The Change and Direct Monologues are a series of fictional stories told by 3 different people about the stabbing and death of a local young person called Gibril Rowlands. The Monologues were written by Curtis Watt and produced by URBEATZ.

This episode is called Fashion For A Funeral and stars Lateefah Wainwright

This episode is called Magic Pills and stars Sue Burke

This episode is called The Devil Days and stars Adam Robson

Six Years Later

Six Years Later is a development of the Change and Direct Monologues

In Six Years Later we focus on the perpetrator and the impact jail has had on him and the challenge of coming out of jail and having to adjust to a life on the straight and narrow.

For more on Change and Direct, check out www.changeanddirect.com

This year URBEATZ, supported by Extended Schools, ran S2S presents…Event Management.
Participants learnt about Event management, booking artists, health and safety, stage management and more.
The group successfully programmed and managed the Urban Youth Stage at Brouhaha International

One of our latest, and greatest projects, that we are involved in is Crossing The Line: Eurospectives. Based on the original CTL theme from 2006. Crossing the Line: Eurospectives is a two year project funded by the Leonardo Transfer of Innovation Strand of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme.
The main aim of Crossing the Line: Eurospectives [...]

Images by: David Zinyama
Thanks to everyone who attended. It was a fun and safe event.
Thanks to Merseyside Police and CUC for their support and enthusiasm.

‘THE EVENT’ is aimed at promoting RESPECT and POSITIVITY amongst young people…and is FREE to everyone who registers to the guestlist. (Details attached)
The event will feature performances by MZ BRATT, GRIMINAL, KOF, JANIECE MYERS and LANCA. Further we have massive club DJs BIG T and ZEKE and a bunch of free giveaways from LRG and [...]

In September we started a project called ‘The Legacy: Roots and Music’, in partnership with Africa Oye. This was an extension of the project we done the year before called ‘The Legacy’. Anyway this years project was about the history of black music and looked at how music from Africa Origin has had an impact [...]

We have recently completed the latest in our Crossing The Line series.
This time we focused on the lines of division, whether real or imaginary, between Toxteth and The Dingle.
Very interesting piece of work, which will be online shortly.

Currently one of our main projects is Change and Direct. This project is funded by Merseyside Police and is part of the TKAP activities – aimed at tackling knife and violent crime. We are dealing with this issue in three ways:
1. Outreach Work in The Princes’ Park Ward
2. Youth Led Anti-Knife and Violent Crime Campaign
3. [...]