Objective:

• Create Album sequence/playlisting complete with song titles

• Discuss archetypes/themes in writer’s life and create song concepts

• Practice concise storytelling

Social Media: @dodatamen

Bio: (Refer to Keynote Speaker/Closing Performer)

Workshop: Feeding the CIPHER: utilizing the BEATs framework to decolonize nutrition for ourselves and our communities.

Workshop Info: The universal beat of life is the heartbeat, and it is what binds us together. The beat makes you feel. Certain beats allow us to feel different emotions. It elicits memories of profound and personal moments.  

If our body is an instrument and our beats are our actions in life…How do we take care of our instruments? How can instruments be in multiple cyphers? How do we care for all the instruments in our different cyphers?

Our nutritional journey can be impacted by our feelings and emotions. This workshop will explore how your sense of self impacts your nutrition.

Social Media: @nallenz

Bio: Allen Byron Natividad Ocampo is a critical entertainer, ethnic studies educator, and cultural food historian. Graduating from USF with a BS in Accounting & Finance and SFSU with an MA in Asian American Studies, he possesses over a decade of experience educing counter-narratives within classrooms and higher education administrations throughout the Bay Area. Additionally, he has nearly fifteen years of analytical experience supporting various government/non-profit agencies throughout the Bay Area. With these collective experiences, he is determined to translate that same passion for humanizing the stories and narratives of minoritized communities through the performing and culinary arts.

Workshop Panelist: Jeremy Zevallos

Bio: My name is Jeremy Zevallos. I'm a son of illegal immigrant Ilokana from the Philippines. I'm also half Peruvian. I'm 33 years young and have 3 kids. And I make music.

Workshop Panelist: RJ Navalta

Website: https://creativetransit.agency/

Social Media: @rjkoolraul

Bio: Raul "Rj KoolRaul" Navalta is a hip-hop performing artist. As a product of the culture; he is a world renowned bboy, featured on syndicated tv shows such as America's Best Dance Crew and So You Think You Can Dance. A current member of The Triple Threat Djs; an internationally sought after dj group founded in 1999, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Turning passion into profession, Raul holds the responsibility of Managing Director at Creative Transit Agency LLC; a marketing agency that brings brands and communities together through curated design & experience.  RJ started the CTA to establish a new standard in talent & project management.  The vision is to lead an agency that represents its' talents' goals, understand clients' needs, while contributing to the rich creative arts culture of the Bay Area.

Workshop Panelist: Russel Arelis

Website: russelarelis.com

Social Media: @rus_slumbeautiful

Bio: Rus Slumbeautiful is a multifaceted Filipina artist working both as a Freelance Graphic Designer and DJ in Oakland, CA for over 20yrs. Her musical styles are deeply rooted in the city of Chicago and the Bay Area which nurtured and inspired her production throughout her event industry career.  Her current musical exploration includes Underground Dance Edits/Electronic House Music and Hip Hop/R&B. Her clients range from Night Club Venues/Promoters, Private and Private Events. Her work is associated with Town Bar Lounge as a resident Thursday Night DJ, College of Marin resident DJ, Youth Speaks (A National Youth Poetry Slam) for the Bay Area Region as one of their DJs (2015-Present) Life is Living at Defermery Park, Oakland, Soulovely and VIDA Bay Area.

Workshop Panelist: Eric Nodora - emagn1

Bio: Nodora’s versatile style keeps him busy working on painting on canvas, on the wall, and on computer graphics and designs. A true artist, he continues to cultivate his ever growing passion. His love for painting has led him to studying drawing and fine arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and San Francisco State University. With two educations, one from the streets and one from the University at an academic level, Nodora has uniquely strong background that continues to further his creative style.

Nodora grew up in Sacramento and has been living in the Bay Area for 17 years. He has worked as an active community arts organizer, youth arts teacher, muralist, and graphic designer. Nodora has done commercial work for the Jabbawockeez, Under Armour, Lulu Lemon, And1, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Oakland A’s, Tesla, as well as various media, art shows, galleries and on going public spaces.

Workshop Info: Explain the 4 Elements of Hip-Hop, origins and discuss how MCs use their imagination to express themselves when rhyming

Social Media: @rhymosaurs

Bio: Orlando "ZEPS" Molina is an MC and children's book author of the series @Rhymosaurs which uses the 4 elements of hip-hop to boost literacy in the community. Originally from Brooklyn NY, he now resides in Stockton since 2017 repping the 209.

Workshop 1 Info: Breaks down the Hip-Hop culture, the time before it, and the worldwide scene in its current state with archives from around the world in each respective element of the culture.

Website: zulugremlin.com

Social Media: @zulugremlin

Bio: Born Stephen John Roybal in Pico Rivera, California, this resident of Los Angeles combines a savvy personality, a family history rich with music and dance, and killer business instinct to transform into Zulu Gremlin, Medea Sirkas’ popping sensation. Dancing since age two, he was inspired by the magic between the rhythm created by the drum and the bass guitar, believing that dance was simply an inevitable reaction to the music in his house.

Workshop Info: This workshop includes beginning/intermediate level technique training in hip-hop and cultural dances from the Afro-Latino/Caribbean diaspora (Reggaeton, Dancehall, Salsa, Afro-Cuban

Folkloric/Popular, Afro-Brazilian Contemporary and much more) There will be choreographed warm ups with isolations, strengthening and movement. This class will incorporate dances/movement from the Afro Latino diaspora with hip hop movements.

Bio: Mitzi Ulloa is a Bay Area Visual/performing artist and educator, with experience spanning more than two decades. She currently teaches at Sequoia Union High School District and Skyline College. She has performed in various venues throughout the Bay Area, Latin America/Caribbean and performs with the Arenas Dance Company & La Cumbiamba Colombiana. She is an advocate for critical theory, art for social change and culturally relevant pedagogy. She sparks creativity and inspiration within her students supporting them as they voice their narratives through their creative process.

Website: mitziulloaarte.com

Social Media: @Mitziulloaarte

Workshop Panelist: Jose Cordon aka CordonConcepts

Bio: Jose Cordonalso known as CordonConcepts, is a sought after spoken word artist, Antioch’s Poet Laureate, and founder of Grassroots Poetry. Cordon has shared his poetry with the US Treasury, Google, several universities, and many organizations across the state. His poetry has been viewed over a million times across social media. And he’s also been featured in billboard campaigns and starred in a award-winning short film titled La Vida Loca with a million views and counting. Cordon combines his command of words, cadence, and thoughtful nature with his experience as a community organizer to deliver original, passionate, and moving poem that are changing the way people think about poetry.

Workshop Panelist: Lil MC

Bio: LiL MC is a Bay Area Bilingual rapper, singer, producer and battle rap champion. She's captivated audiences as a professional performing artist for 15 years with her dynamic delivery, sassy wordplay, and bilingual flow. Her songs have been featured in video games like NBA 2K21 & 2K22, as well as several commercials and independent films. She also works as a Hip Hop Educator with Freight and Salvage and is the Program Coordinator at Hip Hop For Change. Over the course of the past 5 years she's played a key role in developing and implementing many of Hip Hop For Changes flagship Programs like the Women's Empowerment Program, Hip Hop In The Park, and Agents Of Change. She's passionate about building Hip Hop community and culture in the Bay Area and amplifying Bay Area artists, which is evident through the mentorship programs she's developed at Hip Hop For Change and in founding the Queens of the Underground, a woman-powered performance showcase and professional development platform. Her upcoming album, "Flex Maquina", will feature a track with one of her students that she's been mentoring for the past 4 years, a trend she will continue with every future project as a way to usher in the next generation of Bay Area artists.

Workshop Panelist: Fego Navarro

Bio: Fego Navarro is a Salvadoran American Artist/Filmmaker from San Francisco, CA. Fego is the Creative Director of the artist collective Lyrical Opposition, a California 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit that cultivates lyrical artists to oppose injustice through social awareness & systemic change. Lastly, he is the Director of a poetic documentary titled Re-Entrification, a film that tells the story of 5 residents displaced from their homes due to the city's high cost of living.

Workshop Panelist: Marvin Santiago Jimenez

Bio: My name is Marvin Santiago Jimenez, an aspiring film Producer/Director from San Francisco, Ca. I got a degree in multimedia from Cal State Eastbay in Hayward. After graduating I got the opportunity to work with various artists from Latin Grammy winners like Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny to great artists like Kamaiyah from Oakland California.  Since the pandemic I’ve been managing the social media for a couple startups in the bay area, while creating my own video productions with clients from places like Miami, Mexico, LA, Detroit,  Seattle Washington to Minnesota.

Workshop Panelist: Grand-O The Snack Sensei

Bio: Grand-O The Snack Sensei is a first generation Latin Hip Hop recording artist and content creator. As a San Francisco native, he loves pushing culture and his love for both music and food.

Workshop Info: Art Books for Literacy and Liberation

Website: www.robdontstop.com

Social Media: @robert_tres

Bio: Robert Liu-Trujillo is a lifelong Bay Area resident. Born in Oakland California, he’s the child of student activists who watched lots of science fiction and took him to many demonstrations. Always drawing, Rob grew up to be an artist falling in love with graffiti, fine art, illustration, murals, and children’s books. In that order, sort of. Through storytelling he’s been able to scratch the surface of so many untold stories. Rob is the author and illustrator of Furqan’s First Flat Top and he’s illustrated numerous other children’s books. He’s a father of a teenage boy and a little girl. Rob is a co-founder of The Trust Your Struggle Collective and a contributor to The Social Justice Children's Bk Holiday Fair.

Workshop Info: Understanding Social Proof and how it can be used for your Personal Life and Business

Website: 845a.com

Social Media: @jjasef

Bio: JJ Jumoc-Casas is a San Francisco-based photographer and cinematographer having created images for clients that include Apple, Google, DoorDash, eBay, Warriors, MLB, Virgin Atlantic, and Stanford. His work has been published in Eater, Business Insider, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal, and has received a Webby Award for his Director of Photography and editing work with Twitter featuring Tom Hanks. Currently, he's focused on building a peer-to-peer learning platform called Aralan, which means "study" in Tagalog where he's not only putting out useful resources for other creatives, but also getting others in various industries to create resources for the world to learn from.

Workshop 2: Street Dance Fundamentals

Workshop 2 Info: Intro to Poppin, Lock-in, Rockin, breakin to authentic soul and funk music. Learn foundation Moves n grooves with verbal hip-hop history of the dances.

Website: zulugremlin.com

Social Media: @zulugremlin

Bio: LiL MC is a Bay Area Bilingual rapper, singer, producer and battle rap champion. She's captivated audiences as a professional performing artist for 15 years with her dynamic delivery, sassy wordplay, and bilingual flow. Her songs have been featured in video games like NBA 2K21 & 2K22, as well as several commercials and independent films. She also works as a Hip Hop Educator with Freight and Salvage and is the Program Coordinator at Hip Hop For Change. Over the course of the past 5 years she's played a key role in developing and implementing many of Hip Hop For Changes flagship Programs like the Women's Empowerment Program, Hip Hop In The Park, and Agents Of Change. She's passionate about building Hip Hop community and culture in the Bay Area and amplifying Bay Area artists, which is evident through the mentorship programs she's developed at Hip Hop For Change and in founding the Queens of the Underground, a woman-powered performance showcase and professional development platform. Her upcoming album, "Flex Maquina", will feature a track with one of her students that she's been mentoring for the past 4 years, a trend she will continue with every future project as a way to usher in the next generation of Bay Area artists.

Website: lilmcmusic.com

Social Media: @lilmc.music, @hiphop4change

Workshop Info: Understanding Social Proof and how it can be used for your Personal Life and Business

Website: 845a.com

Social Media: @jjasef

Bio: JJ Jumoc-Casas is a San Francisco-based photographer and cinematographer having created images for clients that include Apple, Google, DoorDash, eBay, Warriors, MLB, Virgin Atlantic, and Stanford. His work has been published in Eater, Business Insider, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal, and has received a Webby Award for his Director of Photography and editing work with Twitter featuring Tom Hanks. Currently, he's focused on building a peer-to-peer learning platform called Aralan, which means "study" in Tagalog where he's not only putting out useful resources for other creatives, but also getting others in various industries to create resources for the world to learn from.

Workshop Info: Explain the 4 Elements of Hip-Hop, origins and discuss how MCs use their imagination to express themselves when rhyming

Social Media: @rhymosaurs

Bio: Orlando "ZEPS" Molina is an MC and children's book author of the series @Rhymosaurs which uses the 4 elements of hip-hop to boost literacy in the community. Originally from Brooklyn NY, he now resides in Stockton since 2017 repping the 209.

Bio: I am the Legendary Ryan "Christopher" Milan, the first Old Way Legend from the West Coast. I have been involved in Ballroom since 2005. Ballroom to me is family. It’s community. It’s acceptance, both by others and of myself. Ballroom is where I truly found my strength and creativity. It’s the first space where I was able to show up powerfully as my full, authentic self. It’s where I gained the confidence I carry with me into all other aspects of my life. It’s where I learned to lead and where I learned to follow. Ballroom is a way of life, and I feel blessed to have found my home here. I look forward to Voguing the Old Way (the Only Way) with everyone soon!

Social Media: @legendary_christopher_milan_

Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer is a co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention and a founding staff member of the Hiphop Archive in the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Her work appears in the Smithsonian Anthology of Rap and Hip Hop, and she is an adviser to KQED’s That’s My Word: 50 Years of Bay Area Hip Hop.  She is a professor in Anthropology and affiliate faculty in the Educational Leadership doctoral program at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She is a life member of the Association for the Study of African Life and History, the National Council of Black Studies, and has served as a department chair in Africana Studies at SFSU. Dr. Fischer is part of the leadership team for SF Transforms, funded by the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Program, which aims to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic STEM Careers. 

RTSB17 Performer: 650FRANCIS

Social Media: @650francis

Bio: Francis is a singer, songwriter, musician and producer. Born in San Francisco and raised in next-door Daly City, he began performing at the age of 6 and started his music career at just 12 years old. He writes and produces his own songs but also makes beats for others under the alias “FRANCISMADEIT”. His music has been featured on radio stations such as 99.7 NOW and 106.1 KMEL as well as on those of various universities. After an almost 5 year hiatus, he is currently working on his debut EP “INTROSPECTIVE” set to release this summer on all streaming platforms, where you can follow him by searching “650FRANCIS”.
* pronounced six-five-oh-Francis

RTSB17 Performers: Kababayan Learning Community's PCN 19

Bio: Kababayan Learning Community students showcases our Pilipinx culture through singing, acting, and dancing through a live performance on May 2nd and 4th!