COURSE DETAILS
The Hip Hop Boot Camp is an intensive two-week residential training aimed at conveying music industry skills to talented emerging hip hop artists across the Uganda. The training will focus on Song Writing, Live Performance & Studio Preparations, Rap Cipher, Financial Literacy, Profile Writing, Impact of Internet & Social Media, Visual Aspect of Music, Album Recording Sessions, and Personal Development. The training will hold lectures on the Hip Hop Elements and UG Hip Hop Awards. Under the mentorship of 3 professional residential producers, participants will actively participate and record their own song compositions resulting to the production of a 10 track audio album. Find the course Modules in this attachment.
WHO IS THE PROGRAM FOR?
The training targets 15 youth (rappers) between ages of 15 to 25 years. The participants must be practicing and active hip hop artists within their community (ies) with either recorded audio music, acapellas or stage performance videos to supplement their application. Female hip hop artists are strongly encouraged to apply.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS?
The selected participants are required to attend the full training and commit to the all the Module(s). The local Transport costs, meals and accommodation will be covered by the training. Anything else not covered by the training will have to be covered by participants themselves.
DURATION
The training will take place from the 18th – 30th June 2018. Please note that participants are required to attend the full 2 week sessions of the Training.
VENUE
The training will be held in Mukono, Uganda
TRAINER
The Training will be delivered by professional music industry players and guest appearance from Uganda Hip hop Artists. The trainers will be announced in the month of May.
HOW TO APPLY?
You are required to apply for participation by completing and submitting the application form along with the following; a completed entry form, a profile/short biography (max. 800 words) with recent picture(s) that will be used for publicity, a motivation for your participation in the training (max. 500 words), sample of your work- mp3 song/ 2 acapella verses by 25th of May 2018. Request for an application form from sylvester@bayimba.org / +256 702732065, +256 772469731/+256 751960602,
