http://theurbanproject.org opportunities through art Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:49:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have recently been informed by some of our friends, fans, and inquirers (who we love and would never ignore) that our email address may not be working properly. IF YOU HAVE EMAILED US IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS, IT IS POSSIBLE WE DID NOT RECEIVE YOUR MESSAGE. We sincerely apologize for ... http://theurbanproject.org/2010/03/19/oooops/ We finished our fiscal year in style! We had two great events during the fall: A CD release party at The Lamplighter in Vancouver (featuring local hip hop talent and a fierce free style battle) and a sold out Halloween Party at The Legion (featuring some of the best costumes we've ... http://theurbanproject.org/2009/12/15/another-year-of-housing-and-new-youth-staff/ In the fall of 2008 we used your donations to help a group of talented Dar es Salaam street youth record an album of their hip hop music. The group (known as Wakali Wadowntown) recorded a 6 track album and called it Maisha Magumu (Hard Life). Please come out and ... http://theurbanproject.org/2009/09/18/dar-es-salaam-project-cd-release-party/ Due to technical difficulties in Tanzania (i.e. the total absence of a workable internet connection), it was impossible to bring you updates over the 5 weeks we spent in and around Dar es Salaam this summer. Without further ado, an update! We returned to Dar es Salaam at the end of ... http://theurbanproject.org/2009/09/18/urban-project-update-dar-es-salaam-2009/ Click here to read an article about Urban Project, featured in Elaine O'Connor's blog for The Province. http://theurbanproject.org/2009/04/21/urban-project-featured-on-bc-without-borders/ We are pleased to announce that Urban Project is now a registered charity! Tax receipts will be available shortly. If you have donated previously and need a tax receipt, please email us at info@theurbanproject.org and provide us with your full name and mailing address. If you did not ... http://theurbanproject.org/2009/02/05/urban-project-is-now-a-registered-charity/ The Dar es Salaam project is over (for now). With your donations, we helped a group of young, street-based artists record a hip hop album, and set up housing for 17 of them who needed it. We even bought some bicycles. We learned a lot about what ... http://theurbanproject.org/2009/01/18/notes-from-home-some-final-thoughts/ This week the guys are moving into their new homes in Magomeni and Kigamboni. It is a week of big changes and mixed emotions, as we are all too aware that our time here is drawing to an end. And yet at the same time, thanks to your ... http://theurbanproject.org/2008/11/29/notes-from-the-field-chapter-5/ As we near the end of the project fieldwork period, this feels like a week of lessons learned. Lesson one: Our initial decision to reduce the number of youth involved from 30 to 20 participants has proven to be a good one. Managing a group of 20 between ... http://theurbanproject.org/2008/11/20/notes-from-the-field-chapter-4/ We are done the album and in transition. Jay and Kindo are working on the album artwork in between days at the beach and hot afternoons in maskani (meeting place) Amazoni. Today we are in the maskani and a favorite customer arrives to get his car washed. ... http://theurbanproject.org/2008/11/12/notes-from-the-field-chapter-3/