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History of the Bristol Asian Youth Club [OH841]
This short film, made by members of the Bristol Asian Youth Club, presents a concise history of the Asian Youth Club at The Mill and explores what it means to the different generations who use it.
[Music playing]
A1: Bristol Asian Youth Club, my involvement with it from about 1976, ’77. And it was held at Sefton Park once a week, and the idea was for it to capture the experience of Asian youth to be able to share that – of being an Asian youth, being brought up in an environment which is not necessarily predominantly an Asian environment. And to share experiences and learning across communities, across Hindu, Sikh, Muslim boys and girls, and then we used to meet at Sefton Park Youth Club, which then went on to be The Basement, very famous for Roni Size. By then the Asian Youth Club moved down to The Mill.
A2: The Mill, oh I used to come back here in the ‘80s, mid ‘80s, it was a good – you know, time to – with friends and to get together and just kind of socialise and have a good time basically.
A?: It is the longest standing Asian club.
Q: What keeps it going then, what’s the –
A?: Passion, for people to want to come here and do things.
A?: Dancing in.
A?: Ping pong, football.
A?: Basketball.
A?: Cooking and ping pong, table tennis, hanging with you guys, hanging with our friends, taking selfies.
A?: Going to the shops.
A?: Yeah, going to the shops, [overtalking 00:01:40].
[Music playing]
A?: It starts off with a basic flowerpot and it shows how nature and like plants start to grow.
A?: It’s moving up, up, up, up, up.
A?: Suddenly as time passes and how it forms when it’s fully grown, to how it’s different to when it actually starts growing.
A?: Yeah, an art class, they had a gym facilities that you could use, football which I took great – get a team together, and yeah, it was a great social, you know, good to get together and socialise with one another.
A?: And we are still, from that day some of us are still involved now, we’ve been with the whole Mill, quite literally the grinding mill. But being from volunteers, being from coordinators of particular projects, being on the committees, bringing our own children here now.
A?: I love The Mill.
A?: Okay, [singing] I love The Mill, the dancing, the football, the basketball, I love the playground, whoa, whoa, the grass, the ping pong balls [all laugh], the dancing.
A?: Well basically the sun is moving.
A?: Where is this?
A?: Eagle is coming. A love sign.
A?: A love sign [inaudible 00:03:08].
A?: A little love sign and then there’s a [overtalking 00:03:11].
A?: I don’t even know what this is, it just comes down somehow.
A?: There’s a girl and her armfuls are full and then she falls and she goes to heaven.
A?: Went up to heaven, a girl came down from heaven and –
A?: Girl comes down from heaven.
A?: And love the place.
A?: Then this girl comes down and comes to see the greenery.
A?: Oh my niece, my nephews, my daughter come every Sunday, you know, and as well that I’ve got other nieces and nephews that come down and it’s a good chance for them to kind of get together and play together.
A?: Our youth leader, Jay Barratt[?] has had so many youngsters through his hands.
A?: Yeah, I think 20, 25, 25 years in here. That’s Lucky’s [?] kid when he was younger. That’s Luck [?], that’s our vice chairman, date was 18th of May, yeah, 1990.
[Singing song]
A?: Life is no longer to be life.
A?: La, la, la.
A?: If.
A?: If what?
A?: You don’t have a phone, yeah, or a tablet, or a way of getting in contact with people, and if you don’t listen to music you’re a sad loner.
A?: How much do you listen to music?
A?: Loads.
A? What does it mean to you?
A?: Life and dance, yeah.
[Singing song]
[Music playing]
A1: Bristol Asian Youth Club, my involvement with it from about 1976, ’77. And it was held at Sefton Park once a week, and the idea was for it to capture the experience of Asian youth to be able to share that – of being an Asian youth, being brought up in an environment which is not necessarily predominantly an Asian environment. And to share experiences and learning across communities, across Hindu, Sikh, Muslim boys and girls, and then we used to meet at Sefton Park Youth Club, which then went on to be The Basement, very famous for Roni Size. By then the Asian Youth Club moved down to The Mill.
A2: The Mill, oh I used to come back here in the ‘80s, mid ‘80s, it was a good – you know, time to – with friends and to get together and just kind of socialise and have a good time basically.
A?: It is the longest standing Asian club.
Q: What keeps it going then, what’s the –
A?: Passion, for people to want to come here and do things.
A?: Dancing in.
A?: Ping pong, football.
A?: Basketball.
A?: Cooking and ping pong, table tennis, hanging with you guys, hanging with our friends, taking selfies.
A?: Going to the shops.
A?: Yeah, going to the shops, [overtalking 00:01:40].
[Music playing]
A?: It starts off with a basic flowerpot and it shows how nature and like plants start to grow.
A?: It’s moving up, up, up, up, up.
A?: Suddenly as time passes and how it forms when it’s fully grown, to how it’s different to when it actually starts growing.
A?: Yeah, an art class, they had a gym facilities that you could use, football which I took great – get a team together, and yeah, it was a great social, you know, good to get together and socialise with one another.
A?: And we are still, from that day some of us are still involved now, we’ve been with the whole Mill, quite literally the grinding mill. But being from volunteers, being from coordinators of particular projects, being on the committees, bringing our own children here now.
A?: I love The Mill.
A?: Okay, [singing] I love The Mill, the dancing, the football, the basketball, I love the playground, whoa, whoa, the grass, the ping pong balls [all laugh], the dancing.
A?: Well basically the sun is moving.
A?: Where is this?
A?: Eagle is coming. A love sign.
A?: A love sign [inaudible 00:03:08].
A?: A little love sign and then there’s a [overtalking 00:03:11].
A?: I don’t even know what this is, it just comes down somehow.
A?: There’s a girl and her armfuls are full and then she falls and she goes to heaven.
A?: Went up to heaven, a girl came down from heaven and –
A?: Girl comes down from heaven.
A?: And love the place.
A?: Then this girl comes down and comes to see the greenery.
A?: Oh my niece, my nephews, my daughter come every Sunday, you know, and as well that I’ve got other nieces and nephews that come down and it’s a good chance for them to kind of get together and play together.
A?: Our youth leader, Jay Barratt[?] has had so many youngsters through his hands.
A?: Yeah, I think 20, 25, 25 years in here. That’s Lucky’s [?] kid when he was younger. That’s Luck [?], that’s our vice chairman, date was 18th of May, yeah, 1990.
[Singing song]
A?: Life is no longer to be life.
A?: La, la, la.
A?: If.
A?: If what?
A?: You don’t have a phone, yeah, or a tablet, or a way of getting in contact with people, and if you don’t listen to music you’re a sad loner.
A?: How much do you listen to music?
A?: Loads.
A? What does it mean to you?
A?: Life and dance, yeah.
[Singing song]