Thrive Collective
On July 19th, twenty Harlem Hub students and five teaching artists began an ambitious journey at our inaugural Summer Arts Academy. They agreed: Our music students would write and record an original song. Our media students would produce the music video for the song. Our dance students would develop and perform choreography for the video. And our murals…
read morePost-Production and Promotion, Day 12 Today is the last day of our Summer Arts Academy and our last day we’ll spend as a group, coming together to work on this music video. With production of the “Turn up the Value” song completed, this morning we turned our attention to distribution. How could we help the…
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Media, Music, Murals, and Dance, Day 11 Today, we took filming outside. We spent the morning outside of the Harlem Hub filming our hardworking mural students painting and detailing their artwork. The students also reenacted placing the mural on the side of the building piece by piece. Christine and Randy helped direct the production, guiding…
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Media — Lights, Cameras, Action, Day 10 We had a lot on our plate today. The full crew of instructors, Christine, Flexx, Uhey, and Randy, were all on hand for the filming of the music video today, along with new friends and amazing collaborators Mariel and Andrew from Friendly Films (and A&E Network) who helped with…
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Murals and Dance — Video Prep Day, Day 9 As the director of the music video we are filming tomorrow, Christine worked with our Murals and Dance instructors today to make sure we’re ready for our closeups under the bright lights. To begin, our younger students and siblings sketched, and later painted signs for the…
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Music and Media — Field Trip to the Recording Studio, Day 8 Today our instructors Randy and Christine took our talented music and media students to the Produkt Recording Studios in the Bronx to finish recording the “Turn Up The Value” song. Our schedule was a little backwards for the day, with an early lunch…
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Dance and Murals, Day 7 Today was more of an organizing day where we reviewed our progress and planned what else needs to be completed next week to achieve our goals of producing an original song, music video, choreography, and a mural. Flex and his skillful dancers started our session at noon with stretches to…
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Media and Music (and Murals, oh my!), Day 6 Another start to a wonderful day! Marissa and Uhey began this morning touching up the “For One and All” mural and painting the backdrop. They blended colors together to create a fade effect and applied washes to coat the mural and protect it from dust. Christine…
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Murals and Dance, Day 5 The kids showed up today and found a film crew from A&E Networks already set up to capture their every inspired moment. Yep, A&E was producing an “Everyday Heroes” feature on Harlem Hub founder Maurice Winley, and decided to film our Arts Academy to show the world the great impacts…
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Media and Music, Day 4 Today we got into the thick of things with Media instructor Ms. Christine asking us what our favorite shows are. We talked about how great shows tell great stories, and how directors and producers imagine the stories on storyboards before filming begins. Similarly, our goal for the day was to…
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