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Flip The Script: Taking Our Media Images Back

OurTime 2008’s 3rd Hip-Hop & Art of Political Activism Seminar

Saturday, May 10th. UAA Rasmuson Hall

(Left of the Sports Center). FREE. Free Food. 11:00-5:30 PM

Registration open ALL DAY.

To Register Online–Click Here

For More information
Email: ourtime@ourtime2008.com
Call: 276-0390

OurTime. Your Choice. Make Your MARK.

Target Ages: 16-35 Years

The Event is Open To the Community

Live Hip-Hop

REAL Education

Hands-On Workshops

-Help OurTime 2008 develop a Social Media Campaign

-Hands-on Workshops: MCing, DJing, Filmmaking, Guerilla Street Theater and More

-Learn how to understand media messages, where to find REAL information & how to create your OWN media

Schedule:

10:30 am: Doors Open & On-site Registration Opens
11:00 am: High School Invitational Poetry Finalist & DJ showcase
11:45 am: Opening Keynote with Hon. George Martinez
12:40 pm: [workshop I] Don’t Believe The HYPE! Breaking Down Media Messages & Images- George Martinez & Rolando Brown

2:20 PM [workshops II: 4 choices]
- PSA: Young People Creating Community Change
- Taking Our Images Back! Media Images Dissected by YOU
- Take It To the Next Level: Breaking Down Media Messages II
-Create YOUR Own MEDIA! Use Myspace, Facebook, Youtube to Create Your Own Social Media Campaign

3:30 PM [workshop III: creative track-3 choices]
-Battle With Words! Use The Mic or Your Pen to Change Your Community
-Flip The Script! Help OurTime 2008 Create A Youth Social Media Campaign
-Make the Street Your STAGE! Use Guerrilla Street Theater to Get Your Message Out
-Turntablism: Beat Juggling & Scratching

5:00-5:30 Closing Performance & Wrap Up

Workshop Descriptions:

Round I
Don’t Believe The HYPE! Breaking Down Media Messages & Images
This interactive workshop has 2 parts:

1) Honorable George Martinez will lead you through an audience participation
exercise to explore media images and messages from popular media, campaign ads
and show you how to break them down and find the real story. You will learn
how to dissect the messages and how to craft your own. Facilitated by Hon. George
Martinez, MC “Rithm”, ambassador & professor.

2) In part two, you will learn how to find usable knowledge online. Key topics
will include organizing information and resources, assessing use and reliability,
as well as developing an action oriented style of research. This workshop explores
five technOrganizing™ tools that can be used for researching quality information,
developing media messages, and sharing them via social networking sites, blogs,
tagging, alerts and much more. Facilitated by Rolando Brown, spoken word poet,
technology & social entrepreneur.

Round II
PSA: Young People Creating Community Change

PSA=Problem, Solution, Action: The problems in our communities can be overwhelming. If we break it down, we can see the solutions and use our collective power to take action. In this workshop, young people from Alaska Youth for Environmental
Action (AYEA) will share stories of creating environmental and social change. Learn how these youth have united across cities and villages to make their voices heard using media, political action, and art. Led by Youth from Alaska Youth
For Environmental Action (AYEA).

Taking Our Images Back! Media Images Dissected by YOU

Use your personal story, issues you care about to tell a story usingyour body. This workshop uses a game where you “model the image” where participants are partnered up as the “sculptors” and “clay” to explore, dissect & shape ideas or issues. This hands-on workshop focuses on how the personal is political and uses issues that affect us personally to explore how they connect to political action. This is a community based theater workshop where all experience levels and ages are welcome. This workshop is limited to 30 participants. Show up Early to reserve your spot. Led by Teada Productions: Ova Saopeng & Leilani Chan, activists, artists & founders.

Take It To the Next Level: Breaking Down Media Messages II

For those of you that want to get deeper into media messages, get ready for a ride. This interactive workshop will be co-moderated by the Hon. George Martinez with a virtual appearance by Dr. Chris Malone from CUNY University. Watch media clips, see images and get ready to bust stereotypes and myths and take your skills of understanding and breaking down the Media messages to the next level. Facilitated by Hon. George Martinez, MC “Rithm”, ambassador & professor.

Create YOUR Own MEDIA! Use Myspace, Facebook, Youtube to Create Your Own Social Media Campaign

Give Voice to your social and community concerns. Learn a different kind of filmmaking. There are lots of tools on the internet that make it easier for you to create & distribute your own media campaigns and messages. Learn the essential elements to construct an effective social media campaign and the free & low cost tools available to help you create and distribute your own media. This workshop is taught by Martha Diaz, a filmmaker, producer & director and founder of the Hip Hop Association.

Round III

Battle With Words! Use The Mic or Your Pen to Change Your Community

Calling all rappers, MC’s, writers and those that think you got something to say. This workshop is not one where you can sit in the back corner. You will sharpen your mcing and writing skills while learning to create effective media messages. From finding a message, crafting the message and delivery of the message–this workshop covers it all. This workshop will include the opportunity to perform in the closing collaborative performance with the other participants. Led by Hon. George Martinez (MC “Rithm”, Ambassaor & Professor) & Rolando Brown (Spoken Word Artist & Technology-Social Entrepreneur).

Flip The Script: Help OurTime 2008 Create A Youth Social Media Campaign

This interactive workshop is led by filmmaker and social media mogul Martha Diaz. You will work with Martha to help OurTime 2008 with our filmmaking & social media campaign to launch this summer. Why have young people been less active in politics? Because most of the time the media and messages are not directed to youth. Help OurTime 2008 change this and put together the freshest youth media campaign to get young people excited about voting and getting involved politically to change our community. This hands-on workshop will include the opportunity to film some clips to share in the closing collaborative performance with the other participants. Led by Martha Diaz, a filmmaker, producer & director and founder of the Hip Hop Association.

Make the Street Your STAGE! Use Guerrilla Street Theater to Get Your Message Out

What is Guerrilla Street Theater? A drama dealing with controversial social and political issues that is usually performed outdoors or somewhere other than a stage. Learn how to take a story, issue or cause and use Guerrilla Street Theater to get your message or idea across to others. This hands-on workshop will include the opportunity to perform in the closing collaborative performance with the other participants. This is a community based theater workshop where all experience levels and ages are welcome. This workshop is limited to 30 participants. Show up Early to reserve your spot. Led by Teada Productions: activists, artists & founders Ova Saopeng & Leilani Chan.

To Register Online–Click Here

It’s OurTime in 2008, Join Alaska youth in on a worldwide movement of youth using hip
hop for social & political change.

Join us on MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/ourtime2008

Brought to you by:

Anchorage Urban League Young Professionals www.nul-anchorage.org

In Partnership with the Hip Hop Association www.hiphopassociation.org

Sponsored in Part by:

Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities

UAA Campus Sponsor: UAA Polynesian College Council

May Seminar Sponsor: Alaska Youth For Environmental Action (AYEA)

For a complete list of Ourtime Sponsors-Click Here

Be Heard.

OurTime 2008.

OurTime. Your Choice.

Make Your MARK.

We Are Hip-Hop:

Remixing the Art of Social Change

March 22, 2008 – HIGHLIGHTS

• Herstory Month Talent Showcase: YEAR OF THE HIP-HOP WOMAN
• Digital Graffiti Art Show by Maria “Toofly” Castillo
• Workshops on using Hip Hop & Social Networks to Change Your Community
• Workshops on the 4 elements of Hip-Hop: Mcing, Breaking & More. . .

REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

Schedule
10:30 am On-site Registration
11:00 am Lunch & Herstory Month Showcase
12:00 pm Opening Keynote & Workshop
12:40 pm Workshop Round
11:45 pm Workshop Round
2:55 pm Workshop Round
3:55 pm Creative Workshop Track
5:15 pm Wrap Up

Power in Numbers!: Building an influential Social Network
Remix your definition of community and learn how to become a powerful agent of change. This workshop gives both a big picture view and gets into details of building a powerful coalition and finding a common agenda. Learn how to move beyond how we normally identify people or groups to organize with and build a common agenda for community change. Examine case studies of movements that redefined how to build an effective coalition and why coalitions are more powerful than the alternative. Guest Presenter: Hon. George Martinez.

Next Level Community: TechnOrganizing™ Tools to Collaborate Online
Organize at the speed of light. . .or at least the speed of technology. Come learn technOrganizing™ tools that will allow you to outwork, out maneuver, and out network the masses. Learn how the Hip-Hop Generation is leveraging advances in technology in order to share education and media. How will Hip-Hop Social Networks help grow Hip-Hop Social Capital? Come learn what social capital is, how much of it you already have, and how to use it effectively. Guest Presenter: Rolando Brown

Hip Hop=Action: Activism for the Everyday Person
Activism can be done by anyone regardless of their age, education, or background. Learn from, May Lee Yang, a community organizer, artist, activist and playwright about how she successfully organized community efforts for change through inclusive leadership and participation. Learn how her organization, VISION, has been engaging everyday people in community work. Guest Presenter: May Lee Yang

Ladies First! The Power of Women Community Leaders & Entrepreneurs in Hip Hop

This workshop is part of a national launch of the Year of the Hip Hop Woman & the Hip Hop Womanhood Learning Project. It takes a close look at the numerous models of female leadership among the hip hop generation in community organizing. This interactive workshop uses the media, past and living history to give life to the powerful examples of female leadership and uses them to find lessons and tools for models of collective leadership. Guest Presenter: Martha Diaz

The Art of Activism: Telling Our Stories In Our Own Voices
As a Hmong American, May Lee-Yang comes from a community that historically has had their stories told by others—scholars, journalists, anthropologists. Since 1998, she has joined forces with other Hmong writers and artists to do a paradigm shift—to tell their own stories in their own voices and, therefore, move from being objects to subjects. Learn how she has transformed art into an agent of change.

Hip Hop 4 Life! Hip Hop Academy:

• B-Girling & B-Boying: The Art of Breaking
• Roc The Mic Hard: The Art of MCing–Honorable George Martinez
• Power is Knowledge is Shared: Spoken Word & Media Workshop–May Lee Yang & Martha Diaz

Be Heard.

OurTime 2008.

OurTime. Your Choice.

Make Your MARK.

REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

Join us on: www.myspace.com/ourtime2008

Brought to you by:

Anchorage Urban League Young Professionals www.nul-anchorage.org

In Partnership with the Hip-Hop Association www.hiphopassociation.org

Sponsored in Part by:

Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities