts Fest: ACE performers take the stage

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On Thursday 15th November 2018, ACE was excited to announce that we had a couple of our young people perform at Paper Arts YO Fest at the Docklands, St. Paul’s. What a turn out! The hallway and performance area was packed, the atmosphere was vibing and artists were on fire!

It was a privilege to be a part of this great event, bringing together and highlighting all of the youth opportunities from across the city, hosted by young people for young people.

The one-of-a-kind evening was opened by inspiring speech from the Lord Mayor, an artist herself, who told the crowd to believe in themselves and that: “there’s no such thing as instant success. It’s a long road, there are highs and there are lows but don’t give up!”

This was quickly followed by a handful of amazing performers, including our very own Xyzelle and Delocx. We were very proud, and even made into the local news! You can read their review of the evening here: https://www.bristol247.com/festivals/features-festivals/review-yo-arts-fest/

For more about the event, have a look through our slideshow and videos that we captured on the night. For more about our talented young artists, drop us an email or a comment below! Thanks to everyone who came and support our insanely talented young people, we can’t wait to see you at the next one!

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12 11 2018

Winning the St Pauls Carnival Pride Award

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If you haven’t heard already… ACE won a St Pauls Carnival Pride award last night at the PCC Awards for our work over the summer!

Darren Alexander collecting the award for ACE

It was a team effort, so first and foremost we’d like to thank everyone who got involved and stuck it out through the record-beating, melting hot weather! We’d like to give an especially big thank you to all the young people who came and performed and supported us, without you none of this would have happened. It was really inspiring to see your hard work and dedication and we’re so pleased it has paid off.

The PCC Awards were at City Hall to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of St Pauls Carnival. It was held by Mayor Marvin Rees, the first elected black mayor in Europe! Bristol born-and-bred, he said: “St Pauls Carnival is a rightful path of passage for kids growing up in Bristol,” and we couldn’t agree more.

This year was a celebration like no other. Managing Director Darren Alexander, who collected the award, said: “Contributing to such an historical and cultural event was an amazing experience for our organisation. We were able to show the true value of the work we do with young people through this amazing project, which has created a legacy for our Carnival and our City.”

As well, we were so proud to record and produce the ACE Anthem of the Carnival called Colours of the City with our amazing young people. It was even played at the beginning of the awards which was awesome, and you can watch it here:

Thanks again to everyone who came, who danced and who supported us. We’re onto big things, we can’t wait to share it all with you.

Visit our Twitter and Instagram to see our live updates from the night too!