Scheme of WorkBedroom Shut, Music Up – Education Track 1 Unit overview Age range: 13–18Length: 4 lessons (about 60 minutes each)Core themes: exclusion, belonging, neurodiversity, trauma, resilience, self-teaching Unit aims ● Explore real stories of young people who struggled in school. ● Reflect on how labels, behaviour and unmet needs affect education. ● Recognise that education is not always a straight line. ● Consider ways schools can support different

Swimming Upstream written by Akilah Mantock and Jeremiah " Kaydeen" Chester produced by Taden "TC" Petrie

Through real oral histories, contributors reflect on TikTok, Instagram, SoundCloud, Snapchat, viral moments, public humiliation, online reputation and how conflicts that once stayed local could suddenly spread across phones and platforms. The story also asks a bigger question: who controls the story — the people who lived it, the platforms that spread it, or the media companies that frame it? Part of a Red Light Busking oral history project Kanda Vol.1 Bedroom Shut Music Up

This storyline looks at the relationship between music, prison, friendship groups and street culture in the early 2000s. Through real oral histories, contributors reflect on jungle raves, garage, pirate radio, MC culture, prison wings, Top of the Pops, and how music became both a creative outlet and a mirror of what was happening in the streets. The story explores a key question: when music reflects real life, how do we understand its influence without ignoring the conditions

Real voices reflect on education, pressure, bullying, foster care, exclusion, dyslexia, ADHD and the impact of being pushed out of school. This storyline explores how young people, especially Black boys, could be labelled as a problem before their needs were properly understood — and how education, when made accessible, can change the direction of someone’s life.

The building process for our exhibition Red Light Busking presents Kanda Vol.1 Bedroom Shut Music Up

This storyline explores resilience, identity and survival through real oral histories connected to Waltham Forest. Contributors reflect on African knowledge systems, maroons, structural racism, pirate radio, postcode conflict, prison, street life and the turning points that helped people seek a different path.

LFHG - Written Performed by Laila Aminah, Modupe Obasola, Cloie Gurney, Wayne Mouza ,Marlon "Rage" Corbin produced by Joe "Top Dolla" Dyer. This track was created by Red Light Busking staff members and youth on our music studio project and guest musicians who joined us for the project.

This powerful oral history explores the over representation of African Caribbeans in the criminal justice system through real voices connected to Waltham Forest. Contributors reflect on policing, racial profiling, prison sentences, youth offending institutions, street economies, family separation and the long-term impact of criminalisation on Black communities.

To everyone who joined us at the exhibition: thank you for the overwhelming feedback. As we mentioned on-site, our production team is currently in the studio mastering the immersive audio storylines for digital release. We want to make sure that the sound you heard in the "Bedroom Set" translates perfectly to your headphones at home. In the meantime, we are releasing our Newsletter as a free digital download for our community Inside, you’ll find: Thoughts and reflections: Mem

Resistance music—music that’s from a place of saying ‘I’m not having it no more’—brings people with shared ideals and experiences together into a collective, or becomes a powerful voice that reaches worldwide. Would reggae be considered resistance music?Is grime considered resistance music?Could drill be considered resistance music? Probably, though what I definitely agree with Joel on is that this type of music always seems to be created against a backdrop of suffering. Hard

Rage told me though he was involved in various serious street activities during the early 2000’s he had also been introduced to books on people like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and real knowledge of self type books. He said he felt conflicted. His consciousness was growing, and he wanted to tell his friends to aim higher, to live better.

some have been behind bars for so long they now call prison a “second home.” Some might call that foolish. I think it’s more complicated. Many are highly intelligent — articulate enough to talk you out of your lunch money and your five-summer savings. Yet still, they spend more summers behind bars than bartenders slinging two-for-one Pimm’s and lemonade in pub gardens.

I paused the words of good morning heartache and reflected. Because nearly a century later, the script hasn’t changed just different actors

Are lyrics from a cell now lyrics of the world? The tales and slang from behind bars, played through the speakers of London driven cars and beyond, though to what effect…

Introduction To Red Light Busking presents Kanda Vol.1 Bedroom Shut Music Up

Lesson Plan: Exploring Culture and Identity Through Carnival Lesson Title: The Significance of Jouvert and Notting Hill Carnival

Red Light Busking presents Dem Live A Foreign exhibition. A Somali home as the bride prepares for her wedding.

Red Light Busking presents Dem Live A Foreign exhibition. A Caribbean home after Sunday morning J'ouvert.

Nearly all of the young people who I have worked with who are experienced with the criminal justice system often have very similar traits su