EcoBeats & EcoHipHop

Fruit Tree Tour
    Performance | Tree Planting | Drumming | Back to School Program

 

In the Eco-beats workshop, Common Vision’s facilitation team challenges students to draw connections between the concepts from the performance and the changes that they see as important in their school, neighborhoods, and communities.   From these dialogues, students work together to create a rhyme to express their key messages.  On drums and percussive instruments that students learn to make out of materials that can be found for free in their neighborhoods, the students play hip-hop beats and bring their rhyme to life.   Eco-beats creates an experience for the students that inspires empowerment, self-/group-expression, creative use of local resources, and using familiar cultural arts for positive change.  Watch the Eco-beats video below.

In this short video, Common Vision works with the students to make “Regroovables” or instruments created from recycled urban waste products.

On Fruit Tree Tour 2007, Common Vision inspired the youth to use poetry and hip-hop to catalyze awareness and action for the environment. Here is a little eco hip hop trailer created by one of the crew’s MC’s Jahsun.