Projects
This music video program for underserved youth in the Portland Metro area runs until Summer 2024.
It partners with Ascending Flow Youth Organization and 1 World Chorus, offering free audio-visual workshops. Outcomes include professional music videos, songs, and public or livestream events.
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and explore our video series!
Our instructors share their music skills and knowledge about instruments, its history, and its culture to help youth find their musical interests and learn about the roots of their favorite music.
The series covers topics like playing congas, drums, writing lyrics, beatmaking, piano, Indigenous dance, and more!
In 2024, we launched our Community Cypher series!
Taking place on the second Saturday of each month, each community serves as a celebration of creativity, connection, and collaboration. This free, all-ages gathering invites emcees, artists, and musicians to share their voices and build community through rhythm and expression.
🥁 Machado Mijiga – Drums
🎸 Milo Fultz – Bass
🎹 Santiago Larochelle – Keys
These community cyphers are intended to promote peace, positivity, and music!
Co-sponsored by:
My Voice Music, YA HEARD!, Ascending Flow, Peer Tribe Foundation, Cypher CURE, Afro-World Music PDX, AC Music Productions, Swingin’ Sounds, Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, and Amplifyr.
Take the Power Back is a KBB series of socially responsible arts projects that kicked off with an EP with hip hop artist Mic Crenshaw and singer/songwriter David Rovics featuring Opium Sabbah that launched in March 2022.
After the release of the first EP, the series will continue to feature multimedia music and video projects created by socially conscious artists speaking about and supporting different social and environmental justice causes.