Artists & Projects Directory

• Africa Consortium
• Boyzie Cekwana
• Dan Hurlin
• David Roussève/REALITY
• Dean Moss
• Gregory Maqoma
• Los Muñequitos
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
• Ralph Lemon
• Stories Left to Tell
• The America Project
• Yasuko Yokoshi

Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project

Taking the stylistic format of the break/s, and fueled by a highly-charged election year, this project engaged young writers, poets and filmmakers nationwide in collaborating and creating spoken word poems and short films, giving voice to their views on the social, cultural and political issues most important to them.  Each iteration of the project was developed under the mentorship of Marc Bamuthi Joseph and his collaborator on the break/s, media/film artist Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, and was hosted by local presenting, educational and community partners in cities where the break/s was performed.  In local screenings and public performances, the young artists discussed and demonstrated their working process, and presented the products of that process to audiences of family, friends, schoolmates and the broader community.  

Their films, poetry and artwork can be seen on the project blog, breaksbeyondtheballot.wordpress.com and on the NY Times blog, "The Local"

Partners in break/s beyond the ballot included:

• MAPP International Productions (New York, NY)
• The Hip Hop Theater Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
• Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School (BCAM) (Brooklyn, NY) 
• Urban Word (New York, NY)
• Under the Radar Festival (New York, NY)
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Youth Artists at Work (YAAW) (San Francisco, CA)
• Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA)
• Walker Art Center, with Walker Teen Arts Council (Minneapolis, MN)
• Brave New Voices (Minneapolis, MN)