After spending the past couple of months revising and sitting exams D-MYST had our first meeting of the summer yesterday to discuss our new campaign that we will be launching in Liverpool City Centre in September! The next few weeks are going to be really busy for us as we plan our campaign strategy, design our new campaign logo, discuss how to promote it and organise the launch!

As well as this D-MYST will also be sharing the impact that our SmokeOff campaign had with the public in regards to television shows that show smoking before the watershed. We had over 10,000 postcards signed in favour of no smoking on television shows before the watershed, especially in prime time viewing shows such as Coronation Street and Eastenders. Keep a look out for what D-MYST did next regarding this issue...!

D-MYST are off to New Zealand!!

Congratulations to our lovely member Katie who has been selected to visit New Zealand on behalf of D-MYST and demonstrate how successful we are!! Katie is so excited to head off on her travels and the rest of the group have some fun ideas for videos to send with her so we can all be there in spirit! Katie has already had a Skype conversation with a couple of the students that will be hosting her trip and they have already shared some interesting ideas for their programme! Watch this space for updates on her trip - Katie will be keeping a diary of her adventures and sharing them with us all!!

The official launch of our Smokeoff campaign went really well on Saturday! We teamed up with a fantastic entertainment act - 'faces of dicso' who helped to promote our campaign and remove smoking from TV shows such as Coronation Street and Eastenders. We also had a face in the hole attraction which was hugely popular with you people and children alike. Look out for photos on Twitter, facebook and our new instagram account @d_myst_uk - the best photo will win a £50 shopping voucher!! The day was a huge success and to add to all the fun we collected a further 1,000 signatures in support of our campaign!

We had an exciting meeting this evening! We spent our time going over the final plans for the official launch of our Smoke-off campaign! We have an exciting day planned on Saturday 19th March and we are hoping to get as many members of the public involved! Keep an eye out for us and all the special surprises we have planned and if you see us please come over to say hello and help us in our task to take smoking out of coronation street and eastenders!

Today we had a fun meeting storyboarding some ideas for videos. We have come up with some exciting ideas for an animation style video based on the members of D-MYST the agency. Watch this space for the next You Tube sensation! We then moved on to talk about the launch of the Smoke Off campaign! We have some very exciting plans that we hope to put in place! The launch of the Smoke-Off campaign will be on Saturday 19th October in Liverpool City Centre! Make sure you come and say hello!

We had a great meeting this weekend continuing our work on the shisha awareness campaign! We started the meeting by discussing the trip to New Zealand in March next year and the amazing opportunities a lucky member of D-MYST will have when they are there! We discussed the results of the shisha questionnaires we had completed and decided to have a fun creative session designing the information board and vinyl education matt that will be used in schools and at events across Liverpool! If you see our shisha board make sure you come over and say hello! Over lunch we talked about creating a new film for D-MYST and began to story board some ideas! This will be filmed during our next meeting in a few weeks time so watch this space!

Today we took to the streets of Liverpool to gather research on shisha smoking. We asked the public various questions to gather their opinion on shisha and its health effects. It was a great opportunity to hand out our shisha fact card and educate people on how harmful smoking shisha is. We will be out and about in different areas of Liverpool over the next few weeks so keep an eye out for us and feel free to head over and help us with our research!