We’re jolly pleased to be semi-finalists in Ben and Jerry’s Join our Core Competition, alongside plenty of other amazing social businesses from across Europe. Ice cream and social change seem like an excellent combination to. We’re looking forward to meeting everyone later this month!
On Wednesday 25th April The Young Pirates launched their eagerly awaited T-shirt range. Featuring photos, haikus and poetry inspired by the city, this amazingly diverse range of 15 designs will keep you well stylish well into 2013. You can browse the designs and bag your favourite at our brand new sales website.
We have been super busy at Pirates HQ recently: writing a book, making an app (available on iTunes later this month!), creating a series of t-shirts and most recently making a music video for the band The Amazing Graces. This is footage from their visit last week; one of the best sessions we have ever had.
The Amazing Graces Visit the Hackney Pirates
For a full length version of the video, visit our YouTube channel.
The Christmas Fair was a great success on Sunday! Thank you to all of you who get involved and helped us raise lots of treasure!
The Hackney Pirates invite you to celebrate Christmas pirate style! We are taking over The Golden Hinde, a tudor galleon moored on the South Bank. The wonderful City Shanty Band will be headlining the night, and there will be live music, DJs, games & shenanigans spread over three decks. There is only limited space on board, so hurry to buy one of the 100 tickets here, and we’ll looking forward to rocking the boat with you!
This is a momentous time. No longer are we part-time Pirates. No longer do we shuffle back to normal life once a session is over. No longer are we forced to strip ourselves of feathers and our sense of adventure and carry on a mundane existence for the rest of the week. We have officially set sail! The Hackney Pirates full-time after-school program was launched Monday the 3rd October in our brand new location on Downham Road and we are excited.
We have lots of new shipmates, many more volunteers, and an enormous space to transform into our ship of learning. Ben and Camillia are volunteering for us full time to help build the Ideas Room, the Theatre Bazaar, and the Main Deck, as well as a 3D installation of the prow of our ship. The Young Pirates now come every day after school for help with their homework and to work on creative projects, and we are well underway with writing our book, to be published by the end of term, full of creative writing around the theme of Journeys. One thing we do know is that this is the start of a life-changing one.
So, the last day of the workshops had arrived! All the pirates had a lot to do to get the film finished, and every scene was shot, despite interruptions from helicopters, sirens, and other people using enjoying the Roof Park. The pirates also decorated a banner to be taken to our next home, wherever that might be… Joe completed some interviews with the young pirates and Holly led some questionnaires. Once that was all finished, it was time to say thank you to all the volunteers, especially Sam, Joe and Holly, and for the young pirates to receive their Sheep’s Journey DVDs and packs of postcards. Goodbye pirates! See you in September!
The long awaited day of the Pirate Party arrived, and was greeted by…. buckets and buckets of rain! We started the session with a warm up from the fantastic Tiphaine to help the pirates move their bodies and project their voices (against the raging gale)! We bravely managed to host the whole session under cover on the roof, in which we rehearsed, and rehearsed, and rehearsed! Great dedication was shown by all sea mates, resulting in a thrilling preview in the evening’s Pirate Party (relocated downstairs out of the rain). We were also lucky enough to see the world premiere of The Silver World animation (thank you Saskia!). It is amazing, and if you missed it last night you can see it here. Last day tomorrow. Boo Hoo.
