2014 STAND UP TO BULLYING
ARTS AND FILM FESTIVAL
Songbird Multimedia and Performing Arts Foundation, Incorporated
Little Rock, Arkansas-
The Songbird Multimedia and Performing Arts Festival is pleased to announce the Stand Up To Bullying Theater Festival. The festival is produced in recognition of National Bullying Awareness Month and aims to raise awareness of Bullying through theater and the arts. The Event is co-sponsored by the
Central Arkansas Library System.
Saturday, October 25, 2014 at the Ron Robinson Theater, located at 100 River Market Avenue in the River Market District from 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Doors will open to the public at 10:00 a.m. The event will feature an arts show in the lobby as well as plays all day dedicated to addressing bullying.
Songbird Multimedia and Performing Arts Foundation is a non-profit arts organization headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Our goal is to provide increased access to performances on stage, screen and radio for students with an emphasis on at-risk youth who may not have performance opportunities. Songbird Multimedia incorporates theater arts to creatively enhance performances with the use of costumes, puppets, choreography, various genres of music and singing. Our mission is to promote the cultural enrichment and education of children and their families by introducing them to the performing arts. We partner with the most effective programs and organizations to achieve positive impact and demonstrated results. We believe the performing arts are an integral part of our society and cannot be ignored. We intend to promulgate performing arts in every way, which includes providing scholarships for deserving theater, music and dance students in high schools and universities. We provide production support and encouragement of live performances of every kind and character wherever possible. We believe in the performing arts as an avenue for building community and fostering enlightenment. Our past projects include:
● The People Could Fly Dance Festival, a multicultural celebration of dance. The People Could Fly Dance Festival was presented at The Charles Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, Texas in partnership with the University of Texas, Richardson.
● Stop The Violence Music Project- a multi-genre music album produced to raise
awareness against violence.
● When Maya Angelou Speaks, The World Listens-students presented a compilation of
Maya Angelou's poetry with music by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Donny
Hathaway.
Our Motto: Creating opportunities, creating experiences
The Songbird Multimedia and Performing Arts Foundation
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The Music of Songbird
LITTLE ROCK -BASED YOUTH MUSIC GROUP WINS NATIONAL AWARD
FOR SONG, VIDEO ABOUT TRAYVON MARTIN
National Storytelling organization announces Little Rock Youth as Grand Prize Winners of
2013 Storytelling Contest
Little Rock-The National Association of Black Storytellers announced Little Rock natives Keortany Smith, Lazareous Pettus and Terrilyn Pettus as the Grand Prize winners of the 2013 National Storytelling Contest, Youth Division. This year's theme was Response to the Trayvon Martin Tragedy
and the Culture of Violence within the Community. The National Association of Black Storytellers is a national organization dedicated to preserving the African-American storytelling tradition. The artists will be featured at this year's national conference in Hampton, Virginia, November 6-10. Little Rock was the host of the organization's 27th Annual Storytelling Festival and Conference in 2009. The National Association of Black Storytellers recognized the performing artists for their song, Tired: A Tribute to Trayvon, a hip, honest ballad that shares the hearts of many across the globe who were impacted by the July announcement of the verdict in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman. "Tired" features powerful, stellar performances by Keortany Smith, a graduate of Maumelle High School, eleven-year-old rap sensation Lazareous Pettus, Dunbar Middle School, Amauri Dawkins, Booker Arts Magnet and Terrilyn Pettus, Hall High Alumni lends moving angelic vocals to the artist collaboration. The performers are part of a non-profit after school music program, Songbird Multimedia and Performing Arts under the direction of Tiffany Pettus. Songbird Multimedia produces positive rap music and provides high quality media performance opportunities for at-risk youth and has partnered with the Arkansas Martin Luther King Commission and Stop The Violence to provide showstopping performances for several youth conferences and anti-bullying conferences across the state in addition to several music festivals. The young artists are in the process of finishing an album entitled, “Stop The Violence” and has recently partnered with Break The Silence Arkansas to raise awareness about Children and Sexual Abuse.
Media Links:
A link to the announcement of winners may be found at http://www.nabsinc.org/storytelling-contest
National Association of Black Storytellers www.nabs.org
Link to Announcement of National Association of Black Storytellers Little Rock Festival
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Link to “Tired: A Tribute to Trayvon”
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