Hybrid Arts are excited to have received a grant from the Warwick Area Fund to deliver their Hybrid Music Club project. ‘Hybrid Music Club’ offers weekly sessions with a music trainer and peer mentor, the objective is to help disadvantaged young people achieve some musical skills to make them feel included, more confident and that they have made a positive contribution to the local youth music scene.
The project will target young people from deprived areas in Warwick District, where we have identified a lack of accessible music facilities, such as Forbes Estate and Packmores in Warwick and Sydenham Estate in Leamington Spa.

The training sessions, which will start in January 2010 and run until September 2010, will take place once a week at our dedicated youth music venue, Indestructible Music Club. The project is set to benefit 50 young people aged between 12 and 18 years. We hope the project will encourage greater engagement in music activities both in and out of school, boost confidence in young people who take part, improve relationships between peers, and stimulate the local youth music scene. Training sessions will teach young people how to produce original music and engage in group performance.

We will work with youth workers to make links with young people in the target wards, new music club members will have access to a fully equipped rehearsal facility, recording studio and their own web space.