This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Question: Where oppression exists, is revolution inevitable? The StudentsLive and BASE partnership will challenge students to respond to this question through the lens of music. Nigerian history and music, as Fela says, can be a nonviolent "weapon" to expose corruption and the abuse of power.
We are Bronx designers of solutions to complex global issues.
We are seekers of justice and liberation through understanding systems of injustice and oppression. We are critical thinkers and historians. We are young music lovers. We are visionaries!
My Project
Students will work with a teaching artist, potentially a world-renowned Afrobeat musician and Fela scholar, to learn about the Afrobeat tradition and Fela's music to understand how music can be a tool for educating the masses on political change. The workshops will culminate with a presentation of student songs and lyrics.
This project will not only engage students in a musical tradition that may be new to them, but it will also engage students in understanding the history of post-colonial Africa in a sonic and kinesthetic way.
Ideally, students will remember information because the workshops will help students connect complex concepts like decolonization to their lives by surrounding them with interesting political figures who made changes in their nations.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Students Live! Teaching Artist
(5-Day Afrobeat workshop and culminating performance. Students will learn about Fela Kuti and post-colonial Nigeria through the Afrobeat music genre and tradition. The teaching artist will engage students in the basics of Afrobeat instrumentation, music-writing, lyric-writing and performance. The week will culminate with students performing songs on the theme of decolonization in Nigeria.)
$2,000.00
Visitor cost
$2,000.00
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$30.00
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$2,060.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$363.53
Total project goal
$2,423.53
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$2,423.53
17 Donors
-$1,945.88
Donations toward project cost
-$1,681.75
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$264.13
match offer
-$445.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$378.25
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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