RAP CLUB

PROGRESSIVE ARTS EDUCATION

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Music & Drama Education Awards 2022 Winner badge for Rap Club Productions C.I.C, led by Benjamin Turner.

YOUTH MUSIC AWARDS 2024

OUTSTANDING PROJECT & BEST YOUNG LEADER

YOUTH MUSIC AWARDS 2022

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE

YOUTH MUSIC AWARS 2023

BEST LYRICS (TL)

Supported by…

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TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS & TEACHERS | CONFERENCES | TALKS | WORKSHOPS | CLUBS (IN & OUT OF SCHOOLS) | ONLINE/IN-PERSON COURSES

I’m still on such a high from Rap Club and I can’t get those incredible young people out of my head.

Ndidi Okezie - Teach First Executive Director

A group of children and teenagers in Rap Club posing together in front of a tropical-themed mural with palm trees. They are wearing casual clothing, some with matching T-shirts, and are making various poses and expressions.
A diverse group of people in Rap Club with Benjamin Turner, sitting in an auditorium, attentively watching a performance, with some clapping and smiling, under dim purple and pink lighting.
Children from Rap Club performing a dance on stage with musicians playing instruments in the background, colorful stage lights.
A group of diverse young people from Rap Club standing on stage with arms raised, smiling, in front of a large screen showing their image and a promotional banner.

To produce such excellence in creativity and industry-reflective practice shows true creative ability.

Catherine Gilling - Director of Rhythm on the River Festival

RAP CLUB - championed as an enabler of social mobility by Teach First, the National Lottery, BBC Children in Need and TES - is a unique approach to modern music education that can be thoroughly embedded within school curriculums and extra-curricular projects.

WE RUN: TRAINING FOR LEADERS/TEACHERS & WORKSHOPS/CLUBS FOR YOUNG CREATIVES

Founded by Turner - during a detention - the project delivers bespoke character, creative and industry development for young people through a range of programmes.

RAP CLUB projects have performed regularly at Wembley Arena (audiences of 10,000+), The Royal Albert Hall, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Assembly Hall etc. in addition to featuring multiple times on BBC LONDON NEWS, performing live on Trafalgar Square to thousands and many other exceptional experiences. RAP CLUB has been featured by BBC Radio 4 ‘Rethinking Music’, national education paper School’s Week, the Camden New Journal and South London News. Those aspiring to industry excellence form part of the Spit Game community, working across music and film.

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