Black Youth Creatives GR

Reliving the fun! 🌞📷 Flashback to last year's camp where we flashed to the past with Polaroids. Capture the magic this summer! Register now, camp starts next week!🤸‍♀️

Snap to it! 📸 There's still time to register for our Summer Youth Photography Camp! Tell a friend to tell a friend -- don't miss out on this picture-perfect adventure!

We are so excited to announce the return of Black Youth Creatives’ Summer Photography Camp! Calling Grand Rapids Public Schools 6th - 8th grade scholars! 🗣️Join us for one week of photography and enrichment! Learn the art of capturing the perfect shots, cool photography techniques and share your work at our final exhibition! Snap into a summer of fun and let your summer shine through the lens📸 Register now! www.blackyouthcreatives.org

We welcome and to come join us at our annual event, which is a to celebrate the end of summer / return to school! 🥳🤩🎉

Back To School Bash
Thursday Aug 10th
5pm-7pm
400 Martin Luther King Jr. Street SE

We had a blast celebrating the accomplishments of our first camp cohort during the Black Youth Creatives Photography Exhibition! Thank you for coming out to support our amazing creatives. Can't wait to see you next summer! 📸

Join us in celebrating our young artists' extraordinary talent and creativity at the Black Youth Creatives Student Exhibition! Saturday, July 29, 2023 2-4pm at Muse SE. Please take a moment to stop by and check out the wonderful achievements of our first photography camp cohort!

Our youth creatives have a vision! This week students learned about creative composition. Thank you to our guest speaker for speaking about magazine journalism and visual storytelling! Students then created mood/vision boards of their photography inspiration💭We have quite a few 'Future Creative Directors' on our hands!

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
📸photograph by student

As we leap into week two, we would like to introduce and thank Mina & Grace, our Youth Supervisors for their supervision, facilitation, and engagement with the students during camp! Thank you, Ms. Grace and Ms. Mina!

A snapshot of week 1 📸💥 ** some of the featured photographs were taken by students☺

We are honored to introduce April "Ms. April" Ruiz, our Photography Instructor!
Owner of Candy APEL, April has over 20 years of photography experience. April is also the founder of Mosaic Masterminds, a team of educators providing academic support services to learners of all ages. We are excited about her contributions to the camp curriculum. In her free time, April enjoys music, dancing, watching movies, and solving math problems for fun! Thank you for teaching this summer, Ms. April!

Yesterday we kicked off our first day of photography camp! Students began their journey with a lesson on the history of photography including evolution, types of photographers, and biographies of photographers from past and present! Before jumping into their professional DSLR's later this week, students had the opportunity to experiment with Polaroid cameras. 💥 With a sprinkle of "get to know you" team-building activities, CAMP DAY 1 WAS A SUCCESS! 🥳

Photography camp is approaching! We are so excited to meet our youth creatives and start our 2-week creative adventure on July 10!
📷Parents, please check your email for additional camp information and review/sign the Black Youth Creatives handbook.
📷We have open seats and would love to add a few more GRPS creatives to the squad! To register: https://form.jotform.com/230717302043140 Deadline to register is Friday July 7, 2023. See you soon! 🥳

Black Youth Creatives depends on the generosity of those that support our mission: making creative opportunities accessible. Purchasing an item from our Amazon Wishlist is a great way to directly contribute to the organization. We appreciate your kindness and support. View our wishlist:https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2AAYDT369FOLH?ref_=wl_share

Awesome community-building!💖

New GR cheer team building sisterhood, creating positive space for girls A new cheer team in Grand Rapids aims to build a sisterhood, while also getting kids more involved and off the streets.

There's still time to register for our 2023 Free Summer Photography Camp! https://form.jotform.com/230717302043140

Black Youth Creatives is thrilled to announce a free summer photography program for students in grades 5-7 from Grand Rapids Public Schools. Students will be provided with the resources needed to start their creative photography journey. Visit https://blackyouthcreatives.org for more information about the organization and to register!

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