"Tactical Urbanism Art in Placemaking" a Listening Session with M'Ster Lewis

Capital Region Creative Corps "Tactical Urbanism Art in Placemaking." This program is a media outreach and engagement campaign. Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum will focus on Social Justice and Community Engagement. The objectives of the Capital Region Creative Corps Program are to create an economic and workforce development program and demonstrate how artists from multiple disciplines can be instrumental in developing and implementing critical campaigns to address our most pressing community issues.

Social Justice Activism- M'ster Lewis, a rapper from Sacramento, California, creates conscious Hip-Hop music that promotes optimism and productivity. He draws inspiration from positive lights in Hip-Hop, such as Andre 3000, Dizzy Wright, Erykah Badu, Larry June, and Mick Jenkins. M'ster Lewis partnered with Sandy Holman, Culture Co-OP,  for a cross-generational collaboration to bring her written words to life.

“We gotta get the youth to overstand that sex, money, and tryna fit in with everyone else just because that’s what’s cool come with so many energies and attachments that don’t always keep you happy and move you forward !! We gotta do what works for us as individuals and as a family and not just be doing stuff cuz that’s what we see everyone else doing! There’s so much we gotta say and stand firm on!

M’ster Lewis will design and conduct free workshops at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library this spring and summer. He will utilize MakerSpace, a sound and recording studio, to create a workforce development project for the  SOJO's Summer Camp at the MLK Jr. Library, for ages 14 to 21.