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Extra Credit | Boyer & Sykes

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Help the Media Arts and Design (MAD) Academy welcome guest speakers Hampton Boyer and Travis Sykes during our next MAD Live! on Friday, May 21, 2021, at 12:00 pm. 

MAD Live! will be an interactive Q & A session open to all students interested in learning more about Hampton Boyer and Travis Sykes and their role as multimedia artists. Please join us! All are welcome.

*When: Friday, May 21, 2021, at 12:00 pm.

*Where: Zoom

Brief Biography:

Hampton Boyer

Hampton Boyer is a figurative painter working in Norfolk, Virginia. A self-taught artist, Boyer creates graphics, paintings, and murals. He has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. In 2014, Boyer co-founded 670 Gallery in Hampton, Virginia. While there, he served as Creative Director until 2017. Boyer currently works as an advisor, curator, and business developer for The Contemporary Arts Network (CAN). The CAN serves as advisors for corporations and private individuals in the coastal region and beyond.

Hampton Boyer has spent much of his life in and around Hampton Roads. Layers of bright, clear colors and geometric forms with complex texture and composition make his work bold, graphic and arresting. Inspiration and influence come to Boyer from many sources: street art, graphic novels, music, contemporary artists, and art history.

Travis Sykes

Carbon Studio’s house engineer and producer, Travis Sykes is a musician and producer based in Hampton, Virginia. As a teenager, Sykes was a member of local bands, playing gigs for large crowds throughout Hampton Roads. While at Bethel High School, he led one such band to several national competition championships. He went on to attend Berklee College of Music where he studied Songwriting and Production.

In 2016 he became the touring bassist for New York rock veterans, Glassjaw, and participated in their national and international tours until 2019. Sykes currently leads the CAN music department and is the house engineer and producer of Carbon Studios at The Contemporary Arts Network Headquarters in Newport News, VA.
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Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire MAD Live! with Hampton Boyer and Travis Sykes at 12:00 pm on Friday, May 21, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 5
  •  Sign in to Zoom with your first and last name.
  • Ask (2) thoughtful questions during MAD Live!.

 

Extra Credit | Kendrick Hopkins Jr.

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Help the Media Arts and Design (MAD) Academy welcome guest speaker Kendrick Hopkins Jr. during our next MAD Live! on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 12:00 pm. 

MAD Live! will be an interactive Q & A session open to all students interested in learning more about Kendrick Hopkins Jr. and his role as a Multimedia Producer. Please join us! All are welcome.

      
 *When: Friday, May 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm.

 *Where: Zoom

Brief Biography:

Kendrick Hopkins Jr, Multimedia Producer at WHRO, is a 6x Capital Emmy award winner, 14x Telly Award Winner, & recipient of the Inside Business Forty Under 40 award in 2016. During his time at WHRO, Hopkins has worked on projects such as The Scene, Curate 757, & American Evolution, while also directing the Goode Family Foundation documentary series which includes Comedy Bootcamp: The Documentary, #YoungSingersProject, Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants & City Voices: Homelessness to Hopefulness. In his time outside of work, Hopkins runs the Mark Edwin Lee UNC Basketball Camp Scholarship and enjoys spending time with his family.

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Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire MAD Live! with Kendrick Hopkins Jr. at 12:00 pm on Friday, May 14, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 5
  •  Sign in to Zoom with your first and last name.
  • Ask (2) thoughtful questions during MAD Live!.

Extra Credit | April BBCJA

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Bruins,

The Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals has an upcoming Journalism Academy on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 7:00 pm (Eastern). If you are interested in attending, use this link to join the Zoom.

The purpose of the Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy (BBCJA) is to give students an opportunity to express themselves, utilizing whatever media format they are most interested in.

This month’s session will focus on Race Relations, Law Enforcement, and the Role of Corporate America.

Activity #1:

Write an op ed article or create a political cartoon that answers one of the following questions:

  1. What is your opinion of police in wake of the following current events: the Derek Chauvin Trial, the shooting at Brooklyn Center, the police stop in Windsor and the shooting of a 13-year-old in Chicago?
  2. The All-Star Game recently pulled out of Georgia in response to the new voting law. What role should businesses and organizations play when it comes to race relations in this country?

Activity #2:

Interview your school’s resource officer or someone you know in law enforcement about their relationship with young people and minority communities. (Either replay the interview during Wednesday’s Academy session or prepare to share commentary on that interview.)

  1. What are their thoughts about the recent current events? 
  2. Has their view of the job changed at all due to recent current events?  
  3. What do they see as their role when it comes to building bridges?

Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend and participate in the Journalism Academy on April 21, 2021, at 7:00 pm. 
 5 Comment below 4-5 detailed sentences about what you learned from this experience of participating in the Journalism Academy by 11:59 pm April 26, 2021. 
  • Complete Activity #1 or Activity #2.
 20 Submit your high-quality original story, interview, animation, or public service campaign to Bear Facts for publishing consideration. You must email me your creation by 11:59 pm April 30, 2021. 

Extra Credit | Sue Witham

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Help the Media Arts and Design (MAD) Academy welcome guest speaker Sue Witham during our next MAD Live! on Friday, March 5, 2021, at 12:00 pm. 

MAD Live! will be an interactive Q & A session open to all students interested in learning more about Sue Witham and her media company, Rare Medium Well Done, Inc. Please join us! All are welcome.

      
 *When: Friday, March 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm.

 *Where: Zoom

Brief Biography:

Sue Witham is an independent executive producer and CEO of Rare Medium Well Done, Inc.  She has worked on a lot of commercials for national brands like Chevrolet, produced TV shows like Innovation Nation, music videos, feature films like Wolf Hound (where she worked with the flight stunt pilot that works on Christopher Nolan films), and has an upcoming feature filming in Europe this year among other projects.  She has also received 2 Silver Telly Awards and 3 Gold Mobius International Commercial Campaign Awards for producing.
To learn more about Rare Medium Well Done, Inc please visit the company website at https://www.mediumfilm.com/.

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Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire MAD Live! with Sue Witham at 12:00 pm on Friday, March 5, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 5
  •  Sign into Zoom with your first and last name.
  • Ask (2) thoughtful questions during MAD Live!.

Extra Credit | MAD Live! with Cynthia Bond (Oprah Book Club Author)

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Help the Media Arts and Design (MAD) Academy welcome guest speaker Cynthia Bond during our next MAD Live! on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm. 

MAD Live! will be an interactive Q & A session open to all students interested in learning more about Ms. Bond and her novel, Ruby. Please join us!
      
 *When: Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm.

 *Where: Zoom

Brief Biography:

Cynthia Bond is a New York Times Best-Selling Author. Her novel RUBY was chosen to be an Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection. RUBY was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Indie Next Pick. A PEN Rosenthal Fellow, Bond attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. Cynthia has taught writing to at-risk and homeless youth for over fifteen years, and is on staff at Paradigm Malibu Adolescent Treatment Center. She is currently completing the second book in the RUBY Trilogy. A native of East Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.

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Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire MAD Live! with Cynthia Bond at 12:00 pm on Friday, February 26, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 5
  •  Sign into Zoom with your first and last name.
  • Ask (2) thoughtful questions during MAD Live!.

 

 

Extra Credit | Charles E. Cobb Lecture

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Distinguished journalist, educator and activist Charles E. Cobb will deliver University of North Carolina’s 2021 African American History Month Lecture on Tuesday, February 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom. 

Cobb1 is a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he originated the idea of Freedom Schools as a part of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. The memo he wrote described a project where schools should be designed to “fill an intellectual and creative vacuum in the lives of young Negro Mississippians.”

UNC’s African American History Month Lecture is an annual tradition that brings leading scholars and activists whose work centers on the lives of African Americans from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The lecture is open to the entire campus as well as the surrounding community and is the University’s major programming initiative to recognize the importance of African American histories nationally, statewide and on campus. 

If you are interested earning extra credit for attending this virtual event, continue reading below. 

CHALLENGE | What do you think of Mr. Cobb’s African American History Month? What did you learn? What was the most interesting about the lecture? What was the least interesting? Why? After watching the lecture, what questions did you walk away with? Explain in detail with examples to support your ideas. 

*Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire African American History Month Lecture at 6: 30 pm on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 10  Successfully complete the verification form:

  •  Submit a screenshot a moment from the Mr. Charles E. Cobb Lecture
  • Respond to the challenge questions.

*Complete the verification form before 11:59 pm on February 25, 2021.

 

  1. Brief Biography: Charles E. Cobb began his career as a journalist in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997, Cobb was a National Geographic staff member. He is the coauthor, with civil rights organizer and educator Robert P. Moses, of Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (2002) and the author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (2007) and This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (2014). While a visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University in the 2000s, he designed and taught a course called “The Organizing Tradition of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” His current work includes an essay in Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain’s edited volume 400 Souls: A Community History of African Americans 1619-2019 and a forthcoming book for Duke University Press, tentatively titled Get in the Way!: Protest, Politics and the Movement for Black Lives. ↩

Extra Credit | “The Feather Pillow”

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A student 1 found this awesome stop motion film of Horacio Quiroga’s “The Feather Pillow” on YouTube and recommended that I check it out. It’s absolutely worth a watch. 2 Hearing the story in Spanish, however, definitely changes my interpretation of the story’s plot. Sometimes, when you translate a text from its original language, it is difficult to find the same precise word choice and things can become lost in translation. 

CHALLENGE | What do you think? Does watching this short film  change the way you interpreted “The Feather Pillow” and viewed the main characters? Was something lost in translation when “The Feather Pillow” was translated to English? Explain in detail with examples to support your ideas. 

Comment below and earn extra credit.3

 

*Extra Credit:

Activity

 Points 

Points Verification Task(s)
  • Watch the entire stop motion film (linked above).
  • Respond to the Challenge Questions.

5 

 Using your HCS info, add a detailed response in the “Comment Section” below.

*Comment before 11:59 pm on February 18, 2021.

 

  1. Thank you Makaya B. for sharing this link with me. ↩
  2. Please note: this YouTube video is in Spanish with English subtitles. ↩
  3. Please note a detailed comment is comprised of 4-5 well-written sentences. ↩

Extra Credit | Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy

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Bruins,

The Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals has an upcoming Journalism Academy on February 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm (Eastern). If you are interested in attending, use this link to join the Zoom.

The purpose of the Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy is to give students an opportunity to express themselves, utilizing whatever media format they are most interested in.

This month’s session will focus on the COVID vaccine.

You are encouraged to investigate the new COVID-19 vaccines, interview someone about their experience either getting the vaccine, waiting to get the vaccine, or why they have decided against taking it.

Here are a few ways to capture an original story about the new COVID-19 vaccines:

  • Write a story from an interview about the new COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Record an interview using your phone. (Make sure you ask permission first.)
  • Create an animation surrounding the new COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Design a public service campaign about the vaccine.

Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend and participate in the Journalism Academy on February 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm. 
 5 Comment below 4-5 detailed sentences about what you learned from this experience of participating in the Journalism Academy by 11:59 pm February 19, 2020. 
  • Capture an original story about the new COVID-19 vaccines.
 20 Submit your high-quality original story, interview, animation, or public service campaign to Bear Facts for publishing consideration. You must mail me your creation by 11:59 pm March 1, 2020.