Welcome to BevenTEEN Bulletin!

Hello and welcome to the second edition of the BevenTEEN Bulletin, which aims to give young people in Bevendean the chance to speak their mind about absolutely anything; from the lack of things to do in the area, what’s going on in Brighton, reviews of the latest cds/films/books, to how boring Big Brother was this year and much more!

In this edition, we have info on exciting events coming up in October for Black History Month, game reviews, an interview with the young people’s carers centre and even info on how to star in a new zom-bie film!

October looks set to be filled to the brim with activities and events to celebrate Black History Month in Brighton.

The aim of BH month is to remember and learn about important moments and people from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean that have helped Brighton and the world get where it is today.

A variety of events have been planned, from film nights to bus tours, to exhibitions and lots of mu-sic/dance shows and good food!

Jubilee Library are hosting events for young people that include:

Young People’s Film Show– FREE and includes popcorn!

Saturday 24 October, 2.30pm

Anansi Tales– Family day of drama, storytelling and arts & crafts involving African folk hero Anansi the Spider.

Tuesday 27 October, 10-12pm, 1-3pm, 3.15-5.15pm.

World Film Month– Sunday after-noon screenings of modern films from around the world including a film about young New York graffiti artists who are influenced by the hip hop culture.

Sunday’s 4, 11, 18 & 25 October, 1pm

(call 01273 290800 for more details about these three events)

To find out more about the many events that will be happening in Brighton, contact any of the organi-sations to the right of this box.

Inside this issue:

Zombies Wanted

for New Film

2

Fashion Design-

ers Wanted

2

PC Game Review:

The Sims 3

2

Young Carers &

We Need You!

3

Cervical Cancer

Vaccine: Amber’s

opinion and A

Note From Adam

4

My School Prom

& BB In The

Press

5

Contacts Page

and About Us

6

Useful contacts:

Mosaic:

(Brighton Black and Mixed Parentage Family Group)

01273 234017 www.mosaicequalities.org.uk

Black History:

(Info about Brighton events)

01273 234835

www.black-history.org.uk

Jubilee Library:

01273 290800

www.citylibraries.info

Black History:

(info about Black history in general and national events)

http://www.black-history-

month.co.uk/

Black History Month: Young People’s Events by Claire Rowe

BevenTEEN Bulletin

October 2009

Volume 1, Issue 2

If you enjoy dressing up and would like the chance to appear in an action-packed, blood and guts comedy film about zombies, then read on!

Brighton filmmaker Matt Water-ing wants as many people as possible to dress up as zombies and come on the annual Brigh-ton Zombie Walk, so he can shoot a sequence for his brand new film, ZombieZ.

ZombieZ is an action comedy about an alien who wants to de-stroy human life, and includes dwarfs, space cowboys and even a stunt involving an actress being dangled from a crane over a cliff, which is being planned by stunt coordinator Franklin Mark Henson, who has worked with world famous directors Steven Spielberg, Guy Ritchie and James Cameron.

Matt, who has received awards for his short films, including The Matrix Paintball, is currently try-ing to raise money through the film’s website to make the film using the best technology avail-able, and any profit made from selling it will go to charity.

So if you love blood, guts and dressing up for Halloween, the walk starts at 3pm on 31st Octo-ber at a Brighton location which will be revealed soon.

To sign up to be a zombie and take part in the film, visit www.beazombie.com or check out the Be a Zombie group on Facebook.

PC Game Review: The Sims 3 by Laura Golding

Everyone who plays The Sims will know each version is similar, but the latest version, Sims 3, has been described as the full evolution of the long- running and constantly extending Sim series.

When Sims 2 first came out, nobody realised the success it would have, with new outfits, hairstyles, transport and housing.

However, after a while the game became repetitive and rather boring. The expansion packs then came into shops and the games were meant to have a

‘boost’, but they had the same problem as the original game- they got worn out.

Then Sims 3 was released this June, and players were able to explore more. They can now be-come part of the community both online and within the game itself with a free to explore town, ro-bust initiative creation tools, bril-liant graphics and plenty of new content to apparently make the game more long term.

However, it has to be said that its similarities to The Sims 2 have

to include the fact that after you have used all of the brand new and modernised content to build a house and design your charac-ters, the game play become slow and repetitive in the day to day routine. Does this game really deserve to be described as a more ongoing version of the pre-vious games?

With an expansion pack called Sims 3 World Adventures due

Bevendean youth worker Adam Muirhead will be working with Brighton Youth Service to put on a ‘Recycled Fashion Course’ aimed at young women in Beven-dean between 11 and 16.

The idea is that people can come along and get stuck in us-ing fabric paints, pens, spray

paints, stencils, iron-on transfers and sewing machines.

Budding fashion designers out there will get the chance to put together some cool outfits and maybe even get involved in a fashion show!

For more information or to take

part, contact Adam on 01273 603698/ 07772269761 or email adammuir-head@trustdevcom.org.uk

Want To Be A Fashion Designer?

Zombies Needed For New Brighton Film! by Claire Rowe

Jacko’s Thriller vid was zombie gold!

Some young people don’t realise that they are carers or that they can get help with different as-pects of being a carer. The young carers are under 18’s that help a family member or a neighbour with emotional or physical needs. This can be any-thing from helping a parent wash and dress themselves, looking after your brothers and sisters when a parent has a mental health problem (such as depres-sion) or helping to look after a parent who is physically dis-abled.

The Carers Centre in Moul-scoomb helps young carers by giving them practical, emotional and social support. The Centre helps people in the Brighton and Hove area, but the person they are caring for does not have to live in Brighton in order for them to get this help.

Young carers can sometimes feel isolated and alone, as they may have a low income so are unable to afford to go out or buy things that other people of their

age can, or they may not want to tell anyone about their problems or want others to find out what they do or who they look after.

Statistics by the charity Carers UK have shown that 1 in 6 young carers leave school with-out any GCSE's. Being a young carer can sometimes mean the person has poor school atten-dance and concentration which can have an affect on their achievements.

The Carers Centre can offer one to one meetings, group meetings, and they also take groups of young carers out to do activities with other carers in the same situation. Group activities have included going to Knock-hatch, being part of Brighton car-nival, graffiti art workshops and more. A group of young carers were recently involved in making a film that helps people under-stand young carers and what they do, and this film is now be-ing used in some schools and has even won a national award.

Young adult carers aged 16-18 can also get help with education, training, work, and services for the person they care for.

For more information contact:

The Carers Centre

Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG

Tel: 01273 234045

Text: 07704 409155

Email: info@thecarerscentre.org

www.thecarerscentre.org

Our group needs you! We are recruiting new and exciting peo-ple to volunteer to write or take photographs for our newsletter. Whatever your views or interests you can share them with the Bevendean community. You can write anything that takes your fancy- whether it’s a review on a band or a serious article about global warming- you decide!

Contact us now and join our group of un-der 25’s and a trained journalist to get involved with the local area; it may even help you in a journey to a new ca-reer. So GET INVOLVED! Find our contact de-tails at the back of this newsletter.

Do You Look After Someone? by Amber Rix

WE NEED YOU! By Amber Rix

Young carers won a top national

award for their animated film ‘A

Day in the Life of Eddie’

I have decided not to have the cervical cancer vaccination, after doing research and finding a lot of information on the long term and short term affects it can have on your health.

Many doctors, medical re-searchers, scientists and holistic practitioners have serious con-cerns about the vaccine and what it may do to your health in the long or short term. Find the information out for yourself be-fore you make a decision to have the injection that could af-fect your health.

YOU have the legal right to say no as it is your body and your health. There is also no data to show that it remains effective after 5 years.

There have been many serious

side effects from the vaccine i.e. genital and facial warts, convul-sions, seizures, epileptic fits, di-minished vision, paralysis,

severe allergic reactions, infertil-ity, sometimes even causing cer-vical cancer and over 78 reports of death!

Approximately 50-75% of sexu-ally active men and women get a HPV (human papilloma virus) infection, yet over 90% of the time your body clears up the in-fection by itself. It can also be picked up during smear tests and treated before the cancer develops. Females who smoke are at greater risk of getting cer-vical cancer and women with a high intake of vegetables have half the risk of getting HPV.

Check out all of this information for yourself at www.hpvfacts.co.uk and for offi-cial NHS advice, visit www.immunisation.nhs.uk/Vaccines/HPV

A Note From Bevendean’s Youth Worker Adam...

So, you might have heard a little about the summer holiday activity programme that happened throughout August.

Just to fill you in, a group of teen-agers from Bevendean sat down and decided what they (and oth-ers) would like to do in the holi-days.

With my help they raised an as-tonishing £2,300 from the Youth Opportunity Fund, which the Bevendean Local Action Team have kindly held and managed.

Nearly 100 young people on the estate got to do things such as paintballing, trampolining, graffiti art, breakdancing, DJing, movie watching, bowling, climbing and even a cheap trip to Thorpe Park.

Everyone had great fun and the Activities Group are looking at putting on more activities in the other holidays coming up.

If you are interested in any of the activities that are going to be coming up in the near future, get in touch on the details below:

01273 603698 / 07772269761

adammuir-head@trustdevcom.org.uk

Adam

Why I Have Refused The Cervical Cancer Jab, by Amber Rix

Grafitti art created by Bevendean

young people this summer

DJing skills were taught at an

event this summer in Bevendean

Seek medical advice before deciding

On the 26th June, Year 11 stu-dents from Varndean School had our prom, and only those who had good attendance were al-lowed to attend.

It was held at Uckfield Golf Course Country Club and stu-dents had a chance to dress up and have fun after their exams were over.

Everyone made an effort to look their best, including the teachers. Some girls wore beautiful long dresses, while others had short cocktail dresses, and the boys looked handsome in their suits.

On the coaches to the prom we mingled in our friendship groups, and the atmosphere was full of excitement as students chatted and sang all the way.

Getting off the coach was like being a celebrity, with the red carpet and photographers at the door, and once inside, we were given drinks in champagne glasses, and voting cards to choose the best dressed male & female and Prom King & Queen. When everyone arrived, we

rushed in to the main hall where there were tables of ten, spread around a buffet table and a dance floor. Once everyone was seated, the waiters brought

drinks and starters, which in-cluded a choice of pâté and salad, soup, or a bowl of chopped fruit. We then had meat, pasta, salad, curries, fish and potatoes for our main course.

After a lot of eating, chatting, laughing and drinking, the buffet table was filled with cakes and gateaux and the results were

read out.

The best dressed female was wearing a beautiful floor length pink gown, and the best dressed male wore a tux and tie. The Prom King and Queen were also wearing similar outfits.

After applause and photos, the lights dimmed and the DJ started the music- everyone danced for the rest of the night, and even the teachers joined in.

It was an immense atmosphere like being in a club, suddenly everyone formed a circle around a couple of students and a teacher and there was a dance-off.

Soon everyone was buzzing with energy, and as the night came to an end, everyone left taking last minute make-up checks and group photos before the coach was ready to leave.

It is a night none of us will forget as it was all fun and excitement; it would be great to do it all over again.

The BevenTEEN Bulletin has recently been featured in some local press, which we are very proud of, so we thought we would show it off!

The very successful website Journalism.co.uk interviewed youth worker Adam Muirhead, BB journalist Claire Rowe and a couple of the BB young writ-ers for its website which is read by journalists and stu-dent journalists worldwide. They wrote a large fea-ture piece about our newsletter and it can be seen at:

http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/535257.p

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And more recently, Brighton newspaper, The Argus, wrote a lit-tle news piece about BB on 5 September, which we have up-loaded onto our blog, so please check it out!

If you notice any other stories that mention us, please let us know so we can add them to our blog and thank who-

ever has written about us.

Check out our blog on:

http://beventeenbulletin.blogspot.com/

BB In The Press!

My School Prom, by Amber Rix

The BevenTEEN Bulletin was set up by the Bevendean Young Journalist Group, which was

recently formed by a local young person who is a trained journalist (Claire Rowe) and the Beven-

dean community youth worker (Adam Muirhead). The group always welcomes any Bevendean resi-

dents under 25 years old who would like to write, take photographs or design the newslet-ter (graphic design). To find out more, contact

the group using the details in the box to the

left.

To help us create a newsletter that you would actually enjoy reading, who better to ask for advice than YOU?!

If you have any ideas about what you would like to see in the next edition of BB, then email us or give us a call (contact details are above).

We hope to have many sec-tions in upcoming editions, such as:

A rant section– you can email in anything that you want to get off your chest, whether it’s about anything in Bevendean, school, Brighton or even stuff on TV and celebrities!

Agony Aunt– If you have any problems or want some advice on anything from relationships,

health, education to keeping safe, then email us your ques-tions and we will answer them in the BB or on our blog, and don’t worry, you will remain anonymous!

Reviews– If you want to re-view any new gigs, films, books, theatre shows, com-puter games and music, email them to us- we want to hear your opinions!

Photos/Art– If you have taken or drawn anything that would look good in BB then send them in. They could be of the area or you and friends doing something fun or just a great piece of art you’re proud of!

Stories– If you have stories or ideas you want us to write about, email us!

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Email us your views– we would love to see what you like/dislike by photographs too!

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This issue was edited and designed by Claire Rowe and content was produced by the Bevendean Young Journalist Group