Sektor 6 Kommunikations: The Purpose Lounge

Welcome to the digital home of the Purpose Lounge. Based in New York City, we currently work in communities throughout the city. From Times Square to Harlem to Jamaica Queens to Bedford-Stuyvesant to midtown Manhattan, The Purpose Lounge creates and teaches innovative structures of community building and outreach that address issues of ownership, programmatic specificity, social & media literacy through art, tactics to create programmatic longevity, and personal development. We also produce workshops and educational art events as outreach and promotional tools.

about our Purpose Lounge Empowerment Workshop

The Purpose Lounge 2010/2011 Workshop [powered by The Purpose Lounge] is a unique workshop designed to encourage community & social participation through the exploration of history, the arts and social & media literacy. The workshop is lead by professionals who have extensive backgrounds in the arts / entertainment industry, telecommunications, for-profit & not-for-profit business and community development. We help people develop ways to motivate themselves, get involved in their communities and empower others.click here for complete workshop info

for information about our latest events

February 2009
Welcome to The Purpose Lounge BHM 2009 Series
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June 2009
"A Legacy of Freedom" Installation
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We would like to acknowledge the following for their continued support;

- chashama
- ImageNation
- Madama Griffitts O'Hara LLP
- Harlem Arts Alliance
- United for a Fair Economy
- Betty Thornton
- Delirious Dance Company
- Dolores Witherspoon-Dickerson
- Michele Ford
- Simply Marvelous Art
- Christal Brown
- Luis Colon
- Kevin Omni
- Mindswerve Studio
- Germaul Barnes
- Chakena Rena Conway
- John Villone
- Aixa Kendrick

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If you would like to be involved or have The Purpose Lounge come to your school or outreach facility, please feel free to contact us:
s6kmedia@gmail.com

<what we do>

Reconstruct Art, sektor 6 kommunikations and BreakThrough Technologies have partnered to create The Purpose Lounge, an empowering and exciting arts education program to train, mentor, and inspire people 18 to 35 years of age. By using visual arts studio sessions and training as a fulcrum to balance life mentoring and job skill preparation, The Purpose Lounge provides a positive alternative destination for people whom have traditionally been underserved with limited artistic resources and options.

This program also goes beyond the traditional facility model to bring arts education and life mentoring directly to the places it's needed, such as, recreational centers, playgrounds, schools, common spaces in public housing, community events, correctional facilities and public/private spaces throughout the city. The Purpose Lounge model is to augment educational/community betterment programs, which are typically under-resourced and require assistance to realize their mission[s].

<who we are>

* Lawrence Joyner is the Founder and Executive Director of Reconstruct Art, Inc. a NYC non-profit that serves at-risk youth through the arts. Joyner was born in Harlem, New York where he studied at Center of Media Arts and apprenticed under noted artist-scholar Francis Palazzolo. He has exhibited throughout New York City. His pen and ink drawings and expressionistic collages are in private collections and institutions throughout the country. Mr. Joyner has developed a program where participants have expanded length sessions to develop, rework and discuss their art as well as their life development.

* As a new media technologist, Tyrone Thomas (President of BreakThrough Technologies and its web services division, BreakThrough MediaLabs) has built infrastructures for multiple dynamically published websites, implemented e-commerce solutions, and implemented audio/video streaming/conferencing systems. As a programmer for AT&T/Bell Labs and Salomon Brothers, Mr. Thomas dealt with early network technologies and large distributed applications for monitoring T1 networks and financial trade capture systems. Directed by Mr. Thomas, our Tech Lab will provide mentoring and training to gain hands-on experience with for-profit & non-profit community/Internet based business solutions.

* Darryl Montgomery-Hell (founder of sektor 6 kommunikations/s6k.com) is a veteran multimedia artist/performer, documentarian, community organizer, independent journalist/archivist. He has over 25 years of experience in event production, strategic planning, performance and event management. As Purpose Lounge concept developer, strategic coordinator and event producer, Mr. Hell creates a mixed-media community forum environment to provoke the discussion of life issues in order to reinforce personal growth. Within this framework, we provide a wide spectrum of volunteering opportunities to encourage community/social participation. By encouraging the participants to concern themselves with the issues of others, we emphasize the responsibilities each person has to the betterment of themselves and the society as a whole.