Urban Art Beat NYC

Press Release: Celebrating Women

Come out to see UAB Monday Night and Support our Free Music Summer Camp for our Youths! *

Come out to see UAB Monday Night and Support our Free Music Summer Camp for our Youths! *

*WHEN: Monday March 25th, at Ella Lounge. An all female bill; Celebrating Women.

Doors Open at 8pm.
8:30pm Urban Art Beat (featuring Danielle Bero, Julia Sewell, and UAB youth!)
10pm Carlie DeBoer
11pm Genesis Be

RSVP here to show LOVE!

WHERE: Ella Lounge, Located at 9 Avenue A, corner of Houston in Manhattan’s Lower East Side,

WHY: $8 at the door.**If you are coming in support of Urban Art Beat, say so! All the money will go to our SUMMER CAMP at The DOOR. Give the gift of Free music workshops to the Youth with some of the best Teaching Artists in NYC!

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There is also an open mic list which is open to both males and females as long as their performance piece is focused on women or issues that affect women and children.

ThatsGoodness is a nonprofit organization with a mission of empowering artists to create, produce, and distribute educational and powerful works of art. Urban Art Beat is grateful for their continued support.

10 Week Workshop.  Lifelong Support

The world of teaching artistry has 2 distinct spheres.  We are hired by one organization to serve as arts educator for an indefinite amount of time, or we operate as freelancers, leading different workshops of varying length at many different locations.

Those who work for one organization, at one location, receive the powerful benefits of building with the same group of young people every day, sometimes for many years.  This blesses them with the chance to see their young artists grow up right before their eyes and take great amounts of time building a strong relationship.  This often allows the teaching artist to get to know the families, friends, and community members of the young people in that specific area.   This format of teaching artistry is incredibly beautiful and I have had the privilege of observing and collaborating with other teaching artists in this type of system; most notably with the mentors at El Puente who do an incredible job of facilitating young leaders and forming a tight-knit family through daily workshops and trainings.

For the majority of us teaching artists, we operate as freelancers.  We work with any organization, any time, any place, as long as our schedule permits.  The most common format is a 10-20 week workshop arranged by an existing organization that is looking to bring in a for-hire teaching artist to lead the workshop.   Amazing relationships are created, creativity is shared, and deep friendships established.  Then the workshop ends and we are all left with memories of what we shared and art we created.  There are no more weekly sessions, no more face-to-face time at that organization, the energy has changed.

This is where we as community leaders and teaching artists must step up and be REALLY REAL about our intentions.  If our goal is to create a strong community of artists that is SUSTAINABLE, we must go beyond these finite workshop lengths and continue to connect.  Facebook friendships are the minimum start, as it is undoubtedly a great way to continue the contact.  The next step is phone calls, invitations to other events, organized gatherings to check in.  All of these are imperative to sustaining the work we put so much love and energy into during the workshop period.

I recently went to the court date of a young man from one of Urban Art Beat’s workshops, definitely not the ideal place to spend time with a past collaborator, but this is when he needs support more than ever.  There is so much knowledge sharing possible, in every aspect of our lives, which spans far beyond the arts.  As teaching artists, we are choosing to enter the lives of young people and their well-being and success is our responsibility.

Urban Art Beat is the ideal blend of the temporary and permanent.  Our organization prefers to establish our programming in a school and stay there forever, but we realize this cannot always happen due to budget cuts, change in leadership, etc.  However, our unique strength is our ability to create a permanent culture that lasts far beyond our program at one specific location.  Urban Art Beat is a community of artists that collaborate between boroughs, age groups, genders, and art forms.  The result is an incredible group of creators that is exposed to every possible creative outlet imaginable, and a lifelong system of support.

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I hold my brother as he cries

How could things get so bad so fast?

I guess life just has a cruel sense of humor

I don’t have to ask him what’s wrong because I feel it too

I miss her smile

I miss her laugh

I miss the lullaby she’d sing to us at night

I miss it when she’d hold me when I’d cry

And tell me it’s alright

I remember that day when I was two and he was ten

When he carried me to the hospital bed

I remember the smile on her face and the bundle in her arms

I remember looking at my new brother’s face and his smile

I remember my mother saying having the three of us here is the best thing

I tell my brother this memory and watch the smile that lights up his face

And I don’t see the broken little boy, I see the smiling bundle

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Sagittarian wonders where my secret lies

“Yes” I am cute built to fit a fashion model size

But when I started to tell them they think I’m telling lies, I say…

It’s the thin in my waist

The way I’m shape

The height of me, and this young lady I became to be

I am a model phenomenally, phenomenal model that’s me!

I walk into a court room just as hot as it can be

And to all judges bowing on both knees, a male attorney swung me around as high I can be.

I say… It’s the way I present my case (yes it’s the best), the passion I have (Yes its floss less)

I am a lawyer phenomenally, phenomenal lawyer that’s me.

Now you understand while I shout, jump and talk real loud. When you see me passing by just know I’m real proud.

I say…  In 5yrs I don’t know where imam is

In 10yrs I know who inspired me

In 20 yrs. I maybe deceased

I am lashanda phenomenally; Phenomenal Lashanda Young trust that’s me!

What you believed

What you believed

“There’s no dreaming, there’s no words

There’s no faith, there’s no birds

There are no beliefs, there’s nothing to believe

I can this how many times there’s nothing I believed in”

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Todo la jente llegando a la disco

Bamos DJ sube el ritmo!

Siguele el Party!

Ohehoh (X4)

Todo el mundo metete en el Party!

Las luces brillan, el volume sube

Aqui en la pista a ver que se descubre

Sal de lo bago levantate

Nada va parar este grande enscaye

Doble U!

Si estas aborecido dale metete en el party!

Metete en el Party (X2)
Buscate una loba si quiere que te lo guaye

Uno, dos tragos, no te desmaye!

Wisin y yandel!

Aqui no se discuta

Todo el mundo disfruta!

Ohehoh

Si quieres bailar

Metete en el party

OhehOh

Aqui se vino sonar

Todo el mundo get ready

No Pare! No Pare!

Lets go you know you on fire!

No Pare! No Pare!

Asi que metete en el party

Las nenas se ponen rabiosa

viendote como te suertas,

La jente se prende mariandose

Viendote dandole vuertas

No pare! No Pare!

Lets go you know you on fire

No Pare! No Pare!

Asi metete en el party

Pa’lante pa’tra, Pa’lante Pa’tra

Guayale mami Traaa Traaa! (X2)

Ya tu sabe Reggaeton no es todo

Rumba Sumba! Asi es el Modo!

OhehOh

Siguele el party (X4)

Si quieres Musica Metete en el Party

The Chosen One! Karocho!

Wisin & Yandel! Los Lideres!

Esta liga me la como yo!

FIESTA!!!

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Came in on a Friday but can’t wait for Saturday but I’m dreading Sunday cause we got school the next day, so this Friday in essence is just another day but I go through it strategically as I do my life anyway, intelligent and prevalent but most of all relevant and just making sure that everybody respecting it, ladies you should recognize game when you see it just like you recognize your friends on the weekends, kids get hype when school ends don’t pretend that you want to be here because that would be weird, coming to school just to learn mechanical things, doing work like you assembling a factory machine…either get homeschooled or go to the library, intense amounts of books and knowledge does not scare me, my thoughts flow like blood when it got poured on Carrie then she killed them all and exposed the meaning of scary, then I saw people try to do things to Mary, I’m not going to complete the story with complex rhymes but this shows just how demonic a complex mindset could be….see, I don’t prey on the weak, I dispose of the strong and tech the weak to be strong and not before long bring back the strong so when reproduction comes none of the kids would be born dumb….

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WE WILL ALWAYS BE HUMAN…

Our bodies were not born to slumber,
but to be instruments that we learn to breathe through…
Vessels for change.

Tears excrete satin lullabies of sultry sounds
hidden in the silences of our pain
and tear down the walls of dark hallways that close us in.
Our laughter is real…like melted chocolate creases of charisma
And character for us to map our way through.
And we transform…

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