ARTVSM Studios is a center for Black culture and for merging worlds of Art + Activism, by any medium necessary. Art is a vital tool necessary for social change.
ARTVSM engages in movement building with and through hip hop, producing workshops, teach-ins, festivals, web-series, radio programs, albums and graphic novels, in collaboration with an international community of cultural activists. The studio facilitates international dialogue and cultural exchange, as part of a new model for Pan-African organizing across Africa and its Diaspora. ARTVSM creates projects and spaces which position artists as change agents to uplift and transform with communities.
10/09/2015
Black Feminist B-girl and rap activist Jukeboxx is coming through ARTVSM Studios (179 E Franklin St) TODAY at 4PM. COME THRU!!!Check out her latest, The Assault Mixtape feat. The Anti-Rape Freestyle: http://thecohh.com/globalhiphop/2015/05/05/more-than-a-mixtape-an-awareness-for-hip-hop-culture-and-beyond/
More than a Mixtape: An Awareness delivered through Hip Hop with Significant Purpose
Announcing: Moog Music Workshop / Ableton Live Training
Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday September 29th/30th, 2015
Time: 6PM-8PM
Location: 179 E Franklin St. Chapel Hill *underneath the courthouse
TODAY Ben Sollee a world-class cellist and composer will be at ARTVSM Studios (179 E Franklin St., Chapel Hill) composing and recording with local musicians. If you ever wanted to add live strings to your beat, or film, or wanted a license-free sample to make music out of, he's donating his time free of charge. Just show up with your instrumentals, videos, or songs at 6PM, and we'll run the session here at the studio!
09/01/2015
The Huffington Post wrote this incredible article about Kendrick Lamar and our BLK AGST Black Liberation youth cypher. Check it!
07/22/2015
Announcing our BLK AGST summer camp August 3-14. BLK AGST is a 2-week Pan-African workshop connecting the struggles of freedom fighters, from Congo to the Americas. The curriculum will draw on music, film, and other mediums to reposition art as the vanguard of political change in our community. Joshua Sankara x Pierce Freelon x ARTVSM
For deets, email: [email protected]
07/21/2015
Nguvu Ya Weusi = Black Power. This is the anthem we co-produced in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo at Yolé!Africa . Shouts to Sammus, Pierce Freelon and Joshua Vincent of BeatNam . Get more of the story via PRI's The World: ttp://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-20/he-traveled-congo-teach-hip-hop-and-ended-giving-beats-making-rclass-us-race
06/30/2015
ARTVSM is bringing a team back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collaborate with Yolé!Africa. Check our our last project!
Cho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo | Beat Making Lab | PBS Digital Studios Cho Cho Cho is the first song and music video produced and written by the youth of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Created in a Beat Making Lab, the song...
Cristo Negro | Diablo Blanco: Community Residency schedule (tentative)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
2:00PM - Hip Hop: Universal Language Lecture (AAADS Hip Hop History class - Hamilton Hall 452)
4:00PM-8:00PM - “Pan-African Beats” open beat making workshop @ ARTVSM’s BML Studio
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:00PM - Pan African Community Meeting at @ ARTVSM’s BML Studio
6:30PM-8:00PM Concurrent sessions @ ARTVSM’s BML Studio:
*Pan-African Beats” open beat making workshop
*Hip Hop/Latin Dance open dance and choreography workshop w/ Jairo and Brothaz Unique
*Mural painting w/ Gustavo
*Saul Flores Photo exhibit
Thursday, March 19, 2015
9:00AM-12:00PM - open rehearsals @ Swain Hall Studio 6
2:00PM - Jairo and Chicas class visit to Hip Hop History Class @ Hamilton Hall 452
4:00PM-8:00PM Concurrent sessions @ ARTVSM’s BML Studio:
*Pan-African Beats” open beat making workshop
*Hip Hop/Latin Dance open dance and choreography workshop w/ Jairo and Brothaz Unique
*Mural painting w/ Gustavo
*Saul Flores Photo exhibit
Friday, March 20, 2015
9:00AM-2:00PM - open rehearsals @ Swain Hall Studio 6
4:00PM-6:00PM Concurrent sessions @ ARTVSM’s BML Studio:
*Pan-African Beats” open beat making workshop
*Hip Hop/Latin Dance open dance and choreography workshop w/ Jairo and Brothaz Unique
*Mural painting w/ Gustavo
*Saul Flores Photo exhibit
8:00PM - Cristo Negro | Diable Blanco @ Swain Hall Studio 6
Saturday, March 21, 2015
8:00PM - Cristo Negro | Diable Blanco @ Swain Hall Studio 6
Sunday, March 22, 2015
3:00pm-until…
“When The Devil Knocks” Book Signing + Black Christ Open Mic Books
Official Facebook events:
Cristo Negro:
https://www.facebook.com/events/912086678846898/
Flyleaf Book signing/Open Mic:
https://www.facebook.com/events/740182702756205/
02/20/2015
Did yall tune into to NPR this afternoon? You might have caught a glimpse of Cristo Negro | Diablo Blanco - a collection of beats, poems and pictures inspired by the Congo tradition of Panama. In case you missed it...
This Panamanian Carnival tradition manages to make blackface 'playful' and 'emancipatory' In Portobelo, Panama, a local spin on the Carnival holiday celebrates Africans who escaped from Spanish slavery. But while it features "Diablos" with whips and kids wearing blackface, an American academic who works with locals says it's a powerful, celebratory metaphor.
02/17/2015
In 2013, ARTVSM produced a Beat Making Lab in Portobelo, Panama during the Festival de los Diablos y Congos. Exciting new updates coming this week!
Diablos (music video) | Filmed in Portobelo, Panama | Beat Making Lab | PBS Digital Studios Beat produced and lyrics written by the youth of Portobelo, Panama. Created in a Beat Making Lab at La Escuelita del Ritmo. Inspired by festival de los Diabl...
02/17/2015
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02/17/2015
Cecile Emeke’s Portrayal Of Young Black Women In Ackee & Saltfish Is Unlike Anything Else On Screen UK filmmaker Cecile Emeke's portrayal of two young Black women in her new short film and web series 'Ackee & Saltfish' is unlike anything else on screen.