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Thrive Collective returned to John Dewey High School for the 2023-2024 school year to inaugurate its Project Pivot program with an integrated arts academy. Collaborating once again with our partners Projectivity and Speek Lyfe, we produced a 36-week, multimedia experience in three 12-week modules: RHYME Hip Hop and Mentoring The JDHS Podcast School Murals Veteran…
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The first Art of Healing festival of 2024 returns to Central Harlem on 120th Street between 5th and Madison, June 29th from 12 – 4 pm. Presented in collaboration with the Manhattan District Attorney, Bethel Gospel Assembly, Union Settlement, DJ Trase, Kids Breaking League, Arts Ave, RHYME, NYPD 25th Precinct, and many more. Enjoy highlights…
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As we wrap up the 2023-2024 school year, we salute our hometown heroes, the Brooklyn Nets for partnering with Thrive Collective since 2019. In so many ways, Brooklyn is home. Jeremy‘s immigrant grandparents all landed in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. His parents experienced their own West Side love Story in the borough during the…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council The 7th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2024. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, break danced, freestyle rapped, competed at drama games and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 6th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on…
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The first Art of Healing festival of 2024 returned to Central Harlem at 120th Street at Marcus Garvey Park on June 29th. The event was presented in collaboration with the Manhattan District Attorney, Bethel Gospel Assembly, Union Settlement, DJ Trase, Kids Breaking League, Arts Ave, RHYME, NYPD 25th Precinct, and many more. Enjoy highlights from…
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In the summer of 2021 a small group of R.H.Y.M.E scholars gathered together with Thrive Collective teaching artists, Randy Mason and Kevin Toledo, at the Good Shepherd – Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence studio to write and record an original song highlighting what makes them special. The project was sponsored by the Verses Project with dinner…
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The Dream Walls inspired everything. In 2007, we had no idea that a one-off school beautification project would plant the seeds that would eventually mature into: One of NYC’s largest arts education non-profits in Thrive Collective; Thrive’s flagship Murals programs, which have expanded beyond NYC to California, Maryland, Texas, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and Mexico;…
read moreOn the final day of Hip Hop’s 50th Anniversary Year, we offer our love letter to hip hop: “Coke La Rock is Still Here.” Video by Eric Mason. Filmed at the Hip Hop 50 Block Party. Hip Hop is for the Children Local Newspaper Reflects on the Importance of R.H.Y.M.E By: Peter Steinmann January 9,…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Shep and all of us at Thrive Collective. Love well. Create memories. And live ARTfully as you make merry with friends and family. – Story and Art by Sam Wisneski. A Thrive Comics production. Starting on Giving Tuesday and through the end of December, give to create hope and…
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