IN THIS ISSUECLIC IN YOUR AREA

CAMARTHENSHIRE

YOUTH GOES LIVE

THE SPROUT’S 2000TH ARTICLE

BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2011

BULLIES OUT

THE CLIC WINTER RESIDENTIAL

GOING VEGGIE

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

SINGLESTHE EVIL

THAT IS... EXAMS

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EDITORIALEditor: Ryan Heeger Design: Burning RedTranslation: Tania Russell-OwenCat Southall

ABOUT USCLICZINE is a quarterly publication aimed at 11 to 25-year-olds across Wales. All articles are in brief, with the full versions being available at cliconline.co.uk. Information and Advice

Service for young people in Wales, funded by the Welsh Government . The project is being taken into its next four-year phase of development by ProMo-Cymru.

ABOUT CLICzine

CLICzine is the little printed sister of CLIC, the online magazine for young people in Wales. It is the place to find and share news, information, advice and have your say. Get involved at www.CLIConline.co.uk

CLIC IN YOUR AREA

We’d like to extend a warm welcome the new additions to the CLIC network. carmarthenshireyouth.co.uk went live in March, while Bridgend’s new website bwsted.com launched in April. Feel free to log on, check them out and leave a comment under one of the articles.

EDITOR’S NOTE

The first half of 2011 has been amazing at CLIC. Our residential at the Anglesey Outdoors Centre in February

was the biggest yet, and spawned ideas and

friendships that have developed the CLIC project

massively. You can read more about the resi in this issue of

CLICzine, or by going to www.CLIConline.co.uk and putting ‘residential’ in the search box. Next up is our annual Battle Of The Bands, which this year is in conjunction with Merthyr Rock, the festival featuring The Blackout, Funeral For A Friend and loads more – read about it on the next page. The idea of this zine is to give you a taster of what’s on the website, and hopefully encourage you to get involved. You can register and upload content at any time, so please feel free to share your creativity and ideas, or just have a browse and discover some of the information there for you as young people living in Wales. Ryan Heeger, editor.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH CLIC

CLIC is a place for you to express yourselves through creativity and interaction with others. You can write articles, leave comments, upload photos and artwork, make and embed

videos and even customise the theme of the websites. We are hoping to launch CLIC websites for every county in Wales. To find out what’s in your area, go to www.CLIConline.co.uk and use the drop-down map of Wales (top right on homepage). There are currently sites live in Anglesey, Bridgend, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Flintshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, The Vale and Wrexham. You can also join one of the editorial groups who oversee the sites, and get the chance to review gigs, shows and events and be members of the press. Give us a call on 029 2046 2222 and we can tell you more, or email info@cliconline.co.uk.

NEWS

LIVE CLIC SITES

Anglesey defaid.com • Bridgend bwsted.com Cardiff thesprout.co.uk Carmarthenshire carmarthenshireyouth co.uk Flintshire youngflintshire.co.uk • Newport youngnewport.co.uk Rhondda Cynon Taff wicid.tv • Swansea shouttawe.co.uk The Vale Of Glamorgan swoosh.me.uk GOING LIVE SOON!

Blaenau Gwent • Merthyr Tydfil • Monmouthshire • Neath Port Talbot • Torfaen • Wrexham

NEWS

In May, Cardiff CLIC website theSprout saw its

2000th article uploaded.

Stormer007 was the writer,

and he took full advantage of

the opportunity...

Today Sprouters, we face a

momentous occasion. The

article you are reading presently

is in fact the 2,000th article

to be published on theSprout.

We have come from humble

beginnings, but with hard

work from our editors and the

dedication and commitment of

the young people of Cardiff, you

read what is a milestone in the

history of theSprout.

To celebrate this triumph, I am

going to take you through a

brief (well, I say brief) history of

theSprout, highlighting some of theSprout’s firsts and other important articles, as well as some

articles which I’m rather fond

of. Back in 2007, theSprout

was launched with its opening

article and of all the topics

to choose from, our editorial

team chose Xboxes And The

European Revamp. It may not

seem like the most riveting of

issues, but it sure as hell is

important.

Read the full article at

http://bit.ly/clicsprout2000

THE 2000TH ARTICLE: A SPROUTALICIOUS HISTORY

Music wasn’t always something you only got online

for free. Old people used to go into shops and pay for something they could also hold. Bearshead from Swoosh in the Vale Of Glamorgan explains...

A record is a beautiful thing. You can hold it and almost feel the soul of the music

embedded in the album sleeve. And the fact that it needs to be treated with absolute care makes it a thousand times more precious than a stupid mp3 track.

Many of you might think of records as easily scratched, awkward slabs of black plastic that our grandparents and parents bought with their pocket money. But records are controversial – they’re

special. Take the Sex Pistols’ single, God Save The Queen. That song signified change, a voice to the ones who accused the corrupt government of the time.

And the artwork? One of the best pieces of modern art around. The album was banned in almost every shop in Britain and wasn’t permitted to be

played on the radio. Record sales alone made it #2 in the charts at the time. A song like that would never have survived with this new-fangled idea of dropping physical releases.

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/clicsingles

I had to find new ways

of balancing my diet

...almost feel the soul of

the music embedded

SinglesGoing Steady?

WHAT ARE CLIC-ERS LISTENING TO?ARTIST/ Katy Perry • TRACK/ Last Friday Night • CHOSEN BY/ Tasha, Monmouthshire facebook.com/cliconline

ARTIST/ Metronomy • TRACK/ The Bay • CHOSEN BY/ Sam Sprout Cardiff • thesprout.co.uk

ARTIST/ Miley Cyrus • TRACK/ 7 Things • CHOSEN BY/ ihavethecyrusvirusx, RCT • wicid.tv

ARTIST/ The Joy Formidable • TRACK/ Whirring • CHOSEN BY/ Editor Ryan • CLIConline.co.uk

ARTIST/ Skindred • TRACK/ Corrupted • CHOSEN BY/ CrazyDistortion, RCT • wicid.tv

ARTIST/ My Chemical Romance TRACK/ The Black Parade • CHOSEN BY/ emily16, The Vale • swoosh.me.uk

ARTIST/ Bad Meets Evil • TRACK/ Fast Lane • CHOSEN BY/ Steven MJ, Swansea • shouttawe.co.uk

ARTIST/ Green Day • TRACK/ 21 Guns • CHOSEN BY/ Tansi, Cardiff • thesprout.co.uk

ARTIST/ Aloe Blacc • TRACK/ I Need A Dollar • CHOSEN BY/ ANTLERD, Flintshire • youngflintshire.co.uk

ARTIST/ Hugh Laurie • TRACK/ You Don’t Know My Mind • CHOSEN BY/ Pubsongs, Anglesey • defaid.com

ARTIST/ Emily Osment • TRACK/ 1-800 Clap Your Hands • CHOSEN BY/ Stormer007, Cardiff

LISTEN

MUSIC

GOING VEGGIEAMBER7 from Swansea discusses the trials and tribulations of a meat-free diet...

I decided to become a vegetarian about a year ago, aged 20. I stopped eating meat

and fish along with foods and drinks (yes drinks!) that have animal by-products in them. My reason? Well, as an

animal lover and keen environmentalist I thought it was about time I committed to my beliefs. I had been a

meat eater my whole life and especially loved chicken so I thought the transition would be tough and it was in some ways.

I had to find new ways of balancing my diet. For example, when I would previously make a curry I’d just add some chicken to a jar of sauce, boil some rice and voila! Now though, I had to start introducing foods to make my meals more substantial which meant I had to try out veg I wasn’t really used to eating, such as aubergines and courgettes, and meat substitutes including the dreaded tofu.

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/clicveggie

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The CLIC Battle Of The Bands is this year in

conjunction with Merthyr Rock, the two-day

music festival featuring The Blackout and

Ocean Colour Scene, which takes place from Sat 3 -

Sun 4 September 2011 in Cyfartha Park,

Merthyr Tydfil.

We held regional heats around Wales at the end

of July, with a final battle in Cardiff in August. The

winner will open the main stage at Merthyr Rock on

the Saturday, while two runners-up will play

the second stage. There is also a huge prize package

on offer.

Last year’s winners The Hostages have gone on to release their debut single as part of their prize

package, which also included an awesome video which you can watch at

YouTube.com

The battle is open to all music acts, not just guitar-

orientated music: MCs, keyboard wizard, decks

trickster and human beatboxes are all encouraged to

enter.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

MUSIC

To find out who won and more about the Merthyr Rock festival, go to http://bit.ly/clicbotb2011

When I was in school I was bullied. I have an older brother and he is

gay. It really bothered me that I was getting stick for my brother’s choices. For three years I had to put up with the same boy asking me “does your brother touch you at night?” every morning when I got into school. I put up with it because I just didn’t see the point in taking offense from a question.

Then one day it got worse. This boy started asking me things about my brother’s personal life. He asked me if my brothers boyfriends touched me and did my brother watch? I went to my form teacher that was in the class when he had said this to me. I told her what was going on and she said there was nothing she could do without actually hearing him say it.

CLIC user GLITTEREYES360 from Neath Port Talbot has found herself in a complicated place...

I used to despise those individuals who would always use the term

‘complicated’ when they were in a relationship.

I would look on with pure resentment at the fact that you need to be with someone or not with someone.

I hated that terminology once upon a time, but now I am using that phrase myself. Ironic, isn’t it? Life sure as hell has its humour.

I recently ran back into the arms of my ex-boyfriend and stayed over his flat. So now, when I am around his friends who have become my friends, we say “we are a complicated couple”.

I should loathe this phrase because I used to roll my eyes when other couples would say it. But if being complicated is the only way that I can be with him, then yes, we are complicated.

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/cliccomplicated

Oh, we are, but we’re not!

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Mind Cymru’s Positive Choices Raising awareness of suicide and providing essential training in early intervention skills. positivechoices-wales.org • 029 2034 6583

Meic The information, advice and support helpline for children and young people in Wales. meiccymru.org • 080880 23456 The Room The Welsh Ambulance Service’s health website for young people aged 13-17 years. theroom.wales.nhs.uk Youth2Youth Unique UK helpline service run by young people for young people. youth2youth.co.uk • 020 8896 3675

CLIC’s Essential Health Contacts

HASAY

VEYOUR

IT’S COMPLICATED

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/clicbullying

BULLYING

www.cymru.gov.uk

Cymry IfancYoung Wa les

Questionnaires Games andActivities Case Studies Video clips

• What is pupil voice? • What does it mean for you? • How can it make a difference in your school?

You can answer these questions and many more by visiting

www.pupilvoicewales.org.uk

... these are just some of the things you can find on the site, but to make it

even better we’d like to hear from YOU!

Get your voice heard!

Tell us your ideas, how you’ve made a difference in your school,

or how you’d like things to change.

Don’t delay - e-mail us today @

childrenandyoungpeoplesrights@wales.gsi.gov.uk

by kinghamster from Bridgend

USER TWEETS / COMMENTS / FEEDBACK

@cliconline A pleasure to meet you and my humble services are at your disposal any time :-) @CJDEMOOI (from BBC TV’s Eggheads)

HASAY

VEYOUR

Racism I am black. You are white. Is that the reason for us to fight? Just because of my colour you’d be racist to me and my brother? I am black. You are white. Is that the reason for us to fight? What you see is not what is inside of me?

I am black. You are white. Is that the reason for us to fight? When you talk I feel like chalk I am black. You are white. There is no need to fight. It just isn’t right. Is it?

by EL@@YZ BWOII!! from Newport

by kinghamster from Bridgend

On Friday 18 February 2011, 60 of us boarded a coach to Anglesey for the CLIC

Winter Residential. It proved to be the greatest CLIC resi to date. CrazyDistortion from RCT was there and wrote all about it...

Guess what? No, not that. Guess again.

No, not that either. Would it be easier for me to just tell you what’s what?

Okay then, on Friday I packed my bags and finally left home. To Anglesey. For a weekend. With CLIC. Lovely.

It started on Friday. The sun was hidden by clouds, I wore jeans. The coach was what you’d expect from any coach. Though I was rather unsure at first why the driver decided to head back into

Rhondda Cynon Taff after picking up our fellow residential dudes from Ebbw Vale and Newport.

We had no idea that our journey would last longer than the estimated four hours.

Yes, the pesky sat nav decided to go the scenic route up to the little patch of Wales in the North. The chosen route was also a shroud of deceit on our phones, as for a good section of our journey we had no signal. So much so, that a girl called Jess and I began to improvise a song about retweeting, with the main lyric being “We need to retweet, why can’t we retweet?”

Aye, I’m sure we annoyed the living daylights out of our fellow travellers of the South with this song. Ah well, could be worse, we could have stalled a few times. Oh wait, we did.

Unfortunately, it was rather

dark once we finally landed on Anglesey soil. So dark, in fact, that the coach driver didn’t notice a sign post that said “no wide vehicles” until after we went down that street.

Read the full article, see the pics and videos, and maybe even get involved with the next resi at www.cliconline.co.uk

BY CRAZYDISTORTION

FROM R-C-T

THE CLICANGLESEY

RESIDENTIAL

US UNLTD“Volunteering”

ANTLERD from Young Flintshire talks about

Us Unltd, a group of 12 young people aged 16-24 who have all experienced homelessness. They are currently fundraising to help them to get to their goal of opening a homeless drop-in cafe, training centre and information and advice centre.

Twelve months ago, Shelly Moorefield had a meeting in her office with Katie and Suzanne from Supporting People, and James from Flintshire Local Voluntary Council (FLVC).

They asked Shelly if she would be interested in working a “few more”

hours to work on a project with some young people with experience of homelessness. ”I had no idea that 12 months later I would be helping the same young people to open their own business,” - said Shelly.

In the early days it must have taken a huge leap of faith for Katie and Suzanne to part with their budget. They were having chaotic meetings followed by more chaotic meetings, and I’m sure they cursed at times.

Read the full article and watch the video at http://bit.ly/CLICusultd

by AntlerD from Flintshire What do you think

of when you hear that word?

People have very different ideas about what volunteering is. Some think of new and challenging opportunities, some think of charity work and helping to improve the world around them, while others think “Volunteering? What’s the point?”

It’s this last group that we really want to get through to: people who dismiss the idea as “boring” — saying things like “volunteering is just about litter picking” and “doing things without getting paid is a waste of time.” Our aim is to change that perception.

But to be honest, one article isn’t enough to teach people about all volunteering has to offer. Not when there’s so much out there. We need more ways to reach people, to tell your stories and help people get involved in volunteering.

That’s why we now have a photo gallery, a video gallery, regular Twitter updates and a Facebook fanpage (click ‘Like’ to be kept up-to-date with news, stories and events about volunteering).

Of course, we can’t do that alone.

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/gwirvolgetsviral

GWIRVOL GETS SOCIAL!