Student Hip-Hop Showcase: Part Performance, Part Party

Progressive Arts Alliance Student Hip-Hop Showcase
Friday, August 9th, 2013
MOCA Cleveland
FREE
3pm

I have a special place in my heart for the Progressive Arts Alliance, a group who's mission is to engage young people and inspire them via arts learning ever since I was given the chance to be an artist/educator where I used architecture as a way to strengthen English, Math and Science curricula with middle students at George Washington Carver Middle School in Cleveland, Ohio. Perhaps one of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had the good fortune to have and share with a fellow designer. It was a truly amazing process, made more so by the student's ingenuity, creativity and ability to freely question (there was a lack of embarrassment that I found held students back when I taught Architecture Design Studio at Kent State University. The students I met through PAA were quick to engage and to immerse themselves in the lesson, helping each other and constantly striving to solve rather complex problems conveniently coupled with working on unfamiliar software on unfamiliar computer platforms. Yet in only a few quick weeks the students truly blossomed into creating extremely provoking and personal work.

Anyway, enough about me.

more info via MOCA - CLE

Come celebrate the achievements of students from Progressive Arts Alliance's 12th annual RHAPSODY Hip-Hop Summer Arts Camp with a dynamic showcase of hip-hop music, dance, rhyme, and visual art.

 

A fun concert for the whole family, this outdoor celebration on Toby's Plaza will be part performance, part party. See how Progressive Arts Alliance is transforming arts education by using hip-hop's cultural art forms as a positive and productive form of creative self expression.

This party will be the culmination of this summer's Progressive Arts Alliance Student Hip-Hop Camp which took place in early July.