The JVN Project

The JVN Project The JVN Project is a commitment by many to continue the life work of one. The JVN Project is a non-profit that seeks to use Hip-Hop as a tool for empowerment.

Shoutout to all y’all who came through and spread some love, honored your people, and shared w/ us last night. As Always...
11/20/2023

Shoutout to all y’all who came through and spread some love, honored your people, and shared w/ us last night.
As Always, One Love🤍

Word Power Open Mic‼️ All Ages. 6-7pm DJ Jean Le Duke, 7-9 Performances. If you have any accessibility needs email Diya ...
11/05/2023

Word Power Open Mic‼️

All Ages. 6-7pm DJ Jean Le Duke, 7-9 Performances. If you have any accessibility needs email Diya at [email protected]

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19th
See y’all there🤞🏽

Thank you to all who came and shared at last Sunday’s open mic. This last weekend we lost another giant, a humble force,...
10/24/2023

Thank you to all who came and shared at last Sunday’s open mic.

This last weekend we lost another giant, a humble force, a lover, a mentor, a friend.

JVNP meant so much to Cydney. From when she met John in Chicago to being a First Waver Scholar to becoming a mentor and Associate Director.

We will never be able to measure Cydney’s impact. Only very rarely in this world do we get someone like Cydney. Someone like John.

The open mic is like the best place in the world. Both John and Cydney knew that. Here between the walls of this stage, the spotlight like a halo on our heads, the mic like an altar, there are no limits to our desire

Everyone believes me on this stage. Everyone is alive on this stage. Everyone is breathing on this stage

For them, we write and create the hardest we can, we remember the rhythm of our ancestors. We carry their torch and light the rest of the world with their embers. We hold each other between these lights.

We love you Cydney

We love you John

One Love❤️

WORD POWER OPEN MIC SERIES IS BACK🎤❤️🗣️Free, All Ages, and Open to the public, on Oct 22nd at the Art Lit Lab. The JVN P...
10/08/2023

WORD POWER OPEN MIC SERIES IS BACK🎤❤️🗣️

Free, All Ages, and Open to the public, on Oct 22nd at the Art Lit Lab.

The JVN Project is home to some of the hottest new and upcoming artists in the city. Bring any piece of poetry, music, short story, spoken word, essay, stand up, etc. (as long as your piece is 4-5 minutes or less).

The Word Power Open Mic series is back to give local artists a chance to practice behind a real mic on a stage with an audience, connect w local Madison OG’s, and to support Hip Hop in the Madison Community.

6-7pm DJ Jean Le Duke, Pocket Poetry, JVNP Merch, Collage materials, Open Mic Signup Sheet begins.
7-9pm Performances.

Mark your calendars! Our series will run as follows:

10/22 Open Mic
11/19 Open Mic
1/21 Open Mic (youth only)
2/18 Slam Prelims
3/17 Slam Semifinals
4/21 Slam Finals

Slam rules and regulations will be provided on site. We ask if you do have music please bring your instruments and be ready to share audio with our hosts.

With questions or accessibility needs, please email Diya at [email protected].

See you all in 2 weeks!!!

As Always,
One Love🤞🏽❤️‍🔥

Heyyy new followers 👀 Allow us to reintroduce ourselves:The JVN Project is a nonprofit hip-hop collective, dedicated to ...
08/29/2023

Heyyy new followers 👀 Allow us to reintroduce ourselves:

The JVN Project is a nonprofit hip-hop collective, dedicated to utilizing all elements of hip-hop to uplift and empower community. We are inspired by the legacy of John Vietnam Nguyên: Emcee, poet, rapper, dancer, hip-hop genius.

This past weekend we celebrated JVN Day: Raise the Bar, a weekend-long hip-hop festival that was open to the community and 100% free.

We had poetry, songwriting, dance & knowledge workshops, we held our first ever emcee olympics, we came thru with the community graffiti mural, and we ended with an iconic concert featuring as our headliner.

If you’re new here, welcome. If you showed out this weekend, thank you for celebrating with us.

One Love 🦋
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For our last artist highlight we wanted to shout out Rodrigo Carapia, our muralist for JVN Day 2023!Every year for JVN D...
08/25/2023

For our last artist highlight we wanted to shout out Rodrigo Carapia, our muralist for JVN Day 2023!

Every year for JVN Day, we create a community mural in collaboration with an artist at Elements in The Park. We can’t wait to see what genius Rodrigo puts together this year ✨

Catch the mural in progress on Sunday at Elements in The Park 💥

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Rodrigo Carapia is a Madison based artist and muralist originally from México City. His work has been featured in various places in Madison, notably The Red Gym, Dane County Juvenile Detention Center, and The Overture Center. Tone Madison is quoted saying “His experiences as an immigrant, who comes from a vulnerable neighborhood in Mexico City, drove him to help incarcerated youth and others through his art.”

Updated location and schedule for our workshops THIS Saturday 🎉 We can’t wait to build with y’all 💥 Workshops are FREE a...
08/22/2023

Updated location and schedule for our workshops THIS Saturday 🎉

We can’t wait to build with y’all 💥

Workshops are FREE and open to the public ✨

Want to get involved? Fill out the form in our bio to help this beautiful festival happen ✨
08/22/2023

Want to get involved? Fill out the form in our bio to help this beautiful festival happen ✨

The Lineup is finally here ✨ We are so honored to have all these artist come through and put on a show to close out JVN ...
08/22/2023

The Lineup is finally here ✨

We are so honored to have all these artist come through and put on a show to close out JVN Day 💥

The Concert will be at The Memorial Union Terrace at 7pm THIS SUNDAY 🤩

Coming at y’all with a little programming change!We are thrilled to announce that Nile Lansana will be facilitating our ...
08/21/2023

Coming at y’all with a little programming change!

We are thrilled to announce that Nile Lansana will be facilitating our knowledge workshop 💥

Bring your brilliant brains on 8/26 at noon to The Red Gym for this free workshop 🎉

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Nile Lansana is an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. His work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was nominated for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A UW-Madison graduate and First Wave alum, he directed and premiered his first documentary We The Vision in March 2022 at the Marquee Theater. He’s graced stages across the country, including Lollapalooza, the Kennedy Center and the Auditorium Theater. He most recently starred in “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks” produced by Manual Cinema. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He’s been a teaching artist for youth across the Midwest, including being a workshop facilitator for the JVN Project. He is an Associate Editor of RHINO Poetry. He would not be without hip-hop. He’s just trying to be even better than he was the last time! He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. IG:

We are officially ONE WEEK away from a fantastic weekend of programming 💥 We’ve working so hard to make this festival sp...
08/19/2023

We are officially ONE WEEK away from a fantastic weekend of programming 💥

We’ve working so hard to make this festival special, we can’t wait to join with y’all to make magic ✨

We are thrilled to announce that DJ Ca$h Era will be bringing the sound at Elements in the Park this year 🎉Come party wi...
08/17/2023

We are thrilled to announce that DJ Ca$h Era will be bringing the sound at Elements in the Park this year 🎉

Come party with us as we dance, chill and listen to a rich tradition of DJing as a tool of community empowerment.

Her set will be from 4-6 pm at Library Mall, you don’t wanna miss it 💥

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One of the only Q***r Black Female DJs in Chicago, DJ Ca$h Era has been making her lane for almost 10 years in the game. Member of the Jordan Brand's Women's Collective 2022, she has worked with notable brands including Jordan, Nike, Footlocker, Adidas, AT&T, BET, Beats, and many more. She's touched the stage of various festivals including Pride Fest, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Burning Man, From The Go Fest, and more. Known for her outlandish mashups and flawless transitions, DJ Ca$h Era is sure to take you on a musical journey like nothing you've ever experienced before.

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The JVN Project is a Hip-Hop non-profit that seeks to serve and empower. “Using all that we have to do all that we can. Hip-Hop is the alchemy. Humility is the antidote.”