May 21, 2019
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Attending the Unity Fellows 2019 graduation ceremony of Dr. Bledsoe, our Executive Director, are Calleen Herbert, Director of the NCCU Office of Community Engagement and Service, BUMP Board member and treasurer, and Mimi O'Brien, Executive Director of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Unity Fellows is a capacity building and strategic leadership development program that trains nonprofit leaders in key organizational practices that promote long term organizational stability, specifically calibrated to Durham’s local context.
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May 6, 2019
Newport Festivals Foundation Donates to BUMP
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The Newport Folk Festival has teamed with each act on the lineup to donate to a music education cause of their choice. The Newport Festivals Foundation made a donation on behalf of the Cook Brothers to benefit BUMP: The Triangle.
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April 29, 2019
WRAL Coverage of the BUMP Art of Healing Workshop
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An art event planned at Durham School of the Arts, which is located across the street from the site of the blast, aims to help students, staff and the Durham community cope with emotional trauma left from the April 10 accident.
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April 19, 2019
Dr. Bledsoe at ReCity Roundtable: The Art of Justice
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The ReCity Roundtable is a monthly TED-style speaker series that uses the power of story-telling to spotlight community leaders who are tackling complex social issues through innovation and collaboration.
Art can be a powerful medium for change. It can educate—raising awareness of past or present injustices. It can empower—lifting up voices of those living in the margins. It can restore—providing creative outlets to survivors of trauma, chronic and life-threatening illness, and abuse. Watch The Art of Justice 🡒 |
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January 21, 2019
WUNC Interview with BUMP Founder Dr. Georgiary Bledsoe
Music quickly became a focal point of her childhood, and it eventually became the core of her life’s mission. Dr. Bledsoe is the founder and executive director of BUMP: The Triangle, a nonprofit music education organization that focuses on music of the African diaspora. |
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January 15, 2018
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The Keeper of the Dream Award is a public recognition of individuals, organizations, or institutions for outstanding leadership and/or service to improve the quality of life for all citizens and work toward racial equality, human rights, peace and economic justice for all people. The Durham Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Steering Committee, Inc. honored Dr. Bledsoe with the 2018 Keeper of the Dream Award in recognition of her work helping youth to succeed in school and explore the many facets of African Diaspora music.
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May 11, 2016
Musicology Now: Empowering Urban Youth Through African Diasporic Music and Mentoring
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Musicology Now is a blog sponsored by the American Musicological Society seeking to promote the results of recent research and discovery in the field of musicology, foster dialogue, and generate a better awareness of the subject matter in the general public.
Article by guest author Dr. Bledsoe on the personal, cultural and academic backdrop behind the formation of BUMP and the importance of music as a powerful source of community cultural wealth for children in underserved communities.
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The work I do is very much grounded in my experience of growing up among the most impoverished, yet being enriched in powerful ways that dovetailed with and prepared me for academe. This is the paradox of community cultural wealth ... the knowledge and skill, the networks and life skills – the wealth – these opportunities had conferred.
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The school-to-prison pipeline means that children with backgrounds like mine are thrown away every day in this country “for where there is no faith in your future success, there is no real effort to prepare you for it.” Parents in my community could not be sure that educators in highly segregated school systems, then as now, would have the faith to put forward the effort to prepare their children for future success. Thank God for a community of musicians who invested what they had – cultural assets – in youth like me!
March 11, 2016
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Hardison & Cochran Doing Good spotlighted BUMP: The Triangle for the ways we bring musical education into the lives of children across the Triangle.
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