Led by international touring musician and educator Dante' Pope, "Arts2Advocacy" will be an interactive virtual session integrating performing arts with social justice topics. Arts2Advocacy has engaged youth for over a decade in speaking to issues in the arts and their community. During the session, we’ll dive into various arts to advocacy topics and performance styles. We’ll collectively arrange, write, and record a song together (one verse and one chorus) within an hour that ties into our topics. Be prepared to collaborate, be creative, and most of all ADVOCATE! 

Students are asked to create accounts in Soundtrap, an online DAW (recording software). We will use Soundtrap to record and collaborate as an ensemble.

To join virtually, register in advance with This Link.

Dante' Pope is an international touring musician from Chicago and based in Washington, DC. After working for Congress for 5 years during the Bush and Obama Administrations, he dove back into his passion for music and has played for several GRAMMY-nominated and GRAMMY-award-winning artists. Most notably, he is currently the drummer for Old Crow Medicine Show, 2-time GRAMMY- award-winning group known for their hit song, "Wagon Wheel," most recently covered by Darius Rucker. He also played on the GRAMMY-nominated album, Black Cowboys, in collaboration with Dom Flemons and Smithsonian Folkways.