This opens the Drop Inn News Bulletin.
It will be posted at the end of every Month.
Sunday 31 January 2010
Belper Town Council Donation
Belper Town council have donated £3000 pounds to the Drop Inn to help with our overheads this year. As a few people are aware we are a very popular and very successful community organization with some amazing assets, unfortunately we always struggle to fund running costs. So a big thank You to Belper Town Council!
We are putting things in place this year which will allow us to utilize our assets and specialized skills and hire them out to a wider reach of people in our community, which will result in us becoming more self sustainable, leaving more money to run outrageous and creative projects.
We are putting things in place this year which will allow us to utilize our assets and specialized skills and hire them out to a wider reach of people in our community, which will result in us becoming more self sustainable, leaving more money to run outrageous and creative projects.
Saturday 30 January 2010
V National Awards Money
We have received a cheque for £1000, which was from winning the Vinspired Genius National Award in November 2009. We think it's going toward buying some new Power amps for our Frankenstein Sound System. The Award was for the 'Safe Raves' project ran by Tom Stone, the prize money will be going towards something to make the 'Safe Raves' even better for 2010!
Friday 29 January 2010
Safe Rave 2010 [1] - The Petebox
This is a mirrored photo of where MC Spyda stood after the last 'Safe Rave' of 2009. We are going to try and get a picture of any big celebrity next to our sign, so eventually we can have them all in a wall of fame.
The first 'Safe Rave' of 2010 was a great success with 104 Young People attending, the most we've had so far!
This was the design for the posters and flyers that circulated Belper. This design layout will become a template for all the 2010 'Safe Raves' so it become cheap and easy to promote each individual event.
The first 'Safe Rave' of 2010 was a great success with 104 Young People attending, the most we've had so far!
This was the design for the posters and flyers that circulated Belper. This design layout will become a template for all the 2010 'Safe Raves' so it become cheap and easy to promote each individual event.
Thursday 28 January 2010
New Stage Set Up
We designed the Skate ramp to convert into shelves for Our Frankenstein Sound System. The other parts of the skate ramp make-up the stage for performances and the resident DJ's. The Sound System is sounding better than before!
Radio Broadcaster
The Drop Inn is now home to this wonderful new Radio Broadcasting Equipment. There is a limited amount of these portable radio studio's been produced so far so we are very proud to house it and The Drop Inn.
A Photo of the Radio broadcaster all set up and ready to use. This was part of the first demonstration. There is only 9 of these radio broadcasters been created so far, so we are so privileged to have one housed at The Drop Inn.
This is the interview table with extra microphones and an on-air light. You can also plug in guitars and other musical interests. Everything is colour coded and is really easy to set up.
The process of unfolding the radio broadcasting equipment takes round about 10 - 15 minutes.
This is a Photo from early on in the demonstration of our new radio broadcaster. This radio equipment folds away in a neat little black box for transport anywhere.
A Photo of the Radio broadcaster all set up and ready to use. This was part of the first demonstration. There is only 9 of these radio broadcasters been created so far, so we are so privileged to have one housed at The Drop Inn.
This is the interview table with extra microphones and an on-air light. You can also plug in guitars and other musical interests. Everything is colour coded and is really easy to set up.
The process of unfolding the radio broadcasting equipment takes round about 10 - 15 minutes.
This is a Photo from early on in the demonstration of our new radio broadcaster. This radio equipment folds away in a neat little black box for transport anywhere.
Monday 25 January 2010
Rotary Presents Check
From the Bag Packing at Morrisons just before Christmas with the Rotary Club we raised some funding together. Some members of the Belper and Duffield Rotary came on Monday night to present us with a check for £450 after putting some more money into the pot we raised on the night. Thank You Rotary Club, it was a lot of fun and we would love to help out again!!
Safe Rave Calendar 2010
[1] - 29/01/10 - Beatbox - (The Petebox)
[2] - 26/02/10 - House - (Rich Hughes)
[3] - 26/03/10 - Techno - (Dave Angle)
[4] - 30/04/10 - Dubstep - (Fyber)
[5] - 21/05/10 - Hip Hop - (Squigz)
[6] - 23/07/10 - DnB - (Shookz & MC Bomma)
[7] - 24/09/10 - Bassline - (Natty)
[8] - 12/11/10 - Secret - ??? Something amazing, but we can't say!
[9] - 26/11/10 - Grime - (Natty)
[X] - 17/12/10 - Big A list Name !!! (TBA)
This year will see the National Award winning 'Safe Raves' get even bigger and better!
Keep an eye on these dates, If your as excited as we are we'll see you there!
[2] - 26/02/10 - House - (Rich Hughes)
[3] - 26/03/10 - Techno - (Dave Angle)
[4] - 30/04/10 - Dubstep - (Fyber)
[5] - 21/05/10 - Hip Hop - (Squigz)
[6] - 23/07/10 - DnB - (Shookz & MC Bomma)
[7] - 24/09/10 - Bassline - (Natty)
[8] - 12/11/10 - Secret - ??? Something amazing, but we can't say!
[9] - 26/11/10 - Grime - (Natty)
[X] - 17/12/10 - Big A list Name !!! (TBA)
This year will see the National Award winning 'Safe Raves' get even bigger and better!
Keep an eye on these dates, If your as excited as we are we'll see you there!
Monday 18 January 2010
Shookz Returns
The DJ workshops have restarted on Monday nights. With loads of the Young people bringing down there own new vinyl's to spin on the decks with DJ Shookz. We'll hopefully have a new amp soon to test the new Frankenstein sound system upgrade.
Thursday 14 January 2010
Table Tennis Semi-Pro
A Semi-Pro Table Tennis Player by the name of Ae came in on a Thursday night to start coaching Table Tennis. It was amazing to watch and the young people learnt a bit about playing Professional Table Tennis. Ade said he had run and wants to come back and do more coaching sessions. It's Brilliant!!
Thursday 7 January 2010
Inspiring Graffiti Project
Check this amazing technology out. We would love to use this as 3D Graffiti technology for a demonstration. If nothing else watch the video for inspiration. Anything we like the look of or find inspiring ourselves this year, we are going to post. So we can share out motive behind new idea's and hopefully encourage other people to share brilliant idea's Check this film out: Graffiti Analysis 2.0. It's amazing, one of our missions this year will be to sort host some crazy Multi Media exhibitions.
Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Table Tennis Returns
The table tennis has been brought back out and refurbished. With a hand full of new rackets and ping pong balls.
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Radio Derby Interview
Belper News ran an article on Laura's regional Transform award she got in November just before Christmas. Now Laura's amazing success story has been picked up by Radio Derby, who want to know more about Laura's story and what she does down at the Drop Inn. Laura was one of the Original Young people to attend and get involved in The Drop Inn when she was only 15. Now she is helping run the centre as the General Manager along side the other Young Management team. The broadcast was at 11.15.
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