2016 Highlights

Creative

A new style creative project which combines, leisure & lifestyle. The Fever project combines photography and visual art.

A major design development year with my awareness initiate “Plus Value Awareness’ after a year long research, feedback and design development before completing anew family of awareness projects.

A series of Showcase projects including the patented sphere theme and spin off special projects for Easter, Summer and the Autumn season.

Awareness

My initiative Plus Value Awareness has been completely transformed 2 years after it was created. This was after a year long developments including research, feedback and design development before creative a new style family of awareness projects. This includes brand new projects such as “value is” and “is this the right value?"

As part of completing the new style projects to my style awareness projects shared to selected people for additional feedback. 

To spread the word of “Plus Value Awareness” I attended several events includes Social Enterprise networking sessions and autism awareness events. This includes attending the Autism Show event organised by National Autistic Society. As part of the event i attended a special seminar hosted by celebrity music couple Carrie & David Grant. I was one of many people on asking questions after their talk presentation on the issues on their efforts to maintain the best education with their teenage children who has Autism. Later had an opportunity to talk to they was both interested with the types of project I'm developing for “Plus Value Awareness" and gave me some advice.

Participation

I assisted in filming a line up of legendary Hip-Hop performances at London’s Forum at Kentish Town. The artists includes from the America’s East Coast KRS One and DJ Premier and London’s very own legendary DJ Cutmaster Swift and 279.  

An part of attending of the U.K’s biggest Salsa Music convention festival I assisting I setting up the flooring, sound system and the furniture for the event “Motion City” at Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC near Birmingham.

Active

Attended number of festivals related to music, visual & reforming arts.

The second City of Colours event happened in Central Birmingham combining street art with live breakdancing showcase & competitions. The first evert "B-sides" Hip-Hop festival  a weekend long event combing graffiti art, breakdancing and live Hip-Hop performances.

After a 4 years break the "Flyover show" returns featuring "Sweto Kinch" and a line-up of performances covering different music genres 

Attended selected concerts including Hip-Hop artists Smiff “n” Wesson, DJ Supreme with Curoc and The Mouse Outfit

 with a variety of live DJ’s include Nightmares on Wax, A Guy called Gerald, Grahame Park, Giles Peterson, Harvey Sutherland, Sean Mcabe, Feel my Bicep, Grant Nelson, Birmingham’s very own DJ Spaara (The two times DMC UK mixing Champion) and many more. In addition attended cladding events covering different music genre including Hip-Hop, Soul, funk through to house music organised by Funkademia (Manchester), Leftfoot, Subway City, Soul Fusion, Wobble, Sweat, Bruk up and Enter the Dragon. I also attended the Rainbow Warehouse’s special New Years Day party.

Attended more Salsa related events & festivals and social events  in 2016 than any pervious  year. Festivals including “Motion City” (one of the U.K’s largest Salsa music convention & festival), “Salsa all day festival & Valentines Ball”, "The Latin American Festival. I also attended salsa social events from Latinmotion, Smooth Salsa, Picante and the V.I.P salsa ball events. This is together with a regular session from the live salsa band "Del Camino"

I have made photographic & mobile captures on some of the events mention in addition locations such as the NEC pavilion at night and the Peace Padgoda gardens in Milton Keynes

It mark the end of 2016 I will attend for the very first time to Latinmotion's annual New Year event. Now in its 22nd year the event has become bigger expanding over two days on both New Years Eve & New Years Day. The event has a combination of special workshops, live dance performances and social parties. Located at the NEC near Birmingham. 

Involvement

Months before Birmingham City Council redesigned it website I attended their consultation on feedback and the effective way to make their initial idea better before the website became live for the general public. I made several points based on clarity, legibility and the importance user friendly countering variating abilities from all types of society.

General

My website has being transformed for the first time in 4 years. The  completed the website to be 100% compatible onto Mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.

In preparation of developing social enterprise a social umbrella parent name & identity was developed currently presented under “Plus Value Fusion”. As special website was developed and information materials. The Plus Value fusion is design to cover all types of service and projects. This includes my focus skills such as creative and participation also there “Plus Value Awareness initiative” and “Differences & Autism Challenge"

New style publications was developed to share my developments & achievement in total new ways such as a family of digital portfolios.