WHAT IS THE TEACH-IN?
The Remixing the Art of Social Change: A Hip-Hop Approach teach-in is a convening designed to outline the tools and resources necessary to develop curriculum, programs, and work (artistic and scholarly) based in hip-hop culture. The teach-in will also address how to retain and attract high caliber hip-hop artists, scholars and educators by building sustainable organizations.
Words Beats & Life, Inc. (WBL) is spearheading the move to the next stage of our field’s development by creating a strategic development plan for excellence, scale, and sustainability to strengthen the network of hip-hop based youth-serving organizations. This process is being initiated though the teach-in and a series of subsequent gatherings of board members, youth, front line staff and Executive Directors of hip-hop based organizations, programs, and scholars. This event is the second annual national “Remixing the Art of Social Change: A Hip-Hop Approach” teach-in. It will take place June 12-14, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Special thanks to the 2009 National Teach-In Planning Committee
Dominic Painter, Executive Director, Midnight Forum | Junious Brickhouse, Founder/Director, Urban Artistry | Muna Shami, Independent Scholar | Candace Carter Smith, Youth Track Coordinator | Jabari Exum, Founder, Congo Square | Kaajal Shah, Capacity Building Specialist, Fair Chance | Fred Joiner, Independent Artist & Poet, American Poetry Museum | Johonna McCants, Director, Visions to Peace Project | Nelson Bennett, Founder, Verbal Armageddon, Inc. | Ishmail Reaves, Co-Chair, Crescent Moon Nights | Peter Krsko, Executive Director, Albus Cavus | Weusi Baracka, Executive Director, Sol y Soul | Kymone Freeman, Director, Black LUV Festival | Billy Buntin, Founder, SleptOn.com | Jared A. Ball, Ph.D., Professor, Morgan State University | Ashton Wingate, Marketing Coordinator, WBL | Simone Jacobson, Cipher Director, WBL | Mazi Mutafa, Executive Director, WBL | Dr. James White, Board Chair, WBL and H2A
Agenda Available for Download May 4th
Registration includes access to all three days of the teach-in, light refreshments and snacks on Friday, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, breakfast on Sunday, entry to the evening event on Friday, and a one-year trial Cipher Membership*.
Scholarships are available for the staff and youth of presenting organizations. If you are presenting at the teach-in and would like to invite your colleagues or students, please e-mail Cipher Director, Simone Jacobson, at simone@wblinc.org to discuss scholarship options.
*Registering for the Teach-In makes you a member of the Cipher, see registration details below.
Early Registration Special End May 1st 5pm Eastern Standard Time
$15 (Individual Registration)
-Entry to teach-ins and Executive Summit
-Annual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
-Copy of the Counterbalance: The Impact of Hip-Hop in Communities and Classrooms
-Wave submission fee for PSAs/student shorts at Bootleg Festival
Youth Participating in Programs of Registered Organizations:
FREE
-Entry to national D.C. teach-in
- Organization
- Artist
- Scholar
- Video 1
- Video 2
- Video 3
Current and Alumni Teach-In Planning Committee Individual Members
$15 (Individual Registration)
-Entry to teach-ins
-Annual individual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
EDs, CEOs, Professors, Educators, Independent Artists, Activists & Scholars:
$50 (Individual Registration)
-Entry to teach-ins and Executive Summit
-Annual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
-Copy of the Counterbalance: The Impact of Hip-Hop in Communities and Classrooms
-Wave submission fee for PSAs/student shorts at Bootleg Festival
Organizations (1-3 official members, not including youth):
$100
-Entry to teach-ins and Executive Summit
-Annual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture (15 copies for your organization)
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
-Copy of the Counterbalance: The Impact of Hip-Hop in Communities and Classrooms
-Waived submission fee for PSAs/student shorts at the Bootleg Festival
Organizations (4-6 official members, not including youth):
$150
-Entry to teach-ins and Executive Summit
-Annual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture (30 copies for your organization)
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
-Copy of the Counterbalance: The Impact of Hip-Hop in Communities and Classrooms
-Waived submission fee for PSAs/student shorts at the Bootleg Festival
Organization (7-10 official members, not including youth):
$250
-Free entry to teach-ins and Executive Summit
-Annual subscription to Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture (50 copies for your organization)
-Admission to the Bootleg Festival: Independent Films, Mixtapes and Hip-Hop’s Underground Economy
-Copy of the Counterbalance: The Impact of Hip-Hop in Communities and Classrooms
-Waived submission fee for PSAs/student shorts at the Bootleg Festival
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