timeofchange

“Our center has had a good impact on me by giving me many opportunities as a teenager about to graduate. They have given me job opportunities: whether to dance and make it a career or just to have a job like most teenagers do!

“An arts center would really make a difference in an urban community. By having an arts center, it would give teenagers a place to go and express themselves in a positive way and maybe do it for a living.

"I will continue to teach dancing, if I am asked. In college, I plan to make a Hip-Hop group, if there isn’t one there already. I see myself as a strong Black man who is going to go places and maybe be the next big thing in Hip-Hop and if that doesn’t happen, then I’ll continue to work my way up to that goal."