Youth Day Detroit 2019 Dilla

CELEBRATING DILLA YOUTH DAY PRESENTED BY

DETROIT 2019 Where STEAM & Music Unite to Ignite Innovation @ Charles H. Wright Museum Celebrating Black History Month 315 East Warren Ave. of African American History Detroit, MI, 48201 FREE | February 10, 2019 | 1pm-8pm Doors at 12 noon thewright.org

Art + Culture + Education + Technology + Fun = # DILLAYOUTHDAY Join over 3000 youth and community from all over SE Michigan who attend DILLA Youth Day in Detroit.

OVERVIEW WHO ATTENDS? WHY ATTEND?

In its 8th year, Dilla Youth Day is a participatory Each year DIlla Youth Day hosts about 2500 ● Opportunity to participate in free workshops annual event celebrating and sharing the legacy attendees on average. They come from all with Professional Music Producers who have of one of the most proliﬁc Music Producers in different backgrounds and cultures. But worked with National Recording Artists history J Dilla. This year We Found Hip Hop will most are African American Youth from the ● Leadership Development Workshops bring special programming that combines the Detroit area. We have out of town guests ● S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, unique genius traditions of Hip Hop’s powerful who ﬂy in and drive in for the event. The Arts, Math) workshops such as robotics, musical, visual, and performing arts, with the average age demographic is 13 - 17 years electronics, genius engineers, hackers, innovators of DIY old. We have a well balanced combination ● software and design Making and Maker Spaces to catalyze the energy of males and females. Parents attend the ● Hip Hop workshops promoting Positive Self event as well to support their children. of youth, teen and adult communities to create an Image, Community Gardening, and Building experience of innovation. Healthy Communities ● Opportunity to build Cross Cultural connec- CONTACT: WHY PARTNER WITH DILLA YOUTH DAY? tions with youth across the region through • VENDOR BOOTHS (no sales) Dilla Youth Day has an 8 year history with participation in activities • VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES no end in sight. Dilla Youth Day began with ● that promote Cultural Literacy • SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES 50 youth in the inaugural year to over 3000 ● Opportunity for Organizations to present the • PUBLIC RELATIONS INQUIRIES youth and adults in 2017. successful models of their programs and • EMAIL: [email protected] current work to a larger • FOR ALL EVENT INFORMATION VISIT: ● audience utilizing an active engagement www.wefoundhiphop.com/dillayouthdaywith Detroit’s renowned approach Music Producers & Creative Community Leaders ● Opportunity for youth to perform in the areas who will present them with techniques, equipment, of dance, hip hop, break dancing, dj-ing, etc & the history of the DILLA production style ● Free Food and Drinks to preserve this valuable hip hop culture. ● Over 100 hands on activities for all ages BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION (includes but not limited to) • Opportunity to participate in free workshops with Professional Music Producers who have worked with Prominenet Recording Artists • Leadership Development Workshops • S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) workshops such as robotics, electronics, software, and design • Hip Hop workshops promoting Positive Self Image, Community Gardening, and Building Healthy Communities • Opportunity to build Cross Cultural connections with youth across the region through participation in activities that promote Cultural Literacy • Opportunity for Organizations to present the successful models of their programs and current work to a larger audience utiliing an active engagement approach • Opportunity to perform

DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Feb 10, 2019 • 1-8pm

Registration Starts: 12pm

J DILLA Interactive Experience: (1pm-5pm) J DILLA Teen Learning Center (1-5) Interactive Workshop Stations (Multipurpose Room) Roundtable Discussions (Classrooms) • Arduino (Electronics/ DIY Synthesizer) Academic discussions regarding sensitive • Hip Hop Independent Media Production Social Justice Issues impacting youth’s lives. • Emcee Writing/FreeStyle Each person is given equal right to participate. • Scratch 101 (DJing) PRESENTED BY Please Check The schedule to attend • Fruity Loops Studio each of these sessions. • Garage Band • MPC • Ableton Youth Showcase (6-8pm) (GM Theater) • Stencil Making This is an opportunity for youth to showcase their • Print Making @ Charles H. Wright Museum talents in Hip Hop music and dance. • Application Development of African American History CELEBRATING DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Feb 10th • 1-8pm PRESENTED BY Featuring The Mobile Maker Space Doors at 12 noon Art + Culture + Hip Hop + Technology + Education + FUN = #DillaYouthDayDet @ Notable Facilitator Instructors Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History DJ Head Grammy Award winning Hip Hop Producer & DJ best known for producing songs for Eminem, Xzibit, Jay Z, D12, & Obie Trice. pGRÜV ceo HIPNOTECH Records/DJ/ Emcee/ Producer/ Production Engineer Murad Erzinclioglu DJ, Producer, Musical Director, CJAM FM 99.1, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Uri “HERU’ House Technology Inventor and Innovator, creator of Nick Speed Produced tracks for 50 Cent, Tupac Shakur, Lloyd Banks, M.O.P., Talib Modern Evolution. Kweli, Phat Kat, & Musiq Soulchild. He is signed to Money Management Group, a subsidiary of G-Unit Records.. James McMullen Cartographer, Electrical Engineer, Artist working in metal & wood. He has returned to Detroit after several decades in Silicon Valley, Bryce Detroit Culture Creator, Music Producer, Founder of AEeTech, detroit Record- where he developed tools for chip design & simulation, algorithms to ings, and The Afrikan Music Institute. extract street geometry from aerial photography, created the Small Joey Aasim Artist, Maker, Hacker, Educator, Activist, Music Composer, Designer Blue Planet series of digital atlases, & wrote the original renderer for the mapping engine used by Google & Yahoo. He now works on Sacramento Music Producer, Artist, Activist, Anishabe, Documentary Film Maker, navigation engines & runs robotics workshops at makerspaces for Knoxx Hip Hop Educator. teenagers at the main library & around Detroit. He’s on the Collec- tive of the Hub/ Back Alley Bikes, Mahogany Emcee, Poet, Writer, Activist, Member of Toni Blackman;s Rhymes Like A Jones Girl, Member of Free Style Union. 4x Undefeated Champion of BET’s 106 “Mad” Mike Banks co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground and Park. She has shared stages with and opened for such notables as Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Dead Prez, Rah Digga, The Roots, India.Arie, Gil Scott Heron (r.i.p.), Talib Detroit techno. Banks is a former studio musician (bass/guitar), Kweli, KEM, and Kern Brantley. She is a Hip Hop Cultural Ambassador for having played with Parliament/Funkadelic among others. He The U.S. State Department, ans Member of The Foundation of Women in worked in the second half of the 1980s with the collective Members Hip hop. of the House, releasing several 12" singles. Banks and Mills founded the label Underground Resistance in the late 1980s, and DJ Los Pioneer DJ and Producer from the 1988 rap group E.Z.B. & DJ Los. He the pair, along with Robert Hood, produced most of the label's early often traveled with his father Carl “Butch” Small Legendary Percussionist releases. He is also co-founder and co-owner with Christa Robinson to the Parliament/Funkadellic Studio. Earning his first vocal and instru- of Submerge Distribution since 1992. Submerge, along with Under- mental credit on Bootsy Collins’ 1979 album “This Boot is Made for ground Resistance, is an independent record label which distributes Funkin’” when he was a mere seven years old. In1993 when his dad Detroit-based techno worldwide. received a call from Dr. Dre’s Bass Player Tony Green to play percussion for Death Row Records, the production collaboration of Tony Green and DJ Stacey the Godmother of House Music, DJ Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale. DJ Los landed a song on the multiplatinum album “Above The Rim” called “Hotwaxx” Hale Detroit’s first female house music DJ plays dancefloor bangers and “Got to Get My Money Rite”. He also released a local hit called ‘313’ in orchestral melodies with live music fusions. Hotwaxx Hale has 2004. made a massive impact in the American music culture, whether it’s playing in famous theaters like the Apollo, or legendary underground Jeff Sturges Moved to Detroit from New York in 2009 and founded Mount Elliott Maker dance music clubs like ‘Studio 54,’ and ‘The Warehouse.’ She also Space. In New York, Sturges was part of a similar program called Green- has an international presence which includes past performances in Fab, a project-based learning program to teach high school students in London, Ibiza, Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, and across the USA. the South Brox science, technology, engineering and math skills. His time Hotwaxx Hale is the first female DJ who played house music on the there and at NYC Resistor, another hackerspace, inspired him to move to radio in Detroit in the late 80s, and continues as a DJ to play a major Detroit to start a makerspace, since then he has neen incubating Maker role in curating the soundtrack of our lives for the last 2 decades. Spaces all over the City of detroit including The detroit Public Library Teen Hype Center. CELEBRATING DILLA YOUTH DAY PRESENTED BY

DETROIT 2019 Where STEAM & Music Unite to Ignite Innovation @ Celebrating Black History Month 315 East Warren Ave. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History FREE | February 10, 2019 | 1pm-8pm Detroit, MI, 48201 Doors at noon thewright.org

Art + Culture + Education + Technology + Fun = #DILLAYOUTHDAY Join over 3000 youth and community from all over SE Michigan who attend DILLA Youth Day in Detroit. Details + info: [email protected] @dillayouthday | wefoundhiphop.com/dillayouthday

PRACTICAL APPLICATION ROBOTICS PROGRAMMING MUSIC PRODUCTION

EXPLORATION

with Detroit’s renowned Feb 10, 2019 • 1-8pm DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Doors at 12 noon

PRESENTED BY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE | J DILLA Teen Center (1PM-5PM) Workshops (Classrooms) 1:00PM-2:00PM @ • Documentary Photography for Social Justice Charles H. Wright Museum Facilitated by Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Documentary of African American History Photographer/Youth Organizer, (Classroom 1) • Racial Equity Discussion Facilitated by Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & Inclusion (Classroom 2) Orientation Theater Presentation Demonstrations • Media Deconstruction: Spongebob and Capitalism 12:00PM-1:15PM Hip Hop Videos and Documentaries (Discussion) Facilitated by BYP 100 Detroit Chapter Presented By: We Found Hip Hop (Classroom 3) (Watch Hip Hop music videos, live concerts and documentaries) 1:30PM-2:30PM History of Latinos in Hip Hop (Interactive) 2:15PM-3:15PM Facilitated by Consuela Lopez of BombaRica • The Social Media Association of Michign Presents: 3:00PM-5:00PM Electronic Programming with Keyboards and Synthesizers Hands On Social Media and circuits. Facilitated by Susan Emerick, Author of "The Most Powerful Presented by Underground Resistance/Submerge Records Brand On Earth" and Membership Chair, Social Media Association of Michigan) J DILLA Interactive Experience: (12PM-5PM) (Classroom 1) Interactive Workshop Stations (Multipurpose Room) Spin INC. will be doing an all-day demonstration of their music production • The Art of Poetry and Spoken Word (Interactive) programming. Facilitated By Black Tie Collective The Multipurpose Room will be full of Hands On Activities. (Classroom 2) In addition to the various drop in style workshops, there will be two Special Presentations.

• DIME Presents: The Art of EmCee-ing (Interactive) J DILLA Interactive Experience: (12PM-5PM) Facilitated by Mahogany Jones, Hip Hop Ambassador, Movement Space (Rotunda) DIME Instructor 12PM-5PM HEALTHY HIP HOP CIPHER (All Ages) (Classroom 3) Facilitated by Monkey Barz 3:30PM-5:00PM Led By The Stereo Boyz • Motor City Rockerz Presents:The Fundamentals of “Break Dancing” Youth will have an opportunity to express themselves through (BBOYS/ BGIRLS) Hip Hop Movement: freestyle improvisational lyrics that they create. No Violence, Facilitated by Benito Vasquez No Vulgarity. (Classroom 1) 12PM-5PM HEALTHY HIP HOP CIPHER (All Ages) Facilitated by Motor City Street Dance Academy Youth will have an opportunity to express themselves through • Get Your Music Played on the Radio freestyle improvisational dance. Facilitated By Murad Erzinclioglu, CJAM Music Director . (Classroom 2) J DILLA Early Childhood Center (12PM-5PM) Hands-On Activities Age 6 & under (Inspiring Minds Exhibit) • DIME Presents:The Elements of Beatmaking using live drums The Inspiring Minds Exhibit will be full of Hands On Activities. and sequencing (Interactive) We are Grateful to Living Arts for Hosting this Early Learners S.T.E.A.M. Area. Facilitated by Drew Schultz, Musician, DIME Instructor All children in this area must be accompanied by an adult age 18+. (Classroom 3) CELEBRATING DILLA YOUTH DAY PRESENTED BY

Doors at noon thewright.org

Art + Culture + Education + Technology + Fun = # DILLAYOUTHDAY Join over 3000 youth and community from all over SE Michigan who attend DILLA Youth Day in Detroit. Details + info: [email protected] @dillayouthday | wefoundhiphop.com/dillayouthday

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with Detroit’s renowned DYD PRESENTING SPONSOR - $10,000 (1 available)

• 10 Reserved seats at the youth showcase • Company name included in Event Title • Company video (1:00 min - Supplied by company) played on all screens during the event • Company mention in all rooms • Company Representative remarks on stage at youth showcase • Company logo on screen during youth showcase • Company name, logo and website link on Dilla Youth Day and We Found Hip Hop Websites post event • Company name, logo and website link advertised on official Facebook event page • Company specific mention on Instagram Promotion • Company name and logo included on all print media • Company name mentioned in all radio and media interviews and commercials • Company supplied signage display

Feb 10, 2019 • 1-8pm DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Doors at 12 noon

DYD STAGE SPONSOR - $5,000 (2 available)

• 6 Reserved seats at the youth showcase • Company Representative remarks on stage at youth showcase • Company logo on screen during youth showcase • Company name, logo and website link on Dilla Youth Day and We Found Hip Hop Websites post event • Company name, logo and website link advertised on official Facebook event page • Company specific mention on Instagram Promotion PRESENTED BY • Company name and logo included on all print media • Company name mentioned in all radio and@ media interviews and commercials • Company supplied signage display

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History DYD ROOM SPONSOR - $2,500 (5 available) (Orientation Theatre, Rotunda, Latimere Cafe, Multipurpose Room, Early Childhood Center)

• 4 Reserved seats at youth showcase • Company Representative remarks in assigned room • Company logo on Dilla Youth Day and We Found Hip Hop Websites poat event • Company name and logo advertised on official Facebook event page • Company name listed placement on all print media • Company supplied signage display

Feb 10, 2019 • 1-8pm DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Doors at 12 noon

DYD PARTNER - $1,000 (5 available)

• 2 Reserved seats at youth showcase • Company name listed on Dilla Youth Day and We Found Hip Hop Websites post event • Company name listed on all Dilla Youth Day social media platforms • Company Logo placement on all print media PRESENTED BY

DYD FRIEND - $500 (unlimited) @ • Company name listed on Dilla Youth Day Website after event Charles H. Wright Museum • Company name listed on all Dilla Youth Day social media platforms of African American History DYD SPONSOR - FORM YES! Our organization will sponsor or donate to the 8th Annual Dilla Youth Day. We understand that by filling out this Sponsorship Form, we are committed sponsoring the amount indicated below.

_ Presenting Sponsor $10,000 _ Stage Sponsor $5,000 _ Room Sponsor $2,500 _ DYD Partner $1,000 _ DYD Friend $500 Donation $______

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Feb 10, 2019 • 1-8pm DILLAYOUTH DAY DETROIT 2019 Doors at 12 noon Please make company or cashier’s check payable to: "We“We Found Found Hip Hip Hop Hop” L3C" 1420 1420 Washington Washington Detroit, #301 Detroit,MI 48226 MI |48226 LC3#???

*SUPPORT DEADLINES* Please email all company high res logos in .PNG or JPEG format AND guest names by January 31, 2019 to [email protected] PRESENTED BY CONTACTS: Visit www.wefoundhiphop.com/dillayouthday @for all event information. INFORMATION VENDORS BOOTHS AVAILABLE (no sales) VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE Charles H. Wright Museum SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE of African American History PR & MEDIA INQUIRIES CELEBRATING DILLA YOUTH DAY PRESENTED BY

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