A
brand new international platform for the wide celebration of youth culture and
creativity was launched just on time for International Youth Day (12th
of August).
This
powerful innovative initiative, was originally named and conceptualized
as “Kreative Kick” by barrier breaker and Multiple Award
Winner Miss-K, who was recently awarded an Honorary award
as 1 of 100 most influential women in the world on
international Women’s day.
In
Succession to this, the Kreative Kick Youth Summit was
created, all to empower and inspire the youth from all multicultural
background, including those from the African continent and it's diaspora, with
aims to celebrate diversity and inclusivity by being a youth led creative
platform, through talks and debates, music and performance, comedy and fashion,
showcasing creativity in all its form, as well as promoting the rich cultural
contribution the Afro-Caribbean creative professional makes throughout their
creative heritage, by highlighting and supporting experts within this field.
On
the 10th of August the “Kreative Kick Youth Summit”, was launched in one
of London’s newly build Art space Theatre, which featured an eloquent keynote
address by Deputy Mayor of Lambeth, Philip Normal, who also
assisted Miss-K in giving the Kreative Kick Award Certificates bestowed
into eager hands of the panelists who took part in the summit, honouring
and recognizing them for their achievements and dedication to
the creative industry, a task the Deputy Mayor was
comfortable undertaking with a smile, being a creative talent himself, having a
fashion background and the proud ownership of his own retail store.
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| Mayor Kate Anolue |
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| Deputy Mayor Philip Normal |
Beginning
its first year with a Bang, we are happy to report that the successful premiere of the Kreative
Kick Youth Summit 2019 event, had a trail of Multiple Award
Winners who attended which included a host of pioneering creators from
the “Creative & Entertainment industry”. The event was moderated by
phenomenal Nigerian New comer Sarah Adeusi, who showcased signs of
promise as a new starter.
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| Miss-K of Kreative Kick |
This
included the initiator of Kreative Kick, Afro-Caribbean
and Latina Artist, Fashion Top Model, Brand Ambassador, Humanitarian and
Entrepreneur Miss-K, as the lead panellist, who was joined by a
host of creatives including, Nigerian Celebrity photographer and Chief
Photographer to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Daniel Sync, talented
British TV & Celebrity Makeup Artist - Lucy Ozzard, regular
performer to the Royal British Family, Ghanaian Master Drummer- Abass
Dodoo, Nigerian Choreographer to the Stars turned Artist, Ezinne
Asinugo, Number 3 digital Tech Geek in the World, Romanian Narcis
Radoi, without forgetting "Talking Dolls" Nigerian Film
Director Sukie Oduwole, who all used this stage to discussed their
journey so far within the entertainment industry and how they have used their
own personal creative gifts and determination to win and create success for
themselves, all to empower and educate the attendees.
The fusion between Kreative
Kick and various youth associations such has
the Nigeria Youth Diaspora Organisation in collaboration with
the Nigerian Students Union UK’s President Yemi
Soile, who did not hesitate to merge forces with Miss-K, for
such edifying cause and who’s tremendous assistance in gathering the young
crowd needed for the summit, did not go unnoticed when proudly promoting the
event to their young members all in aim to uplift their perception of what
creativity really means.
Meanwhile,
throughout the event Dj Unbreakable, kept the crowd entertained
between each panelist sets, taking them over his own musical journey of all the
latest Afro-Beat hits.
The
end of the panel session kicked off the night with a performance from Zenny
X who sang lyrics from her new song titled:"Wosa", the first
artist to set the Kreative Kick stage on fire, to entertain
the yearning crowd, which led the excited ones to sing along from the top of
their voices.
Once
the performance was over, before the event came to an end, Miss-K made
the crowd go wild, in her usual fashion, when she ran a prize giveaway "K'ompetition",
and began distributing gifts, as she thanked the sponsors and partners who made
this event possible.
The
crowd won prizes after prizes provided by major industry players such as
tickets to the "UK Nollywood Festival" were donated by the
festival's President- Nigerian British Based Film Director Malcolm
Benson, numerous luxurious T-shirts and Bags were also donated by haute couture
apparel from renowned French Fashion Designer Rosemari Avenard,
furthermore the giveaway also included few candle light Dinner, vouchers
generously gifted by the elegant and happening spot, Nigerian London based
Restaurant "Empire Lounge", without forgetting a pair of
Boxing gloves signed and donated by Multiple Award Winner Nigerian sportsman,
Kickboxing fighter- Ekundayo.
The
winners were all presented with their prizes.
Miss-K, who is the Kreative
Kick founder and executive producer, said: “I have created this new
creative platform for it to become a leading organisation for cultural
relations, which will fosters understanding between Britain and other nations.
All to promote skilful talents amongst the youth, across borders, making it a
platform who has the potential for wealth and job creation through the
generation and exploitation of intellectual property in order to help create
economic growth. “We want to celebrate the youth, and chose to do it, by also
helping raise awareness on one of the S.D.G agenda created by
the United Nations which is based on "Transforming
Education".
As
part of building international creative connections, we aim to expand the
knowledge and profile of young creative talents, who are eager to pursuit a
career within the creative field of entertainment and art in the UK. We are
therefore delighted to be partnering on this innovative initiative, by giving
people the chance to experience a wide range of creative background, as well as
cultural heritage.”
Additionally
we want the Kreative Kick platform to help merge cultural
heritage from Afro-Caribbean backgrounds with the UK, which has had an enormous
amount of young industry professionals from this same background, who have
contributed in transforming the creative industry in the UK, by helping the
British Economy generate an astonishing 101.5 billion pounds from this fast
growing industry since 2010. Key amongst our priorities are: to collectively
raise the profile and presence of young Afro-Caribbean creative talents and diaspora
in London, to help ensure the breadth and diversity of our creative
professional is represented, and to be a shared voice for advocacy and exchange
for and with the Afro-Caribbean and diaspora communities in London.”
In
support to this, the Mayor of Enfield, Nigerian Cllr Kate Anolue also
said: “I am so proud of Miss-K's new venture, as I am a big fan of promoting
education amongst our youth and I’m delighted to support "Kreative Kick",
which is a fantastic development that celebrate the huge impact young Londoners
of African heritage have made within the creative industry and continue to make
on all aspects of life in our capital.”
Overall
the #KreativeKickYouthSummit was an event no one will forget
in a hurry. Cheerful, fun and most importantly a day the youth felt celebrated,
with memories they won’t forget in a hurry. | |
| Kreative Kick Competition |
