Young People from across Cumbria are being encouraged to showcase their unique talents as part of Shine Week 2009.

Shape is helping young disabled people to get involved in arts and culture and enabling them to realise their creative talent. They are working with Shine to highlight the programme on a national level, and to help provide skills, insight and assistance for young disabled people to get employment.

Making beautiful music is child's play for Ewan Brown . . . he uses his Gameboy console. And the sweet sounds the Gateshead teenager creates become all the more amazing to listeners when you discover Ewan is profoundly deaf.

Ewan of Greenside in Gateshead, has been serverly deaf since birth, having been born prematurely, but has always been determined not to let his disablility get in the way of his dream to become a professional musician.