NLTeach CIC — No Long Teaching
Here are the skills to make something out of nothing.
Practical, culturally grounded creative education through rap, writing, music production and creative technology. Based in High Wycombe, working with schools, youth settings and community organisations.
About
Learn, practise, make.
NLTeach means No Long Teaching. We keep learning direct and practical: understand the principles, use them straight away, then make something of your own with them.
NLTeach CIC is a community-focused creative education and cultural production organisation. Our programmes bring together creative writing, rap, spoken word, music production and creative technology, and every one of them is built around producing real work — a written verse, a recorded song, a beat, a performance.
Programmes
What we're running now
Available now
RAP Workshop / RAP Workshop Plus
Rhythm and Poetry. An accessible entry point into structured lyric writing and creative expression. Plus extends it into developing, rehearsing and recording completed work.
Partnership programme
Amplify
Creative Expression Programme, developed and delivered in partnership with Mama Bee. Ideas, experience and personal expression through spoken word, poetry, rap and expressive writing.
Coming soon
Beat Chop Shop
Make beats on an Akai MPC. Hands-on beat making covering sampling, rhythm, sequencing and MPC workflow.
Our Approach
Understanding → Execution → Innovation
01
Understanding
Learn the principles, the context and the fundamentals. There's no fun without the fundamentals.
02
Execution
Put those principles straight into real creative activity — writing, recording, performing, producing.
03
Innovation
Experiment, develop your own ideas and make something new with what you now know how to do.
Experience
A new CIC, built on long practice.
NLTeach CIC was founded by Jesse-Lee “LeeN” Norville — freestyle artist, music producer, recording and mix engineer, workshop facilitator and course designer.
He brings more than 20 years of work across live music, freestyle performance, studio engineering, music production, creative education and youth and community practice. That practice is the foundation NLTeach has been built on.
NLTeach CIC itself is a newly established organisation, and we're clear about the difference: new company, experienced practice.
Work with us
Schools, youth settings, community and cultural organisations, and creative practitioners — get in touch to talk about a workshop, a programme or a collaboration.