Saylove

Saylove, is an Emcee 🎤 Songwriter ✍🏽 FM Host, Producer 📻 Speaker 🫶🏾 and the Author and Founder of Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education a nonprofit organization creating art for impact; cultivating a culture of peace by empowering survivor leadership in the arts. Saylove is an Honorary International, and Registered National Artist with The Nicaraguan Association of Artists. She holds a M.A. Degree in Peace Education, at The United Nations International University for Peace Studies in Costa Rica. She’s a member of Transcend: Art Peace Network, Society for Ethnomusicology; Survivor Alliance, National Survivor Network, Elevate Academy, and the Survivor Advisory Board at Selah Freedom. She organized Free Sara Kruzan and to recover four missing girls, prior to developing her Survivor Mentorship Program at Selah Freedom. After losing a sibling she’s slowly transitioning back into music. Her performances include Expo Nica and Calle Ocho Festival (Miami), The Universal Zulu Nation Annual Anniversaries, at The National Black Theater (Harlem), S.O.B.’s, The Magic Johnson Center, and The Hip Hop Cultural Center; The Nation of God’s and Earth’s, “Show and Prove,” at PS 154 Harriet Tubman School (Harlem); the Indigenous Peoples Movement Benefit Show (Washington D.C.), and Indigenous Peoples Movement Conference (Houston). Saylove’s creativity centers around vinyl deejaying and sampling, in songwriting and music production; intersecting hip hop, jazz, ethnomusicology, sociology and media. She’s a multi-media artist enthusiastic within other modalities such as dance/graffiti art and calligraphy. Follow @earthsaylove on most social media to learn about our many forthcoming projects! We’re currently in the early phase of developing our charitable arts & culture organization. Booking 15-90 minute sets, interviews, or keynote engagements. saylove@hiphop.education Find The Jazz Flower w/ Saylove Friday 6-8 on 7 FM stations, on Maine Public Classical! 🌼

Forthcoming Project: A Long Play Sound Recording, Creating Connections and Building Trust Between The Storyteller and Audience Member Or The Survivor Mentor and Girl :

by Saylove

Saylove’s proposed project explores the application of vinyl deejaying in songwriting, and music production, generating performances for community and self-development through autobiographical storytelling empowering high-risk populations. Built on data collected in case studies over 15 years in working with HT verified, or high-risk girls, within foster care, juvenile corrections and the community, her proposed project demonstrates the role of hip hop in creating connections and building trust, between the storyteller and their audience members (survivor mentor, and girl), promoting critical thinking, and self-esteem, in these underserved populations. ✦✦✦

Project Starship — Survivor Training, Art, Rhetoric, Self-Help and Individual Planning. A Project by: Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education’s (HipHop.Education), Sufiyah Yasmine.

Project Starship is a survivor-led program providing workbooks, journals, weekly webinars, and creative blocks to human trafficking verified and high-risk girls ages 12+ in the system of care, or extended foster care. In partnership with child protective services, and agencies, Project Starship is piloting its first cohort, providing enrollment to: clients in central, south, and north Florida, delivering workbooks (almanacs), journals, weekly webinars, topics, and activities to participants. Through providing and expanding our service, we aim to assist in connecting agencies with our anti-trafficking partner to expand mentorship programming. Starship Definition: a vehicle designed for travel between stars; a spacecraft designed for interstellar travel. ✦✦✦