Regional
Events:
Educational Presentations and Workshops at High Schools, Partner
Universities, and Cultural CentersYouth and instructors will
conduct educational workshops that teach other youth, educators
and community activists how to use hip-hop for educational
and community empowerment purposes. An education team will
visit high schools, universities, and cultural centers, and
will use multi-media resources in interactive workshops that
will show examples of hip-hop curricular strategies, actual
practice, and respond to the audience’s questions on
how to adapt this work to their own communities’ initiatives.
University
of Hip-Hop Educational WorkshopsUHipHop will revisit high
schools such as Hubbard high school, Kenwood Academy, Roosevelt
high school, and Jones College Prearatory high school in Chicago,
Long Island high school and the Community School for Social
Justice in New York City, and will expand to a new collective
of schools to teach high school students and teachers the
use of hip-hop community arts. UHipHop will also continue
doing these educational workshops with its affiliate universities,
DePaul University, University of Chicago, the University of
Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia University, and New York University,
in providing youth with an opportunity to share their practices
with post-secondary professors and students. New colleges
and universities will be added to workshop tour over the next
three years. Lastly, UHipHop will also further its collaborations
with affiliate cultural organizations such as the Chicago
Cultural Center, Brotherhood Sister Soul in New York, Higher
Gliffs in Oakland California, and Umista in Alert Bay, British
Columbia, in conducting public arts centered workshops for
the public that attends these centers.
These experiences will engage UHipHop students as community
leaders and educators and will give legitimacy to their accomplishments
as public artists. Youth will develop pamphlets, PowerPoint
presentations, slideshows, and films that will be shared with
their audiences. At the end of every year, students will receive
a `diploma’ that certifies that they have visited at
least three organizations and have conducted workshop that
increased the public’s understanding of hip-hop education.
