About
Brooklyn Rising
Youth Revolution
Brooklyn Rising
Brooklyn Rising is an artistic activist movement that encourages and celebrates Brooklyn Youth Solidarity with V-Day, One Billion Rising, and One Billion Rising Youth Revolution, to end violence against women and girls worldwide through activism and artistic expressions—The Arts, including Dance (Performances Live and Recorded), Song and Music (Spoken Word, Hip Hop),Theater, Media Arts, and Visual Arts created in conjunction with talented and visionary Brooklyn Youth. Join Us. RISE!
V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against all women and girls. V-Day believes that when art and activism come together, they have the power to transform systems and change culture. Founded by V (formerly Eve Ensler), activist and author of the The Vagina Monologues, V-Day has inspired women all over the world and raised collective consciousness about how violence and gender intersect. V-Day is a movement and an example of how the power of art can be used as a liberating tool for transformational holistic education and social justice.
The “V” in V-Day stands for Voices, Victory, Valentine, and Vagina.
One Billion Rising
In 2013, V-Day gave birth to One Billion Rising, the biggest mass action to end violence against women. The campaign, which launched on Valentine’s Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS.
Every February, we rise—in countries across the world—to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face.
We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence.
We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness—
one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.
“Break the Chain”
“Break the Chain” Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it’s free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it’s at the center of ONE BILLION RISING” —Eve Ensler
Throughout the first few years of One Billion Rising, activists have used “Break The Chain”—written and produced by Tena Clark with music by Tena Clark and Tim Heintz—as an integral and
creative aspect of their Rising events.
When the campaign was first created in 2012, choreographer Debbie Allen gifted her choreography for “Break The Chain” to One Billion Rising. Since then, activists have been doing the original dance and interpreting it; making it their own. Others have created their own new choreography
and incorporated into their events.
Youth Rising
Youth Rising is an artistic political movement onto itself—determined and led by young women and girls—outspoken, courageous, unafraid, political, creative, tech savvy, current and forward thinking, bringing an exciting layer of One Billion Rising boldly into the future.
Our Mission
BROOKLYN RISING, works in partnership with The Sound of Brooklyn (TSOB) School of Music
to create a new musical dynasty built in conjunction with talented and
visionary youth in Brooklyn USA.
TSOB, located in Brooklyn USA, is an independent record label and state-of-the-art recording studio created as a medium to transform the urban youth culture by producing quality music
with a global reach. TSOB was created at the dawn of the new Millennium as a vessel for communicating ideas and promoting careers for urban youth in the US$29.6 billion global
music industry, behind the scenes as well as in front of a microphone.
TSOB transmits a fresh and exhilarating sound with a global reach.
FINEST
BROOKLYN’S
Notorious B.I.G.
Lil’ Kim
Foxy Brown
Jay-Z
TSOB pays tribute to “Brooklyn’s Finest.”
“THEY GOT NOW. TSOB IS WHAT’S NEXT!”
Our Vision
Salt-N-Pepa
With the expanding influence of Hip-Hop/Rap within the music, sports, fashion, advertising, radio, film and television industries, and the tradition of famous chart-topping rappers like
The Notorious B.I.G. (R.I.P.), Jay-Z, Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Old Dirty Bastard, (R.I.P), Wu Tang Clan,
Busta Rhymes, Mos Def, Big Daddy Kane, and Pop Smoke coming
“STRAIGHT OUTTA BROOKLYN,”
it’s no wonder that all over the globe there is a universal response to the
frequently asked question,
“IS BROOKLYN IN THE HOUSE? HELL YEAH!”
It is undeniable that “BROOKLYNITES’” presence is felt near and far.
Young people are entrenched in the world of music and entertainment, performance arts, social media, fashion and sports; Hip Hop is the culture of young people across the African Diaspora of America’s urban youth; Hip Hop has become more than just a music genre; it is a culture embraced by youth worldwide; it is their way of thinking, dressing, speaking, and behaving.
We believe all youth can embrace who they are,
can define their future, and can change the world.
Choreography