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Bronx Arts Middle School x Thrive Collective / R.H.Y.M.E x The Point CDC Bronx Arts middle school students worked together with RHYME teaching artists Jason Roberts and Kevin Toledo for the 2024 spring semester to collaboratively write, record and film an original Hip Hop anthem and music video titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” The project…
read moreThrive Collective in partnership with The Leadership Foundation, Brotherhood Restored and Exalt NYC Young men need a safe place to share their stories, dreams and struggles. A place where they have a seat at the table. Where they can speak and be heard, show up and be seen. A place where they can listen and…
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Students from six Queens middle schools will converge at Roy Wilkins Park for the 2024 Queens HeART Beat Festival on May 29 from 10am – 1pm. Join us to provide an interactive, arts-based field day experience celebrating the completion of the Art a Catalyst for Change anti-gun violence initiative. Sponsored by the NYC Council, in…
read moreR.H.Y.M.E x BMCC Counseling Center This fall teaching artists, Kevin Toledo, Jason Roberts and Thomas Fucaloro returned to BMCC for another sensational semester of Healing Through Hip Hop: An introduction to Hip Hop, songwriting, extemporaneous freestyle rap, poetry, cyphers, and beat making as an effective addition to traditional talk therapies. R.H.Y.M.E Teaching artists worked assiduously…
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In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary Thrive Collective partners with the NYC Queens Public Library to facilitate a series of Hip Hop and creative writing workshops at three branches throughout the borough. This week we kicked off the series at the Jamaica Central branch where participants and staff read and discussed poems and lyrics…
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Hip Hop Cajon (percussion) workshop for children at NYPL Bronx Eastchester branch. Our city’s libraries are engines of opportunity! Cultural institutions contributing to the vitality of our city. We’re absolutely thrilled to partner with the NYPL to serve our neighbors through the arts. Recently, Randy Mason, our NY Director (and R.H.Y.M.E Director) facilitated a Hip…
read moreOur #GivingTuesday 300 for 300 campaign launched with an assist from the Brooklyn Nets. #ThriveCollective interactive arts experience in the lobby of the Barclays Center prior to the @BrooklynNets – @OrlandoMagic game. Fans painted side-by-side with Thrive teaching artists and graffiti legend @dazeworldnyc. And the Nets pledged four more Thrive mural collars this year, becoming…
read moreCheck out the 2022 East Harlem Art of Healing festival sponsored by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in partnership with The Collective, Union Settlement and PS 007. Healing gun violence trauma through the creative arts. Stay tuned for the next Art of Healing festival coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Video by Eric Mason…
read moreR.H.Y.M.E x Bronx Arts Elementary x The Point CDC For this edition of Books Beats & Bars, Bronx Arts Elementary scholars learned about the life of Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican pioneer who helped to change the landscape of literacy in NYC in the 1920s. Scholars wrote bars inspired by the book “Planting Stories” The…
read moreR.H.Y.M.E x The Point CDC x Bronx Arts Elementary This edition of Books Beats & Bars features Bronx Arts Elementary students rapping their version of the Turtle Ship story inspired by the book “The Turtle Ship” written by Helena Ku Rhee and illustrated by Colleen Kong Savage. A Geobukseon, also known as turtle ship, was a…
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