The Nerve Centre can offer a variety of programmes for the Youth sector which are outlined below. We can provide training for youth leaders as well as direct delivery to young people. Courses can be tailored to suit your time schedule and preferred location. Contact us to discuss your organisation's training needs.
Community Relations Programmes
The Nerve Centre has almost two decades of experience in the design and delivery of digital community relations resources for use in formal and non-formal learning. Our resources repackage elements of Irish and British history and use interactive technologies to engage learners with new and meaningful insights and knowledge about identity and difference in Northern Ireland today. Workshops and extended programmes of learning are tailored to the individual needs of a group and seek to unlock the creativity of the learner in directing them to explore these key issues by creating their own digital responses to the learning. Accreditation is also available for learners aged 15 and over through our ground breaking web-based learning resource www.diversityonline.org.
Digital Music – Young people make their own rock, pop or dance tunes using music software and burn them onto CD. Participants can also design their own Music CD Cover
Digital Photography – Learn how to use a digital camera, take a good picture and edit pictures using graphics software
Graphics – Learn techniques in graphic design to make posters, leaflets, CD covers and more!
Web Design – Participants can learn how to build their own website, complete with custom graphics, pictures and animated buttons.
Comic Making – Participants can make and print their own comics using pictures they have taken or made themselves
Video Production - Participants can learn to use video cameras and equipment to make their own short film, documentary or advertisement
Every year the Nerve Centre runs a week-long programme for young musicians aged 14 to 17 where they can engage with other young musicians and sample voice coaching, guitar techniques, percussion master-classes and talks by managers, promoters and other music industry experts. Each day is brimming with different master-classes for every contemporary musical instrument and style, with a varied selection of workshops facilitated by music industry professionals giving an insight into the multi-faceted world of music. The basis or hub of the programme revolves around band formation, song-writing, stagecraft and working towards a final showcase performance in the Nerve Centre venue.
For further information contact Martin McGill m.mcgill@nerve-centre.org.uk
Training for Youth Leaders
We can provide training for youth leaders in digital technologies such as digital photography, graphic design, digital music composition, digital storytelling or video production. We can show leaders how these skills can be used in interesting projects for young people, while introducing them to new skills in digital media.