Thrive Collective
“A R.H.Y.M.E. DOC – Bronx Charter School of the Arts” is a short documentary about the collaboration between Bronx Arts Charter For the Arts Middle School and Thrive Collective’s Rhymes Help Young Minds Excel (RHYME) program. Using in-class footage and content, “A R.H.Y.M.E. DOC” covers the 16 weeks that RHYME Teaching Artists and students worked…
read more“Stand High” is a collaboration between Bronx Arts Middle School and Thrive Collective’s Rhymes Help Young Minds Excel (RHYME) program. “Stand High” is about having dreams and goals and making sure to always take steps towards them. Over the course of 16 weeks, students and RHYME Teaching Artists worked together to conceptualize and create original…
read moreOver the course of 16 weeks, students from Harlem Renaissance High School met twice a week with their peers and R.H.Y.M.E teaching artists Jason Roberts, Johnathan Montano and Ramon Sanchez to create an original Hip Hop song and music video that tells the story of ambition in the face of adversity. Students wrote and recorded…
read moreThrive Collective’s RHYME program at PS 105Q in Far Rockaway, Queens was recently featured on NY1 News. Reporter Roger Clark interviewed students, Principal Laurie Shapiro and RHYME staff on June 2, and returned three days later for a live segment with Jeremy Del Rio, founder and executive director of Thrive. Three years ago, Thrive Collective…
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Support the LES Sports Summer Camp Thrive Sports proudly supports the LES Sports Academy. 100% of any donations made on this page goes towards their bowling leagues, summer camps, flag football programs, and other sports activities for children in our home community. Download the flyer (pdf). Born and raised in the Lower East Side, Franky…
read moreThrive Collective was recently featured on WPIX during its 6 p.m. evening newscast. On Feb. 17, at P.S. 155 and the Renaissance School of the Arts (RSA) in East Harlem, WPIX reporter Michelle Ross interviewed Jeremy Del Rio, founder and executive director of Thrive Collective, and sixth-grader Justin Guanilo, a student in the organization’s R.H.Y.M.E.…
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OK, OK. Thrive finally joined America’s fastest growing social network, just in time for the Holidays. Give us a follow. @nycthrive @jasonnaylornyc joins us to paint this amazing mural for the Boerum Hill School in Brooklyn, then the students helped paint this message 💜 #jasonnaylor #nyctiktok #nycstreetart #nycmural #nycstreetartist #thefuture #bringbackart #nycart #streetart #nycpublicschools #nyccharity…
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Over the past year, our R.H.Y.M.E. students wrote, performed, and recorded sixteen original songs, produced music videos and album art for the songs, and distributed them all online. Enjoy the music videos below. Learn more about R.H.Y.M.E. here, including how to bring us to your school or community center. R.H.Y.M.E. Originals: Music Videos & More…
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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