. >> reporter: welcome to"urban update." i'm byron barnett. on the show this morning, mayor walsh launches a plan to make boston a nationally recognized mecca for the arts. also on the show, former new edition member and musical mo bull michael bivins stops by for a rare chat. to finish things off a performance by mike's new group the beano boys crew. up first, rev shows hunger impairs children's act to learn and that by providing breakfast to students at school improves student concentration, alertness comprehension, memory and

learning. the child nutrition outreach program at project bread works department of elementary and secondary education in supporting school nutrition in a number of ways and in one of them is by holding an annual school breakfast video contest. high school students were asked to submit a 30 second video that encouraged their peers to eat a healthy school breakfast. tell us more about the an awall contest and the national school breakfast program is child nutrition outreach program director ashley krebs. also with us video contest winners fee ona jungmann and peter meltsakos. thanks for coming in this morning. actually, if i can start with you, talk to me about the goals about running this video contest. >> reporter: sure, so as i team we're looking at ways to participation in the school breakfast program. and one audience that is more

so we wanted to create a contest that went to them in a very relatable way using technology and over the careers we've been really pleased with how the quality of the videos have just gone up each year. so we now use video not only as a way to engage teens in the schools but also to come with great outreach video at the end we can use to promote the program statewide at other districts as well . >> reporter: peter, talk to me about how you call up with the idea, your idea for your video in the contest . we were presented the basically the subject of the video we have to make a video that promotes eating a healthy breakfast and basically this appeals to us high schoolers and to other schools. our team we all gathered around and brainstormed ideas and just thought, well, how we feel certain things should be done and we really just all call together and listed on a big

things and ideas we had and the one thing that we went by is we encouraged the craziest ideas so anything to build creativity . >> reporter: cool. we'll see the video in a minute. fiona, i knew you learn a lot about video production putting this to the but what did you learn about eating breakfast and the importance of eating breakfast that maybe you didn't know before? well, what i thought was really interesting was that i knew myself, i always have to eat breakfast before school and i'm not one of those people that can just roll out of bed and go to school and be able to focus. but i thought it was interesting that it was scientifically proven that people who eat breakfast before going to school do better on tests. >> reporter: ashley talk to me about the successes you have seen with this school breakfast program. has for example has massachusetts seen a growth in the number of kids eating breakfast every day because this program has been going on for

several years now . yeah, well, there is a room for our state to improve. we have a lot of wonderful state partners, our team included that are working on this. we've seen over a 7% growth just this past school year in participation in the program. we have seen policy changes and a lot of state support from the department of ed. really showing and representing to districts the importance of having a breakfast program and one that's made part of this school day . >> reporter: how is it sort of changing the thinking where these policy changes have come into play . one recent one was the commissioner of education commissioner chester released a memo around time on learning explaining that breakfast can be incorporated into the school day and not detract from time on learning which was a huge barrier for superintendents and people in the education world with education being at the forefront so really connecting them . >> reporter: if kids are not eating breakfast they are not

learn or waving time . it was taking away if classroom time when really breakfast can be a great time where you can even incorporate instruction into that. kids can be eating and learning at the same time and it's setting them up for successful day. okay. why don't we pause now to take a look at your video, a 30 second video, and we'll talk to the producers on the other side. it.. students that eat healthy breakfast score higher in math than don't. don't let breakfast get in the . >> reporter: what do you say? that was pretty wild 30 seconds there.

what were you trying to convey there? well, one thing we want to emphasize in this video was the importance of a healthy breakfast, not just any breakfast so that's where we came up with the idea of the donut which wouldn't be an example of a healthy breakfast. we had it sort of haunting him through his day at school and only to be saved by the healthy breakfast . >> reporter: do you want to give team members a sit out there? of course we had a large team of kids we all were working and producing on it so we would like to thank dean, keegan, mohi mohib, tim and am i forgetting anyone? joey. most of them are now in college. >> reporter: talk to me about some of the challenges in trying to get an idea cross in 30 seconds which i am sure you found out is petty hard to do . yes. we had about half an hour of footage .

including the b roll we took and different takes and we had to cut it all down to 30 seconds . we had so many things we wanted to put in the video, different ideas and just clips but we just couldn't, we had to put one message and 30 seconds so . >> reporter: what was your favorite part of the whole process? i basically, editing it and filming it. it was, people just don't like understand like yes you take the video, but then once you see it and you edit it you are like wow this is really good. how did this and learning those skills to do is just my favorite part . definitely . >> reporter: ashley, talk to me about the challenges and barriers schools or school districts face in trying to provide breakfast for kids? sure. i think one is awareness. do they know their program as, their school has a program to begin with? access, some schools don't have a program. school breakfast program. if they do, it's often before the start of the school day.

stigma, maybe parents having to some challenges. now i understand this is going to be the final year of the school breakfast video contest. is there going to be a contest of some sort, something to replace this? absolutely. we felt like with its being in its fifth year we wanted to revitalize it use a little energy so we're looking at different social media channels but we're still going to run a contest and on our web site which is meals for kids.org there will be more information coming soon . now some of your classmates have made the video and are graduated and are now at college i guess what do you think about that? some of them are studying video protection and multimedia production? did this experience sort of let your appetite for video production at all? what do you think you might like to do when you go off to college college? it did definitely like everyone has a camera or some technology at their house

sometimes maybe they don't even know how to use it but this really just got us to love technology and learn a lot of skills that we didn't know and it's a hobby for me now . . i'm looking at art colleges and i want to may injure or minor in film. it got me really excited about >> reporter: you guys are off to a good start. a great video produced as well. fee ona, peter, thank you for coming in. ashley cents as well and don't forget to eat your breakfast. mayor walsh within we come backs a new vision for the arts and

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>> reporter: this past april mayor walsh launched a boston creates, a cultural planning process to define a new vision for the arts and cultures in boston. to insure boston creates represents all the interests of the folks in the city, the team engaged in a comprehensive community engagement process this summer. it all started with a town hall in june where almost 500 people showed up to learn about the process and share the thoughts. in addition, 118 community conversations were held in multiple languages and more than 40 focus groups took place with an on-line survey that had more than 2800 responses. now to tell us more about the results and another upcoming town hall, we've invited julie burros, the new chief of arts and culture for the city of boston. welcome to "urban update," julie julie. thanks for coming in . thanks so much for having me . >> reporter: give us an update

is the mayor's vision for arts and culture in the city? the mayor really has articulated that arts and culture is an important part of boston being a thriving, healthy and innovative city it is part of everything we do as a city an it's an important part of people as you every day lives. so we've started our process to create boston's first ever cultural plan to really help us understand what are the priorities of the people of boston and how can city government play the best possible roll in supporting and growing the arts ecosystem . you know, when people are concerned about their jobs, the economy, how much money they are making, health care, all of these things, i guess how do you answer questions about why it's important to devote time and resources to the arts? yeah, well, once we start to really look at what comprises the arts and culture ecosystem

really it's a very, very broad range ever industries. it's an important pat ofor our economy, a very important part of our education system both for public school students and young people and also for our universities. it's a really important part of our invasion engine. without creative people in the city of boston, or invasion economy, our health care economy really couldn't thrive the way it needs to and does without that base of creative people. so it's not separate from anything that we do, but it's an integral part of our public health sector, our education sector and the economies a whole whole. now what about this process of getting the community feedback? what was that like having all of these meetings going around the city and everything . it was incredibly energiz energizing. we had 16 community based teams and a youth team who formed conversations sort of teams in 16 different neighborhoods . here are pictures of what you guys were doing . they met all over the city

in schools, community centers, sometimes they asked people to come to them to a meeting. oftentimes they organize to be out at the farmer's market or out at community events so they could really meet people where they were and we recognize that boston is an extremely diverse city and we fostered meetings in other languages, patient crow , spanish . i am imagining you university have learned some amazing things about arts and culture in the city by going around and talking to all of these different groups of people. yeah. definitely. we have heard a lot about how space is in demand, there aren't a lot of spaces to create and perform and produce and so there is a real space crunch. i think people know that. and then people want to have easier access to arts and culture. a lot of major arts organization organizations are clustered just in certain areas. boston i'm learning is not the easiest place to get around. so there is a lot of impediments to having equal access to a of the arts and culture that boston already has . i understand there is a

second town hall coming up later this month? that's right we're going to i have atown law meeting on object 31, halloween, in the morning. we'll get people out early enough to enjoy halloween and it's going to be at bunker hill community college bright and early at 10:00 a.m. where can people get more information about all of this? check our web site at boston creates.org . >> anchor: it seems like there is so much buzz around the arts. there it is right there. the web site is right there. i guess why so much enthusiasm for arts in boston right now do you think? you know, there is a lot of changes in the air. we were talking earlier about the new sculpture over the greenway. peel are seeing big changes, big new things happening and i think there is a new sense of possibility that boston really can achieve much more than we thought in terms of arts and culture . what is does that do a community you think the people who live in the community who see and experience wonderful art art? you know, art and culture is something that really brings

people who wouldn't ordinarily be connected in any other way. people who sing in a chorus or go to a concert, en say a festival. so it's something that can bind us together across gaps of income and background and ethnicitis and i also think that this is the stuff that fills people's hearts and inspires them. >> reporter: okay. julie burros, the chief of arts and culture for the city of boston airing new position under mayor walsh. thanks for coming in and good luck on just lifting and elevat elevating the city in terms of its art and culture . thanks so much . >> reporter: thanks for coming in. when we come back michael bivins original member of boston's new edition, pays us a visit right here on"urban update."

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>> anchor: if you enjoy old school music from the 80's and early 90's then our next inter interview is sure to delight you you. here is alberto vasallo with a surprise visit from a willal music icon. take it away, alberto. our next guest is one of the founding members of one of my all-time favorite groups, new edition right here from boston. with hits like candy girl, mr. telephone man, if it isn't love and of course can you stand the rain? new edition has undeniably left the mark on american music history. when the group broke up, then he formed bell, biv, davoe and they pioneered what was called the new jack swing and a dominated charts with their music especially in the early 90's. now who can forget poison? give me a little poison, larry? i have to see this video. . she's driving me out of my mind, that's why it's hard for

can't get it out of my head, miss her, kiss her, love her . >> reporter: we saw him but he is also discovered managing and producing other acts such as another bad creation and the philadelphia based boyz to men. today this music mogul has a new group called beano boys crew in boston and it's been a long time coming but i have michael bivins in the house . what's up, baby . >> reporter: how you been? i feel good, how are you, man . >> reporter: hey, we look the same . we do it all the time . >> reporter: we haven't aged . we got to drink, right, run around and stay right. >> reporter: so i got you in the studio. i admit it, we're the same age, born in the same year, so i followed you when i was freshman in high school, saw you guys at dance factory singing is this the end, take me through this in incredible odyssey. new edition then bell, biv, devo devoe then this. a great ride for you personally, yes? the good thing about it is when we first started at 14 years old with candy girl, we

just really wanted to be popular here of we didn't really realize that other cities have radio stations and you know, we could leave the projects and travel to new york city, connecticut, philly, dc, et cetera. we just thought as long as we was hot in the project and we could get more girl in the project that was good enough for us. we didn't realize that candy girl was such a monster that it broke number one over in the uk and when michael jackson's thriller was out, it was the only record that took the number one spot in his reign in the 38 million that he sold with thrill thriller. it was a monster. i think when you have a monster like that, it kind of jump starts your career. >> reporter: i imagine "can't you stand the rain," it was featured in a movie recently guys . . >> reporter: i heard once that came out everyone hugged and said of course new edition, who doesn't know it?

at that time, we had like three movies, you know. you had the best man, the holiday, different movies and it was poison over here if it isn't love over here, can you stand the rain. i think now when people look at the impact of bell, biv, devoe and new edition a lot of movie stars and directors are younger and there from that 80's, 90 so hen they are right in the movies and they are putting in the songs they are putting in the songs that they grew up on that make them feel good just like in the 70's it was more curtis mayfield, marvin guay. i think because of 80's and 90's era those movies was perfect. it was an incredible summer. three movies, three different joints . that's right. that's right. three different songs. so you do this, you discovered b boyz 2 men, a lot over the past 25 years, now you are back in boston with another good group .

the good thing about it is, it is so much information from all of those groups, you know what i mean? even the guys i'm in the group with, ronnie, bobby, ricky, ralph and johnnie, those guys are vets, they are all-stars. i just pull information from each one of them and when i see the beano boys or any one of my groups the way identify with every member is i have seen something before. you know, i see what ralph does so i can see what needs to happen with donald. i can see what ricky does, et cetera. i try to take from what is around me to men me understand these guys and hopefully they can keep the city tradition and break big like new kids and new edition . >> reporter: it's about keeping boston, you know, right up top . oh my god. you know, we have a chip on our shoulder. i say that on the beginning of the video because we're not new york city. we're not la. we're not atlanta. we're bean town and it is not

people, but we got big groups from the aerosmith, new kids, new edition. those are powerful groups in each different genre of music . >> reporter: absolutely. i saw you about a year ago, a little bit over a year and a half ago at the garden. i went, got front row and watched you guys do your thing. you were huffing and puffing, man. i saw you huffing and puffing with some of moves . you are talking about the no, man. we killed that. roll that tape, man. for us, that was a moment because it was after the marathon so our energy and our vibe that night is we have one song and we have one moment to make it right, man. even when you look at it, you can tell the power of poison and what it did for the victims and that whole thing. we just new kids left and gave it. we went 1,000% and we went at 1

100 speed in that one there . so tell me a little bit, because after this we get a little performance, right from i think we brought something special. they are in the bag warming up, man of i think they will come . >> reporter: this is great. where did you find these kids? long story, man. some of them on mtv, america's best dance crew, a whole crew, two different members, tried to extend their tv fame. turned them from a dancing group some of them into a singing group. bought some new players in. been developing them trying to draw from the old g big bro. it's such a long story, man, but the good thing about it is special. today you will get to see what artist development in is and how it comes to life on tv . >> reporter: all right, my media mogul buddy . good to see you . >> reporter: always a pleasure to see you. let's do it . >> reporter: perfect. we'll get in a performance right

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