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Creator Summit at ISTE 2022
Join us in New Orleans as we celebrate the end of the school year with local educators and organizers, as well as storytellers and musicians from Preservation Hall, Jazz Museum, & Be Loud.
What is the Creator Summit?
Musical traditions and the joy that comes from live performances. Local organizations centered on uplifting marginalized voices. Student creators finding their expression in the arts. The Creator Summit is all this and more! Join the Soundtrap for Education team on Tuesday, June 28th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm, as we celebrate the end of the school year.
Where is the Creator Summit?
We’ll be at YAYA Art Center, 10 minutes away from the Convention Center, an organization we’re proud to support whose mission is to empower creative young people to become successful adults. They provide educational experiences in the arts and entrepreneurship to New Orleans-area children and youth, fostering and supporting their individual ambitions.
3322 Lasalle Street, off Louisiana Avenue
What should I expect there?
- Food and drinks are a given!
- Student fine artists, who exhibit and sell their work at YAYA
- 5:00 pm 🎺 One Shot Brass Band will lead our processional into the YAYA space
- 6:00 pm 🎼 A special panel with our partners at Preservation Hall, including musical elders deeply rooted in the New Orleans jazz scene
- 6:45 pm 🥁 The Roots of Music, a 50-student local band, will march in and laissez les bon temps rouler
All right, all right, all right! How do I get in?
- Register now! We expect spaces to fill up quickly
- Stop by the Soundtrap for Education booth (Booth 1334) at ISTE to pick up your wristband or show up at YAYA with the email confirmation
Our Partners
YAYA Art Center
YAYA (Young Aspirations Young Artists, Inc.) was founded in 1988 as a creative and entrepreneurial partnership between New Orleans artist Jana Napoli and art students from Rabouin High School (International High School of New Orleans). The after-school enrichment program nurtured the creative talents of local high school students in ways that also strengthened their academic success, life skills, and professional preparedness. With a focus on found objects and repurposed materials, early YAYA Artists (The Original 8) learned to turn their creative talents into career pathways. The “YAYAs” sold artworks throughout the CBD (Central Business District) of New Orleans, then in New York and other U.S. cities, and finally internationally. In the process, YAYA’s guild program of youth development through art became a model for emerging organizations across the country. YAYA’s programs have expanded over the years as we continue to work with students after school in our home studio. We also position our students as artist-mentors in elementary and high schools, and at community events and centers through the Urban Heroes program. YAYA works with close to 3,000 students each year. In 2015, YAYA broadened its programming once more. We built and moved into the new YAYA ARTS CENTER, a high-quality arts campus that brings YAYA’s more than quarter century of successful programs into the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans.
Preservation Hall
As the first integrated music venue in New Orleans during the Jim Crow era, Preservation Hall was formally established in June of 1961 as a traditional jazz venue intended to protect, preserve and perpetuate the musical and cultural traditions of New Orleans. Preservation Hall Lessons is designed for all K-12 teachers or educational professionals that want to foster the culture and history of New Orleans music genres. The lessons can be integrated into general content areas like Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science, or beginning to advanced Music Education studies.
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Educational programming at the New Orleans Jazz Museum is actively expanding as we are engage K-12 schools, universities, and adults in lifelong learning opportunities. In addition to school tours, summer camp opportunities and internships, key partnerships like that with the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park provide rich historical context and immersion in jazz through presentations, exhibits, and concerts. We are proud to announce that the first phase of our new Jazz Education Center has opened this Fall, and we are looking forward to opening our Ruth U. Fertel Jazz Lab in collaboration with a grant from the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation. In keeping with our commitment to further the legacy of jazz through the development of the next generation of musicians, the Jazz Museum is partnering with organizations like the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA) and the Trombone Shorty Academy to identify and cultivate young talent through master classes and mentorship. We are excited to announce a key partnership with the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation to launch the New Orleans Jazz Museum Music Outreach Program, which will bring expert jazz instructors into schools to promote music education and allow students to enhance their individual abilities in a more intimate, focused setting with resources specifically dedicated to their success.
Be Loud
Be Loud Studios amplifies kid confidence through radio and digital media production. We help kids turn screens into tools for self expression and courageous collaboration. Being “loud” means showing up, creating something different, being assertive. Youth need more space to practice their “loudness,” especially in our digital world. Whether it be with a microphone or camera, we trust youth to be creators (not just consumers) –their opinions, ideas, and perspectives are valid and must be expressed. In conjunction with practicing courage and confidence, Be Loud Studios fills a need for more programming surrounding creative and responsible online engagement in K-8 schools in New Orleans. Despite the amount of time youth spend online, there are few programs that are discussing how to be safe and thoughtful. Be Loud addresses this need through projects that empower youth to express themselves and share their voices with the community. We make podcasts, music videos, and even gifs that push youth to step out of their comfort zone and step up to telling stories of who they are–in a safe space.