Artist Residency:

Community Group: Young Producers

Artist: Naaji 'Wavey' Richards, Corinne West & Kieran Bond

Artforms: Music Video Production

Hip Hop Music Producer Naji Richards from Soft Touch and filmmakers Corinne West and Kieran Bond brought together four young music producers to produce 3 new hip hop videos for the Our Place showcase. During their creative residency in summer 2021 the musicians worked with Corinne to storyboard, perform and record their own hip hop music videos, which take inspiration from growing up in Leicester.

Community Group: Youth Music

Age Of Participants: 18 — 30

Artforms: Music Video Production

Soft Touch Arts' Friday night 'Noteable' sessions are for young people who are from inner city areas of Leicester who are ready to take the next steps into the music scene. The sessions aim to give participants the space to work on their music, produce mixtapes and videos for social media. This project has enabled the group to work with professional filmmakers to produce their own music videos and share their music and talents to wider audiences.

" It’s important for them [the young music producers] to represent where they’re from to the wider world – for two of them it was their first ever video. Being involved in that process has fuelled their zest for doing it - they’ve done it now once and they just want to keep on doing it and keep doing it.”- Naji 'Wavey' Richards, Hip Hop Producer