LCF will be running a special day of workshops as part of Discover Young Hackney ’10, a youth arts and culture festival for young people from Hackney. On Saturday 20 February young people can have a go at two of the three workshops on offer:

• Printmaking – put your own designs onto soft bags
• 3D construction – create sculptural designs onto a mannequin using paper and other material
• Fashion illustration – a series of drawing exercises introducing you to illustration.

All workshops will take place at our Mare Street site in the east end of London, to apply you have to be aged 11 – 19 and residents of Hackney will be prioritised. For an application pack, please contact Michele Buchanan, Outreach Project Coordinator by telephone on 0207 514 9350 or email: m.buchanan@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

LCF are also pleased to be working with Sed*8 a new street and youth culture magazine for east London which is created by and for young people. Sed*8 will be running a 4 week course in graphic design at LCF’s Mare Street site as part of the Discover Young Hackney Festival. This is your chance to learn new skills and become a contributor for a really exciting magazine.

For more information about Sed*8 visit www.sed8magazine.com and to apply for the course contact Steph, sed8mag@googlemail.com.

These are just two of the many exciting courses happening in Hackney as part of the festival; visit the website and see what else is going on, sign up today for something new!

Superstar milliner Nasir Mazhar working with students from Hackney schools and colleges.

Students from Hackney schools and colleges attending an evening millinery course at LCF got the opportunity to meet and work with head wear Designer Nasir Mazhar. (more…)

LCF staff joined forces with fashion designer Scott Henshall to deliver a summer school in Northumberland. Read the full report.

30 lucky Year 9 students from five Hackney schools (Cardinal Pole RC, Hackney Free, Mossbourne Community Academy, Stoke Newington and Our Lady’s) attended a week-long summer school at LCF’s Mare Street site from 6 to 10 July. The course explored fashion design and business. The students worked in 6 teams and competed to come up with the best Olympic 2012 inspired fashion t-shirt and products. They took part in mini-lectures, got to grips with research, marketing and promotion and even made their own mini-t-shirts. On the final day they presented their ideas and designs to a panel of judges.

• More LCF Outreach projects

Young people from LCF's Hackney schools and college partners.

Young people from LCF’s Hackney schools and college partners took part in a styling session with music stylist Fintan Fitzgerald to celebrate the end of the 8 week after-school project Fashion and Music which took place at LCF’s Mare Street site Friday 27 March. The project ran alongside a BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear unit examining the links between fashion and music. Puma donated 2,000 t-shirts to the project which the students used to create their own designs.

Students from LCF’s partner colleges (in the National Arts and Learning Network, NALN) visited LCF recently for portfolio and interview advice. The aim of the NALN is to increase the number of students progressing from vocational programmes, or work, into higher education in the arts.  Students brought their portfolios along to present to LCF tutors and other students from across London. They also got advice on the interview process in an interactive session – two actors showed students what not to do and the students gave their ideas and feedback on what they could have done better.

Read more about our Compact Agreement for Progression Scheme.

As part of our thriving Outreach programme, LCF tutors travelled to Northumberland to deliver 4 days of fashion workshops to aspiring designers. Find out more.