Outta Place artists Fon Ma and Clare D facilitated a mural workshop with the elderly and the young people of Forest Cottage community centre, Halifax. The mural depicted imagery of modern gadgets like nano pods fused with tea-pots wearing hoodie- cosies ( a new phenomenon perhaps?!).
The workshop was a great success with the young people at times acting as mentors with their elders, there was a lot of banter and creativity. The finished mural will be up here soon, in the meantime check out this slideshow, courtesy of Calderdale Council.

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This year at the Moor Music Festival, Outta Place will be serving you a nice hot plate of arts and activities to join in!
Click on this LINK to find out more about this festival. Its going to be a full weekend of Music, Shenanigans, Arts and Fun in Yorkshire!
We will be there in our own tent with Stencil, Arts, VJing and more! Make sure you come and check us out and don’t miss out on the fun!

The Festival runs from 12th to 15th August at the Heslaker Farm, off Heslaker Lane, near Carleton Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 3AB

Yes, you guessed it, and you know it! Any major event (or small event for that matter) and you can be sure we will be there making it all a little bit more fun!
So, what you may have known as The July Project has now grown into the HALIFAX FESTIVAL. There will be all sorts going on over the 9 days it runs. Click the LINK to fin out more.
On the 21st August you can find us, OUTTA PLACE in the Piece Hall, holding an extraordinary stencil art workshop where you will be able to create your own T-Shirt designs!
Come and join us for the fun, and learn something new!

As the Summer flies by like nobodies business, Outta Place continue to colour the dull whether with a wealth of exiting Urban workshop activities.
Halifax is hosting more than ten FREE workshops, most of which have already taken place! But they are not all over yet! next week we still have the following workshops:

09th August 2010 DJing starting at 6.30pm – St Andrews 10th August 2010 Graffiti starting at 6.30pm – Queens Rd 11th August 2010 Graffiti starting at 5pm – Siddall Park 12th August 2010 DJing starting at 6.30pm – Queens Rd 13th August 2010 Street Dance starting at 6.30pm – St Andrews

These sessions take place at their respective Youth Centres or Venues and are held by some of our favourite Outta Place artists, including: Skittle, Craig Turner, Joy Gileard, Jonny Jingles, MC Chunky, Keith and Women 158 aka Neil Parkinson
Together they have been helping the Young People of Halifax create some fantastic Graffiti artwork and Music, as well as teaching and improving their Break-dance, Street Dance, DJing and MCing skills!

Outta Place are currently hosting a Summer University Course. We are presenting an URBAN ART and NEW MEDIA Master-class in Hebden Bridge.
By taking part in this free 3 day event, the young people will do B-Boying, Stencil Graffiti art and VJing (Real time Video Mixing!). This event also involves an Arts Award Accreditation, where Bronze Level will be offered to any who successfully complete the course!
The sessions are running from 19 to 21 July, 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm in the Holme Street Arts Centre in Hebden Bridge, and is of course FREE!!!
Make sure you keep up to date with all OUTTA PLACE’s activities and don’t miss out on the next big thing to hit your town!

Watch out for our up and coming artist! Outta Place is so proud to announce that our very own MC Chunky has been blasting out his talents for your listening pleasure from none other than the countries most popular Grime, Hip-hop, Drum ‘n Bass and Dubstep radio station, BBC 1Xtra!
Some of you will know Chunky from some of our best workshops. He has got the Young People raping and rhyming at sessions such as the Outta Seed Project and Battle on the Park!
Chunky and Blue Bear joined the Scandalous Unltd crew this week hosting with an exclusive 10 minute mix from More Than A Lot Records!! Dubstep and grime in the mix!!
Broadcast on Mon, 14 Jun 2010, 01:00 on BBC 1Xtra.

Outta Place headed up the hill to deliver 10 weeks of FREE arts activities for the young people of Dodnaze Youth Club.

Aiming to excite, educate and expand, we gave the Young People 5 different taster art forms each week…then they CHOSE which art form they wished to take further…for the following 5 weeks. Here’s a look into the work that took place!

Outta Place working in partnership with the Young People Service 2010.

The Big Green Weekend was flared up even greener this year with the Transition Town initiative bringing a Transition Zone to Hebden Bridge.

Outta Place was of course there! We delivered a workshop that swung arm in arm with the aims of this event: raising environmental awareness through Creating, Mending and Transforming.

Neil “women158″ Parkinson is a Graffiti writer and Illustrator from Leeds, just another fantastic artist collaborating with Outta Place. He got the young people etching and marking creating unique beautiful pieces of art out of old unwanted Vinyl Records. To add a cutting edge spin to the project the discs were then decorated with illuminating LED lights! The workshop was free and the art-work was used to created a stunning exhibition of raw re-cycled art and sparkling lights!

Keep checking back to this space for more Outta Place updates, or contact us at outtaplacearts@googlemail.com

For more information on Transition Town Hebden Bridge, visit: www.hebdenbridgetransitiontown.org.uk

Fair for Youth was an event that took place at the Calder Holmes Park, Hebden Bridge.
This event was dreamt up, applied for, organised, and then implemented by the local people of Hebden Bridge and members of the Calder Holmes Park.
The aim of the day was to connect as many youth activity providers as possible directly with the youths themselves, and bridge any gaps between the two.

We (Outta Place) delivered a “b-boy” or break-dance jam where some of our young people came along and had a dance, showing local youth what they can do and hopefully inspiring many along the way.

2 Kool Tony provided the Tunes, B-boys Craig Turner and Jonny Jingles facilitated the dancers and the slot was compared by Outta Places’ founding director Clare D.