Workshops

1Hood Media teaching artists (youth and adult) take participants through an interactive workshop that encourages skills in utilizing Hip Hop to speak to matters of social justice. With a beat, a subject matter, and empathy artists will be taken through steps used to create around issues of importance. The workshop culminates with participants having poetic prose highlighting social justice issues of the day.

Clearly, Hip-Hop is a powerful means by which to reach and influence a large and diverse cross-section of the American population. Therefore, attention to the type of language being used is critical, particularly when artists delve into issues surrounding race, gender, and sexual identity; special consideration must be given to the ways in which this language then impacts mainstream views of and attitudes toward specific groups of people. Through this discourse, we explore how language can be used to improve self-image, dispel stereotypes, and provide a positive forum of self-expression while examining the power it has to shape the way society views “reality”. We challenge audience members to consider the ways in which changing the language they choose to use helps them to enhance their personal focus on education, race, gender, and personal accountability.

Undoubtedly, the Hip Hop culture is the primary culture embraced by youth all over the world. 1Hood Media stands as the antithesis of the negative stereotypes associated with Hip Hop and uses Hip Hop to promote social change in the ways that the founding fathers intended. This workshop will showcase how we utilize the Hip Hop Pedagogy to educate, influence and empower young people. This workshop/panel will look at the various dimensions of media literacy, who’s behind the media; in an attempt to uncover the underlying themes and messages in relation to the target audiences and how these images are interpreted and internalized as well as externalized effecting individual, communities, cultures, and society.

This workshop gives a brief overview of the basic terminology and stages of youth organizing through hip-hop.

This workshop will expose participants to the basic terms and definitions of organizing, creating an open dialogue about organizing within a larger movement building framework. This allows for a greater understanding of hip-hop’s role as an organizing tool by using the first five elements of hip hop with a focus on the fifth element of knowledge via popular education. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to educate, demonstrate, and activate cultural enrichment and leadership development.

Oft times, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is relegated to a few sound bites, that rarely show the totality of Dr. King as he evolved in his work as an activist and leader of the civil rights movement. Why Black Lives Matter is the Fulfillment of Dr. King’s Dream works to show the correlation between Dr. King’s work, and the modern Black Lives Matter movement.