The 15-19s have a packed month of activities for February:
2nd February – Never mind the buzzcocks quiz
9th February – Plymouth Pictured competition
16th February - HeadSpace murder mystery
23rd February – Drug & Alcohol awareness
30th February – Drug & Alcohol awareness
HeadSpace Efford 15-19s takes place every Tuesday from 6.30 to 8pm at Efford Library, Torridge Way, Plymouth.
Our HeadSpace Mangako! group will be creating their own anime over the coming weeks. Here is the programme if you would like to come along and join in:
19th January – Write anime script
26th January – Make and mix anime
2nd February – Present anime to the HeadSpace crew
Mangako! is for Manga fans age 11-19, and takes place every Tuesday from 4.30pm to 6pm at Efford Library, 19 Torridge Way, Plymouth.
January 2010 will soon be upon us, along with more exciting HeadSpace events. We wanted to share our highlights of the year at HeadSpace Efford.
Our new 15-19s group grew, got a new time 6.30-8pm and started to work on some brand new projects.
We launched our library mural in May after working for several months with the local artist Jeff Stratton to create a design that would suit everyone who uses our outdoor space.
The 15-19s hosted their own James Bond night at the library which included a glamorous photoshoot for the local newspaper’s fashion supplement, bond quiz, casino games and mocktail bar.
Author Chris Higgins visited the 11-14s in June to talk about her book Love ya babe and brought plenty of chocolates with her!
In July our new Manga group Mangako! launched at HeadSpace, the group led by Abi set up their own website, wrote and performed a Manga play and have come up with the design for a young people’s library card which will be available in all our libraries next year.
The 11-14s took part in breakdancing and lyric writing workshops at the library to celebrate International Youth Day in August. Young people and staff learned some new moves and produced some fantastic creative writing.
Alex from Turntable technique helped both groups to put together their own HeadSpace beatbox tracks. The young people wrote their own lyrics and created some unique sounds using turntables and equipment. The tracks will be uploaded to our blog in January 2010.
HeadSpace volunteers supported Camp Vamp our Twilight themed event at Central Library in November. The team helped to set up the library, organised the prize draw, welcomed our guests and marked our quiz entries.
Mangako! produced some brilliant artwork and Manga character profiles which can be viewed on our Plymouth Libraries Flickr site: http:www.flickr.com/plymouthlibraries
Both groups took part in our Never Mind the buzzcocks music quiz which was a real success and tested our knowledge of music past and present to the limit. We will be hosting another version of the panel show in the new year.
More recently HeadSpace made their own Christmas decorations for Efford Take a Part community art project launch. The decorations were used to decorate the local sheltered housing lounge and some were sold by our young people to raise money for the Take a Part project locally.
The 15-19s learned to ballroom dance and we hosted their very own version of Strictly to celebrate Christmas. This involved one week rehearsing the Waltz and another performing. The young people had their own scoring panels and gave comments on the HeadSpace worker’s dancing skills.
Coming up next year, we will be going out and about as a group to choose some brand new Manga books and some new books for our older teens. We’ll also celebrate valentine’s day by writing poems and making gifts. Plus we’ll have short talks and activities on young people’s issues.
Thank you for reading our blog in 2009, we all wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Today SAM was back !!!!!!!
for the first time in ages lol,
And he is so happy he has handed the keyboard
too me haha! Sam is back yaaaay (sarcasum much ?
And guess what
Eanna is doing a survey to find out what you think
of efford 
PINEAPPLE!
an cheeese THE PERFICT
PARTY SNACK :p
sssooo thanks for reading 
Today… we have… Been… MAKING X-MAS
TREES!! Me yes me (pete) has been covered
in glitter, indeed it was fun.
We have also been making dream catchers
in an attempt to catch our dreams and store
our nightmares so that we only have good
dreams………
In manga we have been learning each others
names as i have no idea who is here and who
is not. lol
[b]Pete[/b]
I am ment to do maths revision but to be honest
I do not need it so that meens i have free time
to talk to one and other so if you have any idea’s
of how too improove the club let me know : D.
17/11/09
The manga club is starting a new naruto project, where we are creating our own characters and eating BEN AND JERRY’S!
Headspace There is now a set time that hot drinks will not be served;
Hot drinks will be served from 4:30 till 4:45.
This week we have had a visit from CHEW! no not chewbaca Chew is a Web based Channel and it’s run by young people for young people. The evening was constructive and enjoyable, and the manga group will possibly be doing a film
Today we have talked to gavin about the plans for x-mas and me yes pete has gone to the shop to buy some MILK! We are having a halloween party this means we shall dress-up, make decorations and all that kinda stuff, also me and sam have been invited to press some APPLES! So this process releases the juice from the apple making cider 
and for all you alcoholics BOO!
mwuhahhaa
ME AND PETE HAVE BEEN [b]PROMOTED!!![/b]
we are now the fund raisers for headspace;
also in the time that we have not blogged
(sorry) there have been many fun things
happening like… we have a new member
and her name aloodes me 
lol;
and petes glasses broke again but we fixed
them, and finally there was the happy valley
day!! and eena won a 10 mega pixal cammra
(that me and pete should have won.)
Next week at HeadSpace we will be hosting our first movie night for 15-19s from 6.30-8pm. The movies have been chosen by the young people and HeadSpace team so that we all get to watch movies we’ve never seen before. We’ll enjoy popcorn and generally chill in the HeadSpace area.
We will be showing these (up to 15 certificate) movies:
Forest Gump
House of flying daggers
Man on fire
My Sister’s Keeper
Transformers
Twilight
Slumdog Millionaire
Top Gun
HeadSpace is FREE and takes place every Tuesday at Efford Library.
In celebration of International Youth Day 2009 HeadSpace took part in a streetdance workshop at the library hosted by Toby Gorniak, from the streetfactory studio. We all learned some new moves, including streetdance steps, flips and tricks. Sam and Pete were a great partnership on the dancefloor, showing off their stavros -flatley style moves! We are looking forward to visiting the new streetfactory studio as a group this autumn.
MCLyricl travelled from London to host a lyric and writing workshop. We really enjoyed the warm up exercises, which showed us how to be more creative with our lyrics and vocals. Later we looked at rhyming words, similies, onomatopoeia, idioms and alliteration and used them in our lyrics. Here are some of the examples:
What if I did some rhymen? What if I did some farmen? What if I was me? What if I could just be?
As quick as lightening, as cool as ice, as hard as nailz…
What if life sang, what if what if, dang!
We ended the session writing some bitesize stories, MCLyricl gave us the first and the final sentence for these two examples:
She had a book, she put it down and something strange happened the book opened by itself and – she was sucked into it. Miaka was reading a book about a celestial princess in the library, hiding from her mum and it was getting late. Now she is a celestial princess, in the world of the book…
A girl and a boy were at a campfire party, but someone spilt some lit coal on the grass and it caught alight. Tom put his jumper over his friend Rose so she wouldn’t choke. The smoke filled the air as they were finding cover. They stayed close as a heavy wind started to blow and when the smoke cleared they held hands and looked at each other…
We’ll be sharing all of our raps and stories at HeadSpace next Tuesday.
Thanks to Europe Direct Information Service for funding our workshops and to Plymouth Evening Herald for their support in promoting and covering the event. Look out for more workshops and events at HeadSpace Efford this year.
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