Congrats to WBL Graduates

Thursday June 23rd marked the first complete cohort of Words Beats & Life Apprentice Students graduating from High School and subsequently leaving the DC Urban Arts Academy nest. We teamed up with the teen program at Martha’s Table to celebrate our collective students’ awesome accomplishments and usher them into the next phase of their lives. The program featured a total of 18 graduating seniors from both organizations, spoken word performances, musical performances and food at the 14th & V Busboys & Poets location. We would like to send out a big congratulations to the DCUAA grads of 2011:

Barry Brown
Sonny May – Prince George’s Community College
Akasha-Régine Gabriella Diaz – Art Institute of Washington
Marte Garner – Virginia State University
Edwin Martinez – Montgomery Community College
Olivia Milholo – Montgomery Community College
Jamilla Okubo – Parsons, The New School for Design
Flor Rivas – Catholic University
Francies Stevenson – Oakwood University  

Freshest of all time: B-Boy/Girl Jam

July 16th. 6pm to 12midnite. 
Words Beats & Life is gearing up bring bboys & bgirls from across the DMV and greater mid-atlantic region for one of the biggest bboy/girl jams in the area. RSVP on Facebook today!

2v2 B-Boy battles for $1,000
1v1 Popping battles for $200

Admission: FREE ($10 if registering to battle)
DJ Fleg on the 1′s and 2′s

Host: TrusReal 

Judges:
Meen 187 – Dynamic Rockers
Hristo aka Scavenger – SleepWalkingz Crew, Bulgaria
Toyz aRe Us – Lionz Of Zion crew

Popping Judges:
Jamz
Buddha Monk

Murals DC Community Outreach

This week Mazi, WBL’s executive director began community out reach as a part of the organization’s duty as Artistic Consultant for DC’s annual Murals DC program. Over the past month, WBL representatives have attended local ANC meetings for each of the proposed murals. There, they collected contact information for residents interested in giving insight towards the success of this project. This week, Mazi is bringing those folks together to discuss the wants of community members and choose the artist who will design each of the murals.

On July 7th, 12noon-2pm Words Beats & Life is hosting 2011′s second quarterly Cipher Workshop. 

This workshop will be facilitated by Candace J. Mickens, the Principal Consultant of Ubuntu Management Consulting. With more than 16 years of business management and accounting experience both in the for profit and not-for-profit sectors, she has developed an interactive workshop designed to help you learn and take charge of your project/program/organization’s finances.

She writes:

“Are you a small organization with limited staff? Do you have questions about how to prepare and monitor a budget for grant funders or to present to a board? If so, BUDGETS made SIMPLE is the workshop for you. Budgets made Simple is a hands on participatory discussion addressing common issues and questions facing workshop attendees on the topic of budgeting. This is not a lecture format. It is a lively discussion with a few practical exercises to test your knowledge.Whether you are a Executive Director, Program Manager, Board Member or Office Assistant your input is critical to making sure that you walk away with practical information that will contribute to your organizations success!”

**An RSVP is absolutely required to be able to gain entry to this event. Click here to RSVP Today! ** 

New volunteer orientation

Always wondered what it takes to be one of those smiling faces at one of our
Signature Events?

Interested in helping organize large-scale events that bring hip hop lovers from all
over together?

Passionate about mentoring youth?

Dreamed about getting a free WBL T-Shirt?

Come to the next Words Beats & Life New Volunteer Orientation next week! Email dany at volu...@wblinc.org or check us out on Facebook to RSVP!