Break the Silence! Foundation a grassroots organization facilitating the connection between community leaders, mentors and young people, via the Arts to Educate - Empower - Enrich.
Planting seeds for A BETTER TOMORROW.
A MESSAGE FROM BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC ABOUT HAITI RELIEF
Started in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a registered non-profit organization in 2005 by Phil Morse*, Michael Wood and Sherry Stearn. Their vision is to bring together Fashion, Film and Music. Utilizing Art as a catalyst, providing education and awareness for a better tomorrow. Juri "Panda" Jones* the newest member of the BTS Team exemplifies that vision with Genuine Voices.
Genuine Voices - Educates Empowers and Enriches from Boston to the Pacific Northwest.
Break The Silence! Foundation (BTS) is a member of the Cohasset Chamber of Commerce. Recently BTS have partnered with Berklee College of Music aligned with South Shore Casting. South Shore Music Circus, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit venue and Brookline Community Center for the Arts (BCCA) for community outreach.
Berklee College of Music Performance Hall
Grammy Nominated (Dunson Twin Music) FRAME OF MIND ENTERTAINMENT LLC have partnered along with the "Teaching Diversity Through Music" campaign One Night In Frogtown FROGTOWN CENTRAL*(BTS Kidz). BTS Foundation pledges to match fund with The Fender Music Foundation's (formerly named The Guitar Center Music Foundation) Bids For Kids program. Film, Fashion and Music ... . it will transcend!
Our team have more than fifty years of combined experience and existing synergy with major known and up coming artists (eliminating red tape). Many National and International recording legends have agreed to participating in our planned multi city education and awareness tour, as it comes to their location. To name a few Joey Kramer*, J Geils, James Cotton, James Montgomery, Uptown Horns and Mr. Doug Bell of Bellevue Cadillac , many more!
From Our Founders
"How do you live on what you don't know?" - "Anger is a natural emotion, Violence is a choice."
Education and Awareness:
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About Our Non Profit Organization
With patron support and the support from performances by major recording artists, we will soon be holding events in major cities across the United States and eventully the globe.
Break The Silence! Foundation Inc. produces awareness by opening up lines of communication about domestic and child abuse, and what a broken belief system is and how it transcends from the home to inner city/ outer city gang violence in our communities and public schools. Break the Silence! Foundation will raise funds and awareness with our multi media events, the compilation CD series, bottled water, t-shirts, S1™ SafetyFirst clear backpacks, our clear wristbands, sending a clear message:
We realize that the only way to make a difference in our communities and schools is not only to address the youth affected by gang violence, but also bring to light the core issue:. By teaching as individuals and as a society, we must handle problems in a constructive manner. BTS Foundation will Educate-Enrich-Empower the next generation to, "discover their talents in order to enrich their lives... and those around them!"
EMPOWERING AT RISK YOUTH TO DISCOVER THEIR TALENTS
Juri
Panda Jones* is a Genuine Voice! (501 (c) 3) and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. We are honored to announce our newest member of the BTS Team, and is assisted by committed Berklee students volunteering their services for a better tomorrow.
Genuine Voices
program teaches music, musical composition and computer-based music sequencing
to young males in the Brighton Detention Centre.
Juri Jones
Genuine Voices music lessons have not only provided self-empowerment, self-esteem, different
perspectives and ways to better help deal with their individual issues. Many express an interest in continuing on with music.
The team has also been involved with a monthly all-age open mic night
called "Critical
Breakdown". Held in Boston’s South End, Critical Breakdown
encourages inner city kids to express themselves through their poems, stories, words,
hip hop and other music.
“It’s
all about respect… respecting yourself and others. The Friends come
from a tradition of non-violence and seeing the good in all people. And this
event, which is open to all and draws a few hundred people each month, has
shown that there’s a young generation of rappers and poets in this
city who share those values” (‘Now, it’s Quakers taking
to rap’, The Boston Globe).
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