Harmony Works Youth Forum

The Youth Forum is open to anyone to join, we just ask that you are:

  • aged 14-21
  • have an interest in music, design, social media or events
  • be willing to come along and share your ideas

Our next session will be at Canada House, Commercial Street, from 5:30-6:30pm on Wednesday 20th May. 

Have your say on the future of Canada House and get stuck in to an exciting Live Project with a team of students from the School of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Sheffield! 
 
The Youth Forum will help shape the brief given to a students in September, and will work with them to reimagine the inside and outside of the building. We will be discussing questions like: 
 
How do you feel about the building at the moment? Do you like it? Which bits are you less keen on? 
What the should the experience of entering and leaving the building look and feel like in the future? 
How would you like the spaces inside the building to look and feel? What do you want from the building?
 
You will be given a tour of the building, including areas the general public don’t get to see…  There will be drinks and snacks provided and if you need to get a bus or tram ticket to join us, we will cover that cost for you.
 

You can decide how much you want to be involved – you can come to just this first session and give us your thoughts or you can come along to as many sessions as you like. 

After our initial introductory sessions, follow ups will be arranged as and when we need to, to discuss things like the design and feel of the interiors of the building, potential events and activities you’d like to see and also shape how youth involvement will progress going forward.

To sign up to come along, please fill in this form.

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What is Harmony Works?

Harmony Works is creating a new home for music in the centre of Sheffield. We’re taking a big, Victorian building that’s been empty for a few years and developing it to become the new shared home for many organisations that create musical opportunities for children and young people. There will be a café, rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, performance spaces and social areas. The building is next to a tram stop, near bus routes and the train station, so it should be accessible for people to travel to from all over Sheffield and South Yorkshire.

Why are we setting up a Youth Forum? What’s the point?

Our building is for young people and it’s important that young people are involved in making decisions about its future. At the very start of the project, students from the University of Sheffield came up with some inspirational designs of what it could look and feel like. They created digital models of some of the spaces, and we discussed these with young people from the Sheffield Music Hub. The feedback from these sessions was given to our architects and this helped them shape their designs for us. 

We will start building work in the Summer, and there are still lots of discussions to be had and decisions to be made, so we want a group of young people who will be the ones calling Harmony Works home so the building is right for young people. You will have ideas that we’ve not thought of, and perspectives that some of the adults working on this won’t have considered. You will have opportunities to gain experience in shaping a project and the community it’s developing. There may be some talks from architects, designers, acoustic specialists and working musicians that you can attend. There will be launch events to discuss and plan.   

By gathering together a group of young people who are interested in the project and want to be involved, we can put your voices front and centre to keep developing Harmony Works. 

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