Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o2.23.o5

INDIANA AWARENESS FESTIVAL:
The 5th Annual Awareness Festival is coming to Bloomington. So is Amer, Fruchter, Christina, Shamako, Jordan, and MC Ronnie McRonRon (powerless CIA cowboy). Check out the schedule of events:February 22: Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme: a documentary film on the art of freestyling and battle rapping. WOODBURN HALL ROOM 126 7:30PM ADM: FREE

February 23: Afeni Shakur and Jasmine Guy: experts on activism and modern revolution will be speaking. IU AUDITORIUM 7PM ADM: FREE

February 24: Poetry Slam: with guest poets Psalm One and Thaione. Local artists will take the stage showcasing their poetry to compete for a cash prize of $50. IU MEMORIAL UNION GALLERY 7PM ADM: FREE

February 25: Workshops: on elements of hip hop, the music industry, hip hop in the classroom and the future of the hip hop community by Ron Gubitz, Jordan Bromley, and Shamako Noble. These will be free flowing sessions where participants are encouraged to bring lots of questions to interact with the workshop leaders. COLLINS 4-6PM ADM: FREE

Performances: by Mac Lethal, Honors English, Shamako Noble, and HalfBlown with 2 Scoops Malone at the WIUS STATION HOUSE 7:30PM-10PM ADM: FREE

February 26: The following events will be held in Wilkie Auditorium free of charge but with a suggested canned food donation.

Bboy registration: 1PM-3PM
$1000 Bboy battle: 3PM-6:30PM
$500 MC battle: 7PM
Brother Ali performance: 9PM

The following events will be held at 9th Street Bar (between College and Walnut):
TopSpeed and Cee-Fade host DJ battle: 11PM
DJ Trackstar, DJ Sleeper and Verseatile performances: 12PM

Video games and door prizes will be available. There will be a $1 cover due to no student funding of bar events, must be 21 to enter.

INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP CONGRESS CONFERENCE DATE CHANGE:
The conference is tentatively planned for the weekend of June 23rd to the 26th in Chicago, Illinois.

Questions? asad@hiphopcongress.com

HIP HOP CONGRESS RADIO:
Hip Hop Congress Radio is live and in effect. Beginning next Tuesday, we will be broadcasting over the internet from 9-10pm pacific standard time. Please let it be known to all HHC artists that they can send in their material now and we can all share and unify via cyberspace for 1 hour a week. Interested artists: Please contact us @ csufhiphopcongress@gmail.com. Tune in @ http://tir.fullerton.edu

WASH U:
THIS IS THE WEEK! Mainflow and Scratch are blowin up the Lou Thursday night with a free show for Wash U students. Local artists Honors English are getting the crowd heated up for the real deal, then Friday is gonna be amazing with Brother Ali holdin it down. Big plans are in the works also to bring in Israeli/Arab funk/hiphop group Hadag Nachash.

Peace
Yoni

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s really good HHC? SJSU HHC is helping out the community of San Jose by dedicating 3.25 hours a week to mentoring students at a local middle school. We have 6 members of HHC doing this so we are going to try to throw some hip-hop events at their school and kick some knowledge to youngstaz. We also planning for our next events, which is probably going to be Elementations, or Distortion 2 Static, which is a hip-hop show that airs on the WB. Everything is still in the works. We’re also trying to get some new t-shirt designs for our club and we want to get a banner to promote our club at events that we throw. Aite folks take care, one.

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Weekly Update o2.17.o5

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
Everything is out of control, nothing is in order, and I think I lost the third digit on my left foot but the festival is almost here and I am sure we’ll get something together. its going to be nice to see Irvine, Ill, STL, Iowa, Chi, NY, the Bay Area and more repp’d. OHIO GET AT ME!

Peace from your favorite chapterhead’s favorite chapterhead,
Aaron

The 5th Annual Awareness Festival is coming to Bloomington. So is Amer, Fruchter, Christina, Shamako, Jordan, and MC Ronnie McRonRon (powerless CIA cowboy). Check out the schedule of events:

February 22: Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme: a documentary film on the art of freestyling and battle rapping. WOODBURN HALL ROOM 126 7:30PM ADM: FREE

February 23: Afeni Shakur and Jasmine Guy: experts on activism and modern revolution will be speaking. IU AUDITORIUM 7PM ADM: FREE

February 24: Poetry Slam: with guest poets Psalm One and Thaione. Local artists will take the stage showcasing their poetry to compete for a cash prize of $50. IU MEMORIAL UNION GALLERY 7PM ADM: FREE

February 25: Workshops: on elements of hip hop, the music industry, hip hop in the classroom and the future of the hip hop community by Ron Gubitz, Jordan Bromley, and Shamako Noble. These will be free flowing sessions where participants are encouraged to bring lots of questions to interact with the workshop leaders. COLLINS 4-6PM ADM: FREE

Performances: by Mac Lethal, Honors English, Shamako Noble, and HalfBlown with 2 Scoops Malone at the WIUS STATION HOUSE 7:30PM-10PM ADM: FREE

February 26: The following events will be held in Wilkie Auditorium free of charge but with a suggested canned food donation.

Bboy registration: 1PM-3PM
$1000 Bboy battle: 3PM-6:30PM
$500 MC battle: 7PM
Brother Ali performance: 9PM

The following events will be held at 9th Street Bar (between College and Walnut):
TopSpeed and Cee-Fade host DJ battle: 11PM
DJ Trackstar, DJ Sleeper and Verseatile performances: 12PM

Video games and door prizes will be available. There will be a $1 cover due to no student funding of bar events, must be 21 to enter.

HIP HOP CONGRESS RADIO:
Hip Hop Congress Radio is live and in effect. Beginning next Tuesday, we will be broadcasting over the internet from 9-10pm pacific standard time. Please let it be known to all HHC artists that they can send in their material now and we can all share and unify via cyberspace for 1 hour a week. Interested artists: Please contact us @ csufhiphopcongress@gmail.com. Tune in @ http://tir.fullerton.edu

INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP CONGRESS CONFERENCE:
The conference is tentatively planned for the weekend of June 16th to June 19th in Chicago, Illinois.

We are creating a team to work on the conference. There will be a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 17th at 8pm at UIC’s CCC (750 S. Halsted) on the second floor by Java City.

If you are at all interested, respond to this e-mail, call 773.474.0375, or show up to the meeting.

This is a great opportunity for any and all Hip Hop heads, artists, crews, organizations, and activists.

Questions? asad@hiphopcongress.com

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Weekly Update o2.o9.o5

INDIANA AWARENESS FESTIVAL:
The 5th Annual Awareness Festival is coming to Bloomington. So is Amer, Fruchter, Christina, Shamako, Jordan, and MC Ronnie McRonRon (powerless CIA cowboy). Check out the schedule of events:

February 22: Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme: a documentary film on the art of freestyling and battle rapping. WOODBURN HALL ROOM 126 7:30PM ADM: FREE

February 23: Afeni Shakur and Jasmine Guy: experts on activism and modern revolution will be speaking. IU AUDITORIUM 7PM ADM: FREE

February 24: Poetry Slam: with guest poets Psalm One and Thaione. Local artists will take the stage showcasing their poetry to compete for a cash prize of $50. IU MEMORIAL UNION GALLERY 7PM ADM: FREE

February 25: Workshops: on elements of hip hop, the music industry, hip hop in the classroom and the future of the hip hop community by Ron Gubitz, Jordan Bromley, and Shamako Noble. These will be free flowing sessions where participants are encouraged to bring lots of questions to interact with the workshop leaders. COLLINS 4-6PM ADM: FREE

Performances: by Mac Lethal, Honors English, Shamako Noble, and HalfBlown with 2 Scoops Malone at the WIUS STATION HOUSE 7:30PM-10PM ADM: FREE

February 26: The following events will be held in Wilkie Auditorium free of charge but with a suggested canned food donation.

Bboy registration: 1PM-3PM
$1000 Bboy battle: 3PM-6:30PM
$500 MC battle: 7PM
Brother Ali performance: 9PM

The following events will be held at 9th Street Bar (between College and Walnut):
TopSpeed and Cee-Fade host DJ battle: 11PM
DJ Trackstar, DJ Sleeper and Verseatile performances: 12PM

Video games and door prizes will be available. There will be a $1 cover due to no student funding of bar events, must be 21 to enter.

INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP CONGRESS CONFERENCE:
The conference is tentatively planned for the weekend of June 16th to June 19th in Chicago, Illinois.

We are creating a team to work on the conference. There will be a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 17th at 8pm at UIC’s CCC (750 S. Halsted) on the second floor by Java City.

If you are at all interested, respond to this e-mail, call 773.474.0375, or show up to the meeting.

This is a great opportunity for any and all Hip Hop heads, artists, crews, organizations, and activists.

Questions? asad@hiphopcongress.com

A CALL FOR HELP:
A couple of members from the Urban Art in Action Movement recently traveled to Porto Alegre, Brasil for the 5th annual World Social Forum and the 2nd annual Hip Hop City.

This was a place for people from around the word to come together and discuss social justice work and Hip Hop Culture as a movement. It was great to see the number of people that attended and make some very solid connections out there.

Unfortunately, our funding for this trip was cut. The reason is that a main funder of ours decided to donate to the recent Tsunami disaster.

We applaud the decision made, but we are now in debt for the trip at about $4000. So – we are asking our friends, family, crew, and people to help fundraise the money for the trip. Any money donated will be tax-exempt through the Southwest Youth Collaborative (a non-profit organization). Being able to raise money for this trip will insure more important trips for more young people from our community who would not usually have these opportunities.

Please contact Asad – asad@hiphopcongress.com or 773.474.0375 with further questions.

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Weekly Update o2.o3.o5

INDIANA UNIVERSITY 5th ANNUAL AWARENESS FESTIVAL:
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Feb. 22
Move Screening: Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme 7:30pm Woodburn Hall 126

Feb. 23
Afeni Shakur / Jasmine Guy Lecture – Auditorium 7pm

Feb. 24
Poetry Slam ft. Psalm One (Rhymesayers/Birthwrite) and Thaione (Birthwrite). The slam is open entry with a $50 grand prize and the opportunity to open up for the Def Poets coming in April. IMUG in the Memorial Union. Sign up starts at 7, performances start at 7:30, contest at 8.

Feb. 25
Workshops on Hip Hop and the Elements/Education/Industry by the Founding Fathers Ron, Shamako, Jordan and others.

3pm-4pm is the high school focus session. You can come to the HS Session if you want but 4pm-6pm is open session. Look for free food.

Mac Lethal takes the stage with Shamako Noble, Honors English (STL), and HalfBlown w/2 Scoopes Malone. WIUS Station House (down the street from Collins)

7:30pm – 10pm: After Party @ TBA. Rawkus house party is just waiting for us. From 10 until we pass out or something skinny catches our attention

Feb. 26
1-2:30pm: BBoy Pre-Reg and Warmup

3pm-630pm: $1000 Bboy Battle (DJs TopSpeed, Espi, Burgle Kutz)

7pm: $500 MC Battle (pre-reg all day)

9pm: Brother Ali hits the stage with BK One. Wilkie Auditorium Also look for more workshop leaders to be at your disposal for questions, like Alex and Amer.

11pm: DJ Battle at the After Part @ 9th Street Bar. Hosted by TopSpeed ft. Cee-Fade. Come see the sickest Indiana DJs battle for records and respect. Video game consoles to try out the newest EA games and door prizes.

Performances by Verseatile and Twilight Centinals at midnight. The rest of the night is time to get drunk!

EVERYTHING IS FREE BUT THE AFTER PARTYS (friday $4 for a cup, Saturday $1 cover)

MORE STILL TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!! Questions or comments or love
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Peace
Aaron
812.369.5388

CSULA:
What’s happening? I’ve been lagging but here is an update of what’s going on here at CSULA. We are gearing up for our quarterly event Bring Your Skills. It will take place on Feb. 25, 2005 and will include an open mic format as well as live performances by Las Vegas’s The Living Mechanizm and Torrance’s L. Scatterbrain. DJ Wally sparx and crew will be providing the grooves for the night and there is an open invitation to all surrounding So Cal Chapters to attend. I will send out the flyer with more info and directions next week. Lates…

Jerald Amaya a/k/a Darkside

UC IRVINE:
UCI has been making steady progress with the film festival. We’re working out the details right now, and should having everything set by the end of this week. The next step is promotion- we are going to hit our campus HARD with fliers, posters, and word of mouth until the date of the screenings.

In the next few weeks, we’re looking forward to the next southern California chapterhead meet-up, which is now going to be a monthly staple. We have several ideas that we’re collaborating on, all of which should come to fruition in the next few months.

Jeremy

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