Thrive Collective
“Stand High” is a collaboration between Bronx Arts Middle School and Thrive Collective’s Rhymes Help Young Minds Excel (RHYME) program. “Stand High” is about having dreams and goals and making sure to always take steps towards them. Over the course of 16 weeks, students and RHYME Teaching Artists worked together to conceptualize and create original…
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TODAY + 14 June 2023 + LIVE Limitless: Album Release 8 Student Songs + 2 Guest Features R.H.Y.M.E. at PS 105Q (Rhymes Help Young Minds Excel) With Projectivity and Speek Lyfe + Watch the Videos + + Stream the Music + Watch the Videos Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Stream the Music Limitless by…
read moreOver the course of 16 weeks, students from Harlem Renaissance High School met twice a week with their peers and R.H.Y.M.E teaching artists Jason Roberts, Johnathan Montano and Ramon Sanchez to create an original Hip Hop song and music video that tells the story of ambition in the face of adversity. Students wrote and recorded…
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In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary Thrive Collective partners with the NYC Queens Public Library to facilitate a series of Hip Hop and creative writing workshops at three branches throughout the borough. This week we kicked off the series at the Jamaica Central branch where participants and staff read and discussed poems and lyrics…
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – “Girl Power” was on display during a recent Brooklyn Nets game as fans of all ages helped paint a pop-up mural at Barclays Center to celebrate the team’s annual Women’s Impact Night on March 16. The Nets and Thrive Collective, a New York City-based non-profit organization that creates hope and opportunity through…
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Pilar Batista, a former teaching artist with Thrive Collective, will be featured on the upcoming digital series, “How Art Changed Me.” Streaming on the ALL ARTS network’s app, website, and social media platforms, the series explores the transformative potential of arts by highlighting personal stories. Batista, who will be featured on the second episode of…
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With a heavy heart, we must let our community know our dear friend and collaborator, Rob Ayala, passed away. Rob played a key role with Thrive Collective; as a leader and pillar of RHYME, a content creator with our social media team, and contributions to our Murals Program. Rob was the epitome of what it…
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Hip Hop Cajon (percussion) workshop for children at NYPL Bronx Eastchester branch. Our city’s libraries are engines of opportunity! Cultural institutions contributing to the vitality of our city. We’re absolutely thrilled to partner with the NYPL to serve our neighbors through the arts. Recently, Randy Mason, our NY Director (and R.H.Y.M.E Director) facilitated a Hip…
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Every year, Thrive Collective produces an annual Team Building Conference for current and prospective teaching artists and project managers. On January 30-31, we held our 7th annual two-day conference at Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub in Harlem in a space renovated and painted by our studio arts students since 2018. Everything at Thrive is built…
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Happy New Year! Here at Thrive, we are starting 2023 on a good note. Last week, Bronx newspaper The Hunts Point Express published an article highlighting R.H.Y.M.E’s recent work with students from the Bronx Charter School of the Arts in Hunts Point. The article, posted online on December 3o, 2022, went far beyond giving a…
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