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Uni­ty Charity

Artists: Clin­ton Ghosh and Adri­an Bernard

Uni­ty Char­i­ty helps youth devel­op resilience through Hip Hop, and pro­vides devel­op­ment and employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties to emerg­ing artists. Found­ed in 2007 by Michael Prosser­man (Bboy Piecez), Uni­ty Char­i­ty har­ness­es the trans­for­ma­tive pow­er of Hip Hop and com­mu­ni­ty. As a nation­al orga­ni­za­tion, their pro­grams empow­er youth to over­come chal­lenges like low self-esteem, iso­la­tion, and anx­i­ety, fos­ter­ing con­fi­dence, healthy rela­tion­ships, cre­ative expres­sion, and a strong sense of com­mu­ni­ty. Uni­ty Char­i­ty has touched over half a mil­lion lives, build­ing resilience and nur­tur­ing health­i­er communities.

The micro-doc­u­men­tary of Uni­ty Char­i­ty fea­tures the fol­low­ing artists:

Adri­an Bernard A.K.A Switch B is one of Toronto’s Top B‑Boys and Hip-Hop Arts Edu­ca­tors. Hav­ing start­ed dance in 2002, Adri­an has trav­elled to many coun­tries and parts of Cana­da through edu­ca­tion­al as well as com­pet­i­tive ven­tures. Through Arts Edu­ca­tion, Adri­an has taught dance at a num­ber of First Nations Reserves along­side com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres, high school class­rooms, reha­bil­i­ta­tion clin­ics, halfway hous­es, and at the Roy McMurtry Youth Cen­tre, a youth deten­tion cen­tre. Out­side of edu­ca­tion, Switch B has devel­oped a rep­u­ta­tion as a Bat­tle B‑Boy. In 2007 his dance crew The Floor Assas­sins Mili­tia rep­re­sent­ed Cana­da in the B‑Boy Unit World Finals in Seoul Korea. The F.A.M. has won The House of Paint Hip-Hop Fes­ti­val three times, and Switch B took first place at the Skil­lz-O-Meter 5 Cham­pi­onships in Mon­tre­al in 2015. Since then Adri­an has been ded­i­cat­ed to train­ing and edu­cat­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of dancers in Toronto.

Clin­ton Ghosh, also known as “3rd Ghost”, has been a promi­nent mem­ber with­in the B‑Boy com­mu­ni­ty for 20 years. A mem­ber of Max­i­mum Effi­cien­cy Crew, he con­tributes to the com­mu­ni­ty by teach­ing Break­danc­ing (bboying/bgirling) class­es at var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters through­out the Toron­to area. In 2008, Clin­ton found­ed “Wreck Shop”, a com­mu­ni­ty-based dance event, to give young dancers a plat­form to show­case their skills and com­pete. Through­out his career, he has per­formed for KRS‑1, com­pet­ed inter­na­tion­al­ly, and has won com­pe­ti­tions with his crew across Cana­da. Most recent­ly Clin­ton has sup­port­ed the Launch of “Rough Draft” Canada’s first Rap spe­cif­ic incu­ba­tor pro­gram.  With 17 years expe­ri­ence cre­at­ing, and run­ning youth lead­er­ship pro­grams, Clin­ton is proud to be a part of Uni­ty Char­i­ty, and to con­tin­ue shar­ing his knowl­edge of the art and his pas­sion for com­mu­ni­ty building.

 

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