The RAP LAB Presents: Storytelling Cipher Student Showcase

(The RAP LAB) invites family, friends, and the community to witness the academic and artistic brilliance of Denver students and youth. Our end-of-school-year presentation includes poetry, spoken word, DJing, and visual art. This showcase explores personal narratives, historical and herstorical accounts, and Denver students' radical imaginings for community engagement and what it looks like to cultivate solidarity. 

About the RAP LAB

The Laboratory for Ritual Arts & Pedagogy (The RAP LAB) at the University of Colorado, Boulder is a transdisciplinary research hub for the study of hip-hop cultures and adjacent artistic movements of colour. We not only study the history of this artistic movement but its mechanics as a dynamic system of rituals that can be implemented in the streets to help youth and families engage in culturally legitimate learning. Inspired by a natural sciences laboratory and a hip-hop record label, The RAP Lab is experimental, project-driven, and outward-looking. We bring together students, faculty, and community leaders to work on collaborative and individual research, publications, digital multi-media content, archives, courses, community projects, and public events.

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Host or Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art Denver