Youth Programs

YOUTH + FAMILY PROGRAMS

Breck Music Hosts: Youth on Record

Jun 21–26 | FREE Discover your voice and value with a series of music-centered workshops and performances led by the Denver-based nonprofit, Youth on Record (YOR) and Colorado’s Music Ambassador Stephen Brackett. YOR’s team of professional producers, slam champions and rap artists lead strength and skill-based activities to support teens in their journey to become more free, more rooted in their personal power and community connections and better able to thrive in spite of systems and circumstances that dis-empower and marginalize them. Some participants may be offered the opportunity to have their beats, poems and collages featured at a Breck Music Block Party alongside Youth on Record’s circle of aligned artists.

TEENS

Tue, Wed, Thu Jun 22–24 | 1–4pm

Finding Your Voice

Ages 12+ | Old Masonic Hall | FREE Elijah Lynch, also known as Smiley Gatmouth, is a multidisciplinary artist who got his start in Denver, Colorado’s, rich spoken-word community. His emergence into the intersecting worlds of arts, activism and community-cultivation began in middle school and continues as a Youth on Record teaching-artist. This workshop takes a practical approach to provide key insights, tips & strategies to build confidence and make your words resonate. The session will focus on writing for spoken word and on spoken word performance skills. You don't need to have any spoken word experience to take this workshop.

BRECK MUSIC HOSTS

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION

Moving Beyond Moral/Ethical Performativity and into the Depths of Meaningful Social Transformation

Mon, Jun 21 | 4–6pm FREE (Reservation Required) | Riverwalk Center Middle + High School Teachers (any subject area); Teen Program Providers

Youth on Record (YOR) Program Directors Brent Adams and Stephen Brackett lead a 2-hour professional development workshop designed to offer insight into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Education through the lens of music and the BIPOC artists who have beaten systemic injustice. Learn about YOR’s proven approach to increasing social-emotional skills, resiliency, academic success and achievement, post-secondary readiness and economic stability in young people living or going to school in historically under-resourced communities and schools. Workshop participants will be inspired to disrupt the status quo and enhance their DEI toolset to envision and implement academic programs that adequately engage and serve students in all realms of development and self-actualization.

TEENS, cont'd

Music Creation and Creative Empowerment

Ages 12+ | Riverwalk | FREE Mona (Monalicious) is a medicine woman of sound, a composer of groovy tunes and empowering mantras. As a songwriter they balance humility with majesty. As a native to Denver, they have grown with the city and have flourished in the arts community through music and leadership. In this class participants will explore music composition and creation and how to develop empowerment through creative expression.

Remixing Media

Ages 12+ | Fuqua Livery | FREE led by rapper and artist Mace Windu Devin Urioste also known as Mace Windu, is a local Denver MC, producer and visual artist. Mace, being in his early 20s, has been roaming the city spreading his creative talents amongst various DPS schools, the University of Denver, Anythink libraries, and most importantly Youth on Record. In this collage/visual art class, participants will learn how to use a new tool that is useful when it comes to building a further extension of yourself. When we create, whatever we create further expresses our identity and who we are as individuals. In particular, collaging is a simpler form of physical art when it comes to the process, but collage pushes you to identify pieces of yourself in everyday life. It is a way to identify what is aesthetically pleasing to you and what brings the most feeling to your body, mind and soul.

Workshops take place concurrently and participants may register for one workshop for all three days or all three workshops for one day. Registration is encouraged to reserve a space as capacities are limited. Please contact Drea Edwards at 970 547 3116 ext 1 or drea@breckcreate.org with questions.