About Us
The Next is about utilising young peoples interests as a process for engaging them in an exploration of the world around them.
At the core is the desire to develop a way of engaging young people in education processes that reflect where young people are at.
The Next seeks to bring together different sectors of our society – Hip Hop community members and non members alike – to combine talents, beliefs, thought processes, and our diverse knowledge and skills to truly reflect the value of hip hop within our communities.
The project is a living process, relying on the passions and inspirations of those involved.
Current Advisory Group
- Gino Maresca (Project Manager)
- Sara Tamati (Project Coordinator)
- April Henderson
- Sen Thong
- Future
- Mercy Jumo
Contributors
The success of the Next as been made possible with the contributions and support of the Aotearoa New Zealand Hip Hop community and:
Project Steering Group
- Gino Maresca (Project Manager)
- Bonnie Flaws
- Thomas Haapu
- April Henderson
- Danielle Hodgson
- Sonya Hogan
- Eva Lawrence
- Spence Levine
- Michele Ngati
- Sue Pepperal
- Sara Tamati
- Sen Thong
- Danica Waiti
- Yadana Saw
Contractors
- Mandy Hager (Resource Writer)
- Beth Thomas (Editor/Proofer)
- Sara Tamati (Researcher)
- Danica Waiti (Researcher)
- Cathy McGachie (Research Advisor)
- The Church Ltd (Design of website, Resource CD-ROM)
- Ally Ikutani (Illustrator/Graphic Designer - The Next research)
- Michael Watson (Graphic Designer - The Next research)
- BaseTwo Design Company (Design of website and resource)
- Brett Taylor, Development Resource Centre (Webmaster, ICT Advisor)
Volunteers
- Rebecca Blaikie (transcribing interviews)
- Bonnie Flaws (transcribing interviews)
Youth Worker Advisors
- Mike Ikilei (Glen Innes, Auckland)
- Jackie Thomas ( Youth Connex, Hauraki)
- Kupe (YMCA, Palmerston North)
- Steve Holmes (Da Bomb Shelter, Rotorua)
- Jason Mikaere (Da Bomb Shelter, Rotorua)
- Rikihana Samuals (YFC, Wellington)
Contributors to the Resource
- Denis Grennell - Te Aratiatia Learning and Development, Otaki
- Maria Bargh - Maori Studies, Victoria University, Wellington
- Dean Hapata aka Te Kupu (permission to use excerpts from Nga tahi: Know the Links)
- Sen Thong aka Khmer (for use of material from Back2Basics magazine)
- Da Bomb Shelter, Rotorua (for Crucial Movement Photos)
- The Crew at Disruptiv
- Elliott O'Donnell aka Askew (Graff photos)
- Elliott Stewart aka Deus (Graff photos)
- Janine & Charles Williams aka Diva & Phat1 (Graff photos)
- Martha Cooper (KodakGirl) (for use of Lady Pink images)
- P Money (for DMC 2001 World Finals footage)
- Festival Mushroom Records
- Immortal Technique & Jonathan Stuart of Viper Records (for use of Immortal Technique material)
- Jeff Chang (for use of ‘This Ain't No Party' article)
- Sticky Pictures, TV3 & NZOA (for use of footage from ‘The Living Room' television series)
- Mai Time ,TV2 (TVNZ)(for use of footage of Top Shelf Productions profile)
- Local Knowledge - Joel Wenitong, Abie Wright and Wok Wright (for use of ‘Blackfellas' and assorted photographs)
- Otis Chamberlain aka Mephisto Jones (for use of ‘Weapons of Mass Humiliation' stencil)
- Baba and Open Thought Music (for use of ‘Recruit')
- Peter Black (for use of black & white 1980s break dancing photos)
- Sage Francis (for use of ‘Slow Down Ghandi')
- Tracey at Heart Music (for use of photographs of Kas Futialo aka Tha Feelstyle) www.houseoftaonga.co.nz <<does not exist>>
- Slingshot Hip Hop (for use of ‘slingshot hip hop' footage)
- ArabRap - Dam3 (for use of ‘Meen Erhabe' video)
- Peter Black (old school photos) from Paul McNamara Gallery.
- Wrasse Records (UK) (for permission to use samples of Daara J)
- Amanda Ra (photographer) and
- Sarah Hunter (photographer) (for permission to use images in the Next Research)
Web and CD-ROM Design & Implementation
The Church Ltd.
The Church design studio is honored to partner The Next.
It's cool to see people taking a real interest in understanding, nurturing and supporting our youth.
The Church philosophy centers around creating opportunities for New Zealand's young creative talent to gain valuable support and experience in a structured mentored environment. Our values directly underpin The Next initiative making The Church an ideal fit. ‘we know the audience because we are the audience’.
Peace.
Project Partners
- Global Focus Aotearoa (formerly Global Education Centre)
- Save The Children
- Ydub
- Tearaway Magazine
- Back2Basics
- The Church Ltd.
- BaseTwo
Global Focus Aotearoa (formerly Global Education Centre)
Global Focus Aotearoa is a specialist provider of information and education on global and development issues.
We provide services to support critical analysis and a deeper understanding of global and development issues. Our website gives quick access to our lending library, magazines, teaching resources, email updates, training information and much more.
Global Focus Aotearoa consists of two teams: Education Services and Information Services.
Education Services (formally the Global Education Centre) provides resources and services to schools, teachers, youth workers, and community groups.
These services include training, publications, resource kits, and two magazines - Global Perspectives and Global Issues. Education Services also works directly with young people through a youth driven project, Just Focus, which consists of a website, a writing/journalism programme, Just Write, and a youth film festival package, Media that Matters Aotearoa.
Information Services (formally Dev-Zone) provides resources and research services to the development sector, including practitioners, consultants, policy-makers, and tertiary staff and students.
These services include the Global Focus Aotearoa lending library, the magazine Just Change, Onepagers, and a free email service with fortnightly listings of development jobs and the latest quality development links. Our online resources include Weblinks - a searchable database of online toolkits, resources, country information and development research; directories; glossaries and more. Our website is updated daily.
Global Focus Aotearoa is a non-profit organisation, core funded by NZAID.
Global Education Centre Website
Save The Children
Children’s rights lie at the heart of Save the Children. All of our work seeks to integrate the key principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of the key principles is the importance of valuing young people’s ideas and opinions, and involving youth in all matters and decisions that affect their lives. Through active participation, young people gain confidence and skills which empower them to make positive life choices.
Save the Children is proud to be part of The Next, a project which embodies the principle of youth participation. We believe the hip hop community and young people will identify with the project and get involved as hip hop is a global culture belonging to our youth. Hip hop is a fantastic vehicle for youth workers to connect with young people, explore the issues facing today’s youth and expand young people’s life skills and self-worth.
Ydub
Ydub is the name for work done by and for young women’ within the YWCA. Ki ngā wāhine rangatahī, mō ngā wāhine rangatahi.
The Y-Dub Network identifies the needs and wants of young women locally and nationally, and responds to those in different ways – through publishing booklets & magazines, running programmes, managing the Y-Dub website, and much more.
Why we are involved in The*Next? To make sure young women are involved and heard in the project.
Tearaway Magazine
TEARAWAY Magazine ‘The Voice of NZ Youth’ is produced by young people for young people. It is the most widely read and largest circulating* youth magazine in Aotearoa.
Published monthly, TEARAWAY provides young people with useful advice and information, news, reviews, and interviews. Sections include music, entertainment, sport, fashion, global focus, careers, creative writing, letters, etc. We’re proud to be part of The Next.
Back2Basics
Back2Basics Magazine covers all aspects of the thriving local and national hip hop scene, with additional coverage of international artists and events where possible. The magazine, and its accompanying website, utilise a range of contributors - particularly allowing hip hop artists themselves to interview and document their peers - to give it substantial depth and credibility within the local hip hop community.
The magazine is thus prominently poised to both document and contribute to the dynamic and incredibly cohesive communities of b-boys/b-girls, MCs, DJs, graff artists and producers that have developed in New Zealand, as well as reflect on hip hop's wider global context. The overall tone of the magazine is decidedly positive and supportive - there is a very real sense of commitment in New Zealand to shaping a healthy and productive local hip hop scene, and Back2Basics reflects this ethos.
Back2Basics Magazine is distributed through a nationwide network of music retailers and specialty stores, as well as being available at high-profile hip hop events like the annual Aotearoa Hip Hop Summit. Additional copies are shipped overseas, where there is substantial interest in New Zealand hip hop.
BaseTwo
Base Two is an integrated design agency proud to be a project partner to The*Next. As a design agency Base Two seeks out opportunities to do exciting projects which communicate on more than one level, to more than one audience The*Next is such a project.
Base Two has strong connections with both youth focused clients and the arts community as a whole. On the surface The*Next is a perfect marriage of these two sectors which are core to our business, so the opportunity to lend our expertise in any way GEC needed was snapped up. However beneath the surface, we are happy to set the record straight on hiphop and help raise its profile, so that people can understand the importance and implications this culture has on, not only New Zealand, but also the world.
