B-FLY FALL 2018
ADVICE COLUMN
@URGENTINC #RITESOFPASSAGE
YOUTH ART FEATURED AT SOUL BASEL DEC 6-8TH
LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL OCT 25TH
DOCUSERIES WITH MIAMI'S BEST AUTHOR OF 2018, OCTAVIA YEARWOOD
INTO THE WILD WITH SIERRA CLUB
WATCH HOT NEW MUSIC VIDEO "LOVELESS GENERATION" FROM "OUR VOICE MATTERS" ALBUM ON SOUNDCLOUD TEA & TITLES COMING IN DEC
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FALL 2018
FACE & RITES OF PASSAGE
FACE/RITES OF PASSAGE TEAM SALIHA NELSON Vice President
SHEDIA NELSON Programs Manager/Artistic Director
LOREN DANIEL Career & Technical Education Coordinator
RENAVIA BUCKHANNAN Career & Technical Education Coordinator
JOEY ASHLEY Media Specialist
ASHELY REQUENA Career & Technical Education Coordinator/Facitiltator
NIA YOUNG Career & Technical Education Coordinator/Facitiltator
CATHIANA SYLNE Media Lab Manager
MONICA BISSAINTHE Peer Educator
JAEL LABRIE Peer Educator
FALL 2018
1ST TAKE YOUTH FILMS FEATURED AT URBAN FILM FESTIVAL
"MY BIG BROTHER INSPIRES ME," YES CAMPER JACARIA EVANS, JEREMIAH JONES, FACE ALUMNI/FILM MAKER/ACTOR.
PHOTO CREDITS
Program funded by
Quanisha Bell, Digital FACE, Shauntravia West, Christelle Eliama, Ashley Requena, Shedia Nelson Editor Shedia Nelson
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Special Events
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Our Voice Matters Collection
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Student Council
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10 Miami Dade County Public Library Technobus 11 Youth poetry 12 Urban Film Festival
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12 Life Lessons with Octavia Yearwood 13 iGen Film Festival 15 Digital FACE 16 Advice Column 5 Know Your Rights Camp 17 Lights on Afterschool
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SAN FRANCISCO Historic Overtown - Eight FACE and Rites of Passage youth had the exclusive and exciting opportunity, along with many other youth development programs across South Florida - in attending Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp. This camp is an empowering youth leadership campaign for our youth to raise awareness in higher education and instruction on how to properly interact with law enforcement in various scenarios. Thank you to Talent 4 Change for the amazing support and Colin Kaepernick, and his whole team for being the epitome of being agents of social change for better future for our future leaders of the world. Some key takeaways our youth gained from attending include: “I liked the positive message that the event is sending about Knowing Your Rights. Having this information is a great help and guaranteed to improve experiences people have with the police.” ~ Anonymous
“I think this little ‘session’ was quite educational. I really enjoyed the speech as to when they guy said that ‘Love aint no sucka stuff that correlated with my life and it spoke to me as an individual.” -Sarena Noel “I liked how we learned about police brutality and how we can set up our plate with healthy food.” ~ Juberney Etienne
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Special Events OCT New comic "Battle of Love" 20 Coming Dec 2018
iGen Film Festival Free College for a Day at Miami Dade College N Campus
OCT 27
Know Your Rights Camp
NOV 10
Bike riding in Shark Valley, Everglades National Park with Sierra Club ICO Miami
NOV 17
Miami International Book Fair
DEC 1
Etiquette Lunch
DEC 6-8
Youth Art Soul Basel "Our Voice Matters" Youth Exhibition "Battle of Love" new comic book
DEC 10
Tea & Titles
JAN Florida Film House 12-14 1st Take Film Program MAR Spring Break 26-30 Film Boot Camp MAY TBA
Program Graduation & Community Art Expo
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OUR VOICE MATTERS POETRY COLLECTION: PHOTO BOOK, POETRY FILM & ALBUM
Photobook on Sale!
l e s a B l u So YOUTH
Ten talented young poets and photographers contributed to this photo book collection of portraits taken by youth. Their poetry reflects how they see themselves and community social issues.
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DATE: VIP
Purchase your copy today! www.urgentinc.org Https://FS3.FORMSITE.COM/URGENTINC/FORM26/IN DEX.HTML
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About the Collection
Listen to "Our Voice Matters" EP album with new recorded tracks on SoundCloud.com/urg entinc!
Songs written and performed by youth in Rites of Passage produced by PATH to Hip Hop with compassionate lyrical life coach Sekajipo ForThePeople.
"WE WANT TO THANK YOU BECAUSE HONESTLY NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU. YOU GIVE US THE PLATFORM FOR EVERYTHING WE NEED TO PROVE OURSELVES SO WE'RE GLAD THAT WE ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU PROUD!" - MONICA BISSAINTHE, AMBASSADOR ALUMNI "WE WORKED HARD FOR THIS AND WE GOT MORE PLACES TO GO." - DEONDRE MARSHALL, ALUMNI
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Our Voice Matters is a mixed media interactive youth art collection that will have your toes tapping to original hip hop songs and fingers snapping while stimulating your mind through rhyme and spoken word. See storytelling through photography and feel like a super hero. This collection highlights youth voice, honors elders and showcases youth talent through poetry, film, photography, music and visual arts. Special Features: Award winning poetry film, Our Voice Matters, original album, “Our Voice Matters,” music video, “Loveless Generation,” and comic book story board for, “Battle of Love”.
Community Arts Day
Feel like a super hero! Have fun creating your super hero at URGENT, Inc's community arts day with our young super heroes and talented, published author, entrepreneur and recording artist Ramon "Absoloot" Robinson and Chivas Davis. Enjoy a family day with open mic youth poetry and music by Preserving Archiving Teaching (PATH) to Hip Hop. Come share your super power!
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Edison Park K-8 Center Student Council Member Angelica Champagne, President
Edison Park K-8 Center Student Council Member Miliah Johnson, Secretary
STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS
Edison Park K-8 Center Student Council Member Ritha Fenelon, Vice President
Congratulations Marcus Williams, Rites of Passage Media Project Ambassador Alumni on being selected to be apart of the Miami Dade County Youth Commission.
Edison Park K-8 Center - Young ladies are learning the art of storytelling through making a comic book through self-discovery, acceptance, growth and innovation lead by Ramon "Absoloot" Robinson, an entrepreneur, recording artist and accomplished comic book writer with art instruction lead by artist Chivas Davis. They titled their comic "Battle of Love" where the super heroines are Love, Hip Hop and Sunshine whose super power is love to help heal their community. Get your copy at Soul Basel on December 8th at Lyric Theater from 1-3pm for community arts day.
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Miami Dade County Library Technobus
SAN FRANCISCO
Empowering young ladies in STEAM through a series of pop up film making and technology based workshops provided by Miami Dade County Library Technobus! Our young ladies are getting a crash course in film making, technology, innovation and video editing. Thank you Marlon Moore for coordinating these pop up workshops!
ALL ABOUT ME
Youth Poetry More Than a Color
I am Godly, respectful, proud of how
I am outspoken, loud and loving
I look and loving
I need more people to acknowledge
Black, a color that defines me
I need a good and Godly life and
the world we like
Don’t remind me the color
most of all love
I love the fact that I have the power to
that you claim is
I love my generation, my life, Jesus,
change it
inside me. Unlike you
the angels and most of all Jehovah
I fear people won't listen to the
I am criticized for the
I fear insects, and all of the things
voice of reason
color that caresses my skin.
that are ugly, except dogs
I miss the times where people can
You’re clearly
I miss my poodle, my love that died
come together to love each other
blind to not realize the beauty that’s with
and the goodness
I plan to awaken the youth to their own
I plan to have my education, get my
voices
in me. Bear in mind
own family and take care of my
I want to create a future that people
deep inside we’re all the
family
can look forward to
same so why do you
I want to be an athletic swimmer
I believe we can do it if we try
undermine me as if I’m
and African dancer I believe in what I believe
not worth your time. So please -Ashley Requena
look back and remember the things my people have
- Kisura Williams
accomplished in the frame you’ve unkindly bestowed upon them.
I am proud of myself
I am talented and smart
Black a color
I need art to keep my life moving
that defines me,
I love to paint and draw to
you lack the mindset to
express myself
realize the strength that bares in me.
and thankful for how I look and glad to
I fear that my art isn't good enough
So let me remind you
be Godly
I miss my BFF, I haven't seen in awhile
that this color is more
I need to feel passionate about myself
I plan to become an artist
than a color it’s stronger than any other.
I love to be kind and funny
and sell my art
My ancestors endured the pain and
I fear spiders and birds
I want become someone more
suffering you’ve
I miss the brother who died badly
I believe I can make
bestowed upon them this
that is why I think God everyday
my dreams come to reality
makes me even more proud
I plan to go on a cruise
-- Ma'kayla Reynolds
to say that I’m powerful and there’s
I want to be a YouTuber as I grow up
no other race like mine.
I believe I can do things that people say I can not do
- Leonce Luma
- Shiann Myers
I am a beautiful Black woman I need nothing from anyone demand respect and attention I love the curliness of my hair and the pigment of my skin I fear that our time, our society will revert to its hateful time I miss the person I used to be I plan to initiate the change I see I want to be as loud I believe people can change with the right motivation
- Monica Bissainthe
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Historic Overtown - students enjoyed a fun and educationally charged day learning about directing, acting and screenwriting at Florida Film House's Urban Film Festival. At the festival, 1st Take film program's featured four short films produced by youth in URGENT, Inc.'s FACE Rites of Passage youth development program.
HAVING FUN AT IGEN FILM FESIVAL Historic Lyric Theater - Youth played theater games with Wesley Wray, youth actor in Oscar winning film "Moonlight" and improv theater with Marcus Major. They learned the fundamentals of storytelling for film with Yonel Aris. This festival's creator is the talented Elijah Wells, film maker and entrepreneur. Comments from our youth: IGEN FILM FESTIVAL / 14
"I liked how we got to watch films. I learned how you film a movie. It helped me because I want to be an actress. I want to make my own movie. My favorite quote by Confucius is 'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.'" - Miliah Johnson "How we learned about BME of story plot from a movie clip. We learned some new vocabulary like conflict and intro. I Iike creative writing." - Kimaiya Reath "I learned that you should always research on what you want to become and not go into something not knowing about it. I also learned that when you act you have to connect with your character to fully perform well." -Cherlyne Jean-Louis
DIGITAL FACE IN ACTION
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Dear Blue Rain, How do you show your appreciation for leaders in the past like Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass and for current leaders like former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Ava Duvernay, Viola Davis, Zendaya Coleman and Maya Penn? Sincerely, Thankful Dear Thankful, I am thankful for these leaders because they helped shape the United States. They stood up for our rights and women's rights so we can be seen as humans and not as slaves. These influential leaders created innovative change, help shape our political system, inspire young entrepreneurs in creative design, inspire healthy eating and fitness and promote pro-social norms while leaving an imprint in media and our history. I'm also thankful for the inventions we use every day like the traffic signal by Garrett Morgan, potato chips by George Crum, the women who helped Americans fly to the moon that include Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, the touch tone telephone and caller ID by Dr. Shirley Jackson, developer of IBM by Otis Boykin, built first fastest computer in 1989 was invented by Philip Emeagwali, and the ice cream scoop by Alfred L. Cralle, just to name a few. We can choose to be apart of his/her-story or wonder what happened to our-story. Sincerely, Blue Rain AKA Elizabeth Champagne, 15 with assistance by Shedia Nelson ADVICE COLUMN / 14
Show your support for URGENT, Inc's Afterschool Programs on Give Miami Day with a donation: www.urgentinc.org.
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Marcus Williams, Youth Ambassador and Romeo Miller
Digital FACE