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206 Zulu Seattle Youth Arts and Resources Fair
206 Zulu, as part of its 7th year anniversary celebration, will host a youth arts and resources fair on Friday, February 18th from 10am to 2pm at the Vera Project. The purpose of the fair is to connect young people ith various organizations and teaching artists that provide accessible and affordable arts education and instruction for youth throughout the city of Seattle.
The 206 Zulu Seattle Youth Arts and Resources Fair will provide an educational, entertaining and safe setting for youth to explore opportunities to pursue the arts with a strong emphasis on the many art forms within Hip Hop culture. The fair will feature information tables, guest speakers, youth presenters and performance showcases. Headlining this event will be a spectacular show and presentation by Seattle’s very own World Famous Massive Monkees B-Boy Crew, the 2004 UK World Champions, recently featured on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew.
This free event is presented by 206 Zulu in cooperation with the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and the Vera Project. A light lunch will also be provided free for all youth participants.
NEIGHBORHOOD INVOLVEMENT:
206 Universal has amassed many of our neighborhood members including several of our local community centers where we have met with our youth and helped them implement and plan our proposed project for 2010. They have been instrumental in giving suggestions on how best to cater to their peer group to maximize their turnout for this project. They�ve also given invaluable input regarding activities and topic discussion ideas that are at the forefront of their concerns. Some of these issues include employment, personal safety (youth violence), lack of all ages events and diminishing after school programs. They were key in helping propose our location for this project as we agreed the Seattle Center is ideal because it is a neutral site for this event. Touching upon the neutrality issue, the teens felt it was in the best interest to avoid holding this in a neighborhood where there is existing conflicts between another neighborhood. This will encourage teens citywide to participate throughout this program.
We aim to develop these relationships with our generations and our local businesses through this project and beyond. This is integral to our community because we want to help use our resources to enrich our teens with networking with parents, resource advocates, former gang members and positive role models through panel discussions, art expos, workshops and all ages showcases. As we develop more youth councils and teen led programs it will benefit all in the greater Seattle area and bridge intergenerational gaps while empowering our teens to embrace other cultures and age dynamics.
Furthermore, we will help shadow teens while they facilitate the workshops (dance, art and music), panel discussions (what their concerns are and will be in the future), youth violence (what are the pressing issues for them and how we can unify our neighborhoods to engage in conflict resolutions). They�re contributions will also be present in setting the action agenda, planning and promoting the overall event and receiving guidance in the various aspects of achieving a successful event.
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What:Seattle Youth Arts and Resources Fair
Where:Seattle, WA
Venues:Vera Project
Estimated Attendance:100-200
Dates:February 18, 2011
Format:
Citywide Youth Summit
Workshops
Panel Discussions
Guild Speakers
DJ & MC Performances
Dance Showcases
CostFREE (All-Ages)
Description:The Hip Hop Youth Summit is a citywide, youth-led event that uses Hip Hop culture, art and music as a lens to examine topics such as the music industry, mainstream media, youth violence, misogyny, discrimination, life skills and more. Students will be able to gain historical, social, political and economical knowledge from working professionals, educators, musicians, artists and other students to heighten not just the awareness of the industry aspect of Hip Hop, but the cultural�relevance�in it's world view, and to be able to apply that knowledge into practical solutions that the students could gain from.
Information/Registration: youthsummit@206zulu.com
www.206Zulu.com/YouthSummit.html
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