Remix the Streets (Radio Regen) - UK

The Remix The Streets Project Manager (typically, a professional artist) works with youth and community arts workers to develop a project framework made up of appropriate street projects. For example, a community artist might team up with a young worker. The team would then approach a group of young people -- in a bus shelter, perched on a wall, in the back room of a pub, or in a park -- and ask them if they would like to make a music show. The team carries a battered suitcase with them that is actually a portable radio studio. Participants DJ, rap, choose the music, and operate the equipment. The show is then recorded to cassette and given to the group at the end of the session. Later on, the group is invited to attend regular sessions at a fixed venue such as a youth centre or school. Participants are given advice on where their experience with Remix The Streets might lead them (e.g., vocational or life skills training). The project culminates in the making of a piece of radio that can be broadcast on one of Radio Regen's community stations.

Specifically, individuals recruited from regeneration areas participate in a twice-yearly, month-long city centre radio station called "City Centre Life FM" that serves as a training platform to build media and workplace skills. These trainees then go on to work as the core production teams for community radio stations in their home areas, working with local community groups to decide and then produce the output of the stations. It is on these stations that Remix the Streets material is broadcast.

Youth, Economic Development.