For the past 4 years, student leaders from Making Waves and Youth Speaks have organized hundreds of youth, community activists and artists to SF State to participate in the Youth Empowerment Summit. The Summit is FREE to youth and provides panels and workshops, followed by an Arts Festival featuring some of the hottest performers, DJs and artists bringing conscious flavor and culture to the stage.
Workshops focus on conscious and revolutionary thought, cultural studies, community organizing, artistic expression and breaking down mainstream media among others. Workshop presenters have included Ise Lyfe, Youth Uprising, H.O.M.E.Y, Nicacelly, Opal Palmer Adisa and others. The Arts Festival features conscious voices from Bay Area artists. Performers have included Goapele, Jennifer Johns, Native Gunz, Mark Bamuthi Joseph, DJs Sake One and Fuze.
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This year, the Summit will be back stronger than evercome through to experience:
* Workshops & Panels on Arts, Activism and Social Justice
* Networking opportunities with conscious community
* Hip-Hop Djs
* Music & Spoken Word performances
* Vendors & Artist Displays
* Free giveaways of CDs, t-shirts and special prizes
* Special Guests to be announced!
FREE for participants who PRE-REGISTER, contact
[email protected] and indicate the full names of youth who wish to register or send a myspace message with your fullname to be pre-registered for the summit!
The Youth Empowerment Summit has been an annual event since 2003 through support from the Hip Hop In the Schools Initiative, a group of collaborative youth agencies and educators. The first Summit was organized by a group of high school students from Making Waves in San Rafael, an organization providing at-risk youth with academic support and college exposure. These young leaders felt it was important to bring together other youth from all over the Bay Area to share information, resources and ideas to create change in their communities. Last year, Youth Speaks, an organization that develops the voice of young people through spoken word, joined forces to co-sponsor the Summit.
