and Finally...

Mark
I really enjoyed the cooking and photography



Silvestre
I enjoyed the cooking dancing and the drumming



Arif
Actually wrote some stuff here but "someone" was too fast and thought they'd overwrite his work.



Caanan
Hello my name is Caanan and i have done some activities.
I really enjoyed the diversity week because we went to all different places. and done many things that really made me happy and I met a lot of friends.
Caanan.


Phoebe
This week I have enjoyed myself I have enjoyed helping with this website and taking all the pictures it was a great week and I really enjoyed it .



Liam
I enjoyed the cooking and the DJing and it was also very fun week and I would want to do it again.


Jake
This week has been alright enjoyed the drumming and dancing really enjoyed the chinese food. It's better than what we normally do "I'd describe it as fun but not fun." (Not in a bad way.)
Wouldn't mind doing it again as it's better than meeting.


Connor
This week has been really good & fun. We did a wide range of activities including photography were we took photos of old things & we also did steel pan drumming with different types of drums cooking were we cooked Italian, Jamaican, English, pancakes & Indian.



This review was written by Nicole Moore
This week was Mainly boring the only thing that I liked was the cooking day because i like different things and it was a nice change just to try something different the different foods were Caribbean, Italian, Jamaican ,British ,etc. but the rest was boring I HATED IT.


Patrick
This week it was OK but boring like Thursday.


James, Merrick, Luke, Rakesh, Stephen didn't get the time to add their bits but they're welcome to add comments or drop us a line!

Day 4 Drums and Dancing

PHOEBE
Today we are at Franklin Court playing dhol drums all of us start to learn some beats and we put it all together and made a routine we played the first beat then the second then so on and we went backwards.

Lesson ONE: Don't mash up the drums!



Lesson TWO: The Dhada & Note 1



Lesson THREE: OUCH! and OUCH again

The group experience Bhangra Wall of Sound Version 1.0



Lesson FOUR: Syncopation and the Theory of blasting through mistakes



LESSON FIVE: The Arts Gulag

For anyone who feels that the the group might be getting off lightly...
45 mins later...



OH Yeah.. They worked!


Lesson FIVE? Practice makes pretty Damn good for ONE morning




ONE LAST SAMPLEABLE SNIPPET

Because perfection should be a ringtone

















Afterwards some people had headaches or there arms really hurt next we are doing some dancing.





KARL

From Hangers On

Karl commented on the overall smell of... adolescent.



Dave thought they smelt of... "effort"







CAANAN

From Day 3 - Carnival Mas - Various

My name is Caanan,i have had a great time here and i meet new people.



LUKE

From The Group

my name is Luke and i had a good diversity week, today we played on dhol drums and bhangra dance next.






We had dance workshops courtesy of GEETKALA
The sessions were taken by Geeta.

Some examples of Bhangra Dance...

ONE


TWO


THREE

From Day 4 - Batch 2

My name is Sylvester and I really enjoy the playing with drums and i really liked dancing with Geeta.

First we did Bhangra dance and then

From Day 4 - Bhangra Stylee

Geeta showed me some Salsa steps.

From Day 4 - Bhangra Stylee

Me and Mark made a move called THE CYCLE(extreme) and it was really good.

From Day 4 - Bhangra Stylee

Day 3: Carnival Carnage

Today we are at Luton carnival centre so far we have played the steel drums and at the moment we are making masks .
rakeshs pictures



During the drum session we had a demonstration by the instructor called nadine .
phoebes pictures



karls opinion on the drumming is that it was very eventful the young people had no idea about the alphabet but in the end they managed to do the alphabet up to f overall it was an improvement haha

more pictures by phoebe

Day Two: Now we're cooking, scratching etc...

DAY TWO

Houghton Regis:

Today we are cooking jamaican , italian and english food including pizzas pancakes and jerk chicken . there is a full table of food in the kitchen which dave is hoping to get all of it the main people to cook were merrick patrick ilene and karl rhoda and some of the boys such as silvestre asif and more .

On the djiing sam is in charge and is teaching everybody how to dj and scratch steven has tried and is very good at it

photos of food and more from james

photos form phoebe

there are photos of beautifuly cooked food

Back to the Wheels for one more blast of photo madness... Tho it's not really that mad.

Day One: First Group Pic! First Video ! First Post!

Day One: We're at Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) and Bedford Museum for some photography. We shoot portraits of (almost) everyone. Which (a) helps Dave remember who everyone is... gradually. But will also go towards the creation of their framed prints.

We split into 2 teams and while one team does a treasure trail type thing around the castle mound and then the Bedford Experience over at Tourist Information Centre the other heads over to Bedford Museum. Where Vena and Liz & another woman whose name escapes me, bring out some great items from the collection for people to photograph. We got spearheads, Ammonites, Gas masks and Biscuit Tins (Commemorative ones) etc. which are put into the light cube and shot in all their glory.

There are some gorgeous shots; especially when the group started to mix and match objects. Watch this space! (Well the space at the bottom of the page)

Photo by M

From an idea by

This isn't the first image taken but, this way of getting everyone from the morning group (Staff included) into a photo just worked!


A quick (very quick) slideshow of one of the more reluctant participants

Did anyone motice the deliberate mistake there?


It's Patrick...