Chapelfield Open Market - Promoting Youth Enterprise

Chapelfield Plain (outside Chapelfield Shopping Centre under the big screen)

Wednesday 24th June to Sunday 28th June (all day)

ORGANISER:Open Trade Network

CONTACT: Richard Seymour (email: abdallah@opentrade.org.uk)

Amal Douglas (email: hajjamal@dmcconsultancy.co.uk)

Tel: 08707 33 44 55

The Open Trade Network have teamed up with Chapelfield Shopping Centre to put on a five day Open Market on Chapelfield Plain, outside the shopping centre under the big screen, to promote enterprise amongst young people in Norfolk and showcase local talent.

Amal Douglas, Director of the Open Trade Network and Senior Consultant at DMC Consultancy, explained that, “following exaggerated newspaper headlines about gang warfare on the streets of Norwich and the controversial use by the police of dispersal orders and stop and search tactics directed at specific groups of young people in the city, resulted in numbers of youths who last summer would normally congregate in the Jenny Lind park, being forced to look for new places to meet and finally settling on a new haunt outside the Chapelfield Shopping Centre which was not in the exclusion zone. Subsequent meetings to discuss the results of the police tactics, the behaviour of the young people and the impact on others, including the shopping centre, led to this initiative being proposed by the Open Trade Network and immediately Davina Tanner the Manager of Chapelfield added her support in order to make the space available as did Dawn Jackson and Tom Buckham the Future Project and Anne Matin from the Norwich & Norfolk Racial Equality Council (NNREC).”

The event starts on Wednesday 24th June and finishes on Sunday 28th June and will be open throughout the day at the same times as the shopping centre. All stallholders will be encouraged to give young people a chance to learn the ropes of commerce and work alongside traders. Young people will also be involved in setting up the stalls and the day to day running of the event. Also on site will be Future Radio’s “Sound Box,” a portable trailer with audio equipment and laptops with the latest software which will be available for youngsters to turn up and just have a go under supervision, or attend one of the structured classes on using Reason music software and how to make and edit a movie. Some youngsters will also get the chance of a behind-the-scenes look at how the shopping centre works but will need to book in advance.

The schedule of events (subject to change):

Wednesday 24th June

All Day: Future Radio Sound Box

2pm - 4pm Creating Music with Reason Software Workshop

Thursday 25th June

All Day: Future Radio Sound Box

11am-12:30 Business Advice Open Session

2pm - 4pm Filming & Video Editing Workshop

Friday 26th June

All Day: Future Radio Sound Box

3pm Behind the Scenes Tour of Chapelfield Shopping Centre

Saturday 27th June

All Day: Future Radio Sound Box

11am-12:30 Business Advice Open Session

2pm - 4pm Creating Music with Reason Software Workshop

Sunday 28th June

All Day: Future Radio Sound Box

2pm - 4pm Filming & Video Editing Workshop

 

New Publication

Banking: the root cause of the injustices of our time contains the transcripts of the 1987 Norwich seminar Usury: the root cause of the injustices of our time, reissued here for the first time since their publication in 1989, plus several major contributions from 2008 and 2009 which brings the seminar's before-its-time material completely up-to-date. It is to be published by the Diwan Press in April 2009.

Open Trade

Trading is a vital part of any and every culture, and is intrinsic to the health of those cultures and their relations with each other. It is arguably the oldest human activity, predating law and governance. It is carried on between nations both in times of war and in peace, and is the basic bedrock on which any society is established. We have coined the term Open Trade to denote healthy trading practices as opposed to the monopolistic form practised today, incorrectly called 'free trade' and have founded the Open Trade Network in order to restore such trade.

Open Trade Network

Open Trade Network is a non-profit making, voluntary organisation founded in Norwich in 1996. It developed out of members' attendance at a conference on the subject of Open Trade in Spain in 1992 from which impetus a number of markets were held in Birmingham and Slough to which goods from Morocco were brought by a caravan of Open Trade traders.

In the year of its foundation Open Trade Network facilitated the participation of Norwich and Norfolk traders in the famed Bevervijk Bazaar outside Amsterdam. Open Trade Network participates in the annual Almonastir market in Spain organised by sister organisation Comunidad Islamica en Espana as well as their bi-annual market in Mertola in Portugal.

Open Trade Network ran the Black History Month Market in Norwich and Great Yarmouth in 2004 and in 2005 in association with NEAD and NNREC, and in 2004 also held the first of the Open Trade Markets and Festivals, the Andalusian-Moroccan Fayre with the participation of traders from Spain who brought Spanish and Moroccan goods.

We are currently involved in the next Open Trade Festival Market in Norwich in August/September 2006.

NEW: There is now an RSS feed with news items of interest about trade, etc.

4 July, 2009 16:06