The mission of the Hip-Hop Education Center [HHEC] is to cultivate and develop Hip-Hop scholars, teaching artists, cultural workers and activists, and social entrepreneurs to professionalize the field of Hip-Hop Education and inform the larger education sector. It achieves this through research and evaluation of programs, development of standards and best practices, documentation and archiving, community outreach and programming, leadership and teacher training, teacher placement, policy and advocacy development, and social enterprising.
Tomorrow - Shake Up Your Library: Using Hip Hop and Rap to Attract Teens and New Adults
A Symposium for Youth Services Librarians – Friday, June 1, 2012, 8 am - 5 pm
Are you a public librarian who would like funding to enhance or start a hip-hop/rap collection in your public library?
You might be a one of the winners if you attend this all-day event! We will be raffling off money for public librarians to help them develop their hip-hop/rap collections.
This event, sponsored by the New Jersey State Library for youth services librarians and other library staff or educators who work with teens and new adults, or millennials, will provide an overview of hip hop and rap music culture and its appeal to young people by experts in the field and will be held on Friday, June 1, 2012, at Rutgers-Newark, in the Paul Robeson Campus Center. The goal of the program is to encourage youth services librarians and other educators to incorporate this type of popular music into their library collections and programs so that the libraries’ will truly reflect the interests of the young people they serve.
This symposium will feature Keynote Speaker Chuck D, leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy; Dr. James Petersen, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University; Martha Diaz, Founding Director, Hip-Hop Education Center; Dr. Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Director of the Africana Institute, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Essex County College; Bernard Kaplan, Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature, Novel, Short Story, Literature and Opera who also teaches Hip-Hop Culture; and Marvin DeBose, Adult/Young Adult Librarian at the Overbrook Park Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library.
http://hiphop4yalibrarians.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=event_title
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NEW BOOK - BOUNCE: RAP MUSIC AND LOCAL IDENTITY IN NEW ORLEANS BY MATT MILLER
The story of a distinctive style of hip-hop that started in one American city and went international Over the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which has revolved around a dance-oriented style called “bounce.”
Hip-hop has been the latest conduit for a “New Orleans sound” that lies at the heart of many of the city’s best-known contributions to earlier popular music genres. Bounce, while globally connected and constantly evolving, reflects an enduring cultural continuity that reaches back and builds on the city’s rich musical and cultural traditions.
In this book, the popular music scholar and filmmaker Matt Miller explores the ways in which participants in New Orleans’s hip-hop scene have collectively established, contested, and revised a distinctive style of rap that exists at the intersection of deeply rooted vernacular music traditions and the modern, globalized economy of commercial popular music. Like other forms of grassroots expressive culture in the city, New Orleans rap is a site of intense aesthetic and economic competition that reflects the creativity and resilience of the city’s poor and working-class African Americans.
“Bounce uses the tools of the historian, the musicologist, and the sociologist as it works to create a portrait of rap music in New Orleans that at once places bounce in a legible history of African American cultural life while also paying careful attention to the particularities of New Orleans’s unique musical cultures.”—Jeffrey Melnick, author of 9/11 Culture and coeditor of American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century
Matt Miller completed his PhD at Emory University, where he continues to teach American Studies. He was codirector of the documentary film Ya Heard Me (2008), presenting the history of bounce music and bounce artists.
$24.95, paper, 240 pages, 10 illustrations, ISBN 978-1-55849-936-2 http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bounce
JR: One year of turning the world inside out
Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. Now, a year after his TED Prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human faces, pasted in public, are connecting communities, making change, and turning the world inside out. You can join in at insideoutproject.net
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Toshi Reagon’s GOOD FOLK presents Women in Hip-Hop Showcase: Makibaka Huwag, Matakot Featuring Invincible, Pri the Honeydark, Reina Williams, DJ Reborn and more at Joe’s Pub in New York City
Dedicated to the speedy recovery and healing journey of DJ Kuttin Kandi
Wednesday, May 16th
Joe’s Pub | 425 Lafayette St.
For more information and to support Kuttin’ Kandi directly, click here.
PAC’S KIDS LEADERSHIP & ARTS SUMMER CAMP - APPLICATION DUE BY MAY 12
The PAC’s Kids Leadership & Arts Summer Camp has provided training and support for youth who aspire to enhance their creative talents since 1999. During the camps, participants build on a variety of creative abilities through classes in Creative Writing, Acting, Dance, Vocal Training, Set and Stage Design, Business of Entertainment and Video Production.
The skills acquired during the Camp culminate with a Closing Ceremony Production where camp participants showcase their learning experience to parents and friends.
Registration is now open for the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation’s Leadership & Arts Summer Camp. Applications must be received by May 12. Spaces are limited. Applications are considered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Camp dates for ages 12-18
June 4-July 14, 2012, M-F Doors open at 7:30am, Camp Hours 8:30am-4pm, Pick up 4pm-5pm
Pac’s Kids Summer Show-July 14, 2012 at the the 14th St. Playhouse
Tuition: $350 fee for a new student: $250 fee for a returning student: multi-student discount is $75 off per each additional student. Tuition is a one-time fee and is due once the student has been interviewed and accepted into the camp.
Camp dates for ages 7-11
July 16-July 28, 2012, M-F, Doors open at 7:30am, Camp Hours 8:30am-4pm, Pick up 4pm-5pm
Pac’s Kids Recital-July 28, 2012
Tuition: $175 fee for a new student: $125 fee for a returning student; multi-student discount is $50 off for each additional student. Tuition is a one-time fee and is due once the student has been interviewed and accepted into the camp.
Parents will be notified whether or not their child has been accepted into the camp or placed on a waiting list. For more information or to register contact the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts at 404-298-4222.
Phone interviews will be conducted separately for students that attend school outside of Georgia.
DOWNLOAD YOUR SUMMER CAMP APPLICATION http://www.tasf.org/programs/leadership-arts/
SHAKE UP YOUR LIBRARY: USING HIP HOP AND RAP TO ATTRACT TEENS AND NEW ADULTS
A Symposium for Youth Services Librarians – Friday, June 1, 2012, 8 am – 5 pm - $20
This all-day event sponsored by the New Jersey State Library for youth services librarians and other library staff, or staff in schools and afterschool organizations who work with teens and new adults, or millennials, will provide an overview of hip hop and rap music culture and its appeal to young people by experts in the field and will be held on Friday, June 1, 2012, at Rutgers-Newark, in the Paul Robeson Campus Center. The goal of the program is to encourage youth services librarians to incorporate this type of popular music into their library collections and programs so that the libraries’ will truly reflect the interests of the young people they serve.
This symposium will feature Keynote Speaker Chuck D, leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy; Dr. James Petersen, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University; Martha Diaz, Founding Director, Hip-Hop Education Center; Dr. Akil Khalfani, Director of the Africana Institute and Associate Professor of Sociology at Essex County College; Prof. Bernard Kaplan, Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature, Novel, Short Story, Literature and Opera who also teaches Hip-Hop Culture; and Marvin DeBose, Adult/Young Adult Librarian at the Overbrook Park Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library.
TO REGISTER GO TO: http://hiphop4yalibrarians.eventbrite.com
2 days left to have the New York teens (ages 14-19 yrs old) in your life apply to Tomorrow Eyes—an interdisciplinary after-school arts workshop organized and led by The Laundromat Project in partnership with Maysles Institute.
Offered through The Laundromat Project’s art education program, Works in Progress, Tomorrow Eyes offers youth a platform to share their perspectives on topics ranging from personal style to youth violence using photography, video, and silk screening as their tools. Students interested in visual and performing art, film making, creative writing, and fashion design are encouraged to apply to this program. The deadline for this exciting new opportunity has been extended to Monday, May 7th. Students will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays May 17 - June 14, 2012. Priority will be given to students going to school or living in Harlem, but all Teens should feel encouraged to apply.
Please share this information with students that you believe would benefit from this 5-week course.
You should feel free to have students, their parents, their guidance counselors, and/or their teachers contact LP Program Manager Petrushka Bazin Larsen directly about this opportunity. She can be reached by email or phone (petrushka@laundromatproject.org or 718-574-0798).
Carlos Rodriguez aka Mare139 - Art is Study - Process and Influence over the past 36 years -
Opening reception: Saturday, May 5th 6p.m. to 9 p.m. Artist talk with
Alan Ket at 7pm.
Pratt Institute Center for Continuing and
Professional Studies Exhibition Space
CCPS gallery located on the 2nd floor of Pratt Manhattan
144 West 14th Street (near 7th Avenue)
Gallery Hours: Mon-Thur: 10am-8pm; Fri-Sat-Sun: 10am-4pm
Sculptor/Designer Carlos Mare aka Mare139 presents a showcase of artifacts including study models of his sculpture works and famed award designs. The installation will also highlight process notes and his artistic influences related to his work over the past 36 years from early subway paintings to the sculpture works of di Suvero, Stella, Smith and others. Carlos Mare139 Rodriguez is a 2011-12 New York University Steinhardt Hip Hop Education Center Scholar in Residence at where he is also a teaching artist. Mare139 is a cultural ambassador who widely recognized for his creative talents as a sculptor and lecturer, he lends his voice to the pursuits of living fully expressive and productive lives through the arts. A NYC based sculptor/painter who in 1985 pioneered a novel version of urban graffiti as modern sculpture. Throughout his 28 year career as a sculptor, Mare139 has consistently brought innovation to the genreʼs aesthetic and vocabulary. His admiration of early Cubist, Futurist and Constructivist sculpture inspired the investigation of merging aesthetics between ‘graffiti’ styles and the vision of such movements. In addition Mare139 sculpted the award for the Annual BET/Black Entertainment Award, recipients include Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Prince, Jay Z, Prince Snoop Dog, Beyonce, Kobe Bryant, and many others. He earned the prestigious 2006 Webby Award for his launch of the Hip Hop documentary Style Wars website. In 2006-07 Mare139 worked closely with Actor/ Director Robert DeNiro on the film The Good Shepherd as a documenter of ʻthe making of the movieʼ and as member of Mr. DeNiroʼs editing team. His writings have been published in collaboration with Martha Coopers brilliant photo book Street Play that documents the imaginative ʻplayʼ of children in NYC during the late 1970ʼs. His writings capture the creative play and dangers of his youth in the South Bronx.
Hip Hop in the Heartland: 7th Annual Educator and Community Leader Training Institute
July 23-27, 2012
Union South, UW-Madison
Each summer, UW-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) teams up with Urban Word, NYC to offer educators and ccommunity leaders a weeklong program to learn the best practices in hip hop and spoken word pedagogy. The Institute brings together the leading educators, professors, emcees and activists utilizing the media of spoken word ad hip hop as relevant, dynamic and necessary educational tools to engage students across multi-disciplinary curricula.
Hip Hop in the Heartland draws from educational theories such as socio-cultural theory, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical race theory, and hip hop and social justice pedagogies, to help educators and community leaders connect hip hop as both an art form and an instructional tool to improve the academic success of students who remain marginalized in our schools.
Participants learn proven, hands-on techniques to devleop lesson plans and strengthen their course study, as well as create a platform from which they will understand the scope of hip hop history, culture and politics. Evening programming consists of an all-star cast who will synthesize the day trainings with effective strategies and cutting-edge multicultural educational approaches.
Hip Hop in the Heartland is specifically designed for:
Classroom teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, school personnel, community educators, college educators, community leaders, education students, hip hop and spoken word educators and practitioners, and anyone committed to social justice and urban education.
Simone Jacobson: Hip Hop As A Tool For Cultural Diplomacy
The Angle is a documentary web series that is full of perspectives, performances and art that help give shape to new ideas. It’s the people’s voice remixed and presented by Park Triangle Productions. http://theangleshow.com/
BRONX STORIES - Catch @Circa95 (Patty Dukes & Reph Star) hosting and performing at Bronx Museum of the Arts on Friday for FREE.
FRIDAY MAY 18, 6:00 - 9:00pm An evening of storytelling, music, poetry, and readings. Location: BX Museum North Wing – 2nd Fl.
Deaf Jam
A new documentary follows a group of teenagers as they discover the vibrant New York City subculture of the deaf poetry scene. Aneta Brodski is a vibrant, expressive young woman who has much to say, but her potential to be heard was once limited to people who understand American Sign Language (ASL). This all changed after she discovered ASL poetry, a physical art form that combines facial expressions, hand gestures and body movement. Performing at poetry slam competitions, she dazzles the audience with her high-energy act. When Aneta is offered the chance to work with Tahani Salah, a hearing Palestinian slam poet, their differences do not prove to be obstacles. Instead, they prove to be artistic fodder for a brilliant performance piece. Director Judy Lieff mirrors the physical nature of ASL poetry with her use of fast-paced editing, animated graphic text and other innovative techniques that situate the viewer squarely in Aneta’s world. http://www.deafjam.org/
The 2012 Hiphop Literacies: The Globalization of Black Popular Culture conference is designed to bring together scholars, educators, artists, students, and community members to explore Hiphop. The conference takes place May 9th-11th, 2012 at Ohio State University.
A major goal of “Hiphop Literacies” is to promote interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach around Hiphop, to stimulate ongoing dialogue and outreach across various disciplines in the academy and in the community. In addition to scheduled talks and workshops by renowned Hiphop scholars, artists and educators, the conference will host presentations and performances by scholars, students and community members. The conference will also feature a lecture and headline performance by a nationally recognized Hiphop artist.
Featured Keynote Speakers
MC Lyte
Dr. Mark Anthony Neal
Dr. Marcyliena Morgan
Dr. Ronald L. Jackson, II
Registration is now open! Register online.
JOB LISTING: Fresh Prep MC (Master of Curriculum)
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Fresh Prep MC (Master of Curriculum) delivers quality Fresh Prep instruction to 9th-12th grade students by:
· Creating rigorous and engaging, long-term and daily, lesson plans that follow curriculum maps.
· Demonstrating strong pedagogy by possessing a solid knowledge of the content area and Fresh Prep curricula.
· Exhibiting a positive rapport with students, while holding high expectations for each student and maintaining an engaging and dynamic learning environment.
· Providing the necessary differentiation, accommodations, and modifications for the academic growth and success of all students.
· Contributing to the program and curriculum design and implementation.
· Coordinating all instructional planning and activities with teachers and Fresh Prep Manager.
· Participating in Fresh Prep team meetings, program evaluation meetings, staff trainings, and receiving regular support from the administrative staff.
· Assisting in the development of professional development workshops for teachers on hip-hop pedagogy and successful integration of the Fresh Prep curricula.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Fresh Prep MC works to ensure strong weekly instruction and curriculum integration by:
· Developing rigorous and engaging lesson plans.
· Utilizing multimedia and instructional technologies to maximize student engagement and learning success.
· Facilitating classroom instruction using clear and defined learning objectives.
· Evaluating and assessing student learning and progress towards meeting learning objectives.
· Working with teachers to establish positive classroom climates, classroom management systems, and developing instructional strategies that engage a diverse variety of learners.
· Ensuring that the Fresh Prep curriculum is taught with fidelity.
· Implementing program assessment and evaluation tools.
· Working to modify the curricula model based upon evaluation results to achieve greater success. Success is understood as increased test scores and student achievement on the Regents exams, and a more student-centered, and culturally competent, classroom environments.
· Working closely with Fresh Prep staff and teachers to gather, share, and implement best practices and promote learning amongst the program as it grows.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
The Fresh Prep MC:
· Holds a minimum of a Bachelors Degree (BA).
· Has 3+ years of successful teaching experience with a demonstrated expertise in effective principles of teaching and learning.
· Is familiar with the New York State Regents exams and NYS Learning Standards.
· Has a comprehensive understanding of hip hop pedagogy.
· Is available to work at least 15 hours per week, during the hours of 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM.
· Is willing to travel to schools within the five boroughs of New York City.
· Has experience in developing new and adapted curricula to meet student needs.
· Is able to devise and facilitate engaging classroom activities that increase student achievement.
· Enjoys working with high school students, and has the ability to effectively motivate students academically.
· Is creative and detail oriented, with well-developed organization skills, able to acquire, synthesize and implement new information quickly and confidently.
If interested, please forward a current cover letter, resume, and portfolio sample to Michael Wiggins, Fresh Prep Manager, at: michael@urbanarts.org.
Please put the job title, Fresh Prep MC, in the subject line of the email.
