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PATH HIP HOP ACADEMY
Preserving Archiving & Teaching HIP HOP
SUMMER 2023
7.10.23 - 8.14.23
The PATH Hip Hop Summer Academy 2023 celebrates Hip Hop’s 50-year anniversary and PATH’s 15-year anniversary. It is a creative, personal, and professional development residency for emerging artists, scholars, leaders, and entrepreneurs (ages 16 – 22) interested in the performing, visual, and digital arts.
WHAT GOES DOWN?
Youth ages 13-19 learn creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills directly from Hip Hop industry professionals, practitioners and pioneers. In addition to the 5 main elements of Hip Hop and Video Production, the experience
encourages teamwork, improved self-esteem, critical thinking, leadership and the application of Hip Hop’s “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” attitude to achieving creative, personal, and professional goals.
THE ELEMENTS
DJ / Music Production
Music + Technology
MC / Rap / Songwriting
Creative Writing + Music
Bboy + Bgirl / Breakin
Creative Movement + Dance
Urban Art / Graffiti
Visual Art + Urban Flavor
Knowledge
Knowledge of self + Hip Hop history and philosophy
Video Production
Digital imagery + Powerful Storytelling
OUR STORY
In 2008, The PATH HipHop Summer Academy was presented by Miami Light Project in partnership with Scratch DJ Academy. Teens from all over South Florida connected to learn, create, heal, serve and build lifelong relationships across generations. Since then, we have worked with community partners to train the next generation of Hip Hop artists, leaders, scholars and entrepreneurs in schools, community centers, treatment facilities and the streets. With generous support from public and private donors, the PATH Hip Hop Academy has expanded to include:
ThEsE ARE THE BREAKS:
WINTER INTENSIVE
Dec – Jan
THESE ARE THE BREAKS:
SPRING INTENSIVE
March
PATH HIP HOP SUMMER ACADEMY
Summer
PATH Youth Programs are rooted in the Creative Development (CYD) model. Creative Youth Development (CYD) is a recent term for a longstanding theory of practice that integrates creative skill-building, inquiry, and expression with positive youth development principles, fueling young people’s imaginations and building critical learning and life skills.
The PATH Hip Hop Academy is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Miami Light Project and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The project is funded in part by The Children’s Trust. The Children’s Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County.
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