In this clip from Red Light Busking Presents Kanda Vol.1: Bedroom Shut, Music Up, the speakers reflects on being out of school for a long periods and finding their own way to learn. With no regular lessons, they spent time reading books, comics and anything they could find in the local library. While a mum tried to get them back into education, the process was difficult, and eventually social services, foster care and alternative education became part of the story. Part of the Making a Way Through Education storyline, this clip explores school exclusion, self-learning, libraries, family pressure, care experience and the pull of the roads when education no longer feels like it is moving fast enough.

Sho Sho Resiliance Produced by Lee "B3" Edwards and Pascal "P3" Edwards Samples oral histories from Leeroy Edwards, Desta Hyatt, Marlon Corbin. This is part of the sound tracks released as part of our exhibition called Red Light Busking presents Kanda Vol.1 Bedroom Shut Music Up. An immersive, music-heavy exhibition exploring why music like grime was created and whether it was a reaction to, or a reflection of, life caught up in the criminal justice system, and what wider forces in society were at play... For more details on the event please visit our page https://www.redlightbusking.com/blog/categories/kanda-vol-1-bedroom-shut-music-up

In this clip from Red Light Busking Presents Kanda Vol.1: Bedroom Shut, Music Up, the speakers reflects on being racially bullied at school, telling adults what was happening, and feeling like nothing meaningful was done. Eventually, after reaching breaking point, violence became the way they accessed safety. What followed was permanent exclusion, a school file that followed him, and rejection from every school he applied to in the borough. Part of the Making a Way Through Education storyline, this clip asks a difficult question: what happens when schools only respond to the behaviour, but fail to deal with what caused it?

In this powerful clip from Red Light Busking Presents Kanda Vol.1: Bedroom Shut, Music Up, we hear how education, pressure, foster care, isolation and being labelled as “naughty” can shape a young person’s relationship with school. Part of the Making a Way Through Education storyline, this clip explores what happens when adults only see behaviour, but miss the child behind it. From West Indian expectations around learning, to moving to a new area, fighting at school, feeling abandoned, and not having teachers take time to understand what was really going on — this story asks an important question: How many young people give up on education because no one looked deeper?