Unity Primary Music & Creativity
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I’m Jordan: traveling musician, digital nomad, filmmaker, and current Executive Director of a new non-profit media network PRCPTION Travel, Inc.
PHASE 0 (FALL 2015: $800)
In November 2015 I went to Jamaica to teach music as a work-trade volunteer. The kids and I had a lot of fun and I connected strongly with the community.
By the time I left a month later, I had raised $850 with this fundraiser to donate my accordion. I recorded a CD with the kids and came up with several ideas to keep things moving for the creative education of the students.
Now, six months later, I’ve finally articulated on paper what I think can be accomplished with the right resources. We want to go down there with a group of voluntourists and use gardening, songwriting, and storytelling to teach the kids social media and how to connect with the global community.
As a 3-week intensive workshop, we’ll plant a permaculture garden, write & record a new album, and then make a movie out of it to show how powerful technology can be to empower kids to express themselves productively.
Why do we want to do this? Because it will build awareness. It will help the community share their voice, talent and story with the world as the students continue to learn & grow. Creative projects will keep them out of trouble, not to mention it will also help the kids develop digital skills to contribute to their local economies as they get older.
Long-Term Goals
We wrote an official grant proposal that we are currently sending out to donors throughout the United States, to find funds to make this film prototype of an intensive 3-week creative-technology-gardening workshop with the kids. As this project progresses over time, we want to eventually build volunteer housing, acquire media equipment for the school, and come up with a sustainable way to have internet in the rural countryside.
I’ve personally pledged to continue working with these same kids in Jamaica because it ’s important that we look at this as a very long-term project—because that’s what it must be in order to transform a new generation.
For all we know, Jamaica’s next big stars, academics, or thinkers could come from here—but we’ll never know if the kids are never offered the chance.
THE NEXT PHASE: RETURN TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM ALIVE
Please click the link to go to the new fundraiser!
PHASE 0 (FALL 2015: $800)
In November 2015 I went to Jamaica to teach music as a work-trade volunteer. The kids and I had a lot of fun and I connected strongly with the community.
By the time I left a month later, I had raised $850 with this fundraiser to donate my accordion. I recorded a CD with the kids and came up with several ideas to keep things moving for the creative education of the students.
Now, six months later, I’ve finally articulated on paper what I think can be accomplished with the right resources. We want to go down there with a group of voluntourists and use gardening, songwriting, and storytelling to teach the kids social media and how to connect with the global community.
As a 3-week intensive workshop, we’ll plant a permaculture garden, write & record a new album, and then make a movie out of it to show how powerful technology can be to empower kids to express themselves productively.
Why do we want to do this? Because it will build awareness. It will help the community share their voice, talent and story with the world as the students continue to learn & grow. Creative projects will keep them out of trouble, not to mention it will also help the kids develop digital skills to contribute to their local economies as they get older.
Long-Term Goals
We wrote an official grant proposal that we are currently sending out to donors throughout the United States, to find funds to make this film prototype of an intensive 3-week creative-technology-gardening workshop with the kids. As this project progresses over time, we want to eventually build volunteer housing, acquire media equipment for the school, and come up with a sustainable way to have internet in the rural countryside.
I’ve personally pledged to continue working with these same kids in Jamaica because it ’s important that we look at this as a very long-term project—because that’s what it must be in order to transform a new generation.
For all we know, Jamaica’s next big stars, academics, or thinkers could come from here—but we’ll never know if the kids are never offered the chance.
THE NEXT PHASE: RETURN TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM ALIVE
Please click the link to go to the new fundraiser!
Organizer
Jordan Urbanovich
Organizer
Santa Clarita, CA
